Gentrifier? Who,Me? Interrogating the Gentrifier in the Mirror

Schlichtman and Patch suggest that there is an elephant sitting in the academic corner: while urbanists often use ‘gentrification’ as a pejorative term in formal and informal academic conversation, many urbanists are gentrifiers themselves. Even though urbanists have this firsthand experience with the process, this familiarity makes little impact on scholarly debate. There is, Schlichtman and Patch argue, an artificial distance in accounts of gentrification because researchers have not adequately examined their own relationship to the process. Utilizing a simple diagnostic tool that includes ten common aspects of gentrification, they compose two autoethnographic memoirs to begin this dialogue.     

中国农村居民旅游消费的多元线性回归分析

进入新世纪,中国旅游业进入了战略转型时期,由于国际旅游市场竞争日趋激烈与金融危机的冲击,入境游明显受挫以及国内旅游需求日益增长,国内旅游逐渐在我国的旅游市场上占据主导地位。过去,在我国的旅游消费群体中,主要消费群体为城镇居民,因而人们更多地将目光集中在对城镇居民的旅游消费研究上。但近几年来,农村居民的旅游人数和旅游花费也在显著增长。文章通过对我国农村居民旅游消费进行多元线性回归分析,阐述了我国农村居民的旅游消费状况,研究了各种因素对我国农村居民旅游消费的不同影响,为策划国内旅游市场未来的发展提供了可供参考的政策建议,并预测未来的旅游消费情况,试图找到挖掘我国农村居民旅游消费市场的巨大潜力的有力措施。     

论物流与电子商务

随着信息化、网络化的普及,网络消费必将成为消费者消费的主流模式。消费者消费模式的改变促进了物流、资金流、信息流在操作利用模式上的独立化,但是三者之间的相互作用表现得越来越明显。有效地将三者结合运用将极大地推动现代消费模式的发展,降低社会物流成本。     

山东省城镇居民消费水平的统计分析

本文运用主成分法和聚类分析法,对山东省16个市地的城镇居民消费水平,进行了比较分析。解决了以往在分析居民消费问题时,所遇到的指标多,且指标体系中存在此消彼长的现象,同时验证了分类结果。在此基础上进一步探讨了个人可支配收入与人均总的消费支出之间的关系。并对提高城镇居民消费水平提出了建议。     

异质性能源消耗强度变化及其影响因素分解——基于四川省可比价能源投入产出表

基于2002—2007年四川省可比价能源投入产出表,分析了四川省6部门的异质性能源的完全能耗系数的变化趋势;采用因素分解法,将能耗强度总量变动的影响因素分解为直接能耗变化、产品技术变化和最终需求结构变化,并分析了不同因素对能源消耗强度变化的影响程度。结果表明:2002—2007年间,除农业外,其他产业部门的煤炭完全能耗系数均呈下降趋势;除了建筑业的天然气完全能耗系数呈上升趋势外,其他产业部门的该系数均呈先升后降的趋势;最终需求结构变动促使各类能源的消耗强度总量呈正向变化;直接能耗变动是影响4类能源的消耗强度变动的最主要因素。     

Cross-border commuting and consuming: an empirical investigation

This article contributes to our understanding of cross-border activity in general and the determinants of cross-border trade in particular by focusing on the part of cross-border sales that arise due to work-related cross-border crossings of households. We analyse empirically how cross-border consumption expenditures vary across product and services categories as well as household characteristics using representative household survey data of cross-border commuters to Luxembourg. In total, these households spend an estimated 17% of their gross annual income across the border, contributing about 10% to the total household final consumption expenditure (HFCE) in Luxembourg. Cross-border expenditure is linked to individual- and household-related characteristics and to distance between home and work. Cross-border commuters systematically exploit arbitrage opportunities that arise because of existing price level (index) differences between the country of work and the country of residence.     

对促进消费增长几个有关问题的思考

在世界金融危机引起世界经济低迷的关键时期,中国政府以高度负责任大国的风范,及时调整经济增长中“三驾马车”的主从关系,作出拉动内需的战略抉择,促进了国内经济发展的持续走好,带动了世界经济的强劲反弹,让国民称道,令世界瞩目。然而,在后金融危机时代靠什么拉动消费、在边际需求递减的规律下提高什么人的收入、建设什么样的长效机制才能让居民敢于消费、持续性消费增长需要怎么样的顶层设计等一系列的问题需要我们去研究探索。     

Herbert J. Davenport on Conspicuous Consumption and the Economics of Feminism

This article analyzes Herbert J. Davenport’s discussions of conspicuous consumption and feminism. Even though these (typically) Veblenian topics represent two “episodes” in many respects disconnected with the central body of Davenport’s theoretical interests, the assessment of Davenport’s views on these matters enlarges our knowledge of the development of his thought. Our analysis shows how Davenport can be enrolled among the forerunners of the modern theory of positional goods. Moreover, our article offers some new findings on the impact of Veblen’s ideas on one of his closest students at the Chicago University.     

Inequality and Trade Policy: The Pro‐Poor Bias of Contemporary Trade Restrictions

This paper studies the pro‐poor bias of trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects of removing the current protection structure. The elimination of a pro‐poor trade policy is expected to have a negative differential welfare effect at the low end of the distribution. The paper first constructs trade restrictiveness indexes for household consumption items and industries using both tariffs and non‐tariff barriers. The results indicate that Indian trade policy is regressive through the expenditure channel as it disproportionately raises the cost of consumption for poorer households, while it is progressive through the earnings channel. Based on the net welfare effects, the elimination of the current trade protection structure is estimated to reduce inequality. These results indicate that a trade policy that is progressive through the earnings channel may induce a price effect that is regressive through the expenditure channel.     

高校体育资源的有偿共享对大学生参加体育消费带来的负面影响及解决方案

高校体育资源在有偿共享过程中与大学生的体育活动发生了矛盾与冲突,就高校体育资源的有偿共享对大学生参加体育活动带来的负面影响进行论述并提出解决方案,以期为高校体育资源的优化配置提供才考。