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。     

中国房价暴涨的政治学解读

解读10年来的《政府工作报告》,可以发现中国政府对房地产经历了一个从鼓励、扶植、提倡到适度限制、调控、理性对待的过程。中国的房地产价格上涨有充分的客观原因,政局稳定、现代化进程中的城市化效应、宏观经济提速、政府对土地供应严控都是房价上涨的政治因素,但房价暴涨则与政府特别是地方政府调控不力有关,与制度漏洞有关。因此,解决中国的房地产价格问题需要制度创新。     

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。     

大学生心理疾病产生的原因及对策

21世纪将是心理疾病患者显著增加的年代,心理疾病将成为严重威胁人类和社会稳定的“世纪病”。心理病患者“自杀”的数字也令人吃惊。大学生是心理疾病发生率较多的群体,大学生心理疾病产生的原因是复杂多样的,既有遗传和生理因素,又有社会、学校、家庭及个体心理缺陷等因素。加强对大学生产生心理疾病的原因分析,有助于我们搞好大学生心理教育,帮助大学生增进心理健康。