Bolivia’s Institutional Transformation: Contact Zones,Social Movements,and the Emergence of an Ethnic Class Consciousness

Over the past two decades, development economics has experienced a shift in focus from standard neoclassical analysis to institutions. While studying economic institutions is indeed important, evaluating their transformation and embeddedness is equally crucial for understanding and improving human wellbeing, especially in countries where market institutions are not fully developed. With that perspective in mind, we consider the importance of culture in the evolution of institutions in Bolivia by combining the concept of contact zones with old institutional economics (OIE). Contact zones refer to daily interactions in social spaces where culture and class meet and negotiate with each other. The contact zone between Bolivians and post-WWII development policies surfaced as an Andean collective memory, allowing for a possibility of social and political autonomy through the creation of an alternative to development, El Buen Vivir.     

东北地区沿边开放与口岸经济的发展

文章从东北地区沿边开放的基本格局入手,简述了我国边境口岸形成的历史条件及口岸经济的基本特点,进而指出目前东北地区发展口岸经济存在的问题,并提出了振兴东北口岸经济的几点思路。     

“广佛肇”都市圈城市循环经济发展综合评价研究

在大量文献研究、实地调研、数据统计的基础上开展研究,构建了"广佛肇"都市圈城市循环经济综合评价系统,并对广州、佛山、肇庆三个城市的循环经济发展进行测评,并进行综合分析,对该区域城市循环经济发展提出政策建议。     

Downtown parking meter demand in a border metropolitan economy

Prior research establishes that the price of parking in the city centre often impacts the decision to travel downtown and the mode of transportation utilized. Other factors that influence the decision to drive and park downtown have received less attention. This study uses time series data to analyse the demand for metered parking spaces in El Paso, Texas, USA. In addition to meter rates, the determinants of demand include personal income, gasoline prices and the price of a substitute good, parking garage spaces. Because international bridges connect downtown El Paso to neighbouring Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, the impacts of trans-boundary traffic flows, bridge tolls and other cross-border economic variables are also included as potential determinants of metered parking demand. Results indicate that parking meter rates, other transportation-related costs, and economic conditions in both countries affect meter use.     

Freight transportation costs and the thickening of the US–Mexico border

Border regulatory requirements and administrative practices changed subsequent to the September 11, 2001 (9/11), terrorist attacks in the United States. Research in this study examines the manners in which transportation cost data for merchandise imports from Mexico behaved before and after 2001. Evidence is obtained that confirms results earlier tabulated for imports from Canada. Empirical results further indicate that, beyond freight cost changes, growth in the value of imports from Mexico was disrupted by events associated with the aftermath of 9/11.     

种质资源经济学的发展研究

种质资源经济学是以知识经济条件下的新资源观为基础,从经济上来分析种质资源开发利用的全过程,包括从宏观上研究种质资源的配置、保护与管理等各项活动对区域产业经济效率的提升、产业布局结构的优化,以及产业可持续发展的影响。借助交叉学科之间的知识关联,界定其研究边界,以此来探讨种质资源经济学发展历程。     

马克思主义政治经济学与西方经济学教学关系刍议

改革开放的实践告诉我们,不搞市场经济,中国无法提高生产力水平;不坚持社会主义方向,中国无法消除两极分化、达到共同富裕。高校如何开好马克思主义政治经济学和西方经济学这两门课,关系到中国特色社会主义事业的接班人和建设者综合素质,关系到国家的命运和前途。为此,笔者认为,首先要准确把握好这两门课的性质和功能,摆正二者的位置,处理好二者的关系;然后要对教学内容、教学环节、教学方法作一些大胆的改进。最重要的一点,是对担任这两门课的教师,要实行＂准入制＂。     

Is Economics Responding to Critique? What do the UK 2015 QAA Subject Benchmarks Indicate?

