Accounting for the Business of Suffering: A Study of the Antebellum Richmond, Virginia, Slave Trade

When the Congress barred the importation of slaves into the United States in 1808, it left the internal slave trade intact. The trade took on a new importance as the slave states of the Old South saw their agricultural economies shift to a point that holding large numbers of slaves became too expensive. During this time, the large agricultural concerns shifted to the New South, where cotton and sugar plantations needed the cheap labour provided by the institution of slavery. As this transition intensified, Richmond, Virginia, became a central slave market that facilitated the interstate slave trade as Old South planters chose the course of selling slaves as a valuable commodity rather than the course of manumission. The records of two businesses—Dickinson & Hill and Hector Davis & Company—which plied the slave trade in the Richmond market, have survived into the twenty-first century. These records revealed a primitive, yet sophisticated, process to account for the consignment, purchase, and sales of human merchandise in this haunting story of the 'business of suffering'.     

我国西部地区的国企改制困境:一个文献综述

本文针对我国西部欠发达地区目前的国企改制困境问题,对国内外相关文献进行了综述分析,发现造成我国西部国企改制困境的原因中既有"外生"的因素,也有"内生"的因素.西部地区不利的自然禀赋、不合理的产业结构以及中央逆市场调控的政策等,造成西部市场机制发育迟缓,仅靠市场的力量无法消化国企改制的成本;而我国转轨时期特定的体制结构使得政府在国企改制成本支付过程中充满了机会主义行为.针对这种情况本文提出了相应的政策建议.     

美国私立大学的发展对我国民办高等教育的启示

借鉴美国私立大学发展的成功经验对我国民办高等教育的发展具有重要的现实意义。本文从立法、经费来源、管理、教师队伍建设四个角度,分析了美国私立大学发展成功的原因,并针对我国民办高等教育发展的现状和存在的问题,提出了对我国民办高等教育发展的几点启示:完善民办教育促进法;建立多样化的筹资渠道;加强民主管理;提高民办高校教师地位和待遇。     

加强文学批评理论教学,深化英美文学教学改革

英美文学课的教学与文学批评理论(下称文论)有着密切的关系。在文学课教学中,文论对文学作品的理解和欣赏起着指导作用。然而,长期以来传统的文学教学忽视了文论教学的存在。失去了文论的指导,文学教学失去了它应有的活力,因此,在英美文学教学过程中,要加强文论教学。     

关于城市发展定位研究的探索——以大连西部地区为例

以大连西部地区的规划实践为基础,对如何进行城市发展定位进行了探索,并从理论和方法论角度总结出了研究城市发展定位的程序和技术路线,旨在把城市发展定位研究引向深入.     

Human resource management in foreign-owned workplaces: evidence from Australia

Multinational companies have assumed a position of considerable prominence in the Australian economy. Drawing on the 1995 Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, this paper examines the character of human resource management in multinational companies operating in Australia. The findings suggest that investments in the human resource function and the utilization of human resource practices were generally more widespread in foreign-owned than Australian establishments. This was especially the case for workplaces belonging to American and British-owned firms. It is concluded that the more strongly regulated industrial relations environment as well as the legacy of protected domestic markets have not made multinational companies reluctant innovators in human resource management in the Australian context.     

西部地区开发条件的综合评价

本文采用综合的观点和动态分析方法探讨中国西部地区开发条件的优势、劣势及相互转化,对地理位置、矿产、土地、旅游资源、劳动力、市场、资本及制度等区位因素进行了客观、系统的评价。运用比较经济地理学的基本方法,对比分析西部地区与东部地区之间开发条件的差异,从而使东部地区的经验能科学地为西部地区所借鉴。在区位因素综合评价的基础上文章进一步提出了西部地区开发可采用的模式和政策。     

美国在华FDI对中美经贸关系的影响

中美之间的贸易不平衡存在着内在的必然性,美国在华直接投资从替代效应和互补效应两个方面又加剧双边的贸易不平衡。美国在华投资企业可以成为减弱中美贸易摩擦的一股特殊力量。     

Schools Out: Adam Smith and Pre-disciplinary International Political Economy

In this article, I argue that invocations of Adam Smith in international political economy (IPE) often reveal the influence therein of a disciplinary ontological disaggregation of economic and non-economic rationality, which I claim is obscured by the tendency to map its complex intellectual contours in terms of competing schools. I trace the origins of the disciplinary characterisation of Smith as the founder of IPE's liberal tradition to invocations of his thought by centrally important figures in the perceived Austrian, Chicago and German historical schools of economics, and reflect upon the significance to IPE of the reiteration of this portrayal by apparent members of its so-called American and British schools. I additionally contrast these interpretations to those put forward by scholars who seek to interpret IPE and Smith's contribution to it in pre-disciplinary terms, which I claim reflects a distinct ontology to that attributed to the British school of IPE with which their work is often associated. I therefore contend that reflection upon invocations of Smith's thought in IPE problematises the longstanding tendency to map its intellectual terrain in terms of competing schools, reveals that the disciplinary ontological consensus that informs this tendency impacts upon articulations of its core concerns and suggests that a pre-disciplinary approach offers an alternative lens through which such concerns might be more effectively framed.     

美国房地产税制对我国房地产税制改革的借鉴

目前,作为新一轮税制改革,房地产税立法被列为税制改革进程而再次成为各方关注的焦点。美国已经建立了较为完善、稳定和成熟的房地产税收制度。从房地产业的可持续健康发展看,借鉴美国成功经验,完善我国的房地产税制改革具有深远的意义。首先探讨和总结了美国房地产税收制度体系的经验,然后对我国目前房地产税改革的问题与难点进行深入剖析,并提出了立足基本国情的房地产税制改革建议。