Cultural determinants of economic growth: Theory and evidence

Shortcomings of neoclassical growth theory and growth accounting are viewed as a challenge for cultural economics. Recently, new growth theory has introduced several growth determinants and has closed the gap between theoretical and empirical research. Whether this development leaves space for cultural determinants in explaining economic growth is in the center of this paper. The theoretical analysis shows how an endogenous growth model can be used to explain the impact on economic growth of cultural determinants. The empirical part uses indices from cross-cultural studies to extend recent cross-country growth regressions. Among other Hofstedes uncertainty avoidance index is shown to be significantly correlated with economic growth.Discussion paper presented at the 9th international conference of the Association for Cultural Economics, Boston, May 8–11, 1996.     

高校图书馆服务意识五大误区样态侧视

服务是高校图书馆立馆之本,也是图书馆最主要的工作,图书馆的生存与发展与自身提供的服务质量息息相关,但在我国高校图书馆实际服务过程中,总有一些偏离本身职能的现象出现,对这些普遍现象的理性分析与探讨,正是本文欲涉及的主要内容.参考文献4.     

广东经济建设对促进图书馆国际交流与合作初探

从广东经济的快速发展、图书馆的总体水平以及图书馆国际化进程等方面，分析探讨了经济发展与图书馆发展的关系。     

城市公共图书馆网络建设--发达国家和地区图书馆的经验及启示

介绍了国外及港台地区公共图书馆系统的现状和运作模式，分析了我国城市公共图书馆网络建设的不足和发展的障碍，从发达国家和地区图书馆的经验和启示，探讨了适应我国城市公共图书馆的发展模式。     

1950年代计划经济体制中国化的基本经验

改革开放历史起源之一是对计划经济体制在中国最初实践经验的思考和结合中国实际进行改革的初步尝试。1950年代,中国共产党人在推进社会主义改造和建立社会主义制度的同时,就提出、探讨了将苏联计划经济同中国具体实际相结合、建立中国式的社会主义经济体制这样一个历史课题。在实践中,中共提出了发挥中央和地方两个积极性、社会主义经济是计划性与多样性和灵活性的统一、三个主体与三个补充相结合等一系列思想,取得了丰富的经验。这些思想和经验成为中国特色社会主义兴起的重要基础。     

农科院校无机及分析化学课程分层教学方法的应用

针对扩招后学生水平差异的显著,根据最近发展区理论,在我校《无机及分析化学》基础课教学中进行分层教学法的实践,按能力对学生进行分组,同时设计多层次的教学目标,有针对有区别地设计教学内容,控制教学进度,促进每个学生在最适合自己的目标层次中求得最佳发展,从而改进传统的大班"一刀切"的授课方式,强化学生的主体地位,有效地提高《无机及分析化学》大班教学的质量,更好地实现扩招后"大众化""多元化"的教育目标。     

Press Credentials and Hybrid Boundary Zones: The Case of WorldNetDaily and the Standing Committee of Correspondents

ABSTRACT

Press credentialing practices are a vital, yet understudied site of scholarly research on journalistic norms and practices. Press credentialing not only structures internal professional hierarchies, but they also signify the boundaries of the journalistic field itself. This paper explores the legal and theoretical implications of press credentialing to cover the United States Congress, drawing on the concepts of boundary work and journalistic authority to demonstrate the material impact of the space between fields on professional legitimation in journalism. Using WorldNetDaily (WND) as a case study, I argue that the Standing Committee of Correspondents (SCC) occupies a hybrid boundary zone between the journalistic and political fields, generating a unique tension in First Amendment jurisprudence that places journalists in a paradoxical role as both the professional embodiments of free speech and its constitutional steward. The resulting jurisdictional conflict between the SCC and WND extends the relational model of journalistic authority by articulating how journalist-state relations can fundamentally augment the process of legitimation at its fuzzy boundaries. The relevance and implications for press credentialing practices in the digital age are discussed.     

皖南二县五村农民收入与土地关系调查

利用皖南两县五村社会调查资料,分析各类农民家庭的经济状况及其在收入和生活水准上的差别;考察农民对土地承包权的态度及其影响因素。结果表明,官方有关农民收入的数据,存在着低估的可能;农户不愿意放弃土地承包权的占大多数,但是如果国家征收土地时满足农民的一定要求,他们仍愿意放弃或出让。     

Impacts of social economic status on higher education opportunity and graduate employment in China

Based on a nation-wide survey of higher education graduates, this paper analyzes the impact of family background, using paternal occupation and education as indicators, on their scores in the National College Entrance Examination, the level and type of higher education institutions they attend, their employment after graduation, and the income they receive from their first job. It has been found that there are wide disparities among students with different family backgrounds in both access to higher education and their potential employment in China nowadays. This paper also studies how those influences happen. __________ Translated from Peking University Education Review, 2005 July (3)