Stability in Keynesian and neoclassical growth models: A comment on Kuipers

Summary This article comments on a recent article by Kuipers on Keynesian and neoclassical theories of economic growth. It is argued that Kuipers' analysis of his Harrodian variant is too restrictive to answer the question of stability of the full-capacity steady growth path. An alternative Harrodian variant, which, in contrast to Kuipers' model, includes the possibility of unfulfilled demand growth expectations, is specified, and it is shown that this model is unstable. This result has important consequences for Kuipers' ranking of Keynesian and neoclassical theories in a general theory of economic growth according to their respectively medium-term and long-term character. This article has been greatly benefited from comments of S.K. Kuipers and H.A.A.M. Thoben. All views expressed and remaining errors are solely my responsibility.     

费尔普斯对宏观经济学的贡献

美国哥伦比亚大学教授埃德蒙·费尔普斯因在宏观经济学方面做出了杰出的贡献而获得2006年度诺贝尔经济学奖.其贡献主要体现在两个方面,即对通货膨胀与失业问题的研究以及对资本积累的研究.本文就对这两个方面予以介绍.     

John Butterworth's pioneering contributions to the accounting and information economics literature

Abstract. This article reviews John Butterworth's significant contributions to the accounting and information economics literature. Some of the reviewed work is unpublished and is first exposed in this paper. I describe the general nature of John's diversified contributions and focus on some theoretical components of his work. Résumé. Cet article fait la revue des contributions importantes de John Butterworth à la littérature dans les domaines de la comptabilité et des systèmes d'information. Certains des travaux révisés n'ont pas été publiés et sont dévoilés pour la première fois dans cet exposé. Je décris de façon générale les contributions diversifiées de John en me concentrant sur quelques-unes des composantes théoriques de ses travaux.     

Jelle Zilstra: A versatile economist

Summary In 1983 Dr. Jelle Zijlstra was a member of the board of editors ofDe Economist for 35 years. At the request of his co-editors, this article has been written to put in a clear light the person and work of Dr. Zijlstra. Zijlstra has been a professor of economics, a minister of economic affairs and of finance in several Dutch cabinets, and, from 1967–1981, President of the Netherlands Bank. During these activities he has made important contributions to economic theory and economic policy, both in legislative work and in various publications. In this article his valuable contributions in such different fields as economic competition, economic order, public finance, monetary theory and central banking policy are analyzed. The author comes to the conclusion that Dr. Zijlstra is an original thinker, who has been a stimulating and inspiring contributor to the different fields of economic theory and economic policy in which he has been active. The author thanks Professor P. Hennipman and Professor S. K. Kuipers for their valuable suggestions.     

Quantifying and interpreting world development: macromeasurement before and after Colin Clark

This article is an appraisal of the contributions of Colin Clark to the art of macroeconomic measurement. It traces his place in the historical tradition in this field, provides biographical background and analyses his contributions to national income measurement, international comparisons, agricultural development and the impact of population growth.     

On Professor Takashi Negishi's contributions to economic theory

Professor Takashi Negishi has made fundamental contributions to economic theory on an extremely broad range of topics. As the editors of this special issue, we feel extremely fortunate that each of us has worked on topics with respect to which Professor Negishi's influences have been particularly large. In this introductory article, each of us will discuss Professor Negishi's influence on the topic we are most familiar with. For the entire spectrum of his research, readers are referred to the list of Professor Negishi's publications presented at the end of this article.     

