当代资本主义的变化与工会的作用

20世纪末的当代资本主义已不同于传统的早期资本主义 ,还具有调节生产力同生产关系、经济基础同上层建筑矛盾的能力 ,生产关系暂时还有容纳生产力发展的空间 ,工会已成为当代资本主义制度下的重要的社会平衡力量。     

关于当前中国外交思维的感想

冷战结束以来,国际关系处于一超多强过渡性格局,资本主义牢牢控制世界经济政治等中心.为此,只有充分认识资本主义社会,才能更好地与之相处,在竞争共处中学习其一切有价值的东西.国际地位不断上升的中国,在国际事务中要注意形象塑造,创造条件融入国际社会.中国是世界不可分割的一部分,只有融入国际社会,才能取得进一步发展所需的外部条件.     

Regulatory capitalism and its discontents: Bilateral interdependence and the adaptability of regulatory styles

The expansion of global trade has produced new challenges for the effective governance of product safety. We argue that many of these challenges arise at the bilateral level from the interaction of more or less adaptable national regulatory styles. When regulatory styles are unadaptable they produce gaps in risk management, slow and contested resolutions to crises, and limited regulatory cooperation. To examine these claims empirically, we study bilateral food safety regulation in four major exporter–importer dyads: China–Japan; Canada–United States (US), China–European Union (EU), and the US–Japan. The China–Japan dyad is the most adaptable, combining China's “export segmentation” regulatory style with Japan's strongly “risk‐averse, interventionist” style. The Canada–US dyad operates effectively, bringing together Canada's “global market–conforming” regulatory style with the US strategy of “sovereign regulator.” The China–EU dyad is less adaptable because the EU's “harmonization” regulatory style makes it difficult for the EU to adapt to the weaknesses of the Chinese food safety system. Finally, the US's sovereign regulator style clashes with Japan's interventionist style, making them the least adaptable of the four dyads. The paper concludes with a discussion of the broader relevance of our findings for the development of regulatory capitalism.     

Towards a Realignment of the Mind: Compass Lecture,Commonwealth Club,London, 10 February 2011

Britain urgently needs a national conversation about the economic, political and moral predicament it now faces. It should start with the economic crisis of 2008–09. Keynesians and neoliberals alike still seek to return to pre‐crisis business as usual, albeit with modifications. But the untamed capitalism that came to grief in 2008 had three major flaws. First, it undermined the public domain of equity, citizenship and civic virtue, whose creation was one of the great achievements of the late‐nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries, exposing it to invasion by the market domain. Second, it led to a remorseless rise in inequality of resources and life chances, rendering British society one of the most dysfunctional in Europe. Third, it encouraged the emergence of a debased form of democracy, best called ‘market populism’, that mocks the dream of political equality that lies at the heart of the democratic ideal. Yet growth points of a better society can be detected amidst the gloom. Informal institutions and social movements like London Citizens and the burgeoning environmental movement show that the notion of the public good is still alive. So do the survival of Edmund Burke's communitarianism in the conservative tradition, of John Stuart Mill's social liberalism in the liberal tradition and of ethical socialism in the social‐democratic tradition.     

Nomadic by nature? Contradictions and precarious work in Mongolian tourism

ABSTRACT

Mongolia's transition to a democratic, market economy has created widespread change, especially among pastoral herders. Pastoralists have been depicted as archaic and independent ‘nomads’ who exist outside the modern economy. Still, pastoral culture is a key asset in tourism products and advertising. Tourism could provide fair economic benefits, but inclusive growth depends on how shareholders participate. Using interviews with tour company employees, I investigate how tour companies incorporate pastoralists into their products. The results demonstrate several barriers to inclusive growth. Companies feel individually responsible for managing tourism assets, and to maintain the guise of pastoral authenticity, they limit pastoralists’ participation in business through informal and contingent work contracts. These contracts reveal problematic asymmetry and give pastoralists little job security, control, or access to employee benefits. These circumstances oppose inclusive growth paradigms and demonstrate elements of precarious work. The shared interest in maintaining pastoral culture may unify this fragmented industry.     

Contradictions of India’s Right-wing Government and Growing Disenchantment

ABSTRACT

The right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party won India’s 2014 general election by promising development for all. Such promises have generally turned out to be empty. A recent nationwide survey shows that there is widespread disenchantment with this government. This article briefly discusses the disappointing economic and social-political record of the government. Based on empirical information from the above-mentioned survey, it then discusses how the dismal development record is registering in the minds of people who are becoming disillusioned with the government. The article also provides some general reflections on the government, including on the internal connection between government’s pro-business nature and its Hindu nationalist-sectarian character spreading religious hatred and division.     

俄罗斯经济转型:从寡头资本主义到人民资本主义

俄罗斯历来就是纵向的社会构型,这是经济转型的重大障碍。为了实现从高度集中的计划经济体制向自由市场经济体制的转型,打破原有的纵向社会构型,建立一个以公民社会为主的横向社会构型,不仅是经济转轨的手段,也是其社会目标。但是,在20世纪90年代,俄罗斯在转型过程中并没有建立这种具有“保障功能”的公民社会,而是一个寡头资本主义制度。在这种制度中,俄罗斯政府却扮演了寡头攫取国家财产的“掠夺之手”的角色。普京执政以后,开始通过推行平民主义的治国方略,把寡头资本主义转变为人民资本主义。     

“变相资本主义论”剖析

"变相资本主义论"是海外学者关于邓小平理论实质的一种判断.本文首次系统梳理了"变相资本主义论"的主要观点,分析了它产生的认识论根源.在此基础上,作者分析了邓小平对待资本主义的方法论.一句话,"变相资本主义论"是不能成立的.     

新自由主义剖析:实质和影响

深入研究新自由主义理论的内涵及其产生的历史条件和发展脉络,有助于我们以科学的态度对待新自由主义,在深化改革、扩大开放的过程中,既吸收和借鉴其中的合理因素,又抵制其消极影响.     

如何认识当代资本主义的瓣变化

本文从能不能用科学的态度去认识当代资本主义的新变化直接关系到社会主义的兴衰存亡这一世界社会主义运动的基本经验的高度,探讨如何认识当代资本主义的新变化。强调指出:斯大林不能承认、不正视当代资本主义的新变化,有碍于对当代资本主义的认识和斗争实践;戈尔巴乔夫把当代资本主义的新变化说成是资本主义在性质上的根本改变,否定区分社会主义与资本主义的基本概念和思维方法,一味地同西方世界搞“一体化”,是为资本主义和平演变策略效劳。正确认识当代资本主义的新变化,关键在于不要从主观臆想中,而要从客观的实际影响中去把握它。