新区域经济观:理论视野与实践案例

区域经济的发展和研究成为新的经济学热点问题。知识经济的兴起,国际经济全球化和区域经济一体化,为区域经济的实践、区域经济学的理论与方法注入了大量新内容,取得了一系列重要的研究成果。我们将这些研究成果概括为新区域经济观。本文概述区域经济学研究内容、层次与范围的拓展,分析区域经济理论创新和实践案例,探讨新区域经济观如何支撑五个“统筹”与区域协调发展等问题。     

Assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of a police service: the analytics of operational reviews

Concerns over rising costs have forced police services to balance increasing fiscal and operational pressures. Discussions of the resources and requirements of police, however, are generally only informed by political expediency and traditional practice. Operational reviews (ORs) can be used to document the demands on police, their capacity to respond, and ways in which they can become more efficient and effective. Drawing on an OR of a major urban Canadian police service, this article provides a broad outline of the components of an OR and the analytics that can be used to answer these key questions.     

关于侦查效益的研究

侦查行为与人类其他活动一样,也必须有“投入”或“消耗”,并按照特定的价值取向实现自身的价值目标。鉴于我国目前刑事案件大量增加而侦查资源有限的现状,侦查效益的研究无疑具有理论和现实意义。文章从侦查效益的含义及现状出发,进一步分析了影响侦查效益的诸因素,并有针对性地提出了一些解决方案,以期更好地指导侦查实践。     

我国循环经济立法的法经济学思考——基于成本-效益分析

循环经济立法是保障我国循环经济运行,实现经济、社会和生态全面、协调、可持续发展的重要措施。我国传统的法律观念注重的是正义、公平等法的基本价值,对于立法很少有经济方面的分析,造成法律运行的社会成本高,社会效益不尽如人意。文章以经济学为视角,运用成本-效益分析方法,对循环经济的立法成本-效益进行分析,提出了完善循环经济立法的有关思路。以期促进《循环经济法》的诞生。     

西部经济发展滞后的原因分析——基于新兴古典经济学视角

近几年,东西部地区之间的差距呈扩大趋势,文章尝试在新兴古典经济学的视角下探讨其原因,并认为国家要大力发展西部,缩小沿海地区与中西部的差距,应致力于改善西部的交易效率,推动其分工演进,从而提高生产效率和经济效率,促进经济增长。     

The myth of the narco-state

Despite being used repeatedly in different contexts, the term “narco-state” has never been satisfactorily defined or explained. In fact, the existence of the narco-state is almost always taken for granted. This article will argue, on the basis of a review of existing definitions and of selected case studies, that there is no such thing as a narco-state and that using the term tends to oversimplify if not mask the complex socio-political and economic realities of drug-producing countries. The narco-state notion will be debated and opposed in terms of politics, territory, and economics.     

Willingness to Pay for Solar Lanterns: Does the Trial Period Play a Role?

Where electricity access is limited, solar lanterns are a viable and relatively inexpensive source of basic lighting for households. However, the creation of commercially viable business models for solar lanterns is difficult because the customers are poor and make decisions under tight liquidity constraints. To understand the economics of technology adoption in the case of solar lanterns, we conduct a field experiment on willingness to pay (WTP) for solar lanterns in rural Uttar Pradesh. Applying the Becker–DeGroot–Marschak method of eliciting WTP, we evaluate the ability of a trial period and postponed payment to increase sales. We find no evidence for the effectiveness of the trial period and only weak evidence for the positive effect of postponed payment. Overall, WTP for the product among the customers is low. There is no clear evidence for concerns about the uncertain quality of the product, liquidity constraints, or present‐bias. In this context, policies to subsidize very small solar lanterns would not correct a market failure, as people appear to have only a limited interest in the product.     

入世后我国外贸代理制运作法律环境之分析

依据我国的承诺,我国将逐渐取消对外贸权的限制,以登记制代替许可制,这意味着我国现行的外贸代理制赖以存在的基础已经发生根本性变化,建立在自由市场经济基础上的外贸代理制将成为发展方向,依据世贸组织的规则,参照相关国际代理公约,废除外贸代理方面的一些行政规章,完善我国民法关于代理制度的规定,制定有关代理的特别立法,将是我国外贸代理制度改革的主要方法.     

生命经济学——人与地球的“共同行动”

生命进化从来就是多方面因素相互作用的变化,而这些相互作用领域的涵盖面和包容性使得相应功能变化呈现出"灰色"的特征。如果说进化是生命的自然形态,那么发展则是人对生命的自觉要求,而这层意义不仅在今天越来越明显和重要,并且在支撑多方因素互动的物质手段方面已经具有或者说达到了星际水平。在"人类世"的今天,灰色生命经济学的可能前景取决于如何实现人与地球一体化的功能跃迁,包括在人类命运共同体的意义上实行可控的、有节制的和适度的发展。     

Centralisation versus regionalisation: Designing the Sixth National Mental Health Plan

In response to the recent Productivity Commission report into mental health, the previous Federal Government announced its intention to produce a new national agreement that lays the platform for Australia's sixth national mental health plan. It has been recommended mental health move to a more regional model of governance and planning, away from a centralised, top-down approach, partly in response to broader reforms affecting health care, and partly in direct response to consistent inquiry evidence that the mental health system remains in crisis. The past 30 years of mental health planning have been centralised. Successive national plans set a broad framework, with real decisions about mental health funding and service allocation made in the health departments of our capital cities. Will the next plan sponsor or inhibit regionality in mental health planning? This paper assesses Australia's historical approach to health planning particularly as it affected mental health and the costs arising. In learning these lessons, we propose the necessary ingredients to facilitate a regional, innovative, and effective approach to decentralised planning, for better mental health outcomes. We cannot afford to replicate the failed planning approaches of the past.