Digital Economy and Theroetical Expansion of Economic Law

Although the development of the digital economy has not changed the basic principles and theories of economic law, it has impacted its related specific theories. Thus, it is particularly necessary to further develop its space theory, entity theory and behavior theory, since space, entity and behavior are the three key factors affecting its application scope. Furthermore, “space diversification,” “entity online platform” and “behavior informatization” based on the digital economy, have created new regulatory issues and need the above specific developments, based on which the modulation theory, information theory, risk theory and rule of law theory of economic law can then also be further developed. Thus, all these developments combined are conducive to advancing the economic-law’s operation theory, norm theory, as well as the ontological and axiological research. In addition, such developments are conducive to strengthening the convincing power and guiding power of economic law theories for the rule of law construction related to the digital economy, to promoting a new development landscape and a modern economic system, and to realizing Chinese modernization.     

建设资源节约型和环境友好型社会必须坚持科学发展观

在资源节约型和环境友好型社会建设中必须坚持科学发展观的本质要求。应正确认识经济增长与人的全面发展的关系，正确认识人与自然的关系，不断完善统筹协调机制。必须明确，发展循环经济是落实科学发展观的重要途径，它有利于实现资源、环境、经济、社会的共赢。     

试论县域经济发展环境的优化

县域经济是自然地理环境、科学技术环境、社会经济环境和人文环境等各种因素融合成的整体 ,县域经济发展是区域可持续发展的核心之一。优化县域经济环境 ,培育创新意识 ,塑造新型的人文和体制环境 ,是县域经济发展的必然选择。     

论知识经济时代中国与东盟的经济合作

在知识经济时代,面对知识经济产生的重大影响,同为发展中国家的中国与东盟,应对双方的经济合作拟订新的思路和框架,以推动双方经济的更大发展。技术合作与技术贸易,即是双方今后合作的重点,具体包括“三个层次”和“两个层面”。“三个层次”指的是在亚太经合组织中的合作、中国与东盟组织的合作,以及中国与东盟各国的合作。“两个层面”指的是政府间合作与非政府间合作。     

Cultural Projects Benefit the People of Tailai County

正NATIVE culture is a key component of a people’s identity and the cornerstone of a nation’s civilization.It often supplies spiritual drive for social development,catalyzing revolution and innovation.Tailai,a small county under the jurisdiction of Qiqihar City in Heilongjiang Province,is located at the junc     

“经济洼地”背景下贵州“人才高地”战略构建

在当今世界知识经济化和当代中国市场经济化日益明确的态势下,贫困和落后仍是制约贵州经济发展的主要短板,但不论知识经济还是市场经济,其核心内容皆是能人经济和人才经济。当今的贵州人才问题存在着总量不足、机制不全、投入太低等一系列矛盾,是制约贵州实现同步小康的主要瓶颈。因此,贵州要想在短时间内冲出"经济洼地","人才高地"战略构建则是不可逾越的重要关口。     

The Demand for Protectionism: Democracy,Import Elasticity,and Trade Barriers

Numerous studies suggest that democracies employ lower trade barriers than nondemocracies. In this article, we examine the conditioning role that the elasticity of import demand at the commodity level plays on the relationship between democracy and import barriers. Beginning with the assumption that democracies are more responsive than nondemocracies to the preferences of mass publics, we demonstrate that the value of free trade as a public good depends on the elasticity of import demand. When import demand for a given commodity is inelastic, trade barriers are more harmful to consumers; as such, democracies will employ lower trade barriers than nondemocracies. However, as import demand becomes more elastic, publics find it easier to adjust to higher prices; as a result, the difference in imposed trade barriers by regime type decreases. We find support for this argument in statistical analyses of crosssectional data covering 4,656 commodities imported by 73 countries Furthermore, we find that democracies raise higher trade barriers than nondemocracies on commodities for which import demand is very elastic.     

Do Democracies Attract Portfolio Investment? Transnational Portfolio Investments Modeled as Dynamic Network

For many, transnational capital is an important driving force of economic globalization. However, we know little about the political determinants for cross-border portfolio investments. Recent economic literature focuses upon information asymmetries. We move beyond this and introduce an explicitly political element into the study of international asset flows. Democratic institutions attract portfolio investments because they reduce the chances of government predatory practices. Applying a dynamic latent space model on the bilateral portfolio investment data from 2001 to 2005, we empirically examine the effects of important country-level characteristics of both exporters and importers of portfolio investments. The empirical findings suggest that democracies are often associated with higher levels of inward portfolio investments. Interestingly, we also find that portfolio investments are associated with business communities’ subjective estimate of property rights protection, but not with more comprehensive, index-based aggregate measures from international think tanks.     

Zimbabwean Indigenisation and the Shadow Economy of Cinematic Production

ABSTRACT

In recent years, Zimbabwe has suffered a political and economic crisis, which has generated impulses that have traumatised the country's film industry, among many other sectors. Resultantly, Zimbabwe's cinematic context of production has been reimagined and reconfigured in recent years. The southern African country's ruling elite, during former president Robert Mugabe's tenure, championed controversial policies of indigenisation in economic sectors, partly as a way of countering external economic and political hostilities. This article explores how the Zimbabwean film economy has responded to postcolonial indigenisation impulses and how the production context has developed parallel to or in tandem with this reality. It teases out the challenges and prospects posed by impulses of indigenisation in Zimbabwe to the country's fledgling film production industry by analysing the video-film production value chain post-2000, when the indigenisation agenda emerged and was consolidated. Informed by the theorisation of the shadow economies of cinema, the study employed in-depth interviews to collect data from purposively selected Zimbabwean filmmakers and policymakers. Thematic analysis was used to analyse this data. The study shows that indigenisation has been a pragmatic response to the economic trauma facing the film industry, although it has, in turn, sent out its own traumatic impulses that continue to affect the industry's structure and aesthetic.     

European‐Atlantic Security Institutions: Current state and future prospects

Since the turn of the millennium, scholars and pundits have been musing over the decline of the West. The disappointing US military invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq, together with the subprime mortgage crisis, seem to be evidence of an abrupt end to America's ‘unipolar’ moment. In Europe, the sovereign debt crisis has amplified Europe's long-term structural economic problems and laid bare the fragile institutional foundation on which the Economic and Monetary Union was built. At the same time, the BRICs and other emerging economies have been growing at unprecedented rates. Those same analysts see a ‘decoupling’ in the world economy: the developing economies pulling the world out of recession, while the advanced industrial economies are unable to solve their domestic difficulties. So to them, the events of the past five years signify the beginning of the end of Western influence, eventually leading to a more complete rebalancing of the world economy's current ‘Western’ system of governance. This article argues instead that the West still has a significant edge when it comes to most critical factors that determine long-term economic growth potential, including technology, innovative capacity, research and development, investment climate and education. Furthermore, the transatlantic economy is less vulnerable than the rest of the world to outside economic shocks and might eventually prove more capable of reform than many expect. The current malaise in the transatlantic community might therefore prove once again to be more cyclical than structural. Relying on linear projections, many are ‘crying wolf’ again, too loud and too soon.