伪造货币罪构成要件的重新解读——基于犯罪客体的合理定位

我国犯罪构成理论的通说认为构成要件包括犯罪客体、犯罪客观方面、犯罪主体与犯罪主观方面四大要件，即把犯罪客体作为犯罪构成的一个重要要件。这样的结局是，在对各个要件进行解释时，犯罪客体与其他三个要件一起作为被解释的对象。而事实上，犯罪客体的合理定位是，犯罪客体应该是解释其他要件的依据，它不是犯罪构成的一个要件。基于此，可以在犯罪客体的统摄和指导下，对具体个罪进行合目的性的解释。     

新城沈北有多新

2006年10月,“沈北新区”经国务院批准正式成立。按照国家有关部委批复沈北新区的要求,新区将成为综合配套改革的试验区、产业创新的先导区、社会主义新农村建设的示范区、构建社会主义和谐社会的先行区、东北老工业基地振兴的重要增长区。沈北新区一经创立,就备受关注。为此,本刊记者专访     

黄汉湘的辽宁情缘

与沈阳桃仙国际机场咫尺相间的桃仙镇古台南屯,坐落着宽敞整洁的志英行鞋业工业园。园区内一栋白色小楼的4层有一间普通办公室,它的主人就是新加坡志英行集团的总裁及首席执行官黄汉湘先生。     

组合创新发展低碳经济统筹规划建设生态宜居城市

一、发展低碳经济、保护环境刻不容缓 改革开放以来,我国经济持续快速增长,工业化、城镇化均取得了巨大成就。但我国的经济增长是建立在高投入、高消耗基础之上的,城市发展的环境成本与社会成本也很高,出现了一系列“城市病”：城市用地和空间需求急剧扩大,引发城乡土地利用矛盾;中心大城市过分膨胀,导致城市交通环境拥挤与恶化;     

Household and Living Arrangement Projections at the Subnational Level: An Extended Cohort-Component Approach

This article presents the core methodological ideas and empirical assessments of an extended cohort-component approach (known as the “ProFamy model”), and applications to simultaneously project household composition, living arrangements, and population sizes–gender structures at the subnational level in the United States. Comparisons of projections from 1990 to 2000 using this approach with census counts in 2000 for each of the 50 states and Washington, DC show that 68.0 %, 17.0 %, 11.2 %, and 3.8 % of the absolute percentage errors are <3.0 %, 3.0 % to 4.99 %, 5.0 % to 9.99 %, and ≥10.0 %, respectively. Another analysis compares average forecast errors between the extended cohort-component approach and the still widely used classic headship-rate method, by projecting number-of-bedrooms–specific housing demands from 1990 to 2000 and then comparing those projections with census counts in 2000 for each of the 50 states and Washington, DC. The results demonstrate that, compared with the extended cohort-component approach, the headship-rate method produces substantially more serious forecast errors because it cannot project households by size while the extended cohort-component approach projects detailed household sizes. We also present illustrative household and living arrangement projections for the five decades from 2000 to 2050, with medium-, small-, and large-family scenarios for each of the 50 states; Washington, DC; six counties of southern California; and the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area. Among many interesting numerical outcomes of household and living arrangement projections with medium, low, and high bounds, the aging of American households over the next few decades across all states/areas is particularly striking. Finally, the limitations of the present study and potential future lines of research are discussed.     

Urbanization Transition in China:From a Factor-driven to an Innovation--driven Approach

Cheap land and cheap labor have made the most important contribution to the rapid development of China’s urbanization during the past 30 years.However,this pattern of urbanization, which is factor-driven, dependent on land bonus and demographic dividend, is unsustainable.Excessive dependence on cheap land not only leads to inefficient allocation of urban resources, but also has negative impacts on the process of urbanization.Heavy reliance on demographic dividend would no longer be sustainable in the context of changing population structure.There is a need for urbanization reorientation, from a factor--driven to an innovation--driven approach.Innovation--driven urbanization requires industrial upgrading in urban areas so that new industrialization and new urbanization could be in synchronous progress.Smart city construction would facilitate integration of urbanization,industrialization and informatization.     

International Law as the Law of Domestic Governance: China’s Propositions and Institutional Practice

Like domestic law, international law can be used in domestic governance, where it can become an important instrument assisting China’s Party and government to rule the country and manage state affairs. Incorporating part of international law into domestic law and comprehensively advancing the rule of law in accord with the principle of national sovereignty demonstrate the openness and international vision of China’s rule of law construction. Translating these propositions into concrete institutional practice will be of vital significance for improving the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, advancing the international rule of law and promoting world peace.     

The Impacts of Gaming Expansion on Economic Growth: A Theoretical Reconsideration

This paper employs a general equilibrium framework to analyze the effects on economic growth of global expansions in casino gaming, which exports gambling services largely to non-residents. Both domestic and foreign investments in the gaming sector bring in not only substantial revenues but also positive spillover effects on related sectors and even on the entire local economy. However, an over-expansion of commercial gambling may lead to deterioration in the terms of trade with an adverse impact on real income. If this situation persists, it would not be impossible for immiserizing growth to occur. As a highly profitable sector, casino gaming may enable its operators to diversify out of this risk if they invest retained profits in non-gaming sectors to cash in on the spillover effects it has created. The gaming-dominant economy can then be directed on a more balanced and sustainable growth path, and will become less susceptible to business cycles. Indeed, economic experiences in the world’s major casino resorts are consistent basically with this argument for diversification. We believe that after the current global crisis fades away, economic growth and resulting surges in global demand for gambling services can provide further opportunities for the expansion of existing casino resorts and the development of new gaming markets.     

东京都市圈的发展对我国环渤海首都区建设的启示

都市圈的概念是1910年美国基于统计需要而提出的,认为大都市区（Metropolitan District）是“一个或若干个由一定规模数量人口的中心城市和若干个邻接城镇组成的区域”。20世纪50年代,法国地理学家简·戈特曼认为都市圈应以2500万人口规模和250人／平方公里的人口密度为下限。日本学者木内信藏提出了“三地带学说”,认为大城市圈层是由中心地域、城市周边地区和市郊外缘广阔腹地三大部分组成,其思想后被发展为都市圈理念。