The fusion of digital technology and education has ushered in an era of intelligent educational environment.The course of Political Economy in colleges and universities not only imparts economic knowledge and cultivat...The fusion of digital technology and education has ushered in an era of intelligent educational environment.The course of Political Economy in colleges and universities not only imparts economic knowledge and cultivates financial quotient,but also bears the important task of improving students ideological and moral character.It is worth exploring how to effectively use digital technology to integrate ideological and political education into political economy more accurately.On the basis of building the ideological and political education system of political economy course,this paper explores the practical path of ideological and political education in the era of digital intelligence from three aspects:"before class","during class"and"after class".展开更多
In the Empire Series,Hardt and Negri attempt to develop biopolitical critique to contemporary capitalist society.Hardt and Negri develop their own biopolitical critique based on their understanding of Foucauldian biop...In the Empire Series,Hardt and Negri attempt to develop biopolitical critique to contemporary capitalist society.Hardt and Negri develop their own biopolitical critique based on their understanding of Foucauldian biopolitics.In the meantime,many arguments of biopolitical critique come precisely from Marx’s critique of political economy.Identifying biopolitical production as the hegemonic paradigm of contemporary capitalist production,Hardt and Negri accomplish the transition from the critique of political economy to biopolitical critique.However,such assertion does not mean a major rupture in the relation between the critique of political economy and biopolitical critique.On the contrary,it only implies an intertwined relationship between them.Moreover,if regarding Foucault’s discussion about political economy and biopolitics as a medium,then the conclusion can be made:There are overlaps between biopolitical critique and the critique of political economy,and the source of biopolitical critique can also be traced directly back to Marx.展开更多
Under China’s socialist system,state-owned enterprises are key forces driving the economic trajectory and providing strong momentum.These enterprises not only bear the crucial responsibility of advancing the process ...Under China’s socialist system,state-owned enterprises are key forces driving the economic trajectory and providing strong momentum.These enterprises not only bear the crucial responsibility of advancing the process of national modernization but also serve as the core of the national economic lifeline through their irreplaceable status and function amidst changing times.In the new era,with the advent of the technological revolution and the wave of globalization,state-owned enterprises face unprecedented opportunities and challenges.As a significant aspect of state-owned enterprise reform,the mixed ownership reform is not only a transformation in the structure of enterprise ownership but also a reflection of China’s broader,comprehensive reform efforts.By deeply advancing this reform,it will help optimize the allocation of state-owned assets and significantly boost technological and management innovation within state-owned enterprises,ensuring their competitiveness in the intense market environment.Therefore,this paper will conduct an in-depth analysis of the mixed ownership reform of state-owned enterprises from the perspective of Marxist political economy.展开更多
Globalization, which is characterized by the escalating mobility of capital, people, ideas and information on a universal scale, has become a sweeping theme in the contemporary world. Tourism and its associated econom...Globalization, which is characterized by the escalating mobility of capital, people, ideas and information on a universal scale, has become a sweeping theme in the contemporary world. Tourism and its associated economic activities are evidently not immune to such a wider context of the world economy. In the past one or two decades, a stable increase has been witnessed in international tourist flows, inter-regional and inter-organizational alliances, and foreign direct investment. These trends are especially prevalent in the developing world, largely because of their pristine nature, di- verse culture, inexpensive goods and services, cheap labours, and other resources. However, it has been cautioned by some scholars, especially those from the Third World countries, that tourism is an industry run by and for the rich, more powerful nations and their corresponding multinational corporations. This article, from the perspective of political economy, supplemented with views from development studies, made a normative analysis on the impacts of the glob- alization of tourism on the Third World destination countries. Specifically, these impacts have been detailed in terms of economic, sociocultural, and ecological domains. It was demonstrated that without appropriate planning and manage- ment, the costs of Third World tourism development may accrue to the extent that its benefits are burned out. To avoid this happening, some suggestions have been made.展开更多
The Invisible Hand Of Divine Providence in Christian Theology leads mankind continuously with teleological aim.Adam Smith’s“Invisible Hand of Political Economy”leads society to the highest level of prosperity,where...The Invisible Hand Of Divine Providence in Christian Theology leads mankind continuously with teleological aim.Adam Smith’s“Invisible Hand of Political Economy”leads society to the highest level of prosperity,where the benefits of households,businesses and the state are optimized.Adam Smith,influenced by the Theology of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas,transfers the Hand of Divine Providence to economic life and lets individuals function on the basis of their own interest and the“sympathy”governing their economic relations.Two patterns run at the same time.The economic circuit is driven by the good choice of the invisible hand,and mankind is driven by the good providence of God.The purpose of our work is to present this coincidence of the two“long hands”of God and the Economy and the influences that the Philosophy of Ethical Emotions of Political Economy has received from Theology.展开更多