Abstract

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education provides subject benchmarks which inform but do not determine the content of university and college academic programmes in the United Kingdom. These are revised every few years and have recently been completed in economics for the first time since the global financial crisis. Given the extensive criticism of mainstream economics since the crisis, one might anticipate the benchmark revisions to be extensive. However, this has not been the case. This article explores why this is so. The analysis may also be considered of broader significance because the conditions under which the review has occurred involve general processes that will be familiar, albeit with local variation, to heterodox economists elsewhere. In the conclusion, a more fundamental reconstruction of the benchmarks is provided. These will also be of interest as general orienting statements for a different kind of economics.     

循环经济的经济学困惑

循环经济的实践正在世界各国如火如荼地进行着,但从经济学的角度对循环经济进行的理论研究还处于起步阶段,主流经济学几乎还没有介入。本文主要从传统经济学与循环经济在预设条件、追求目标、主体特征和思维逻辑等几个方面的差异,分析了传统经济学一时难以接受循环经济的原因。     

Back to the BOG, Austrian-style

Robust political economy begins with assumptions of self-interested planners who lack perfect information. In such a world, the social planner does not necessarily outperform the decentralized outcome. Crampton and Farrant (2005) argue that the inability to engage in economic calculation reduces the ability of social planner to extract consumer surplus. Thus, the lack of calculation improves the welfare of the median citizen which contrasts with conventional wisdom. We argue that they overstate their results. First, the calculation argument fails because of its underdevelopment, not because of the empirical record. Second, the welfare implications cannot be adequately addressed by assuming diminishing marginal utility of income or using the median welfare standard. Third, robust political economy has not developed a model that yields meaningful welfare comparisons. Thus, robust political economy remains in its early stages. JEL Code P0, P16, P50 With apologies to Gordon Tullock     

创新发展中国特色社会主义政治经济学需处理好十个方面的关系

中国特色社会主义政治经济学是当代中国经济学的理论基础,是理论经济学与应用经济学相关学科的\"硬核\"部分.创新发展中国特色社会主义政治经济学需要处理好若干重要的关系,例如价值理性与工具理性的关系、马克思主义政治经济学原理与中国特色社会主义实践的关系、马克思主义政治经济学原理与中国特色社会主义政治经济学的关系、文本研究与实证...     

关于绿色经济学的几个问题

绿色经济学是在对传统经济学反思与批判的基础上,整合相关绿色理论资源、适应绿色经济实践而发展起来的经济学学科,是经济学内部逐渐发展起来的新因素和新需求,也是重建经济学理论的新思路和新尝试。绿色经济学已在学科涵义、研究对象、基本预设、理论体系和学科体系等方面进行了探索,同时亟待从学科建设角度,对绿色经济学的研究视角、参照标准、分析工具和"成本—效益"模式等问题进行深入研究。绿色经济学将成为推动经济发展、实现社会公平、促进环境优化、推进社会进步的重要力量,对当下我国转变发展方式、实现科学发展有重要的理论价值和实践意义。     

跨国公司总部经济对区域经济的影响分析

跨国公司总部经济是经济全球化和区域经济一体化发展到一定阶段的产物,其效应不仅促进了跨国公司的加速发展,更促进了所在区域的发展。跨国公司总部经济在中国大中城市的迅速发展,推动了区域经济的良性发展,促进产业集群的形成,并加快区域经济融入国际化的进程。     

海洋经济：概念、特征及发展路径

在全国大力发展战略性新兴产业的背景下,中国海洋经济发展又面临着新的一轮发展机遇。然而,目前学术界关于海洋经济的理论研究尚处于初级阶段,尚不能指导国家及沿海各地区海洋经济发展规划和相关政策的制定。本文以对海洋经济概念的辨析讨论为切入点,深入分析了现代海洋经济发展的外在约束和内在约束,给出了中国海洋经济发展的基本路径。本文认为,现代海洋经济具有资源依赖型、技术资金密集型、高风险型和国家主导型等核心特征,中国海洋经济要走上可持续健康发展的道路,就必须从制定完整清晰的国家海洋政策入手,加强海洋基础管理工作,加强对海洋资源的占有和保护,加强对海洋科学技术和工程开发研究的投入,加强海洋软科学的研究,大力培养海洋科技和管理人才,提升国民的海洋意识。     

