Backcasting for sustainability: Introduction to the special issue

In this introductory paper we introduce the special issue on “Backcasting for Sustainability”. We present briefly a historical background, and position backcasting in the wider context of future studies, in which it can be related to “normative forecasting” and normative scenarios. We reflect on the diversity and variety of backcasting studies and experiments, as presented in the ten papers for this special issue. After summarizing the papers we formulate a future research agenda.     

赵靖的中国经济思想史研究历程及学术贡献

赵靖先生是中国经济思想史学科的主要开拓者和奠基人.在半个多世纪的研究生涯中,他拓展了中国经济思想史的研究内容,提出了中国经济思想史特有的研究模式,构建了科学的学科研究体系.赵靖先生的中国经济思想史研究之路是20世纪后半期中国经济思想史学科发展的缩影.     

分析“分析美学史”的价值——序刘悦笛的《分析美学史》

作为对分析哲学的令人欣喜的贡献,刘悦笛的《分析美学史》,有助于形成对20世纪西方社会中的哲学美学的整体进程的基本理解。刘悦笛的文本正确估价了分析哲学对于美学研究的贡献,其所追踪的历史进程横亘了整个20世纪。这项任务主要是通过从美学家的贡献到美学主题的贡献的诸章节来共同实现的,每章在介绍与总结的部分都提出了作者自己对于分析美学重要性的解释和评价。刘悦笛所选择的美学家们对于这部分析美学简史而言是毫无疑义的,因为他们形成了在这场运动当中的最重要的形象。这种选择代表了一种系统的结构,这对于非西方读者们更深入地理解分析美学具有特别的重要价值。在对历史的精细的组织与敏锐的洞见当中,刘悦笛所提供的坚实的基础,对于学者和学生们而言就像一个坚实的平台,可以由此去探索那些在分析美学史上提出令人瞩目的理念的人们的作品。     

公民意识的历史观照

公民意识作为一种社会意识,是由公民现象这种社会存在派生出来的,具有历史性、具体性和社会性特征。随着人类物质生产水平、社会交往方式以及个体与共同体关系的变化,公民意识的价值和内涵也相应地发生变化。公民意识动态变化的历史图景,直接反映着不同历史阶段的人的不同发展形态和发展特质并最终揭示着产生这种现象的社会历史根源。     

A short history of global inequality: The past two centuries

Using social tables, we make an estimate of global inequality (inequality among world citizens) in early 19th century. We then show that the level and composition of global inequality have changed over the last two centuries. The level has increased reaching a high plateau around 1950s, and the main determinants of global inequality have become differences in mean country incomes rather than inequalities within nations. The inequality extraction ratio (the percentage of total inequality that was extracted by global elites) has remained surprisingly stable, at around 70% of the maximum global Gini, during the last 100 years.     

只有社会主义才能救中国和发展中国——庆祝中国共产党成立九十周年

在半封建半殖民地的旧中国,不同阶级和党派曾提出过多种救国方案,最终都走向了失败,只有中国共产党领导的社会主义道路取得了胜利。值此建党九十周年之际,本文以史为鉴,分析了资本主义道路在中国走不通的原因,阐述了"只有社会主义才能救中国,只有社会主义才能发展中国"科学论断的历史必然性。     

我国城市公共艺术设计现状及对策研究

随着经济的不断发展,公共艺术已成为一个国家、地区城市发展程度的重要体现,作为一种服务于大众的艺术正逐渐融入我们的生活当中,变成生活中不可或缺的一部分。公共艺术促进着城市的发展,城市是公共艺术赖以生存的地方,二者紧密相关不可分割。本文将对我国当今的公共艺术现状和未来发展进行分析和论述,将目前城市和公共艺术两者之间的关系、公共艺术作品目前存在的问题等进行分析,并提出相关建议。     

International borrowing without commitment and informational lags: Choice under uncertainty

A series of recent studies in economic growth theory have considered a class of models of international borrowing where, in the absence of a perfect investment commitment, the borrowing constraint depends on the historical performances of the country. Thus, a better level of past economic activity gives a higher reputation, thereby increasing the possibility of accessing the international credit market. This note considers this problem in a stochastic setting based on the volatility of the internal net capital. We study how the optimal consumption level and the maximal expected welfare depend on the combined influence of the trajectory of past economic variables and the volatile environment. In particular, we show how the strength of the history effect and the relative weight of the historical performance depend on the degree of risk.     

如何提高历史学本科毕业生就业质量

历史学作为基础性长线学科,其就业前景相对所谓的热门专业来说无疑面临着更大的困难。本文针对目前历史学本科毕业生就业的现状,提出从提升专业素质,增强综合素质,转变就业观念,拓宽就业领域等方面着手,提高历史学本科毕业生的就业质量。     

Re‐gendering consumer agency in mid‐nineteenth‐century America: A visual understanding

The re‐gendering of consumer agency in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, from being a male to an increasingly female prerogative and responsibility, marked an important milestone in the history of American consumer culture. Art from this period can provide a visual understanding of this ideological and social transformation. Accordingly, this paper examines the lives and selected works of two intriguing genre painters, Francis W. Edmonds (1806–1863) and Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902), using concepts and methods from art history, visual culture, and postmodern theory. Implications for household consumption history and theory are also discussed.