War and economy. Rediscovering the eighteenth-century military entrepreneur

Abstract

The detrimental effects traditionally assigned to warfare in the development of pre-industrial economies have obscured the prominent role that military entrepreneurs played in economic development in this period. Historiography minimises the extent to which war and the concomitant strengthening of the central state provided a whole new range of opportunities for capital investment, a tendency that has been strengthened by the paradigm of Redlich’s ‘decline of the soldier-entrepreneur’ and the technological determinism of the debate on the Military Revolution among others. The aim of this introduction is to look into the background of this relative lack of interest and to reaffirm the mutual dependence of eighteenth-century state-formation and the business of war.     

Researching with whom? Stability and manipulation

This paper explores the existence of stable research teams, when the preferences of each agent depend on the set of researchers who are collaborating. We introduce a property over researchers’ preferences, called top responsiveness, guaranteeing the existence of stable research teams configurations. We also provide a stable mechanism, induced by the so-called top covering algorithm, which is strategy-proof when researchers preferences satisfy top responsiveness. Furthermore, we find that, in this framework, the top covering mechanism is the only strategy-proof mechanism that always selects stable allocations.     

Stability and Segregation in Group Formation

This paper presents a model of group formation based on the assumption that individuals prefer to associate with people similar to them. It is shown that, in general, if the number of groups that can be formed is bounded, then a stable partition of the society into groups may not exist. (A partition is defined as stable if none of the individuals would prefer be in a different group than the one he is in.) However, if individuals' characteristics are one-dimensional, then a stable partition always exists. We give sufficient conditions for stable partitions to be segregating (in the sense that, for example, low-characteristic individuals are in one group and high-characteristic ones are in another) and Pareto efficient. In addition, we propose a dynamic model of individual myopic behavior describing the evolution of group formation to an eventual stable, segregating, and Pareto efficient partition. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: C72, H41.     

Study on formation mechanisms of Gannan navel orange characteristic industrial clusters on organizational ecology

The planter history of Gannan navel orange might trace to 1970s, up to now underwent in more than 30 years. Approximately, the development historical division on the Gannan navel orange is 4 stages. The natural environment factor, the customer factor, and the political factor have played crucial roles in the formation and development of GNOCIC. Among them, the rich natural resource and the superior geographical environment are the material base. And government＇s support is the main propelling force. The customers＇ expense is the final decision strength by chance which it develops, expands.     

What do interest rates reveal about the functioning of real business cycle models?

This paper begins by documenting the extent to which the predictions of standard Real Business Cycle (RBC) models are incompatible with observed movements in real interest rates. The main finding of the paper is that extending the baseline model to include habit persistence in consumption and adjustment costs to capital significantly improves the model's empirical performance. In our evaluation of the model's performance, we take special care of estimating and testing predictions of the model using both moments drawn directly from the data and moments calculated after identifying shocks to the stochastic trend.     

英诗建行之管见

本文就英诗建行问题阐述了作者的观点,并提出了诗人在诗歌创作过程中应注意的几项原则。     

对旅游产业集群若干基本问题的探讨

随着旅游业的发展，旅游产业集群已经引起一些学者的关注，但对旅游产业集群的相关概念与内涵等的研究探讨尚显不足，对产业集群的创新研究更是鲜有涉及。详细介绍了国内外有关旅游产业集群的最新研究成果，在借鉴相关成果的基础上深入分析探讨了旅游产业集群的内涵、对象、形成机制、构成、特点、创新等问题，以期将旅游产业的研究进一步引向深入。     

业主公约法律问题简论——一个比较法的观察

住宅小区内不同主体的权利之争对物权法提出了实务上和学理上的双重挑战。作为建筑物区分所有权人的自治规范,业主公约已经成为平衡诸主体权利的“宪法性”文件,从比较法的角度对其相关法律问题进行逐一梳理,将为更深入和更细致的研究提供一个稳固的基础。     

我国商业银行操作风险及其防范对策探析

操作风险是当前我国商业银行面临的主要风险之一，在很大程度上影响了我国银行业的经营安全和竞争力。通过对我国商业银行操作风险现状的分析及其与国际银行的比较，揭示了我国商业银行操作风险的特点及其与国际银行操作风险在表现形式上的差异；在对上述现象成因分析的基础上，为我国商业银行操作风险的防范与控制提出了措施和政策建议。