瞿秋白编辑宣传工作略论

瞿秋白是一位品质高尚、理论涵养深厚的优秀编辑，编辑活动分为上个世纪的“五四”、二十年代中后期和三十年代三个时期，其编辑工作主要呈现出宣传方向的坚定性、政策舆论的前导性、编辑与创作的一体性等特点。他为我党报刊宣传事业作出了杰出的贡献。     

Valuing Tullock's Rejects: The Reception of His Work in Rent Seeking

Gordon Tullock's work in economics spans nearly 50 years and is known for the breadth, originality, and quantity of his contributions in public choice, constitutional political economy, law and economics, bioeconomics, and monetary history. Despite his lack of formal training in economics, Tullock published in major economic journals early in his career. A number of his papers, which proved to be seminal to the theory of rent seeking, were rejected by top economic journals. This paper explores possible reasons for the editor's reception to Tullock's work and uses citation counts to value Tullock's rejected papers. My paper shows that Tullock's work continues to be cited, often far more frequently than the papers which journals chose to publish when they rejected Tullock's submissions.     

The Structure of Production,the Balance of Payments and Growth in Developing Countries: An Essay in Memory of Mohammed Nureldin Hussain 1954–2005

Abstract: This essay commemorates the work of Mohammed Nureldin Hussain who was Chief Research Economist in the African Development Bank, and Editor of the African Development Review from 2003 to his untimely death in 2005. It focuses on five aspects of his work: his emphasis on the role of the structure of production and trade for an understanding of growth rate differences between countries; his development of the balance of payments constrained growth model with capital flows; the application of this model to compare the performance of African and Asian countries; his use of this model as an alternative to the Harrod–Domar growth model for estimating the financing requirements in Africa to meet the Millennium Poverty Reduction targets by 2015 — and also for estimating the impact of the Highly Indebted Poor Country initiative on growth and poverty reduction in Africa, and finally, his critical appraisal in the 1980s of the supply‐side approach to devaluation in his own country, the Sudan.     

论林纾翻译的社会影响

林纾作为近代文学家,也在翻译方面做出了巨大贡献,其翻译风格和思想也对当时的社会和后世产生了深远影响。一个甚至连外文都没掌握的半路出家的翻译者,却给国人带来了新思想、新的社会观念和文学创作观念,在中国翻译界树立了不朽的丰碑。本文从林纾的生平、其译作对翻译界的积极影响、其译作对当时中国社会的积极影响和消极影响、其译作的技巧局限性和思想局限性等方面来浅谈林纾翻译的社会影响。     

Determinants of Household Income Mobility in Rural China

This article uses multivariate regression and decomposition analyses to assess household income mobility determinants and their contributions to income mobility in rural China from 1989 to 2006. The findings indicate that households with lower initial income level, higher share of wage income, higher educational level of household members, larger number of non-agricultural employed household members and younger heads are more mobile. Moreover, besides initial income, change in the share of wage income, change in the share of non-agricultural employed household members, and change in average year of education of household members are the most important factors that account for income mobility. These findings necessitate more emphasis on policies that promote non-agricultural employment and education to enhance household income mobility in rural China.     

威廉姆森与交易成本经济学

文章介绍了威廉姆森在交易成本经济学方面的主要贡献。在简要回顾交易成本经济学发展的基础上,重点介绍了威廉姆森对于交易成本经济学的基本思路和三大主要贡献。文章还讨论了交易成本经济学对于正处在变革时代中国经济的启示。文章认为,由威廉姆森开创的交易成本经济学对于我国市场体制改革等方面具有重要的理论指导意义。     

The evolution of Hayek's thought on gold and monetary standards

Early in his career, Hayek viewed attempts to stabilize exchange rates by facilitating cooperation between central banks, with respect to their demand for gold, to be at odds with the fundamental mechanisms of the gold standard. He opposed proposals by Irving Fisher, Gustav Cassel, and Ralph Hawtrey that promoted stabilization of demand for gold and price levels as a next best option. Hayek viewed the nations that refused to devalue their currency after monetary expansion during wartime as complicit in degrading the international gold standard. In 1935 Hayek's emphasis began to change, his position sounding much like the arguments of Cassel and Hawtrey. Though he eventually gave up hope that the international gold standard would be reestablished, his later work on money provides theoretical underpinnings for systems that would promote the same sort of stability and predictability that the classical gold standard had provided.     

