Pacific drift: Southeast Asia and the US‐Australia relationship

There has been much discussion of the economic rise of Asia and an emerging Pacific community. This is nowhere more true than in Australia and the United States. And yet an interesting by‐product of the tremendous change in Asia is that it has contributed directly to a drift in the bilateral relationship between Canberra and Washington. Notwithstanding the universally enthusiastic official rhetoric about Asia, the region is in fact of much greater importance to Australia than the United States. It is no coincidence that as Australia finds itself being increasingly pulled towards Asia, its traditionally very close relationsip with the United States is gradually weakening. This trend can be illustrated by focusing on developments in Southeast Asia and the differential way they are affecting US and Australian interests in three key policy areas: trade, politics and human rights, and security.     

Schumpeter's economic theory and the dynamic accounting view of the firm: neglected pages from the Theory of Economic Development

Abstract

The first English translation of some of Schumpeter's (1926) pages of the Theory of Economic Development is presented. These neglected pages are remarkable because they significantly add to Schumpeter's masterpiece on a number of issues concerned with accounting, law and economics of the firm. They show that Schumpeter considered understanding the firm, together with innovation, as important scientific problems. Schumpeter doubts the explanatory value of proprietary entrepreneurship and provides an early justification of the dynamic entity view of business activity generated by the firm as a becoming concern. He discusses its implications for understanding issues of economic organization and corporate governance, and suggests some theoretical insights concerning business capital and money under conditions of real dynamics and complexity. The doors opened by Schumpeter indicate that money and accounting are fundamentally coupled as complementary institutions in framing and shaping the economic and monetary process of the firm as an enterprise entity.     

An Analysis of Institutional Change in the European Union

Institutional change is guided by rules. In the European Union these rules are given by Art. 250–252 of the Treaty of Amsterdam. We analyze these articles as games in extensive form and characterize and compare the equilibria of these games. The analysis identifies the decisive actors and the conditions under which it comes to institutional changes in the European Union. In addition we analyze the tendencies for centralization inherent in these decision procedures as well as their ability to guarantee conflict-minimizing compromises between the institutional actors. We show that the historical evolution from Art. 250 over Art. 252 to Art. 251 implies an improved position of the European Parliament. Contrary to part of the literature we show that the move from Art. 250 to Art. 252 may have important consequences for the policies to be implemented and that the move from Art. 252 to Art. 251 improved the position of the European Parliament. Hence, our model is able to resolve the empirical anomalies resulting in conditional-agenda setting model by Tsebelis and therefore points to the importance of the sequential structure of the decision procedures.     

一种能动的司法与法律哲学——对波斯纳实用主义法律观之探析

本文从分析波斯纳所理解的法律实用主义与法律经济学的关系、法官的职业活动、法律与道德的关系等范畴入手,探析了构成波斯纳法学理论支柱之一的实用主义的结构与演进。     

Economics of Polluter Pays Principles for Mitigating Social Costs of Electricity: A Search for an Optimal Liability Share

To deal with externalities associated with electricity generation, under the Polluter Pays Principles (PPP), companies can be made to pay the compliance costs and then pass these costs incurred on to the end-users by charging a higher price per kWh of electricity used. However, there is a need for an optimal liability scheme, in terms of economic efficiency, equity and ethics in a world of favor seeking politics. With implicit weighting of welfare gains and losses to society, we developed supply-demand models. By incorporating plausible parameter values into the models, the optimal liability shares fell to less 100 percent (full) liability. However, the model is very sensitive to changes in the parameter values.     

经济社会中的快乐机制——论快乐经济学的发展

随着经济的不断发展,物质的富足并不能够一直不断地增加人们的快乐。欲望无限而资源有限,如何在资源的制约下实现国民的快乐与幸福成为一个重要课题。发达国家经济学研究开始回归到其研究的最终目的——实现国民幸福的最大化,经济学由物质转向精神,快乐经济学应运而生。快乐经济学的研究可以为物质经济快速成长的发展中国家提供研究国民精神福利最大化的理论依据。     

中外专家学者论图们江地区开发

在珲春市沿边开放十周年之际,回顾和介绍中外专家学者关于图们江地区开发的主要论点,对珲春暨图们江地区开发,具有现实意义。     

论赌博罪的完善——法经济学的视角

我国刑法已明确地将赌博作为一种犯罪进行处罚.但由于我国法律没有很好地考虑刑罚的效率性和经济性,在赌博犯罪立法上还存在着一定的缺陷和漏洞.通过法经济学方法,对赌博犯罪立法的正当性和效率性进行分析,提出完善我国赌博犯罪立法的建议.     

发展观的演进与深化

发展经济学经历了半个多世纪的发展,相应地,发展观也经历了半个世纪的发展演变,从增长至上论、基本需要论、可持续发展论再到人类发展论,使人们对发展的本质和内涵的理解更为丰富和全面。生态可持续发展和以人为本的人类发展已成为20世纪90年代以来国际社会的主流发展观。     

区际贸易障碍的法经济学分析与宪法规制

区际贸易障碍是国家内部贸易自由、统一市场形成与功能发挥的最大障碍之一。区际贸易障碍产生于公权力配置的非科学性和公权力行使的异化。区际贸易障碍直接导致市场经济结构受损、区域经济差异拉大和社会福利净损失生成。考察美国规制州际贸易障碍的经验和我国《反垄断法》的规定可知,在我国有效规制区际贸易障碍的路径既不是选择私人诉讼,也不能依赖行政管制,其根本解决之道只能是凭借宪法性规范的完善。