Herzl on discrimination in Der Judenstaat

Theodor Herzl published his programmatic book The Jewish State in February 1896. Central to it was the discrimination (and hatred) commonly known as anti-Semitism. Herzl viewed anti-Semitism as the heart of the Jewish Question but also as the potential motivator for Jews to achieve a Jewish state. Herzl's analysis of anti-Semitic discrimination is in many aspects similar to present sociological theories of middle-class minorities. His discussion of the economic aspects is compared with Gary Becker's theory of discrimination, and similarities as well as differences are pointed out.     

经济人的新解释与经济学的新发展

经济人假设是传统经济学理论大厦的基石。现代经济学前沿分支学科对经典经济人有三个不同方向的新解释 :一是对经典经济人的修修补补 ,使经济人更加贴近现实 ;二是坚持经典经济人 ,并进一步发展经济人的理性 ;三是抛弃经典经济人 ,研究理性和非理性行为结合的现实人。在对经济人新的不同解释的基础上 ,经济学与相关学科进一步融合 ,在学科交叉的边缘产生一系列新的经济学分支学科。     

经济学研究应该有哲学家的头脑--学习毛泽东《读社会主义政治经济学批注和谈话》杂记

毛泽东主张,经济学研究应该有哲学家的头脑,用辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义来指导研究工作。经济学必须从生产力与生产关系、经济基础与上层建筑的矛盾运动中全面地研究生产关系,既研究组织经济关系,又研究社会经济关系。经济学的任务应该是透过表面现象来研究和揭示人们的经济关系。研究必须坚持一般规律与具体特点相结合这一方法论原则,既坚持一般原理,又研究其具体实现形式,两者不能偏废,更不能对立起来。毛泽东关于保守与变革关系的论述,闪烁着智慧的光芒,充满了辩证法,对社会主义的改革富有启迪。马克思主义政治经济学是阶级性与科学性统一的科学,我们研究任何一个经济问题,始终不能忘记“为了谁”这个根本问题。     

“严打”的度量分析——以法律经济学为视角

严打作为我国一项阶段性的执法策略 ,虽然较有成效 ,但并不尽如人意。从司法资源的稀缺性和刑罚威慑效应出发 ,以法律经济学视角对其进行度量分析 ,以期达到理性控制的目的 ,有着重要的意义。     

奥巴马政府监管的行为法经济学分析——“成本收益国家”在“行为时代”的人性化改革

奥巴马政府以行为科学和行为法经济学的成果为科学基础，从完善监管和监管审查，促进国际监管合作，以及减少监管负担三个主要方面进行了政府监管改革。这是对成本收益分析传统的完善和补充，是一种更加符合行为法经济学实证和规范要求的人性化和合理化政府监管模式。     

产权社会学：社会学与经济学融合的一种新趋向

既往关于社会学与经济学视角融合的讨论多集中在历史脉络和经典文本之上，从转型中的“产权问题”出发，透过产权分析的社会维度来探究社会学和经济学融合的路径和方向。中国改革以来产权变迁的整体进程呈现为一种“产权连续谱”，在同一体制，甚至同一组织框架内，国有产权、集体产权、个体产权等多重产权形态的并存互融构成中国产权实践的重要特征。产权社会学强调产权是对资源占有的社会认可。产权界定的社会合约性以及多维度性，为解释以公有产权制度为原点的中国产权变革进程提供了一种有说服力的分析框架，也是对产权经济学视角的一种重要补充。     

对波斯纳与科斯法经济学范式的解析

波斯纳以经济学打开法学的"黑箱",科斯以法学打开经济学"黑箱",作为经济学和法学交叉学科的法经济学由此形成两种理论范式,即法律的经济分析和经济的法律分析.波斯纳创立的法律的经济分析范式在为繁荣法经济学研究作出巨大贡献的同时也带来了极大的误区.重新繁荣法经济学研究,必须进行经济的法律分析.     

Institutions and Economic Performance: The Use and Abuse of Culture in New Institutional Economics

Important research programs within New Institutional Economics advance culturalist arguments to explain failures of economic development. Focusing on the work of Douglass C. North and Avner Greif, this article argues that such arguments rely on an essentialist conception of culture that is both historically inaccurate and analytically misleading. Greif’s work in particular rests on a selective use of empirical data that ultimately distorts the deductive models that are at the core of his work. As a result, both scholars use culture to account for outcomes that are more adequately explained as the product of social conflict and political struggles—struggles in which culture plays a far more contingent and destabilizing role than the one they attribute to it. What is needed, I argue, is to link arguments about the persistence of inefficient institutions with a sociologically informed conception of culture as an ensemble of resources that enhance rather than constrain the scope of individual agency. To come to terms with the effects of culture on institutional formation and change it is necessary to replace the essentialism articulated by North and Greif with a strategic-instrumentalist view in which culture is compatible with a wide spectrum of economic behaviors, individual actions, and thus institutional trajectories.

Lessons of Russian in Afghanistan

The experience of Soviet involvement in Afghanistan (1979–1989) is considered through the prism of institutional transfers. Afghanistan has a long history of attempts to implement Muslim, Soviet and Anglo-Saxon institutional designs. Most of them have failed. This failure can be attributed to the lack of ‘elective affinity’ between traditional and new institutions imported from more developed countries. It is argued that a careful examination of the degree of elective affinity must precede any attempt of institutional transfers. An analysis of Ph.D. dissertations defended by Afghan students at Soviet and Russian universities complements logical arguments and references to historical facts.