自然和社会—苏联地理学界持续不断的争论

从十九世纪起人类社会与自然环境的相互关系就一直是苏联地理学界的主要论题。在苏维埃时代,这个问题就已经成为意识形态领域激烈争论的中心问题。近年来,地理学的空间侧面比以往受到了更多的重视,然而环境问题依然是苏联地理学界讨论最多的问题之一,也是许多著述和文章的主题。近十年来,苏联地理学具有显著发展,体现在一些重要的地理学家对环境问题的态度有所改变,已经试图在社会与自然环境的关系方面创立一种新的方法。     

The educational attainment of immigrants: trends and implications

"This paper uses the 1970, 1980, and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study trends in educational attainment of immigrants relative to natives. Immigrants have become relatively less highly educated, but have become more highly educated in an absolute sense. The effects of changes in relative educational attainment between immigrants and natives on earnings are studied. Educational differences are found to explain more than half the observed wage gap between the two groups. The paper also allows for non-linearities in returns to education. Sheepskin effects influence earnings in different ways for natives and immigrants. Differences in returns to pre- and post-migration education also appear. The paper also finds evidence that immigrants crowd natives out of education, although the effects are stronger in secondary than in postsecondary education."     

一个关于地方支出的纯理论

近年来，马斯格雷夫(Musgrave)和萨缪尔森(Samuelson)的工作成为应用经济理论的一项重要发展。他们一致认为，在公共产品的支出水平上不存在“市场解”。因而，与私人部门相比，在公共部门中有相当比例的国民收入并没有实现最优配置。本文的研究将表明，尽管马斯格雷夫和萨缪尔森的分析对联邦支出是适用的，但并不适用于地方支出。文章将重述马斯格雷夫和萨缪尔森论文中的假设及核心问题。接下来，在考虑联邦财政和地方财政的关键差异后，将提出一个简单的模型。由这个模型产生的地方层次上公共产品支出水平的解要比在整个国家层次上产生的解能更加充分地反映出居民的偏好。随后，将放宽假设，以便理解该模型的涵义。最后将讨论有关政策。     

资本主义的多样性

概览法国、意大利、荷兰、中国、阿根廷——其贯穿于19世纪的资本主义制度的历史都有其迷人的特别之处,尽管在这篇短文中,我们关注的是英国、美国、德国和日本,这四个国家是有关"莱茵河与盎格鲁—萨克逊资本主义"争论的中心,在其所有简化形式上,这些争论却都涉及到了福利和经济效率的核心问题。     

政府间财政转移支付对发展中国家的启示

本文考察了在设计政府间财政转移支付制度中出现的一些核心问题，总结了许多国家采取的做法，并侧重于发展中国家的做法。由于国与国之间的情况和目标有差别，所以并不存在单一的、普遍适用的转移支付模式。但世界范围的经验表明，如果要提供更有效率的服务，转移支付必须这样设计：即接受转移支付的政府必须拥有清晰的授权、足够的资源以及充分的决策灵活性，并且要对结果负责。     

La Ville de Quèbec et al planification stratègique

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Implementing structure and control over unofficial inventories in a multispecialty group practice

Materiel managers have been in control of most aspects of the supply chain except for the inventories of the end users, which account for 70 percent of the inventory supply dollars. When the Materials Manager at Lexington Clinic in Lexington, Kentucky, was approached by the Clinic's Chief Executive Officer to implement cost containment measures, the Materials Manager seized the opportunity to implement a six-step program aimed at controlling those supply dollars. Through requisition training, enforcing approval levels, limiting the number of requisitioners, and establishing par levels on floor inventories, the clinic's "unofficial" inventory supply dollars were reduced by 7 percent in the first 12 departments where the par levels were established. The program was hailed as a tremendous success and a positive experience for everyone, from nurses to warehouse clerks.