经济
中国人口结构问题 豆瓣
作者:
李建新
2009
- 3
《中国人口结构问题》内容为:人口引起学者系统地论述和关注,实际上始于工业革命之后,1798年马尔萨斯发表轰动一时的《人口论》便是明证。人口引起世界范围内的研究和关注,则应该始于20世纪的第二次世界大战之后。从马尔萨斯时代开始,人口就成为挥之不去、充满争论的议题。进入21世纪,人口还将继续强烈吸引学者和世人的目光,还将继续为我们所关注。21世纪之交的1999年是人口学界一个特殊的年份,这一年世界迎来了60亿人口日,这一年也是联合国确定的国际老年人年。看似两种完全不同的人口现象——世界人口的空前规模与世界人口年龄结构老化的迅速展开的巧合,却真实地反映了20世纪及21世纪人口变化的特点与趋势。日本人口学界著名学者黑田俊夫高度概括和前瞻了20世纪50年代起的人口变化及趋势的特点,把1950~2050年这100年称为“人口世纪”,他认为人口这一百年是人类人口史上的分水岭。(黑田俊夫,1999)。前50年即1950~2000年是世界人口数量高速增长的50年;后50年即2000~2050年则是世界人口年龄结构迅速老化的50年。
从资本家手中拯救资本主义 豆瓣
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity
作者:
拉古拉迈・拉詹 等
译者:
余江
出版社:
中信出版社
2004
- 8
《从资本家手中拯救资本主义:捍卫金融市场自由创造财富和机会》通过对资本主义发展过程,特别是金融市场发展的分析,剖析了资本主义制度的基本优劣,指出既得利益集团,即资本家们,为维护其既得利益免受竞争威胁,常常成为资本主义最大的敌人。继而提出如何巩固市场经济的政治基础,建立真正竞争性的市场,从资本家手中拯救资本主义。
Economics Rules 豆瓣
作者:
Dani Rodrik
出版社:
W. W. Norton & Company
2015
- 10
In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat account of the discipline.
Drawing on the history of the field and his deep experience as a practitioner, Rodrik argues that economics can be a powerful tool that improves the world―but only when economists abandon universal theories and focus on getting the context right. Economics Rules argues that the discipline's much-derided mathematical models are its true strength. Models are the tools that make economics a science.
Too often, however, economists mistake a model for the model that applies everywhere and at all times. In six chapters that trace his discipline from Adam Smith to present-day work on globalization, Rodrik shows how diverse situations call for different models. Each model tells a partial story about how the world works. These stories offer wide-ranging, and sometimes contradictory, lessons―just as children’s fables offer diverse morals.
Whether the question concerns the rise of global inequality, the consequences of free trade, or the value of deficit spending, Rodrik explains how using the right models can deliver valuable new insights about social reality and public policy. Beyond the science, economics requires the craft to apply suitable models to the context.
The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers challenged many economists' deepest assumptions about free markets. Rodrik reveals that economists' model toolkit is much richer than these free-market models. With pragmatic model selection, economists can develop successful antipoverty programs in Mexico, growth strategies in Africa, and intelligent remedies for domestic inequality.
At once a forceful critique and defense of the discipline, Economics Rules charts a path toward a more humble but more effective science.
Drawing on the history of the field and his deep experience as a practitioner, Rodrik argues that economics can be a powerful tool that improves the world―but only when economists abandon universal theories and focus on getting the context right. Economics Rules argues that the discipline's much-derided mathematical models are its true strength. Models are the tools that make economics a science.
Too often, however, economists mistake a model for the model that applies everywhere and at all times. In six chapters that trace his discipline from Adam Smith to present-day work on globalization, Rodrik shows how diverse situations call for different models. Each model tells a partial story about how the world works. These stories offer wide-ranging, and sometimes contradictory, lessons―just as children’s fables offer diverse morals.
Whether the question concerns the rise of global inequality, the consequences of free trade, or the value of deficit spending, Rodrik explains how using the right models can deliver valuable new insights about social reality and public policy. Beyond the science, economics requires the craft to apply suitable models to the context.
The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers challenged many economists' deepest assumptions about free markets. Rodrik reveals that economists' model toolkit is much richer than these free-market models. With pragmatic model selection, economists can develop successful antipoverty programs in Mexico, growth strategies in Africa, and intelligent remedies for domestic inequality.
At once a forceful critique and defense of the discipline, Economics Rules charts a path toward a more humble but more effective science.
华北的小农经济与社会变迁 豆瓣
9.3 (6 个评分)
作者:
[美] 黄宗智
出版社:
中华书局
2000
- 6
本书根据多种档案材料和实地考察,并结合社会学诸多方面,探讨了华北小农经济长期未发展为资本主义经济形式的原因,并系统总结了西方和日本学者在此问题上的各种观点,内容丰富充实。
Will Africa Feed China? 豆瓣
作者:
Deborah Brautigam
出版社:
Oxford University Press
2015
- 11
Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the planet's largest expanses of underutilized land and water. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the belief that the Chinese government is aggressively buying up huge tracts of prime African land to grow food to ship back to China.
