金融和谐是社会和谐的重要基础

党的十六届六中全会就加强社会主义和谐社会建设做出了重要决议和重要部署。构建和谐社会,需要全社会的共同不懈努力;构建和谐社会也必须重视经济与金融的和谐发展,充分发挥金融在支持社会和谐与经济发展中的重要作用。近年来,新疆金融业以服务自治区经济健康协调快速发展为己任、坚持科学发展观为指导,结合自治区经济社会发展的特点,在全面建设自治区和谐社会发展中发挥了十分重要的作用,在今后和谐社会的构建中也必将继续发挥更大的推动作用。从“十五”时期来看,资金瓶颈是困扰新疆经济发展的重要问题之一,而解决融资问题需要金融业的优化服务。因此,新疆金融业如何按照构建和谐社会的要     

过度投资是通胀之源

过度投资引起的对冲性融资到投机性融资到庞氏融资的正反馈,是引发通货膨胀的基本原因,中国作为一个发展中国家,其表现更为突出2010年下半年以来,CPI同比持续走高,今年7月份达6.5%,创37个月以来的新高。在通胀成因上,大量学者及专家一般认为货币超发、结构性通胀压力以及国外大宗商品价格和国内工资上涨等因素是此轮通胀的主要原因,并且将货币超发放在更为突出的位置上,因此治理通货膨胀的方法就是央行实施紧缩货币政策,将货币供     

关注文化重心促进社会和谐发展

人类社会在其发展进程中,面对不同的时代特征,社会的关注点的不同,文化重心不同,潜移默化的使社会主题、实践的方向、评价标准的不同。然而社会的文化重心往往是以隐性价值存在于人们的观念中,所以它对社会发展的影响也表现为隐性的,但却是实实在在的,文化重心的评价标准是社会评价的价值导向,社会评价的导向,可能会使社会异化为相反的趋势。本文以认识文化重心,以正确的文化导向,寻求今天中国社会的发展进入有效的政治决策和切实的实践轨道。     

和谐文化建设之实践路径新探

建设和谐文化是构建社会主义和谐社会的重要内容。和谐文化是实现社会和谐的文化源泉和精神动力,是社会文明发展和进步的深层次体现,是中国特色社会主义文化的重要组成部分。为此,应当积极探索和谐文化建设的实践路径。     

文化是金融发展之根

如果把金融比喻为一棵大树,那么,业务是叶,管理是枝,体制是干,文化是根,而经济社会环境,则是它的土壤。改革开放以来,由于土壤日趋肥沃,中国金融这棵大树已渐呈叶茂、枝繁、干壮之势。     

论存款是商业银行的效益之源

以利润最大化为主要经营目标的具有典型的企业特征的商业银行,如何按照市场法则扼住效益的源头,笔者认为存款就是商业银行的效益之源。一、商业银行利润最大化是以存款为前提的存款是商业银行最主要的资金来源。现代商业银行是唯一能吸收各种形式存款的银行,存款规模大小,直接关系到银行业务经营的盛衰,风险程度的大小,发展潜力强弱以及利润的多少。以农业银行1985年——1992年存款、贷款、存款占贷款的比重及利润关系表可以看出,在利差一定的情况下,存贷款总额越大,效益(利润)越多,存款自给能力的强弱与银行实现利润的多少总是成正比例关系的。     

以构建社会和谐为基础的群众文化建设

群众文化是面向社会大众的文化,来源于广大人民群众的生活实践及精神追求,是整个国民文化建设的基础。随着时代的不断发展和变化,群众对精神文化的追求也有了新的需求和新的期待。本文就如何加强群众文化建设展开探讨。     

发挥保险行业价值积极承担社会责任服务经济社会建设

近年来保险业积极承担社会责任取得良好成效,成为国家灾害救助体系和社会管理机制的重要组成部分,成为社会保障体系的重要组成部分,成为金融资源配置与稳定机制的重要组成部分,成为国家宏观调控机制的重要组成部分,成为国家创新机制的重要组成部分,成为国家对外经济金融合作对话机制的重要组成部分.在国家加快转变发展方式,政府创新社会管...     

走进文化 感受文化 唱响文化

作为工行的一名一线普通员工到基层的管理者再到市分行企业文化部的负责人,我经历了走进文化、感受文化到唱响文化的过程,一路与企业文化同行。走进文化作为工商银行的普通一员,我经历了工商银行由铁算盘向铁键盘的变迁,见证了工商银行企业文化的发展历程。     

论农业政策性银行的发展与和谐社会的建设

构建社会主义和谐社会,是党中央从全面建设小康社会、开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面的全局出发提出的一项重大任务,适应了我国改革发展进入关键时期的客观要求,体现了广大人民群众的根本利益和共同愿望。当前,在全党开展以实践“三个代表”重要思想为主要内容的保持共产党员先进性教育活动,是贯彻落实党的十六大和三中、四中及五中全会精神的一项重要活动,也是加强党的先进性建设和提高党的执政能力的一项重大举措。构建社会主义和谐社会,不仅是社会主义建设的重要组成部分,而且也是实现党执政的历史使命的重要目标。加强党的先进性建设是…     

