Wallace C. Peterson: A Post-Keynesian Institutionalist

Wallace C. Peterson was an exemplary post-Keynesian institutionalist. He wrote about the foundations of economics in a manner that paved the way for today’s post-Keynesian institutionalism. He analyzed the U.S. economy with a keenness that not only shed new light on the macroeconomic issues of his day, but also put him decades ahead of other economists on the problem of United States’ silent depression. Furthermore, he identified policy issues that continue to spark widespread public interest and discussion. I examine his contributions in each of those areas (foundations, analyses, and policy).     

文化断裂视角下农民工贫困原因透析

目前人们主要从经济、能力和权利三方面定义和衡量贫困.在人们对贫困成因的阐释中,个人、社会和自然的因素各有侧重,但文化因素同样是农民工贫困的深层原因.逐步培养和加强农民工的团结组织能力,大力发展相关教育事业,改变文化观念,提高农民工对政策或制度制定的参与和影响能力,以此来培育农民工的可行能力和\"造血\"功能,有利于其获得资源和机会,从而走出贫困.     

Was the deflation of the depression anticipated? An inference using real-time data

Theories that explain the behavior of the economy during the Depression are based on assumptions about agents’ expectations about future price trends. This paper uses an alternative methodological approach which utilizes real-time information from the Depression period to infer whether deflation was anticipated. The information includes the forecasting methodology of that time as well as projections about anticipated output that were obtained from the textual analysis of business statements, converting qualitative to quantitative data. We infer that deflation was not anticipated because agents did not expect economic output to consistently decrease.     

Of Contracts and the Katallaxy: Measuring the Extent of the Market, 1919–1939

This paper develops a view of the extent of the market based on the katallactic notions advanced by Mises, Hayek, Buchanan, and others. This contractarian approach to the katallactic process is used to analyze one of the most studied but still controversial periods of U.S. economic history, the interwar years from 1919 to 1939. The pictures that emerge from a katallactic analysis of the interwar years are quite different from those that emerge, for example, from considerations of national income and product. The katallactic approach reveals, for example, that a much larger and more dynamic structure of production and financial exchanges sits behind the relatively sanguine façade of final consumption during this turbulent period.     

甘肃省502名高三学生抑郁情绪调查研究

目的:了解甘肃省高三学生抑郁情绪状况并进行分析。方法:在甘肃省抽取502名高三学生,采用自编社会人口学资料表、ZUNG氏抑郁自评量表(SDS)、GROSS情绪调节方式问卷、社会支持评定量表对其进行问卷调查。结果:①高三学生中有抑郁症状者137人,占总调查人数的27.3%;②采用有效的情绪调节方式、高社会支持能够减少抑郁情绪的产生。结论:高三学生学习压力大,在关注学生学习成绩的同时应对其心理健康状况给予重视。     

东营凹陷丰深1井试气工艺

因储层污染和压裂技术的限制,2001年完钻的丰深1井未进行常规试气,随着该区地质认识程度的提高和压裂技术的发展,2005年对该井沙砾岩体实施了CO2增能压裂并获得成功。文章介绍并总结了该井试气的成功经验。