Providing high-quality economic forecasts is an important responsibility of the International Monetary Fund(IMF) in maintaining world financial and economic stability. However, errors are inevitable in IMF economic fo...Providing high-quality economic forecasts is an important responsibility of the International Monetary Fund(IMF) in maintaining world financial and economic stability. However, errors are inevitable in IMF economic forecasts for its member countries. Based on forecast method and information, and political factor, this paper creates a political economics framework for analyzing the IMF's forecast errors, and tests the effects of various factors on the IMF's forecasts using the panel data analysis method. According to our findings, if a country receives IMF loans and shares a similar vote with the United States at the UN General Assembly, it will more likely receive an optimistic forecast by the IMF. Meanwhile, member countries' data availability and IMF forecast errors for major economies may also affect forecast on a country. Therefore, this paper proposes recommendations on further improving the IMF's forecast quality by creating more independent forecast procedures and enhancing forecast data quality and forecast accuracy.展开更多
In contemporary media ecosystem, media content is not only produced by employees rather it is also produced by its users in the form of curating stories, writing feedback, engaging in online discussions and at the sam...In contemporary media ecosystem, media content is not only produced by employees rather it is also produced by its users in the form of curating stories, writing feedback, engaging in online discussions and at the same time disseminating the content through their personal online profiles. Keeping these views in mind, this paper critically examines the political economy of <em>Ippodhu</em> (Tamil Nadu based news website), a hyperlocal news application, in terms of digital labour, audience as participatory commodities and audience as producers, which Alvin Toffler terms as prosumer. Further, this paper explores how social media, analytics, or other analytical tools create value or anti-value for <em>Ippodhu</em>. The qualitative data obtained through in-depth interview reveals that readers/audiences of <em>Ippodhu</em> are commodified in two ways, first they consume the content of the website by spending their time, which will be sold to the advertisers and secondly by creating free content either in the writing stories, uploading photographs or even in the form of comment which will be consumed by other readers/audiences which result in the chain of production of values.展开更多
The article intends to work about Friedrich List political economy starting from a specific point of view: idea of nation. Published in 1841, The National System of Political economy establishes a hard dialogue with ...The article intends to work about Friedrich List political economy starting from a specific point of view: idea of nation. Published in 1841, The National System of Political economy establishes a hard dialogue with the Wealth of nations written by Smith. The criticism is built around the idea of nation. In List, the nation, as synonym of productive forces, is a critic to the Smith's nation idea as a free market. The List's idea of nation is a product of a group of structural (and not only cultural or mental) transformations that occurred during the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 in Europe. The result is the emergency of a new form of State, the nation-State. The political economy elaborates their critics in the measure in capitalism changes. The nation, in the national system of political economy of List, synthesizes the unification of the territory, the consolidation of the national industry and an internal market free from barriers and interlinked by a modem net of transports. In a contradictory way, that nation idea is based in great territory and its empire and not on the nationality principle, according to which, each people, yet that very small, has the right to its own territory. The unified and industrially developed States build immense empires that, in practical terms, contravene the principle of nationality展开更多
China's economic and social ties with Africa have grown sturdily since 2000 and the shifts are so marked that, by 2009, China's share in sub-Saharan Africa's total exports and imports exceeded that between China an...China's economic and social ties with Africa have grown sturdily since 2000 and the shifts are so marked that, by 2009, China's share in sub-Saharan Africa's total exports and imports exceeded that between China and other regions in the world. Africa has as well received year-on-year increases in foreign aid from China as compared to Latin America and Asia. This paper seeks an analysis of the increasing economic and social ties between China and Africa. Employing the political economy framework, this paper uses secondary sources of data to rake out the benefits and the threats as well as the political dynamics associated with the ties between the two regions. The paper reveals that China's deep-rooted relationship with Africa is translated in benefits including foreign aid, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), construction of physical amenities and human resource development for Africa. However, enormous threats including loss of employment, deprivation of human rights and collapse of industries, which are being entrenched by various degrees of leadership deficiencies, are apparent. The paper concludes that the ties, in terms of nature and effects, do not essentially represent change from the already existing ties between Africa and the West but only represent continuity in the dependency syndrome with a new "benefactor-exploiter". The solution for Africa, as the paper suggests, does not lie in closure of ties with China but in a knowledgeable, willing and action-oriented leadership which can consolidate the benefits and reverse the threats emerging from the ties.展开更多
