区域发展政策与区域经济增长空间收敛

文中利用计量经济模型方法，计算分析了1952-2000年我国区域经济增长空间分布变化的趋势及其与区域经济发展政策的关系。研究结果显示，尽管从1952-2000年以实际人均GDP为指标，我国区域经济增长变化呈发散趋势。然而，根据不同时段国家所采取的经济发展政策措施的不同把整个时期划分为若干不同时段，则发现1952-1966、1979-1990、1979-2000年等时段，我国区域经济增长过程中均存在显著的b 型绝对和条件收敛趋势。进一步的研究还显示我国区域经济增长过程中的b 型收敛趋势与区域经济发展政策之间存在显著的关系。     

Globalization of Japanese culture: Economic power vs. cultural power, 1989-2002

This article examines the reasons why Japanese cultural products have not penetrated other countries. It also explicates the recent trends in Japan's expansion of its cultural products and Japan's direct investment in the global cultural market to ascertain whether this new development is a sign that Japan is attempting to gain an important role in global communication. It concludes that Japan was not able to successfully build its communication power to a degree comparable to its status as the second largest economic power and its second largest media consumption market.     

Technology,Innovation and Economic Policy edited by Peter Hall (Philip Allan,Oxford, 1986) pp viii + 248, ISBN 0-86003-062-8, 0-86003-171-3 Pbk

The introduction of new technologies is associated with a major change of employment in society, from the traditional agricultural and manufacturing sectors, to the service sector. The availability of more and better services will, according to some analysts, generate wealth that will absorb the surplus labour made available from the traditional sectors. We believe this will be at best a short-term phenomenon. In the longer term, many service sector jobs will be taken over by computer-based systems. In addition, for most people employment also provides security, a pattern for their day, social relationships, a place to belong, and the opportunity to be involved in learning. These will be difficult to achieve in the newer jobs, and much more difficult for the jobless or those in short-term employment. It is critical that the meaning of ‘work’ in society be re-examined.

Under a regime in which ‘hard’, technological systems are programmed to treat society as a collection of individuals, we see the need to develop social, political and economic decision-making tools from the ‘soft’ systems viewpoint. These are not predictable from the sum of individual properties; they are properties of the system, and of the system alone. We also discuss analogies between societies and nonequilibrium thermodynamic systems, which we believe can be helpful when looking at questions involving invention of futures.     

Economic Analysis of Telecommunications: Theory and Applications edited by L. Courville,A. de Fontenay,R. Dobell (North Holland,Amsterdam, 1983) ISBN: 0-444-86674-4

The introduction of new technology has been of concern to banking unions but the chances of them effectively influencing such decisions are determined by the importance attached to the issue by members and their willingness to undertake industrial action. This paper reports a study which attempted to examine this issue by investigating union members’ experiences with various types of new technology, their attitudes towards those technologies and various aspects of their work lives and also their willingness to undertake industrial action over the introduction of new technology into their workplace.     

增长、创新与晋升——来自中国省级地方政府的经验证据

剖析了地方政府之间"为增长而竞争"与"为创新而竞争"对地方政府官员晋升的影响机理,并基于2000-2014年中国省级地方政府省长与省委书记的相关数据,采用面板Probit模型,实证考察了"为增长而竞争"与"为创新而竞争"对省级地方政府主要官员政治晋升的影响效应。研究发现,考察期内,各地方政府之间"为增长而竞争"对官员政治晋升的影响效应是不显著的,而"为创新而竞争"则能够显著促进官员的政治晋升,且这种促进作用具有一定的阶段性特征。     

Blood,politics, and social science. Richard Titmuss and the Institute of Economic Affairs, 1957-1973

Long before his last book, The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy, was published in early 1971, Richard M. Titmuss (1907-1973), a professor of social administration at the London School of Economics, had been a major figure in the debates over the welfare state. The Gift Relationship was the culmination of an eventful relationship with the Institute of Economic Affairs, a think tank that advocated the extension of rational pricing to social services. By arguing that the British system of blood procurement and distribution, based on free giving within the National Health Service, was more efficient than the partly commercialized American system, Titmuss intended to signal the dangers of the increasing commercialization of society. What made for the impact of his book, however, was not merely its argument that transfusion-transmitted infections were much more common with paid than with voluntary donors, but also its reflections on what it is that holds a society together. And here Titmuss argued that a "socialist" social policy, by encouraging the sense of community, played a central role. The eclecticism of Titmuss's work, together with its strong ethical and political flavor, makes it a rich and original account of the "social" at a time when heated debated over social policy, both in Britain and in the United States, raised the question of the division of labor among the social sciences.     

知识积累、经济增长与产业结构演进

本文在新增长理论框架内通过一简单动态模型证明了经济系统在农业社会的增长停滞以及工业化之后的自我增长。理论证实一国均衡产业结构发展将依次循序演进。上述论点可为后起国发展政策提供理论指导。     

专利制度与经济增长:理论与现实--对中国专利制度运行绩效的评估

本文从激励创新和促进经济增长两个方面考证专利制度的绩效，在理论论证的基础上，就中国专利制度运行中的相关数据进行了全面的实证分析。结论表明，专利制度的绩效与制度的完善程度是关联的，现阶段对我国专利制度的完善应重视对原创性技术的倾斜及对专利技术商业化环境的完善。