The development of the Dutch national accounts as a tool for analysis and policy

Since the start of modern national accounting in the 1930s, the Netherlands has played a dominant role in the development of the national accounts. This paper discusses the origins and development of the Dutch national accounts. This includes the surprisingly slow start of political arithmetic in the Netherlands, the views of van Cleeff and Tinbergen on planning and national accounting, the role of Derksen and Oomens as fathers of the Dutch national accounts, the Dutch School of National Accounting, the interaction with national statistics and the role of the international guidelines and the European Union. The paper also takes a look into the future. The major challenges are to bridge the gap with data users and to increase relevance by, e.g. extended accounts, long-term time series on government finance and modules on education, health care and social security.     

The Dutch and Portuguese-Jewish background of David Ricardo

This article deals with the Dutch and Portuguese-Jewish background of David Ricardo. The important pieces of information, found in the Amsterdam municipal archives, on the one hand correct, and on the other complement, the data presented by P. Sraffa. Recently, new evidence has been found on Ricardo's stay in Amsterdam in the years 1783?–?85. This evidence throws new light on Ricardo's relationship with his uncle Moses in Amsterdam. It is shown that his formal education was poor, but that his informal education may have been rich. The question of whether Ricardo visited the famous Talmud Tora in Amsterdam is settled in the negative.     

我国农地产权制度演进与人口、经济增长—兼论近代中衰欧兴的主要原因

近代我国人地比较高及逐地守业思想使得地价高位运行,耗费了大量社会资本而无所剩几用于农业、工业积累,使得我国的工业化滞后于西方。我国农地产权公有化具有"负熵"的历史意义,当前宜在维护农地所有权公有的基础上,明确经营权的权责及法律地位,以鼓励农地合理流转。同时需防止农地用于非生产性投资而造成农地高价,因为农地高价会造成5种不利后果。要保持长久发展,农地需"低位运行"。     

推进国有农场税费配套改革 --对河北省唐海县柏各庄农场的考察

农村税费改革关系农业发展、农村社会稳定和农民全面小康的实现。通过对唐海县国营柏各庄农场的实地考察和分析研究,结果表明:政策因素并不是其改革的充要条件,技术操作层面的改进与完善是保证农村税费改革成功与否的必要条件,应该给予足够重视。     

中荷高校教学模式的比较研究

经济社会的高速发展导致了对人才的高需求和高要求，进而对我国的高等教育提出了新的挑战。与此同时，荷兰PDP教学模式近来备受各国关注．通过对PDP进行概念界定和释义．总结荷兰PDP教学模式的过程和特点．并将其与我国当前教育模式进行对比．进而指出国内高等教育存在的诸多不足，并从政府、企业、高校及学生个人层面提出了相应的对策措施。     

Scale Economies and Inefficiency of U.S. Dairy Farms

This study employs data drawn from the 2000 Agricultural Resource Management Survey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture-sponsored farmers' survey. The article estimates returns to scale relationships across dairy farms of different sizes and across different regions, incorporating variables hypothesized to influence farm performance. Results point to significant scale economies in U.S. dairy farms and underscore the importance of taking account of inefficiency when estimating scale economies. Contrary to previous research, the preferred cost function specification does not show a region of decreasing returns to scale. This finding helps explain why the average size of dairy farms has been increasing.     

以土地规模经营优化农村劳动力配置

鉴于农村大量剩余劳动力转移的困难,文章提出以农村土地规模化经营为突破口,创新组织形式,优化劳动力配置结构,实现剩余劳动力的就地转移,为政策的制定提供理论依据。     

Spatial planning of offshore wind farms: A windfall to marine environmental protection?

Wind farms are often planned offshore where wind conditions are favourable and the visual impact is less important. Wind farms have both positive and negative effects on the marine environment. Negative effects include bird collisions, underwater sounds and electromagnetic fields, whilst positive effects constitute functioning as artificial reef and acting as no-take zones for fish, with possible spill-over effects.This paper presents a spatially explicit framework to analyze effects of wind farms on the marine environment and aims to evaluate how wind farms can contribute to protection of the marine environment through strategic and economically viable location choices.The functioning and the applicability of the model are demonstrated in a numerical example for the Dutch exclusive economic zone. We find that the careful spatial planning of wind farms is a key factor for profitability and environmental protection, and that, if carefully planned, the environment can benefit from offshore wind farms.