In Will Africa Feed China?, Deborah Brautigam, one of the world's leading experts on China and Africa, probes the myths and realities behind the media headlines. Her careful research challenges the conventional wisdom; as she shows, Chinese farming investments are in fact surprisingly limited, and land acquisitions modest. Defying expectations, China actually exports more food to Africa than it imports. Is this picture likely to change? African governments are pushing hard for foreign capital, and China is building a portfolio of tools to allow its agribusiness firms to "go global." International concerns about "land grabbing" are well-justified. Yet to feed its own growing population, rural Africa must move from subsistence to commercial agriculture. What role will China play? Moving from the halls of power in Beijing to remote irrigated rice paddies of Africa, Will Africa Feed China? introduces the people and the politics that will shape the future of this engagement: the state-owned Chinese agribusiness firms that pioneered African farming in the 1960s and the entrepreneurial private investors who followed them. Their fascinating stories, and those of the African farmers and officials who are their counterparts, ground Brautigam's deeply informative, deftly balanced reporting.
Forcefully argued and empirically rich, Will Africa Feed China? will be a landmark work, shedding new light on China's evolving global quest for food security and Africa's possibilities for structural transformation.
In Will Africa Feed China?, Deborah Brautigam, one of the world's leading experts on China and Africa, probes the myths and realities behind the media headlines. Her careful research challenges the conventional wisdom; as she shows, Chinese farming investments are in fact surprisingly limited, and land acquisitions modest. Defying expectations, China actually exports more food to Africa than it imports. Is this picture likely to change? African governments are pushing hard for foreign capital, and China is building a portfolio of tools to allow its agribusiness firms to "go global." International concerns about "land grabbing" are well-justified. Yet to feed its own growing population, rural Africa must move from subsistence to commercial agriculture. What role will China play? Moving from the halls of power in Beijing to remote irrigated rice paddies of Africa, Will Africa Feed China? introduces the people and the politics that will shape the future of this engagement: the state-owned Chinese agribusiness firms that pioneered African farming in the 1960s and the entrepreneurial private investors who followed them. Their fascinating stories, and those of the African farmers and officials who are their counterparts, ground Brautigam's deeply informative, deftly balanced reporting.
Forcefully argued and empirically rich, Will Africa Feed China? will be a landmark work, shedding new light on China's evolving global quest for food security and Africa's possibilities for structural transformation.
解读中国经济 豆瓣
中国经济专题
8.5 (8 个评分)
作者:
林毅夫
出版社:
北京大学出版社
2012
- 9
《解读中国经济》是在首版《中国经济专题》的基础上修订而成的,新版结合最新的国际经济形势与中国经济新变化全面更新了相关数据和分析内容,并新增一篇关于“全球失衡、储备货币与全球治理”的附录。书中总结了中国与其他国家、地区经济发展和改革活动的经验,提出了一个经济发展和转型的一般理论,并以此理论分析中国在改革和发展过程中取得的各项成就,面临的主要经济、社会问题,探讨其原因和解决问题的办法。《解读中国经济》的最大特色就是用通俗的语言和生动的实例,系统地回顾了中国经济的发展历程与改革经验,深入浅出地讲解了中国经济发展的热点问题,重点阐述了自生能力理论和比较优势战略。
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四千年通胀史:工资和价格管制为什么失败 豆瓣
作者:
[美]罗伯特·许廷格 (Robert L.Schuettinger)
