Small But Dynamic

正A bustling Tibetan town's growth is fueled by border trade By Zan JifangIt's not easy to drive to Zham,a small town in Tibet Autonomous Region and near the border between China and Nepal.It is located in a valley,and visitors must follow a winding mountain road for hours to get there.The road is well built but its narrow and often sees vehicles beyond its capacity—trucks,tourist buses,off-road vehicles and cars can grind to a near     

The West Awakens

正Long overshadowed by the east,west China is set to take center stage as it blazes an economic trail to Central Asia By Bai ShiRakhat,a Kazakh chocolate brand,tapestries of Akhal-teke horses and Turkmenistan’s traditional handicrafts were just some of the exotic products from Central Asian countries catching the eye of many a Chinese visitor at the first Silk Road     

Where Size Matters: Agglomeration Economies of Illegal Drug Markets in Philadelphia

There is a debate over whether police attention focused on an illegal drug market causes dealers to spatially displace their activities “around the corner” therefore having no positive impact on the aggregate level of illegal drug sales in the city. The alternative perspective is that focused police attention lowers the rate of illegal drug sales in the city. Recent research in Jersey City, New Jersey has demonstrated that focused police attention does not simply move illegal drug dealing around the corner. The present analysis explains why this finding is likely to be common in other cities using the economic theory of “agglomeration economies.” Agglomeration economies illustrate that taking the largest and most profitable site from illegal drug dealers will make dealing in the surrounding neighborhoods less rather than more profitable and lead to a smaller marketplace overall. The empirical analysis focuses on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.     

Historical Perspectives on Gender, Security, and Technology: Gathering, Weaving, and Subsistence in Colonial Mission Communities of Bolivia

The present paper brings to the discussion of human risks and rights an analysis of the gendered spheres of labor that developed in the eighteenth-century mission communities of lowland, eastern Bolivia. It argues that the differential work experiences of men and women, their access to technology and to the rewards of their labor, can be explained only by combining sensitivity to gender issues with a contextual framework that takes into account the environment, cultural expectations, and political economy. This historical case study is situated in Chiquitos, one of the Iberian colonial frontiers established in the ecological borderlands between the Andes and Amazonia.     

旧货流通业阵地控制模式研究

近年来，全国各地涌现出大量二手手机市场、旧机动车交易市场等旧货流通市场。目前，其管理主要存在行业准入门槛降低、验证登记制度尚未落实、管理体制没有理顺、情报信息采集不全面、情报信息使用效率低和刑事特情作用发挥不充分等问题。刑侦部门应从实践出发，建立“以刑侦部门为主体，推行实名验证登记制度，建立联网信息查询数据库，合理使用秘密力量”的旧货流通业阵地控制模式。     

A Pearl Embedded in the New Silk Road——An Exclusive Interview with Mayor of Kaifeng Ji Bing

正KAIFENG,located in the heart of China,was the world’s biggest and busiest city during the 11th and 12th centuries.As the intersection of the land and maritime Silk Roads,it was a place from where goods were dispatched and traders from the East and West met.Today,it is a major city in the central China economic region due to its integrated development with Zhengzhou,capital of Henan Province.     

论纳税人对免费公共产品的权利

免费公共产品,是纳税人可以不支付任何费用而享受的公共产品。免费公共产品的获得是免费的,其消费具有非排他性,必须通过税收和预算来提供。纳税人相互之间对免费公共产品享有免费使用权、先占使用权、平等使用权和重大利益优先权。纳税人相对于政府对免费公共产品享有免费享用、足量享用和损害赔偿权。我国相关制度比较缺乏,应当予以完善。     

Diversity,identity, and the indeterminacy of the size of nations

Recently economists have explored the impact of ethnic and social diversity on nation size and on the relative efficacy of the production of private and public goods. In a neoclassical framework with perfect and complete information, diversity increases the costs of government, and both the size of government and of the nation are limited. The paper proposes an alternative evolutionary framework building on the economics of identity. With imperfect and incomplete information, the relation between nation size and diversity is indeterminate, because heterogeneity plays an important role for the coordination among actors, and because political organization is crucial for the endogenous formation of preferences.      

罪犯的监狱矫正与社区矫正模式比较——以上海市为例

2002年以来,上海开始社区矫正工作的探索,与监狱矫正相比,社区矫正实现了工作主体和经费投入主体从一元向多元的转变.在公共财政的投入大幅下降的同时,罪犯的改造效果得到有效提高,刑满后的重新违法犯罪率得到有效降低.由此可见,引进第三部门参与罪犯矫正这种公共性程度非常高的公共物品,既有理论上的可行,也有现实的必要.     

国际货物贸易中卖方权利瑕疵担保责任之比较--兼评我国《合同法》的相关规定

在国际货物贸易中,对于卖方的权利瑕疵担保责任非常容易产生争议和纠纷,它关系到买卖双方权利义务的范围和双方的切身利益,是合同法律制度中一个值得密切关注的重要问题。《德国民法典》、美国《统一商法典》和《联合国国际货物销售合同公约》中关于卖方权利瑕疵担保责任规定,我国合同法应借鉴前三者的长处。