Large,But Adaptable? A Successful Population Policy and Its Long Term Effects

A restrictive population policy led to almost doubling the number of newborns from one year to another in Romania in the 1960s. Twenty years later, this large generation (of women) enters a marriage market with few eligible older mates, in a society where marriage is a must. In this article, I analyze this social experiment within the broader frame of the marriage squeeze/two sex models. Using various data from censuses and surveys, I argue that the marriage market is flexible even when is confronted with disproportionately large cohorts. If the social pressure toward marriage is strong, the marriage rates do not necessarily fall, but the mating age patterns change.

Breaking the taboo: a history of monetary financing in Canada, 1930–1975

Monetary financing – the funding of state expenditure via the creation of new money rather than through taxation or borrowing – has become a taboo policy instrument in advanced economies. It is generally associated with dangerously high inflation and/or war. Relatedly, a key institutional feature of modern independent central banks is that they are not obligated to support government expenditure via money creation. Since the financial crisis of 2007–2008, however, unorthodox monetary policies, in particular quantitative easing, coupled with stagnant growth and high levels of public and private debt have led to questions over the monetary financing taboo. Debates on the topic have so far been mainly theoretical with little attention to the social and political dynamics of historical instances of monetary financing. This paper analyses one of the most significant twentieth‐century cases: Canada from the period after the Great Depression up until the monetarist revolution of the 1970s. The period was a successful one for the Canadian economy, with high growth and employment and manageable inflation. It offers some interesting insights into the relationship between states and central banks and present‐day discussions around the governance of money creation.     

All for one or one for all? Authorship and the cross-sectoral valuation of credit in nutrition science

The passionate pursuit of authorships is fuelled by the value they represent to scholars and scientists. This article asks how this value differs across scientists and how these different processes of valuation inform authorship articulation, strategies, and publication behavior in general. Drawing from a qualitative analysis of authorship practices among nutrition scientists employed at universities, contract research organizations, and in food industry, I argue that two different modi operandi emerge when it comes to authorship. These different ways of working produce different collaborative approaches, different credit distribution strategies amongst collaborators, and different value placed upon (the pursuit of) authorship. These different valuation processes are neither explicit nor recognizable to those reading (and judging) author lists. As a consequence, in the politics of authorship, the names standing atop a scientific publication in nutrition science represent different types of value to both the individuals and employing organizations.     

Transnational migration and the commodification of eldercare in urban Ghana

ABSTRACT

Over the past 20 years, organizations to provide commercial nursing services, mainly to the sick and debilitated elderly, have sprung up in Accra, Ghana. This article assesses the degree to which transnational migration has generated social changes in ageing at the level of everyday practices. It argues that a range of social actors differently involved in transnational migration has created and sustained a market for home nursing agencies in Ghana through diverse processes involving the imagination of care work abroad, complex negotiations between the elderly at home and their anxious children abroad, increased financial resources among the middle class and the evaluations of western eldercare services by return and current migrants. These dynamics illustrate the complexity of the role of transnational migration in generating social change and highlight the significance of the needs of local families and the role of the imagination in shaping social remittances from abroad.     

教育理论的分类框架与发展反思

教育理论的繁荣没有带来与之对称的教育实践改进是不争的事实,这使教育理论蕴藏信誉危机.这些事实促使我们必须对教育理论做出深刻反思.但反思必须是辩证的、精细的、建设性的.对教育理论进行合理分类,并在此基础上对各类教育理论进行反思,对教育理论发展是至关重要的.依傍科学标准与价值标准建立起来的教育理论,可以依据其成立的标准划分成四类教育理论:实然的教育理论、价值的教育理论、逻辑的教育理论和科学的教育理论.在相对精细的划分框架下对各类理论的正确评价可以促进各类教育理论的理性发展.     

对我国审计环境的思考

分析了我国审计环境的现状,剖析了我国审计环境中存在的挂靠制遗留、社会对审计认识不足、社会审计信誉危机、审计队伍人才缺乏、会计环境现状不够理想等问题,提出必须加强行业监管,完善执业规范体系,净化会计行为环境,提高会计信息质量,继续推进会计师事务所体制改革,设立审计委员会,实行永续聘任制和加强人才培养,从而优化我国的审计环境。     

对高校图书馆如何适应学分制问题的探讨

随着我国高等教育改革的不断深入和发展 ,学分制已经成为高校教学管理的一种必然选择。高校教育教学从学年制改为学分制 ,无疑会对高校各项管理工作产生明显的影响 ,对作为高校教育教学保障系统的图书馆影响尤为突出。高校图书馆怎样适应学分制的变化 ,是值得认真探讨的一个问题。     

国外票据市场的发展及对我国的启示

随着现代经济的发展 ,票据作为一种支付信用结算工具 ,其低风险、高流动性的短期投资和融资功能日益受到企业、商业银行及广大投资者的重视 ,各种票据逐渐成为企业短期融资、银行提高资产负债的流动性管理和风险管理、满足投资者短期投资需要的重要货币市场工具。分析和研究票据市场发展现状及其特点 ,对我国票据市场发展有积极的借鉴意义。     

论市场信用

信用是市场得以产生和发展的道德基础和基本价值准则 ,市场中市场主体彼此之间的相互信赖和互为依存 ,决定市场经济在某种程度上就是信用经济 ,它集中发反映了诚实信用原则已上升为市场经济宪法———民商法的一般“帝王规则” ,因之 ,培植国人的市场信用观念 ,应当成为市场经济建设中的一项基础性的道德与法律工程     

企业失信的信用隐蔽性诱因及其管制

随着中国经济市场化改革进程的不断推进,失信(诚信与信用不足或短缺)严重影响着国民经济的健康发展。通过对信用的隐蔽性原理及其在企业价值增值过程中的作用机理进行分析,揭示失信的信用隐蔽性诱因,认为解决信用失信的关键在于信用显性化,并提出了解决这一问题的基本思路与方法以及具体建议与措施。