Revealed preferences in macroeconomic policy decisions

This paper extends the usual instrument-target framework by directly estimating macroeconomic policy preferences over a number of policy targets using a derived reduced form and then solving the nonlinear optimality conditions for optimal instrument choice. Solving the optimality equations using observations on predetermined variables yields the implicit set of preference weights which induced the observed choices. The derivation format parallels the integrability discussions about consumer preferences implicitly expressed through demand functions. The approach is applied to a simple macro model estimated over the period from 1955 through 1972.     

Workplace chaplains: filling a need traditional EAPs can't meet

More organizations are finding secular counseling provided by employee assistance programs (EAPs) is inadequate for many employees. As a result, increasing numbers of employers are providing services of workplace chaplains. Chaplain services are not necessarily part of the recent fad toward "spirituality" in organizations, but rather address the needs of an increasingly non-churchgoing culture living in a more stressful world.     

我国国有企业体制创新中的全员职业化再造

在现代市场经济中,任何市场主体最终权益的实现,都不可能脱离优胜劣汰机制的检验。实施国企职工的全员职业化整合和平等竞争谋取各级管理及经营者岗位,不仅有利于确立社会主义企业家的产生机制,形成包括各级管理者在内的广大人才储备市场,而且,国企职工主人翁权益通过市场化方式的兑现,最大限度地激发调动起社会主义劳动者的忘我工作热情。     

沃顿商学院中国的第二次经济大转型

我一直密切关注着中国近年来增长与繁荣。现在是中国的第二次经济转型．即构筑统一的国内市场的时候了。我认为这一转变势在必行．只有如此．那些有能力在国内竞争中获胜，继而挺进国际市场的企业才能脱颖而出。     

汽车废气排放的成因、危害与对策

汽车在大量消耗资源的同时，其排放的尾气会严重地影响人类的健康。随着国家一系列强制性法规的出台，更多人开始关注汽车的尾气问题。阐述了汽车排放污染物的主要成分、汽油车尾气排放的成因及危害和柴油车排放碳烟的生成机理；指出了废气污染物的生成及其影响因素，同时提出了内燃机排放的采样方法及防止汽车尾气超标的对策。