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。     

“全球绿色新政”与我国“绿色经济”政策改革

新兴的"全球绿色新政"不仅提供了国际环境经济政策的框架,也为发展中国家的可持续发展提供了借鉴经验。在研究发达国家"绿色新政"的基础上,系统梳理了我国"绿色经济"政策架构,总结了近些年来取得的成绩和存在的不足。针对存在的问题,提出了提升政策理念、充实政策主体、改进政策工具等完善我国"绿色经济"政策体系的具体建议。     

Dynamic Games of Environmental Policy in a Global Economy: Taxes versus Quotas

The effects of environmental policy on the global environment as an international public good with a stock externality and national welfare are examined in a model with trade in a polluting commodity. The welfare effects of environmental policy, decomposed into terms of trade, abatement cost, and environmental damage effects, induce governments to adopt a strategic use of their policy measures. In the absence of international cooperation on environmental policy, it is demonstrated that the emission tax game brings about larger strategic distortions than the emission quota game.     

Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of the 'New' South Africa

This article addresses a gap in the international political economy (IPE) literature on housing finance by highlighting the ways in which the deepening of mortgage debt is part of a broader attempt to individualise and (re)privatise relations of social reproduction under neoliberalism. While the extension and deepening of debt has been underpinned by policies and discourses that assume the formal equality of individuals, the attempt to erase the gendered subject in the context of ongoing inequalities in paid labour markets, in asset ownership and in the division of unpaid labour has served to reproduce various overlapping social divisions and inequalities. In linking social reproduction to financial markets, the promotion of homeownership in the US has also rendered the social reproduction of present and future generations increasingly insecure. This work contributes to feminist and other critical IPE debates by highlighting the ways in which accumulation in financial markets has been based on the perpetuation of divisions and inequalities between social classes, between men and women and along certain racial and ethnic lines. It also centralises the role of the state in conditioning these processes.     

数字经济学：内涵、理论基础与重要研究议题

数字技术催生了以数据为关键生产要素的数字经济形态,表现出参与者身份相对模糊、更关注产品使用和服务延伸等与传统经济不同的形式。梳理与总结数字经济学一方面有助于指导社会生产方式数字化转型,另一方面也有助于发展甚至重构经济管理理论逻辑。在梳理数字经济内涵特征的基础上,结合数据要素非竞争性、使能性、生产与消费统一性等特征以及数字技术促使社会生产方式变革的路径,探讨数字经济学的理论基础,并提出未来需要重点关注的研究议题,为构建数字经济学术共同体提供借鉴。     

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。     

Trade,Strategic Environmental Policy,and Global Pollution

This paper examines the effects of international trade in a model with global pollution that accumulates over time because of production emissions in each country. If countries cooperatively determine their environmental policies, autarky and free trade in the absence of trade costs generate the same optimal solution. By contrast, if environmental policies are determined noncooperatively, the effects of trade on global pollution and welfare are ambiguous because policy games can result in multiple equilibria. Although trade increases both the lower and upper bounds of the pollution stock, whether trade expands the range of possible steady‐state pollution levels is ambiguous. The analysis then extends to consider trade costs.     

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.     

Global Factors Driving Inflation and Monetary Policy: A Global VAR Assessment

International Advances in Economic Research - This paper examines the nexus between inflation and central bank interest rate policies in inflation-targeting countries. First, it looks at the role...     

财政均等化:理论分析与政策引申

1978年中国开始了市场化取向的经济体制改革,财政分权是由计划经济向市场经济转型的一个重要方面。随着分权财政体制改革的推进,中国地区间财政支出和服务提供方面的不平等程度逐步扩大。贫困地区的地方政府无力履行支出责任,只能以极低的水平提供一些基本的公共服务。^①这种状况引起了党和政府的高度重视,并在《中共中央关于构建社会主义和谐社会若干重大问题的决定》中提出了“完善公共财政制度,逐步实现基本公共服务均等化”的战略举措。