The Bank of England, 1950s to 1979

Discovering chemicals as disinfectants and for timber preservation offered profitable opportunities in the early nineteenth century. After 1839 Sir William Burnett promoted his pioneering patent for zinc chloride – attempting to persuade both fellow medical practitioners and the Admiralty of its widespread uses. Trials in the navy, among migrants to Canada in 1847–48, and during Britain's 1849 cholera epidemic were all intended to demonstrate the ability of his product to contain disease, while experiments with impregnated wood sought to secure markets in the shipbuilding and railway industries. Burnett achieved business success at some cost to his professional reputation. His liquid was gradually superseded by carbolic acid and a variety of proprietary brands after his death in 1861.     

西南5省大旱凸显农业保险的重要性

西南5省大旱凸显农业保险的重要性,我们应该重视目前我国农业保险存在的问题,确立农业保险和再保险制度发展的思路。     

A Typology of Situational Factors: Impact on Salesperson Decision-Making about Ethical Issues

We explore two dimensions of situational factors expected to influence decision-making about ethical issues among sales representatives – universal vs. particular and direct vs. indirect. We argue that these distinctions are important theoretically, methodologically, and managerially. We test our hypotheses by means of a survey of 252 sales representatives. Our results confirm that considering universal and particular and direct and indirect situational factors contributes to our understanding of decision-making about ethical issues within a sales context, specifically willingness to engage in an unethical act. We also find that personal factors act independently and interact with situational factors in decision-making about ethical issues. Both demographic factors, age and gender, and personality factors, Machiavellianism and self-monitoring, have main effects on decision-making, and some of these factors interact with situational factors to affect decision-making. For example, age of the decision-maker (younger) and size of commission (larger) interact such that the likelihood of choosing an unethical alternative is greater.     

移民立法的国际惯例及中国现状

通过对国际移民与各国移民法情况的介绍，阐述了移民立法的概念以及移民立法的国际惯例，分析了我国出入境管理相关法律法规的特点，并指出了我国在出入境管理中存在的问题。     

A theory of permissible illegal immigration

In many countries laws are not enforced against visibly present illegal immigrants. The visibly present illegal immigrants also tend to be concentrated in particular sectors. We explain such permissible illegal immigration in an endogenous-policy model where selective sector-specific illegality transforms illegal immigrants from non-sectorally specialized to sector-specific factors of production. Under initial conditions where no immigrants are present, the median voter opposes immigration. When, however, a population of illegal immigrants has accumulated, ongoing illegal immigration becomes an endogenous equilibrium policy, at the same time that a majority of voters opposes legal immigration and opposes amnesty that would legalize the immigrants' presence. We also establish a basis for domestic voters preferring that illegal immigrants be employed in service rather than traded-goods sectors.     

劳务派遣法律规制与传统劳动关系理论辩析

劳务派遣的合法性受到传统劳动关系理论的质疑，《劳动合同法》确认其合法性的同时，通过特别的规定对劳务派遣进行法律规制，《劳动合同法》对劳动派遣的法律规制与传统劳动关系理论实质上具有一致性。     

从高职英语写作大赛的试题取材看高职英语写作的教学

本文通过对全国高职高专英语写作大赛试题的分析，可以看出高职应用英语写作教学有其鲜明的特色。作者提出了对高职英语写作教学改革的几点建议和思路；探讨了教学要进行改革的必要性；同时指明了高职高专英语写作教学的重点和教学的方向，对英语写作教学有一定的指导意义。     

A model of rational bias in self-assessments

Summary. A body of empirical work documents that most people believe they are above average in a variety of skills and abilities. This paper argues that such evidence does not necessarily imply that people process information in an irrational way. I build a model in which people can learn about their abilities at a cost of foregone production. Individuals in this model keep testing their abilities until their self-assessments become favorable enough, at which point they stop. This way, a disproportionately large share of the population ends up with a high opinion about their abilities.Received: 22 August 2001, Revised: 20 March 2003, JEL Classification Numbers: D81, D83, J22, J29.I would like to thank an anonymous referee, Herbert Dawid, Tom Gilligan, Eric Van den Steen, Ruqu Wang, and especially Patrick Francois for helpful comments and suggestions. I have also benefited from comments of seminar participants at Queen's University and from conversations with Frank Milne and Ivo Welch.     

人口分布、隔离指数及其地理视角——以上海市外来人口分布为例

人口分布具有强烈的地理性,但是相应的空间变动却常常被主流学派所忽视。将空间性思维加入到人口分布的研究当中,关注于不同群体人口分布的局部空间变动,并使用相应的空间性指标进行分析。对这些空间性指标进行了理论探讨,并将其应用于上海市外来人口分布的实证研究中。上海市外来人口主要聚集在距离中心城区10-20公里范围内的近郊区,呈现出有规律性的环状分布。使用空间性的分析指标能够探测出城市社会空间分布的结构,并分析其动力演化机制,为构建和谐的城市社会提供研究依据。