Homo Oeconomicus Returns: Neoliberalism,Socio-Political Uncertainty and Economic Policy

The aim of this paper is to discuss how neoliberal policy is changing the way people conceive of the economy and of society. After a brief outline of the main features of neoliberal policies, it argues that neoliberalism does not consist in a mere set of wrong economic theories or in the plain reflection of vested interests. It is a full-fledged view of how society should be organized. The paper then argues that these policies and the ideology that backs them up determine major institutional changes which affect economic, social and polity-related variables but also the general understanding that peo-ple have of the economy and of society. More specifically, it enhances uncertainty about one’s future and favors a non-solidaristic view of social relations. These changes tend to prejudge the effectiveness of employment policies and to reinforce the neolib-eral consensus. The conclusion is that it is not possible to conceive of an appropriate macroeconomic policy unless institutional changes are taken into account that trans-cend macroeconomics as such and re-establish the social underpinnings for that policy. These include changes in how the economy is coordinated but also changes in the bar-gaining power of workers and citizens relative to business.     

论非公经济刑事司法保障中的政策指引

最高法院对涉及非公经济主体刑事冤错案件的再审纠正,为政策在司法裁判中发挥非正式法源对法律规则缺陷的填补功能,对规则选择、解释和适用发挥指引功能,对符合形式要件但无实质危害的行为予以出罪的法源功能,提供了具有法学方法论意义的范例。     

经济结构、无通胀增长与全球经济--新经济的另一种解释

本文假定美国确实有一个“新经济”，将讨论其事实根据，考察围绕“新经济”的争论和证据，探讨“新经济”的出现-如果它确实存在-可能对世界上其它地区包括亚太地区的经济产生什么影响。     

Sterilization, Monetary Policy, and Global Financial Integration

This paper investigates the changing pattern and efficacy of sterilization within emerging market countries as they liberalize markets and integrate with the world economy. We estimate the marginal propensity to sterilize foreign asset accumulation associated with net balance of payments inflows, across countries, and over time. We find that the extent of sterilization of foreign reserve inflows has risen in recent years to varying degrees in Asia as well as in Latin America, consistent with greater concerns about the potential inflationary impact of reserve inflows. We also find that sterilization depends on the composition of balance of payments inflows.     

全球经济失衡、金融危机与全球利益分配

美国国内的产业格局与储蓄消费的失衡决定了全球的分工格局与全球经济失衡,这种失衡是诱发金融危机的根本原因。金融危机反过来也会影响全球失衡的调整,其最更深远的影响体现在,使得国别经济关系关注的焦点从财富增长转向了利益调整中的财富分配。在这一背景下,从短期来看,防止经济衰退是中国宏观经济政策的主要目标,但在长期,我们更重要的是防范全球经济失衡中的利益调整所造成的中国长期经济衰退。     

低碳经济发展模式与全球机制:文献综述

气候变化已成为当今国际社会的热点和焦点问题,应对气候变化的全球实践催生了低碳经济的理念和发展模式,低碳经济将推动人类生产和消费方式的重大转变,促进相关领域国际协调机制的改革和创新。目前,低碳经济受到了国内外学术界的普遍关注,这一领域的研究取得了重要进展。本文从低碳经济的内涵、特征和发展动因入手,对相关研究成果进行综述,以现有文献为基础,着重分析低碳经济发展模式、全球机制以及低碳发展模式对中国经济增长的影响,探讨未来低碳经济研究的方向和重点。     

Mainstream Methodology, Financial Markets and Global Political Economy

The experience of financial markets in the global economy isopen to a variety of interpretations, based on different framings,with important consequences for economic policy. Knowledge aboutfinancial markets, and the methodology employed to build it,can be understood in terms of framing. The underlying argumentof the paper is in favour of considering the framing of financialmarkets within an open-system approach, allowing input fromother disciplines, as well as taking account of the real, oftenperformative, implications of (closed-system) mainstream framingby policy-makers. The methodological underpinnings of, and interdependenciesbetween, different framings among theorists, policy-makers,market players and users is explored.     

全球知识经济背景下的西澳州产业政策的方向——致西澳州技术与产业咨询委员会的报告

本研究的出发点是实际上全球化和朝以知识为基础的经济转移正在推动世界经济的性质和结构的改变。经济活动的知识密集度的提高和经济事务的日益全球化正推动着影响到每一个行业、厂商、个人和地区的普遍改变。这种转变不是一项或两项技术或一个或两个行业的事情。也不是这种转变仅仅是强调     

Global Competition for Mobile Resources: Implications for Equity, Efficiency and Political Economy

International integration of markets for labor and capital hasfar-reaching policy implications in economies where governmentspursue extensive programs of redistribution through tax andtransfer policies. The large fiscal impacts that result frommovement of high- and low-income populations, as well as ofcapital, affect the benefits, costs, and political payoffs ofredistributive policies, creating incentives for fiscal competitionthat may limit the extent of redistribution over time. Migrationand capital flows are dynamic adjustment mechanisms, analysisof which can shed light on the consequences of structural changessuch as globalization of factor markets and EU enlargement.(JEL codes: H0, J0)     

Policy Adoption Rules and Global Warming

Although there is widespread agreement about the dangers of global warming and the resulting need to cut down emissions, there does not seem to be general agreement about the exact form the policy should take or the timing of its adoption. Failure to adopt and implement policies against global warming reflects the complexity of the problem, the uncertainties of climate change and the cost of policy adoption. Issues associated with the interactions between uncertainties and irreversibilities in determining the timing of policy adoption are analyzed by using the methodology of optimal stopping rules. Optimal policy functions are derived for cooperative and noncooperative solutions, with differential game representation. Issues associated with the empirical application of the optimal policy rules are also considered.