Equity,access, and outcomes: The status of the art

A rationale for including analyses of outcome in evaluation of the impact and equity of changes in health care policy for the poor is presented. We first discuss problems in defining equity in and access to health care. Equity in access to health care requires equality of access only to those services that are believed to be efficacious. Three cost-containment strategies (restrictions in eligibility, coinsurance, and capitation) are then examined, and their limitations are discussed. Finally, directions for future research focusing on outcomes are suggested. Rather than using access to care to assess outcome, outcome is viewed as the framework for assessing access and equity.     

When it pays to be honest: How a variable period of good conduct can improve incentives in personal bankruptcy proceedings

Consumer bankruptcy regulation in the United States as well as in many other countries allow consumers to petition for a partial debt discharge. Usually, a debt release is possible when the debtor behaves in the creditors’ best interest and after filing for bankruptcy signs over her entire disposable income for a fixed period. Depending on the country the period lasts between three and six years. We show that a fixed period distorts the consumer’s ex-post incentives to work hard. Instead, we suggest to adequately reduce the outstanding claim and to make debt release contingent on payment. When the consumer manages to pay back the reduced amount, the rest of the initial debt should be discharged immediately. In effect, the consumer becomes the residual claimant of her endeavors. The period of good conduct is effectively variable. JEL classification D18. D91. K29     

我国城市土地利用问题的政府经济伦理学研究——以中新天津生态城为例

以现代政府经济伦理学为指导,合理规划选址、科学确定城市规模、构建紧凑型的用地模式,可以促进有限土地实现集约式利用,推进生态文明制度建设的不断完善。     

危害食品药品安全犯罪的法经济学防控路径探析

危害食品药品安全犯罪频发,严重危害社会众生命安全,影响社会和谐,威胁国家稳定。作为一种典型的经济犯罪,危害食品药品安全犯罪具有明显的经济属性,而法经济学运用经济学的基本假设、基本原理,引入成本—收益,价格—供求等学说,对包括犯罪在内的各种法律问题进行交叉分析,给我们分析该类犯罪的防控以很好的启示,有利于从另一个角度重新审视,并在理论探讨的基础上提出相关政策建议。     

Forecasts of the 2004 French European Election

The purpose of this article is to build and to estimate a model which explains and forecasts the outcomes of the French European elections by department, by electoral district and at the national level. The model is accurate in forecasting the elections of the past. Its forecasts for the 2004 French European election are satisfactory and take into account the recent changes in the voting system.     

关于经济学研究方法的几个问题

本文提出,经济学方法论体系包括四个基本的组成部分,即研究对象、研究结果、研究过程和叙述方法。“研究对象”是现实具体。“研究结果”是思维具体,是现实具体的反映。如何从现实具体得到既符合实际又符合逻辑的思维具体,是“研究过程”的任务。“叙述方法”涉及的则是思维具体的“外化”(如发表的论文、著作)。从现实具体(研究对象)到思维具体(研究结果),再到思维具体的外化(论文和著作),构成了全部研究过程的一个完整的周期。     

律师行业利益冲突成因理论初探

伴随着国家经济的发展和法治建设的不断深化,律师行业利益冲突问题越来越普遍,其影响范围也日趋扩大.基于以上背景,从理论成因的角度通过两条路径对这一问题进行讨论:运用法学基本理论分析律师行业利益冲突问题的主要困境;运用法经济学的原理从成因上对律师行业利益冲突进行探讨,以寻求解决利益冲突的有效方案.     

公共行政学的起源、演进与现代性困惑——基于制度经济学的解释

公共行政学发生的内在动力源于寻求制度理性,以规避资源有限与人类欲望无限悖论下＂合成的谬误＂,寻求理性与美国进步时代的外在压力促使了公共行政学的发生,寻求秩序的理性贯穿于公共行政的整个历史进程。将技术理性与公共行政的结合视为建构美好未来的途径致使人们遭遇了现代性的困境,如何探求宏大的科学理性是未来公共行政学研究的方向。     

The human development puzzle in Kerala

Participatory approaches to development have been implemented increasingly. One form is the World Bank's community-driven development (CDD) programme. Participation has, also, become increasingly securitised since 2001. One instance of these trends was the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan (KALAHI) project in the Philippines. This paper examines the implementation of CDD and the problems of its securitisation, using the Philippines as a case study. A composite conceptual framework is advanced that draws upon the international analyses of development. Adapting the concepts of securitisation and de-politicisation, it argues that a new hegemonic-development framework has appeared: the Securitised-Washington consensus. The analysis assesses these trends through the examples of KALAHI and Philippine politics and economics. It suggests that securitised CDD projects result in token efforts at political reform and poverty alleviation that often are contradicted by counter-trends towards development decline and militarisation. Unless these deep-rooted problems are confronted, localised participation is likely to remain ineffectual.     

Securing security through prosperity: the San Francisco System in comparative perspective

The integrated system of political–economic relations that has prevailed in the Pacific since the September 1951 treaty of peace with Japan, known here as the San Francisco System, is distinctive in comparison with subregional systems elsewhere in the world. This paper outlines key defining features, such as (1) a dense network of bilateral alliances; (2) an absence of multilateral security structures; (3) strong asymmetry in alliance relations, both in security and economics; (4) special precedence to Japan; and (5) liberal trade access to American markets, coupled with relatively limited development assistance. After contrasting this system to analogous arrangements elsewhere, especially in the Atlantic, it explores both the origins and the prognosis of this remarkably durable political–economic entity. Complementary domestic political–economic interests on both sides of the Pacific, reinforcing a brilliant original Japan-centric design by John Foster Dulles, account for persistence, it is argued, while forces for change center on the dynamic emerging role of China.