Corporate social responsibility and the ‘game of catallaxy’: the perspective of constitutional economics

The paper examines the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) from the perspective of constitutional economics, focusing on the distinction between a political community’s constitutional choice of the rules of the “market game,” and the market players’ sub-constitutional choice of strategies within these rules. Three versions of CSR-demands are identified and discussed, a “soft,” a “hard”, and a “radical” version. The soft version is concerned with the issue of how “socially responsible” corporations ought to play the market game within existing rules. The hard version is about how the rules of the market ought to be changed in order to induce “socially responsible” corporate behavior. And the radical version questions the compatibility of CSR and the logic of the market game, calling in effect for adopting some alternative economic regime.

广义虚拟经济的测算范围初探

虚拟经济与实体经济的相互交融已经对国民福利产生了重大影响,这对已有的国民核算体系提出了理论和实践上的新挑战.因为传统的经济学无论是理论还是核算都主要关心的是确定性条件下的现货生产和交易所带来的实际财富变化,我们需要更适用的指标来度量广义虚拟经济与居民福利之间的关系.实体经济虚拟化有管理风险的价值,虚拟经济实体化具有的主...     

论广义虚拟经济的理论基础

金融系统的兴起和发展实现了实体经济的虚拟化,而网络和信息技术的兴起和发展又实现了虚拟经济的实体化.在这两个过程的相互作用下,实体经济和虚拟经济实际上已经逐步融合,很难通过简单的二元法进行划分,广义虚拟经济研究可能能够为对这种经济现象的分析提供一个比较合适的角度.本文将在对现有关于虚拟经济的研究成果的梳理的基础上,尝试深...     

经济改革与经济学转型

我国的经济改革是在传统计划体制背景下启动的,也是在一定的改革意识引领下发生的,但在传统政治经济学框架内形成的改革理论具有一定的局限性。改革开放以来,经济学者运用现代经济学方法对中国经济进行分析,获得了有价值的成果。但是,我国经济学理论的转型还没有完成。为了深化市场经济的改革,如何科学地认识市场经济,怎样在经济学理论研究中体现现代精神,都需要在范式转型的前提下继续进行探索。     

死亡雷区-小互市-大口岸：新机遇下的中越边贸发展探析

从最危险的雷区,到繁华互市,中越边贸发展经历了一段特殊而艰难的历程,并迅速成长和发展。进入21世纪,中越边贸更面临多重机遇,中国-东盟自由贸易区启动,“两廊一圈”次区域经济合作战略的规划实施,大湄公河次区域经济合作等,都为中越边境贸易提供了多重发展的机会,也为进一步加强和推进中越边境贸易提出新的挑战。如何在新的历史条件和机遇下,使中越边境口岸迅速将地缘优势、人文优势转化为经济优势、竞争优势;如何抓住机遇,从两国的共同战略利益和各自长远发展出发,用新的标准和高度去深化和推进中越边境贸易,打造具有活力的“大口岸经济带”;如何让作为中越贸易前沿部分的中越边境贸易,具有可持续发展的魅力及长久的生命力,是今后中越经贸关系发展的重点问题。     

诺贝尔经济学奖获得者的区域经济学思想分析

诺贝尔经济学奖获得者的区域经济学思想,涉及区域差异与贸易、区域经济发展、区域竞争与合作等,这些思想之间具有一定的关联。诺奖得主的学术观点反映出经济学研究越来越关注区域(空间)问题,区域经济研究越来越转向宏微观兼顾,研究方法更加精细化。诺贝尔经济学获奖者的区域经济学思想对区际贸易及我国区域经济差异等具有较强的解释力。受诺贝尔经济学获奖者区域经济学思想的启发,中国的相关研究应更加关注空间因素,注重对具有中国特色的事物及现象的研究,使区域经济研究向规范和精细化方向发展,同时关注制度创新研究,建立中国特色的区域经济学。