奢侈品消费“疏”优于“堵”

＂未富先奢＂。无疑,这是一种＂酸葡萄＂心理。而商务部官方的表态,在一定程度上否认了奢侈品畸形消费的公众认知     

房价调控宜疏不宜堵

地产行业究竟有没有泡沫,风险有多大,政策该如何调控？回答这些问题需要冷静的分析,而非情绪化的渲染。尽管现在铺天盖地都是地产泡沫的言论,但别忘了,就在一年多前,舆论还普遍看空房价,认为国内地产市场已经越过了大拐点,会长期向下……     

房价调控“堵”与“疏”

迄今为止最严厉的调控政策,对中国房地产市场的影响到底有多大,至少目前还难以定论。仅以温州炒房团而言,就有两种观点：有人认为他们买房都付现金,所以影响不大;有人不以为然,认为温州人炒房还是靠银行贷款的。     

房产调控怎么“疏”

我多次去了浙江绍兴大禹陵。现存的陵园已存上千年了。巧合的是,我几次在大禹陵都被大雨淋到。5月份的一天,我又去了一趟大禹陵,那天阳光灿烂,气温也高,在登上大殿台阶时,我满脸是汗。当时我想：人不出汗多好啊!一念及此,顿时联想到大禹治水的经验——“疏导”!洪水是客观自然现象,我们无法“堵”与“截”,只有通过“疏”与“导”才能变害为利。这也是大禹总结了他的上辈们治水失败的教训才悟出的真理。     

“政企”不宜全分开

“政企分开”这个概念是随着国有企业改革的深化逐步出现的。“政企分开”的提出，当然有其积极的意义。但如果不能全面理解它，也会产生负面效应，影响改革的进一步深入。为此，笔认为很有必要议一议。     

城市营销与城市“软实力”的提升

本文从城市营销的内涵入手,分析我国城市营销发展历程,阐述城市营销与城市"软实力"提升的内在联系,并有针对性地提出提升城市"软实力"的途径。     

智慧城市成“十二五”城市发展主要模式

28日,在北京举行的“中国智慧城市（镇）发展指数新闻发布会”上,专家提出用幸福指数、管理指数、社会责任指数等三个指标考评城市发展。与会专家指出,发展智慧城市,是“十二五”提高城镇化质量、推进城市生产、生活和管理方式创新的重要举措。     

给城市注入“灵魂”

虽说城市是经济社会载体，但是，它的内涵却不是由“经济”两字所能囊括的。前不久，美国《读者文摘》推出“全球十大最适宜居住城市”排行榜，中国无一城市被选中。     

有太阳,一切皆可“能”!——专访中国实力派策划大师及城市运营专家文灏先生和皇明太阳能集团当家人黄鸣先生

中华大地，素来以地大物博著称，然随着社会的发展，经济的提升，国人越来越感到资源的匮乏，国际石油价格的每一分攀升，从来没有像今天这样牵动中国老百姓的心;关于能源危机的讯息，从来没有像今天这样受到政府和舆论的强烈关注;关于环境与生态保护，从来没有像今天这样被中国人激烈的争论——这一切，与一个人气颇旺的政策性词汇有着必然的联系，那就是“节约型社会”。     

武汉城管用眼神执法 重庆念叨队横空出世

<正>6月中旬,武汉洪山城管执法大队在对占道经营者劝说、宣传无效后,50名执法队员围站成一圈,双手背在身后,沉默地注视着食客和坐在一旁的老板。如此"对峙"了27分钟后,老板与食客最终悻悻地收拾起桌椅搬进了店内。这一时成为街头巷尾议论的佳话。     

Consumer Innovativeness Among Street Vendors in Mexico City

Abstract

This study relates innovative consumer behavior to informal economic activity within the urban lower middle class of one of the world's major emerging markets, with focus on product innovations in the areas of retail and consumer goods and services. of prime interest are the innovation adoption habits of street vendors, a group hypothesized to possess greater innovative tendency than those of similar social background employed as formal sector wage earners. Results indicate that street vendors report higher income and lower levels of education than their formal sector neighbors and these two groups show distinct product acquisition/patronage patterns, as well. However, the street vendors do not always demonstrate more innovative behavior, as adoption appears product specific.     

A Study of Chinese Street Vendors: How They Operate

There is a great deal of criticism levied at street vendors, despite the fact that these vendors, as part of a global informal economy, are becoming more important as millions are being occupationally downsized. Criticisms include street vendor businesses are not economically robust, they can be conduits for pirated goods, they do not make good use of public spaces, and they are considered by economists to be “bad news” for the world economy. This article reports on a study of the operations of 80 street vendors in Dalian, China. It shows their operations (e.g., buying, selling, merchandising) are very similar to those of permanently anchored small retailers, and consequently they should be able to make similar societal contributions. Research propositions and recommendations for further research are presented.     

Micro-Entrepreneurship in Niger: Factors Affecting the Success of Women Street Food Vendors

Micro-entrepreneurship in the informal sector plays a vital role in generating employment and income in West Africa. In this article, the authors examine business success factors for micro-entrepreneurs involved in the production and sale of street foods in Niger, drawing on the resource-based view theory. Business success was measured by size of firm and vendor's perception of enterprise growth. Their results indicate that business experience is an important success factor, while the need for cash is a constraint for business success. A rare resource, limited access to financial assets translates into limited opportunities for growth of these informal micro-enterprises into viable businesses.     

Predictable forward performance processes: Infrequent evaluation and applications to human-machine interactions

We study discrete-time predictable forward processes when trading times do not coincide with performance evaluation times in a binomial tree model for the financial market. The key step in the construction of these processes is to solve a linear functional equation of higher order associated with the inverse problem driving the evolution of the predictable forward process. We provide sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness and an explicit construction of the predictable forward process under these conditions. Furthermore, we find that these processes are inherently myopic in the sense that optimal strategies do not make use of future model parameters even if these are known. Finally, we argue that predictable forward preferences are a viable framework to model human-machine interactions occurring in automated trading or robo-advising. For both applications, we determine an optimal interaction schedule of a human agent interacting infrequently with a machine that is in charge of trading.     

卖炸鸡的华尔街

那些还不起房钱，却能吃成大胖子的美国人，怎么可能不知道自己的经济状况？他们拒绝不了现金的诱惑，就像他们拒绝不了金黄金黄的炸鸡诱惑一样。     

Robert E. Wright. The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, & The Birth of American Finance

The First Wall Street is Robert Wright's latest installmentin his campaign to highlight financial institutions as the drivingforce in the economic and political history of the Early Republic.Wright reminds us that prior to Wall Street's ascendance inthe 1830s, Chestnut Street in Philadelphia was the nation'sfinancial center and the birthplace of some of America's mostimportant financial innovations. Wright argues that despite its physical disadvantages as a port,Philadelphia thrived because its climate of     

Social Accountability,Ethics, and the Occupy Wall Street Protests

Journal of Business Ethics - The growing interest in sustainable development in all sectors of the economy has fostered a noteworthy shift toward responsible management education (RME). This...