论经济交往“和谐”范式的建构

和谐文化建构性不仅在于理论的突破，更为人们架构了新的生活范式，成为人们适应新的生存环境的指针和原则。更具体地说，现代生活是以经济交往为主干的一种文明和品质，尤其是当市场经济成为人们一种相对独立的私人空间和领域，其价值体系和原则的建构，成为建立健全市场经济生存空间和领域的主体内涵。和谐文化则为市场经济空间和领域提供了先进的价值理念和范式，成为引领人们经济交往的不可或缺的文化范导。     

俄罗斯与亚洲国家经济关系述评

上世纪90年代初期,俄罗斯曾经忽视与亚洲国家的关系,与亚洲各国的经济联系日渐萎缩。90年代中期,俄意识到与亚洲国家关系的重要性,逐渐恢复与亚洲各国的政治经济联系。新世纪初,普京当选为总统后,俄更加重视亚洲的地位,与亚洲各国的经济关系越来越密切。     

Violent victimization among males and economic conditions

Research Summary In this article, we use data from the 1973 to 2005 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to estimate previously unknown trends in serious nonfatal violent victimization for Latino, non-Latino Black, and non-Latino White males in the United States. Past research has shown that Blacks and Latinos have been more susceptible than Whites to financial hardship during economic downturns and that economic disadvantage is an important correlate of violence in cross-sectional analyses. If significant declines in the national economy contribute to increases in violence, then crime trends disaggregated by race and ethnicity should show greater changes among minorities during periods of economic downturn. Although rates of violence have declined for all groups, we find that trends for Latino and Black males are similar and closely follow changes in consumer sentiment. In contrast, trends for White males display fewer fluctuations coinciding with changes in economic conditions. Continued disaggregation shows that these patterns appear primarily in stranger violence and not in violence by known offenders. The patterns also suggest that the association between changing economic conditions and male victimization trends might have weakened in recent years. Policy Implications The findings raise concerns about the potential impact of recent economic changes on the risk for serious victimization, particularly among Blacks and Latinos. In light of the possible recent weakening of the relationship between economic changes and crime, future research should assess whether criminal justice policies and other factors moderate the relationship between economic conditions and victimization and use group-specific measures of violence so that important variability across race and ethnicity is not masked. These analyses also should be expanded to consider the potential effects on violence of government policies designed to alleviate poverty and unemployment.     

地下金融经济犯罪的风险与防范

地下金融是潜伏在繁荣经济活动中的一股暗流，尽管对某些地区经济发展有一定程度的积极作用，但其中蕴合巨大的经济犯罪风险。地下金融潜在着经济犯罪风险，应从调整金融体制、加重对此类犯罪的打击和加强金融监控三个层面防范地下金融经济犯罪的风险。     

论经济犯罪刑事责任的界定及其特征

经济犯罪刑事责任是经济犯罪行为引起的必然性的否定性法律后果。本文以分析经济犯罪刑事责任的概念为基础，从不同方面论述了经济犯罪刑事责任的特征，从而有利于区分经济犯罪刑事责任与其行政责任、民事责任的不同点。     

浅谈改革开放30年经济刑法观念的变革

改革开放30年来，我国的经济体制发生了深刻的变革，社会主义市场经济体制逐步建立和完善，刑法观念也发生了一系列的内在变革：从政治功能观到经济功能观；从对经济犯罪的过度介入到适度调整；从对公有制经济的重点保护到对非公经济的平等保护；从罪刑心定到罪刑法定；从把刑法视为“刀’把子”偏重于打击犯罪到打击犯罪与人权保障并重；从对经济犯罪的重刑主义到宽严适度等等。刑法观念的变革必将进一步促进刑事立法的不断完善，为社会主义市场经济的健康发展提供有力的保障。     

论公共政府的伦理精神

公共政府的产生依据及其所担负的责任决定了其必须拥有一种价值依归,包括最核心的公正精神和与此相联系的一系列的伦理精神。公共政府伦理精神的构建和弘扬是现代政治生活和谐有序的根本保证,而政治制度的道德化和政治道德的制度化的双向互动及行政人员的伦理道德管理和训练是塑造公共政府伦理精神的重要途径。     

What has the Brexit Process done to Scotch Whisky?

The United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union does not have any impact on Scotch whisky itself: Brexit or not, Scotch whisky is Scotch whisky. However, it features more prominently in the Brexit negotiations than, for example, beer. This is because Scotch whisky is a highly export‐oriented product which brings large economic benefits to the UK—particularly Scotland—and its brand is protected by the international regime of intellectual property rights protection, especially, by the geographical indications regime championed by the EU. Moreover, the Brexit negotiations have led to the resurfacing of another political issue which affects Scotch whisky: Scottish independence. As a strong territorial brand, the constitutional status of Scotland is highly relevant to Scotch whisky and the investigation into the impact of the Brexit process on Scotch whisky has highlighted the inter‐connectedness of various political issues.     

Alternative South–South development collaboration? The role of China in the Coega Special Economic Zone in South Africa

Aid, in the form of financial aid and investment, has become increasingly prevalent in both bilateral and multilateral partnerships in the BRICS. In Africa, the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation provides the official framings for forms of development assistance to the continent, with financial forms of aid available through the New Development Bank and the China–Africa Development Bank (CADFund). This article explores how Chinese international development assistance has influenced South Africa's economic growth and development strategies and is reshaping South Africa as “gateway” to Africa and continental leader. Special economic zones (SEZs) have become a prioritised form of BRICS development collaboration particularly in terms of Chinese trade and investment expansionism into Africa through South Africa. Chinese international development assistance and foreign direct investment in South Africa in particular are very notable and have been strengthened during the Chinese official state visit prior to the Johannesburg BRICS Summit in 2018. The article critically analyses the development policy discourse on BRICS spearheading an alternative model of South–South international cooperation by examining the Coega SEZ in South Africa, hailed as the most SEZ in Africa. The article critically examines the development alternative potential of the Coega SEZ.     

Does intellectual property lead to economic growth? Insights from a novel IP dataset

While policymakers often make bold claims as to the positive impact of intellectual property (IP) rights on both developed and developing country economies, the empirical literature is more ambiguous. IP rights have both incentive and inhibitory effects that are difficult to isolate in the abstract and are dependent on economic context. To unravel these contradictory effects, this article introduces an index that evaluates the strength of IP protection in 124 developing countries for the years 1995 to 2011. We illustrate the value of this index to economics study and show evidence that is consistent with IP leading to increased growth. Our results are further consistent with two causal pathways highlighted in the literature: that IP leads to greater levels of technology transfer and increased domestic inventive activity. Yet other aspects of our study fit uneasily with this simple story. For example, we find evidence suggesting that increased levels of growth lead to greater levels of IP protection, contradictory evidence in the literature linking IP with growth, a lack of evidence that increased levels of IP protection lead to actual use of the IP system, and problems with what IP indexes measure. Because of this, we suggest another – and so far undertheorized – explanation of the links between IP and growth: that IP may have few direct effects on growth and that any causality is a result of belief rather than actual deployment of IP.