Annual Meeting of the Catholic Economic Association

This paper attempts to demonstrate that Keynes's practical writings on the crisis in the Lancashire cotton spinning industry in the 1920s were consistent with the 1930s theoretical conceptualisation of user costs in the General Theory. It is suggested that the key (common) link between these analyses is Keynes's concern with how uncertainty is distributed, in specific historical circumstances, between institutions at the levels of the firm, industry, the industry-financial institution interface, and the local and global economies. It is this concern which still has important, if not more, research and policy relevance today.     

From economic stability to social order: The debate about business cycle theory in the 1920s and its relevance for the development of theories of social order by Lowe,Hayek and Eucken∗

Abstract

The concepts of Adolph Lowe, Friedrich A. Hayek and Walter Eucken play an important role in the discussion of an adequate theory of economic and social order. It is noteworthy that at the beginning of their academic careers, these three economists dealt primarily with questions of business cycle theory. As we will show, this is not coincidental, but can be explained by economic history and the history of theory. Furthermore, all three economists agree that establishing a comprehensive social order would provide the basis for economic stability, although each postulates a different relationship between liberty and order.     

Pigou,Del Vecchio,and Sraffa: the 1955 International “Antonio Feltrinelli” Prize for the Economic and Social Sciences

In 1955, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded the inaugural International “Feltrinelli” Prize for the Economic and Social Sciences to Arthur Cecil Pigou. This paper considers Gustavo Del Vecchio's active role on the selection committee in recommending Pigou for the Feltrinelli Prize and the related correspondence between Pigou, Piero Sraffa, and Del Vecchio. One of the most significant discovery reported in this paper is Sraffa's contention, expressed in an unpublished letter to Del Vecchio, that Pigou had “never been honoured in proportion to his merits.”     

中国创新政策的演进——基于扎根理论

将中国创新政策的发展历程分为3个阶段,即1978—1994年、1995—2005年和2006年以后。运用扎根理论分析了各阶段的创新政策,研究了中国创新政策的演进。结果显示:中国创新政策的范式并未发生根本变化;人才和环境营造一直是中国创新政策的重点;科技成果转化政策的加强使得科技与经济社会的联系越来越紧密;政府在创新中的作用发生了根本性变化。     

Spatial Evolution of Social Norms in a Common-Pool Resource Game

We study the conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource (CPR) game. We consider three types of agents: cooperators, defectors and enforcers. The role of enforcers is to punish defectors for overharvesting the resource. Agents are located on a circle and they only observe the actions of their two nearest neighbors. Their payoffs are determined by both local and global interactions and they modify their actions by imitating the strategy in their neighborhood with the highest average payoffs on average. Using theoretical and numerical analysis, we find a large diversity of equilibria to be the outcome of the game. In particular, we find conditions for the occurrence of equilibria in which the three strategies coexist. We also derive the stability of these equilibria. Finally, we show that introducing resource dynamics in the system favors the occurrence of cooperative equilibria.      

高校思想政治理论课考核方式改革探析——以毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论课程为例

增强思想政治理论课的实效性是目前高校思想政治理论课改革面临的主要现实问题。改革和完善思想政治理论课考核方式,其意义在于通过考核方式改革带动教育教学方式的改革,实现教与学良性互动,从而增强思想政治理论课的实效性。文章以河北工业大学毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论课程为例,对其考核评价体系的改革进行分析和总结,以期达到更好的育人效果。     

言息科技革命与反垄断法的冲突——微软公司VS．美国司法部案例分析

科技进步所诱发的信息革命给我们经济、法律、文化、伦理等社会关系造成了巨大的冲击。其中,建立于传统经济运行模式基础上的监管规制(尤其是反垄断法)在信息时代中显得难以应付,这集中表现于美国司法部与微软公司的世纪之诉中。因此,通过分析微软公司的案例,指出了反垄断立法背后的理论基础并不能囊括信息时代企业的竞争行为,因此有必要研究与信息经济时代特征相适应的反垄断立法。     

埃尔斯伯格悖论评析

主观期望效用理论认为个体的概率分布可以由行为的偏好导出,并且理性人的行为选择应该遵循主观期望效用理论,但是,埃尔斯伯格悖论显示了没有一个主观的概率测度,而且实际行为的选择并不总是和该理论的结果相一致。因此,围绕埃尔斯伯格悖论,展开了行为决策理论应该是规范的还是描述的争论。