Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks

Production in knowledge and data-intensive industries is powered by work that can, in theory, be done from anywhere, via cloudwork platforms. Cloudwork platforms govern data value chains in distinct ways to concentrate power and extract value at the global scale. We argue that unpaid labour is a systemic mechanism of accumulation in these digital value networks. In this paper we demonstrate how it is tied to platform business models and facilitated by elements of platform governance including monopsony power, a high degree of spatial flexibility in sourcing labour, regulatory unaccountability and digital enclosure. We draw on a survey of 699 workers on 14 platforms in 74 countries to show that unpaid labour is an engine of South–North value extraction, and workers in the global South perform more unpaid labour than counterparts in the global North. Our findings have important ramifications our understanding of the changing international division of labour and platform capitalism.     

电商下乡促进了县域经济增长吗？

以电子商务为代表的现代化商品流通渠道建设是当前农村经济发展的新动能。利用2013—2018年县域数据,以“电子商务进农村综合示范县”为自然实验,采用多期PSM-DID方法探讨了电商下乡对县域经济增长的影响。研究结果显示,电商下乡对县域经济增长具有显著的促进作用。异质性分析表明,电商下乡对中部、西部和东北地区县域经济增长具有显著的正向影响,对经济发展落后、财政依赖度高、信息化水平低以及产业结构不合理的县域具有更加明显的经济拉动效应。进一步研究发现,电商下乡推动了县域第一产业和第二产业的发展,且主要通过提高地区农业生产率、吸引企业进入以及改善融资环境产生影响。因此,应加快推进电子商务在农村的发展,把以电子商务为代表的现代流通渠道建设与电商下乡试点地区的特色农业和制造业相结合,进一步探索县域传统产业与数字经济的融合方式,以促进县域经济增长。     

论消费者的知情权

消费者享有知悉其购买、使用的商品或接受的服务的真实情况的权利,商品的生产者和销售者应无条件、硬性地向消费者讲解.文中在论述我国消费者知情权法律保障不足的基础上,提出了完善我国消费者知情权法律保障的措施.     

谈城镇住房供应新体系的构建问题

阐述了新的城镇住房供应体系对解决城镇家庭住房困难、带动经济增长的重大意义，提出了构建住房供应新体系的几点建议。