Hans Singer's debts to Schumpeter and Keynes

This essay discusses Hans Singer's intellectual formation andthe influences on his early writings and on his post-1947 developmenteconomics. It asks what impact the unusual experience of studyingwith both Schumpeter and Keynes had upon his subsequent economicthinking and practice. It argues that the influence of boththese mentors was surprisingly small, compared with that ofSpiethoff and Clark. Singer repaid his debts to Schumpeter andKeynes, but by working in the new currency of development economics,some of which was his own coinage. His motivation for this vasteffort was derived from the social egalitarianism of figuressuch as William Beveridge, Archbishop Temple and R. H. Tawney,rather than the liberalism of Schumpeter and Keynes.     

Revisiting Business and the Arts

SUMMARY

From a critical perspective, this paper examines the development of closer relationships between business and the arts. There has been a concerted effort to expand “exchange transitions,” a fundamental marketing concept, so that marketing is now viewed as a pervasive social activity. As such, marketers like corporate sponsors are the possessors and disseminators of a new and powerful language. Three strands of investigation are pursued: the conceptualization of the consumer in relationship to the arts organization; the significance of the (American-based) Business Committee for the Arts, since its founding in the late 1960s, in championing stronger relationships between commercial enterprises and arts organizations; and interventions by visual artist Hans Haacke, as an example of culture jamming, against what he perceives to be the corporate takeover of the arts. These cases are points of contact representing the complex and contested managerial imperatives faced by arts organizations.     

《买吾番族:甘肃的一个藏族部落》的史学价值

汉斯·史图博所著德文《买吾番族:甘肃的一个藏族部落》一书,是研究民国时期甘肃藏区部落社会的珍贵史料。汉斯·史图博以客观诚实的态度,细致翔实地描述了买吾番族的部落形态及其社会生产生活的各个面相,从人类学的角度进行考察,展现了一幅外国人眼中的买吾番族部落影像,揭示了甘肃藏区独特的社会形态及族群关系。