Competent jerks, lovable fools, and the formation of social networks

When looking for help with a task at work, people turn to those best able to do the job. Right? Wrong. New research shows that work partners tend to be chosen not for ability but for likability. Drawing from their study encompassing 10,000 work relationships in five organizations, the authors have classified work partners into four archetypes: the competent jerk, who knows a lot but is unpleasant; the lovable fool, who doesn't know much but is a delight; the lovable star, who's both smart and likable; and the incompetent jerk, who.. .well, that's self-explanatory. Of course, everybody wants to work with the lovable star, and nobody wants to work with the incompetent jerk. More interesting is that people prefer the lovable fool over the competent jerk. That has big implications for every organization, as both of these types often represent missed opportunities. Because they are liked by a disproportionate number of people, lovable fools can bridge gaps between diverse groups that might not otherwise interact. But their networking skills are often developed at the expense of job performance, which can make these employees underappreciated and vulnerable to downsizing. To get the most out of them, managers need to protect them and put them in positions that don't waste their bridge-building talents. As for the competent jerks, too often their expertise goes untapped by people who just can't put up with them. But many can be socialized through coaching or by being made accountable for bad behavior. Others may need to display their competence in more isolated settings. Intriguingly, managers aren't limited to leveraging people that others like and changing those that others loathe. They also can create situations in which people are more apt to like one another, whatever their individual qualities.     

Exposure, legitimacy, and social disclosure

This study examines whether the voluntary social disclosures included by corporations in their annual reports are related to either public pressure or firm profitability. It is argued that social disclosures are used as a means of addressing the exposure firms face with regard to the social environment, and as such should be related more closely with public-pressure variables than profitability measures. A regression analysis on the level of disclosure for 128 firms in 1985 indicates that size and industry classification are significant explanatory variables whereas a number of profitability variables are not.     

International harmony measures of accounting policy: comparative statistical properties

Van der Tas's (1988) I index and the between-country C index introduced by Archer et al. (1995) are competing measures of international harmony. We present comparative statistical properties of these indices, via a simulation study covering three accounting methods in 10 countries, with uniform, bimodal and unimodal distributions of companies across accounting methods. The indices are also adjusted for non-disclosures using techniques developed by Archer and McLeay (1995) and Archer et al. (1995). The I index and the between-country C index are mathematically equivalent in the two-country case even in the presence of non-disclosures. As more countries are compared, the two indices diverge. The means and standard deviations of the I index, with a correction proposed by Archer and McLeay (1995), decrease and there is little skewness or kurtosis. In contrast, as more countries are compared, the between-country C index exhibits more stability in means, lower standard deviations, higher skewness and kurtosis. The between-country C index may be superior to the corrected I index because (i) between-country C index means approximate their ‘expected values’ (where all observations equal expected values) more closely than do corrected I index means: and (ii) between-country C index means are more stable than corrected I index means where the data come from stable distributions.     

Lifestyles,inequalities and the process of social change in France

The author analyses social change in French society, underlining both the continuity and the changes inherent in current trends, and tracing the possible outcome of some of the socio-cultural characteristics of the country, particularly with regard to lifestyle. The argument is based on the concept of “progress through conflict”, and after examining the way this model functions, the author shows how present trends could either produce a society of increased well-being or, because they conceal inequalities, could produce a “society in disarray”, in search of a new social design.     

School, images of the futures and social processes in classrooms

Futures studies express a deep concern for the negative effect school education has on young people's images of the future and their proactive attitude to the future. Here, images are regarded as cultural maps and the article attempts to outline a model of interaction in the classroom, which may be useful for understanding how school practices affect images.Given the cultural perspective on images, the analysis focuses on the social processes that organise the creation, negotiation, and distribution of cultural inventories in the classroom, including the meanings and meaningful expressions about future.

Whenever a culture is understood to be a collective phenomenon, it needs a sociology. When this sociology is left implicit, the danger is greater than it is a weak sociology.Ulf Hannerz

     

Tourism, globalization, social externalities, and domestic welfare

One of the impacts of globalisation has been the growth in tourism and mobility of capital. This paper examines the welfare effect of tourism on the host economy with imperfect competition. Three channels that affects domestic welfare by tourism are: social externalities accompanied with tourists, the terms of trade effect via rises in the non-tradable prices, and the resource movement effect to the manufacturing sector. Owing to the positive terms-of-trade effect and/or the beneficial resource movement effect, the optimal levels of tourism occur at the situations that tourists bring negative social externalities to the economy.     

Deprivation,social class and social mobility at Big Four and non-Big Four firms

Using the work of Bourdieu and Savage, this paper investigates social class and social mobility among chartered accountants who qualified with The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland in 2009. We find that these accountants tend to come from privileged backgrounds and that those who qualified with Big Four firms possess more economic, social and cultural capital than those who qualify with other firms. Our study provides fresh insights into how elements of social class interact with social background. In contrast with the prevailing view that there is limited social mobility in the accountancy profession, we find some evidence of social mobility, suggesting that current debates are based on contestable assumptions. We also find that chartered accountants from more deprived backgrounds as indicated by childhood postcode often have a father who has a professional or managerial occupation, so are not deprived on all measures. Where those from more deprived backgrounds accessed chartered accountancy careers, this was at the expense of people whose parents held lower rather than higher professional or managerial jobs. This suggests that the most advantaged maintain access to chartered accountancy but those from more middling professional homes are displaced when those from more deprived backgrounds gain access.