John Maynard Keynes and the Keynes of the Commonwealth,Douglas Copland

When Douglas Copland of the University of Melbourne was about to go abroad in 1933, a leading Australian businessman, Herbert Gepp, hailed him as the ‘Keynes of the Commonwealth’. Gepp was referring to Copland's contributions to Australian economic policy, not that of the British Commonwealth, but there were similarities between Copland and John Maynard Keynes. In full flight, Copland impressed his compatriots with his prodigious work ethic, networking skills, persuasive powers with policy-makers, and practice of popularising economics in order to effect stabilisation policy. For a short time, there were two Keynes, one at the centre, the other at the periphery.     

试析尤金·奥尼尔戏剧表现形式中的神秘主义

本文认为奥尼尔的世界观中包含有浓厚的神秘主义思想.这在他的戏剧表现形式中表现的尤为明显.本文从奥尼尔剧作中的场景(环境)的描述以及象征意象的运用等方面分析了奥尼尔的神秘主义.     

James M. Buchanan and the Political Economy of Desegregation

Were 1986 Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan's formative contributions to political economy inspired in significant part by hostility to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision? Nancy MacLean's 2017 Democracy in Chains argues that public choice economics emerged from an opportunistic alliance with Virginia's “Massive Resistance” to school integration and should thus be situated within the racially tinged tradition of southern conservatism. While Buchanan wrote very little on the economics of race, archival evidence and his published works do not support this thesis. Buchanan's work is better understood with reference to his Chicago school mentor Frank Knight and the Italian public finance tradition rather than southern conservatism. To the contrary, we suggest Buchanan believed the competitive processes generated by an educational voucher system would likely undermine rather than rescue the racially segregated status quo. Furthermore, Buchanan's associations and activities suggest that racial hierarchy was not part of his normative vision.     

2014济南故事——2014添丁又添喜

卡着12月的前奏,拖着2014的尾声,将济南这座城市的一年际遇,写尽其中,聊作盘点,自知不能尽收笔端,权当跟济南谈谈,探讨一下这一年的济南故事。2014,创城在泉城。土耳其诗人纳乔姆希格梅曾说：＂人的一生中有两样东西是永远不会忘记的,这就是母亲的面孔和城市的面貌。＂2014,济南创城路上,创出了一个干净整洁的城市面貌还创出一批母亲般温暖圣洁的卫生人面孔。     

Owners and Tenants: The Commonwealth Housing Commission and Post-War Housing, 1943–1949

This article takes as its point of departure early research by the economic historian David Merrett on owner-occupiers and tenants. In the light of his subsequent explanation of the growth of sources of finance for house purchasers after 1945, it investigates the post-war housing program of the Commonwealth government with its emphasis on planning, co-ordination and public provision. Within the larger context of post-war reconstruction, it argues that the failure of the public housing program provided the stimulus for the spread of owner-occupation. The failure is explained as the outcome of economic constraints and the shrinking political capacity of post-war reconstruction.     

How important is intra-industry trade in trade growth?

Empirical work on intra-industry trade (IIT) is almost 30 years old. Initial research sought to identify if IIT was a significant share of total trade (TT). The Grubel-Lloyd (GL) index was widely used for this purpose. Interest has since shifted to the changing importance of IITover time. Using movements in the GL index to infer the importance of IIT over time is not only vague, but can be misleading. In this article, we measure the contributions of growth in net trade (NT) and IIT to the growth in TT. To understand changes in IIT over time, we also derive the contributions of imports and exports to the growth in TT, NT, and IIT. All our formulas are illustrated with data for 205 Australian manufacturing industries.     

谈新形式下的办公空间设计

本文简单介绍办公空间设计在新形势下的设计特点。新时代要求下现代办公设计更注重人性化、交流化、生活化、景观化以及个性化的办公特点,强调设计策划及手法表现的学科性。