明朝中后期商潮中的农民问题

明朝中后期商业化的农业经济适应了社会发展的新需要,导致了生产集约化规模的扩大,出现了农村雇佣劳动力,产生了农业资本主义萌芽.     

侦查讯问中沉默权问题的经济学研究——兼谈如何从制度上体现对无辜者的保护

沉默权问题与侦查讯问是紧密相关的,沉默权制度的实施将直接影响到侦查人员和犯罪嫌疑人在侦查讯问中行为策略的实施和利益的分配。传统上关于沉默权问题的探讨过于抽象和意识形态化,无法使人得出对沉默权的理性认识。以经济学的市场商品理论来理解沉默权,从崭新的视角审视这一制度,帮助研究者们全面、理性地认识沉默权,并借此分析侦查讯问的互动状态,沉默权制度有利于保护无辜者。     

马克思价值决定数学模型的建立

根据马克思在《资本论》中对商品价值和价值规律基本原理的描述,结合当今马克思主义学者的研究成果,可以建立马克思价值决定数学模型,应用此模型可以充分说明商品价格围绕商品价值变动的关系。     

后金融危机时代下的中国企业风险管理

近年来频发的套保案暴露出我国企业风险管理能力的缺失，ISDA近期公布的世界500强企业衍生品利用状况调查报告进一步显示出我国企业与国际水平的差距。本文认为金融危机强化了我国企业风险意识，并在比较各种风险管理工具的基础上提出期货是我国企业的最佳风险管理工具。最后，本文对我国企业如何利用期货进行风险管理进行了深入探讨。     

中国物流业的发展现状及体制改革

随着经济的发展，物流逐渐受到了政府和企业界的关注，成为继提高劳动生产率和扩大市场占有率之后能给企业带来效益的“第三利润源”。但是我国的物流同发达国家相比，还存在许多问题，其中体制的制约尤其明显。因此，必须迎难而上，扫除障碍，才能健康有序地发展我国的物流业。     

Re-inventing invention: new tendencies in capitalist commodification

Abstract

This paper argues that a shift is taking place in the fabric of capitalism as a result of a change in how the business of invention is understood. Using theoretical approaches that rely on the notion that capitalism increasingly tries to draw in the whole intellect, in the first part of the paper I argue that the new understanding of innovation currently shows up as three associated developments: as the mobilization of forethought, as the deepening of the lure of the commodity through the co-creation of commodities with consumers, and as the construction of different kinds of apparently more innovative space suffused with information technology. The second part of the paper then argues that these disclosures are leading to new forms of value, based on generating moments of rightness. There is a brief conclusion.     

Financial derivatives and the theory of money

Abstract

Financial derivatives are used and counted as money, but it is unclear exactly what sort of money they are. This article explores the monetary role of financial derivatives in securing the global financial system. It finds that derivatives commensurate the values of different forms of financial assets, and, in the process, they facilitate continuity across different forms of money. In this role they are a form of commodity money, but very different from conventional understandings of commodity money. In developing this idea, the paper engages recent debates in Economy and Society about the nature of money. In particular, it takes issue with Ingham's state theory of money, which cannot adequately engage exchange rate volatility and extra-national roles of money, and Lapavitsas’ approach to a Marxist theory of money, which relegates commodity money to a historical abstraction.     

Feeding finance: a critical account of the shifting relationships between finance,food and farming

Abstract

Whether in the form of commodity index funds, farmland investment funds or commodities trading by agri-food companies, there is evidence of an increasingly close relationship between finance, food and agriculture. While these developments have received some critical attention of late, existing accounts of the ‘financialization of food’ are limited to the extent that they view finance as an external force with emphasis placed on the unnaturalness of its relationship with agriculture and its distortive effects on agricultural markets. Recognizing that finance and agriculture have a long history, this paper offers a more nuanced account of the place of financialization in the agricultural sector. Specifically, it examines how agriculture's emergence as an investment opportunity has reconfigured the terrain of agricultural interests and logics while creating new knowledge demands and agricultural visibilities. These dynamics are explored through a case study of the role of finance and processes of financialization in the recent demise of the Canadian Wheat Board as a state marketing agency. Through this discussion, the paper offers valuable insights into not only the reworking of agriculture as a particular type of financial space, but also the nature and limits of financialization itself as a way of engaging with the world beyond urban financial centres.     

Currency devaluations and consolidating democracy: the example of the South African rand

Abstract

In 2001 the South African rand depreciated suddenly and steeply against the dollar and euro. This triggered inflation as the prices of imported products gapped upward. To offset the imminent inflationary effects and attract foreign exchange, the Reserve Bank raised interest rates, resulting in slower domestic growth. The critical question was the cause of the currency depreciation. We argue here that the rand's decline was the result of a concatenation of internal and external factors, specifically the way the operations of the global financial markets magnified and exacerbated the effects of internal financial policy decisions. The article illustrates the heightening connectivity between domestic policy decisions aimed at regulating the national economy and the globalizing financial markets that operate on an altogether different logic. The Reserve Bank's attempt to regulate the local foreign exchange regime in concert with the corporate use of financial instruments to circumvent these exchange controls led to a relatively illiquid currency market that was easily susceptible to attack by speculative capital. The end result was a crippling devaluation that especially hurt the impoverished black South African majority in the process of getting on its feet economically, thereby adding a further constraint on the consolidation of post-apartheid democracy.     

浅议我国商品房预售制度的完善

由于商品房预售的特点,导致商品房预售过程中的买卖纠纷不断,消费者的权益易受侵害.我国目前关于商品房预售的一系列法律法规和相关政策尚存在一些欠缺之处,因此,应进一步规制商品房预售认购书;加强预售资金管理,做到专款专用;进一步完善商品房预告登记制度.