/
[美]埃蒙·巴特勒 (Eamonnn F.Butler) 著
译者:
余翔 译
出版社:
东方出版社
2013
- 8
本书涵盖了罗马帝国、中世纪欧洲,美国和加拿大的第一个百年,法国革命、19世纪、以及一战、二站,纳粹、前苏联、战后租金限制、以及20世纪70年代的贯穿四千年的工资价格管制史。这段著名的历史阐明了一个道理:通过立法来操纵市场进程是没有益处的,经济决策者用一种专横的方式导致了一种灾难性的后果——管制不仅没有使价格下降,反而导致通货膨胀加剧。
大量事实表明价格和工资管制尽管有一定程度的效果,但是也能够给经济带来严重的,有时候是永久性的伤害,它对市场体系的干预引发了很多负面影响。通过限价,政府鼓励了消费,打击了生产,引来了灾难。主要表现有:第一,当价格受到管制,因管制价格造成的资源浪费和配置不当,导致商户大量囤积商品,非但没能消除市场上的商品短缺,反而加重短缺。第二,在管制下,产品质量下降,黑市也会随之出现,人们在这里会以远高于均衡价格的价格进行交易,以满足一些消费者的需求,结果就是富人有足够多的食物而穷人还在挨饿。
漫长的历史已经表明工资与价格管制对于治理通货膨胀是无效的,若想永久消除通胀,要从通胀的根本原因入手,那就是由中央银行降低货币增长速度以匹配经济实际增长速度。也就是货币增长与产出增长保持一致。如果这个政策建议被经济决策者采纳,那以后也就不在需要工资和价格管制了。
大量事实表明价格和工资管制尽管有一定程度的效果,但是也能够给经济带来严重的,有时候是永久性的伤害,它对市场体系的干预引发了很多负面影响。通过限价,政府鼓励了消费,打击了生产,引来了灾难。主要表现有:第一,当价格受到管制,因管制价格造成的资源浪费和配置不当,导致商户大量囤积商品,非但没能消除市场上的商品短缺,反而加重短缺。第二,在管制下,产品质量下降,黑市也会随之出现,人们在这里会以远高于均衡价格的价格进行交易,以满足一些消费者的需求,结果就是富人有足够多的食物而穷人还在挨饿。
漫长的历史已经表明工资与价格管制对于治理通货膨胀是无效的,若想永久消除通胀,要从通胀的根本原因入手,那就是由中央银行降低货币增长速度以匹配经济实际增长速度。也就是货币增长与产出增长保持一致。如果这个政策建议被经济决策者采纳,那以后也就不在需要工资和价格管制了。
现代世界体系(第一卷) 豆瓣
作者:
[美] 伊曼纽尔·沃勒斯坦
译者:
罗荣渠
出版社:
高等教育出版社
1998
- 4
本书论述了资本主义世界经济体系,即现代世界体系的起源与发展的历程。现代世界体系发端于欧洲的部分地区,后来不断发展,逐渐把世界其他一些地区纳入其中,直至覆盖全球。作者认为,21世界中期资本主义世界体系将让位于后继的体系(一个或多个)。我们不能预测他会是一个什么样的体系,但能通过我们目前政治的和道德的活动来影响其结果。本书享誉西方学术界,是西方大学生必读的参考书。它不是一般的世界近现代史著作,而是一部整体地阐述近5个半世纪世界历史进程的综合性宏观论著。
农民的道义经济学 豆瓣
8.2 (10 个评分)
作者:
[美国] 詹姆斯·C·斯科特
译者:
程立显
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刘建 等
出版社:
译林出版社
2013
- 3
《农民的道义经济学》是美国著名学者、耶鲁大学教授詹姆斯•C.斯科特于1976年出版的有关农民问题的著作,它集中体现了斯科特理论阐释与个案分析相结合的实证主义研究特色。
作者在书中指出,在“安全第一”的生存伦理下,农民追求的不是收入的最大化,而是较低的风险分配与较高的生存保障。随后,作者从东南亚的缅甸和越南农业社会的历史发展轨迹,特别是农民的反叛和起义入手,探究了市场资本主义的兴起对传统农业社会的巨大冲击。作者据此认为,贫困本身并不是农民反叛的原因,农业商品化和官僚国家的发展所催生的租佃和税收制度,侵犯了农民生存的伦理道德和社会公正感,迫使农民铤而走险,奋起反抗。
《农民的道义经济学》是一部真正从农民的角度出发,更为现实地考察农民生存和反叛问题的力作,它对研究亚洲乃至世界其它国家的农民问题,都有着极为现实的借鉴意义。
作者在书中指出,在“安全第一”的生存伦理下,农民追求的不是收入的最大化,而是较低的风险分配与较高的生存保障。随后,作者从东南亚的缅甸和越南农业社会的历史发展轨迹,特别是农民的反叛和起义入手,探究了市场资本主义的兴起对传统农业社会的巨大冲击。作者据此认为,贫困本身并不是农民反叛的原因,农业商品化和官僚国家的发展所催生的租佃和税收制度,侵犯了农民生存的伦理道德和社会公正感,迫使农民铤而走险,奋起反抗。
《农民的道义经济学》是一部真正从农民的角度出发,更为现实地考察农民生存和反叛问题的力作,它对研究亚洲乃至世界其它国家的农民问题,都有着极为现实的借鉴意义。
Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics 豆瓣
作者:
Nancy L. Stokey
/
Robert E. Lucas Jr.
…
出版社:
Harvard University Press
1989
- 10
This rigorous but brilliantly lucid book presents a self-contained treatment of modern economic dynamics. Stokey, Lucas, and Prescott develop the basic methods of recursive analysis and illustrate the many areas where they can usefully be applied. After presenting an overview of the recursive approach, the authors develop economic applications for deterministic dynamic programming and the stability theory of first-order difference equations. They then treat stochastic dynamic programming and the convergence theory of discrete-time Markov processes, illustrating each with additional economic applications. They also derive a strong law of large numbers for Markov processes. Finally, they present the two fundamental theorems of welfare economics and show how to apply the methods developed earlier to general equilibrium systems. The authors go on to apply their methods to many areas of economics. Models of firm and industry investment, household consumption behavior, long-run growth, capital accumulation, job search, job matching, inventory behavior, asset pricing, and money demand are among those they use to show how predictions can he made about individual and social behavior. Researchers and graduate students in economic theory will find this book essential.