珠江三角洲地区居民消费的城乡差异研究

珠江三角洲地区居民消费在都市圈中很有代表性,且具有二元消费的特点．该文基于分析珠江三角洲地区居民消费的城乡结构差异,探讨了城乡居民消费函数,发现城乡的前期消费对当期消费都具有显著影响,并分析了城乡主要商品消费的不同影响因素．     

Accurate Understanding of China’s Income,Consumption and Investment

Abstract

This study elaborates on the differences between resident disposable income in the flow of funds table and in the household survey; between household consumption in expenditure-based GDP and in the household survey; and between gross fixed capital formation in expenditure-based GDP and total fixed asset investment in the whole country as shown in investment statistics, from the point of view of their basic concepts and purposes, scope of specifications, data sources, calculation methods and data presentation. We show that the household survey somewhat underestimates household income and consumption, while investment statistics somewhat overestimate total investment in fixed assets. This does not, however, directly affect the accurate understanding of such major economic structures as the structure of the distribution of Chinese nationals’ disposable income among households, enterprises and government, the structure of final demand, etc.     

THE GHETTO FABULOUS AESTHETIC IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK CULTURE

With diamonds, mink, and champagne, black popular culture has, in recent years, made an audacious spectacle of conspicuous commodity consumption. Commonly termed ‘bling’, the ‘ghetto fabulous’ aesthetic of these flashy displays has prompted vociferous debate about the cultural meanings of contemporary black consumerism. Is it pathological? Subversive? Deviant? Since the nineties when it first appeared, the ghetto fabulous aesthetic has left its mark on a range of cultural productions from music videos to ghetto lit, fashion to film, walking a familiar line from defiance to bowdlerization, from raucous wild child of the streets to co-opted product tagline.

This essay explores a new cinematic genre within this repertoire, the ghetto fabulous genre of black film that has emerged to variously castigate and congratulate black investments in ghetto fabulous bling. Appearing at the close of the twentieth century, the genre reflects key shifts in the political imaginary and economic transformations of the ‘post-soul’ era. Drawing on two such texts, Barbershop (Tim Story 2002) and Barbershop 2: Back In Business (Kevin Rodney Sullivan 2004), studio films with all-black casts and directed by young African-American filmmakers, this analysis focuses on their engagement with contemporary cultural tensions over class and consumerism, their narrative containment of a transformative black politics, and their reconciliation of post-soul priorities with hegemonic discourses of the market. I argue that ghetto fabulous films are quintessential products of the post-soul era, their allegorical priorities in pointed accord with neo-liberal individualism and the promise of class transcendence. Performing crucial work of hegemonic cooptation, these texts offer archetypes of the ghetto entrepreneur and black enterprise itself as a salvational sphere for the urban poor. Reining in unruly desires, these texts draw working-class African Americans into the capitalist fold, articulating a post-soul politics that preaches black acquiescence with hegemonic discourses of advanced capitalism.     

行政职务消费货币化改革的经济学分析

从经济学的视角出发,将公职人员的职务消费问题纳入经济学研究范畴,在保障政府公务有效执行的前提下,将职务消费行为设定为制度和道德约束的经济人消费选择行为,分析不同制度安排下的职务消费行为特点。从弹性的视角,将职务消费的类型分为富于弹性型职务消费、缺乏弹性型职务消费和一般弹性职务消费,通过区别改革的着力点,充分挖掘推进改革的自发动力,在资源约束的条件下,实现制度目标与消费当事人利益的共赢和优化。     

中国城乡居民消费差距的现状及其影响因素分析——基于1996-2009年省际面板数据的实证研究

城乡消费差距是中国城乡贫富差别的突出问题之一,文章在阐述1978年以来城乡消费差距现状的基础上,应用30个省份1996—2010年的面板数据,通过系统广义距估计,对影响中国城乡消费差距的因素进行实证分析,结果表明,城乡居民消费差距偏大且存在区域差异,比较参数估计结果后发现,人均GDP的增长导致城乡消费差距缩小,城市化率和产业结构升级等对缩小城乡消费差距也有着积极作用,城乡居民的收入比与消费比呈正相关,财政支出的增加反而加剧城乡消费差距。最后在定量分析的基础上得到政策启示。     

新生代农民工理财问题浅析

新生代农民工受社会环境和个人因素的影响,与传统农民工的理财观念相比,出现了许多新变化。如何培养正确的理财意识,过上更好的生活,成为新生代农民工面临的一个突出的现实问题,也是当前我国建设社会主义新农村务必研究的重要课题。本文通过实地调查福建省福清市音西镇三个自然村(马山村、洋浦村、龙溪村),分析我国新生代农民工的理财现状、特点及其存在问题,并提出若干对策。     

数字艺术消费下的文化逻辑

消费环境将人们的文化身份归于图形表述范围,数字艺术消费逐渐冲击着文字文本的消费习惯,并成为大众文化主流,人们可以从中轻而易举地获取消费信息.这种大众消费文化模式被判定为现实社会环境下的文化原则,让消费成为文化,消费文化演变为文化消费,由此产生了消费模式背景下的文化形态.     

消费与抵抗:科技浪潮下的苹果迷群体

选取苹果迷群体作为研究对象,发现苹果迷群体利用苹果产品建构属于他们自己的“领地”并在“领地”里进行生产活动,以此来显示自己的“迷身份”.在科学技术异常发达的当下,苹果迷作为科技消费者创造了先进的生产方式;作为商品消费者,苹果迷与大众文化工业具有“收编”与“反收编”的特殊关系.     

低碳城市综合评价指标体系构建

频繁发生的自然灾害已经威胁到人类的生存,化石燃料的过度消耗无疑是导致全球变暖和自然灾害发生的主要诱因之一。要想保证人类的可持续发展,就必须摆脱目前面临的困境,实行低碳经济发展模式不失为一条可行路径。为推进各地区、各城市的低碳经济发展,衡量其低碳建设的实际水平,从低碳经济、低碳城市的概念和特征入手,在充分汲取已有研究成果的基础上,构建低碳城市综合评价指标体系,以期对各地低碳建设进行规范和引导,为制定低碳发展战略提供依据。     

Techno economic systems and excessive consumption: a political economy of ‘pathological’ gambling

This article argues that gambling is a paradigmatic form of consumption that captures the intensified logic at the heart of late modern capitalist societies. As well as a site of intensified consumption, it claims that gambling has also become the location of what has been described as a new form of ‘social pathology’ related to excess play. Drawing on Castells' (1996) notion of techno‐economic systems, it explores the ways that intersections between technology, capital and states have generated the conditions for this situation, and critiques the unequal distribution of gambling environments that result. It argues that, while the products of these systems are consumed on a global scale, the risks associated with them tend to be articulated in bio‐psychological discourses of ‘pathology’ which are typical of certain types of knowledge that have salience in neo‐liberal societies, and which work to conceal wider structural relationships. We argue that a deeper understanding of the political and cultural economy of gambling environments is necessary, and provide a synoptic overview of the conditions upon which gambling expansion is based. This perspective highlights parallels with the wider global economy of finance capital, as well as the significance of intensified consumption, of which gambling is an exemplary instance. It also reveals the existence of a geo‐political dispersal of ‘harms’, conceived as deteriorations of financial, temporal and social relationships, which disproportionately affect vulnerable social groups. From this, we urge an understanding of commercial gambling based on a critique of the wider social body of gambling environments within techno economic systems, rather than the (flawed) individual bodies within them.