Although Theresa May the new British Prime Minister had followed Cameron to stand for staying in the EU,after taking office,she has openly stated on several occasions that she will respect the public opinions of the c...Although Theresa May the new British Prime Minister had followed Cameron to stand for staying in the EU,after taking office,she has openly stated on several occasions that she will respect the public opinions of the country and carry out a foreign policy of implementing Brexit according to the result of the referendum.In so doing,she has even made Boris Johnson,a controversy lead展开更多
At the beginning of 2020,COVID-19 has blocked the pace of the world economic development.In the process of fighting the epidemic,different countries have formulated different policies and showed different effects from...At the beginning of 2020,COVID-19 has blocked the pace of the world economic development.In the process of fighting the epidemic,different countries have formulated different policies and showed different effects from fighting it.After the end of COVID-19,the rapid social and economic recovery as well as their development require scientific and effective governance from all countries.From the perspective of comparative political economy theory,taking the COVID-19 epidemic as an example,this article points out the advantages and deficiencies of the national governance capacity,as well as seek ways to improve the national governance capacity.展开更多
Background:Since 2000,results based financing(RBF)has proliferated in health sectors in Africa in particular,including in fragile and conflict affected settings(FCAS)and there is a growing but still contested literatu...Background:Since 2000,results based financing(RBF)has proliferated in health sectors in Africa in particular,including in fragile and conflict affected settings(FCAS)and there is a growing but still contested literature about its relevance and effectiveness.Less examined are the political economy factors behind the adoption of the RBF policy,as well as the shifts in influence and resources which RBF may bring about.In this article,we examine these two topics,focusing on Zimbabwe,which has rolled out RBF nationwide in the health system since 2011,with external support.Methods:The study uses an adapted political economy framework,integrating data from 40 semi-structured interviews with local,national and international experts in 2018 and thematic analysis of 60 policy documents covering the decade between 2008 and 2018.Results:Our findings highlight the role of donors in initiating the RBF policy,but also how the Zimbabwe health system was able to adapt the model to suit its particular circumstances-seeking to maintain a systemic approach,and avoiding fragmentation.Although Zimbabwe was highly resource dependent after the political-economic crisis of the 2000s,it retained managerial and professional capacity,which distinguishes it from many other FCAS settings.This active adaptation has engendered national ownership over time,despite initial resistance to the RBF model and despite the complexity of RBF,which creates dependence on external technical support.Adoption was also aided by ideological retro-fitting into an earlier government performance management policy.The main beneficiaries of RBF were frontline providers,who gained small but critical additional resources,but subject to high degrees of control and sanctions.Conclusions:This study highlights resource-seeking motivations for adopting RBF in some low and middle income settings,especially fragile ones,but also the potential for local health system actors to shape and adapt RBF to suit their needs in some circumstances.This means less structural disruption in the health system and it increases the likelihood of an integrated approach and sustainability.We highlight the mix of autonomy and control which RBF can bring for frontline providers and argue for clearer understanding of the role that RBF commonly plays in these settings.展开更多
History has brought us into a significant moment when the majority of the human kind has taken up resi-dence in urban settlements. The focus of global urbanization has shifted to the developing world and the center of...History has brought us into a significant moment when the majority of the human kind has taken up resi-dence in urban settlements. The focus of global urbanization has shifted to the developing world and the center of manufacturing is no longer confined to the Global North. This paper provides a periodical assessment of the current status of China's urban transformation in the global context of a shifting emphasis of industrialization and urbaniza-tion. China's phenomenal urban transformation deserves a special attention not only because of its unparalleled scale and speed but also because of its distinct trajectory of growth that does not conform to normal theoretical ex-pectations. The results of assessment revealed an urban economy with remarkable hybridity, a society that is in-creasingly stratified, polarized, and segregated, and a juxtaposed urban space undergoing restless and pervasive transformation. A decentering world should entail a decentering knowledge production. A critical reflection upon the Chinese patterns and processes of urban transformation has identified 4 main issues with great potentials for inno-vative knowledge production, namely: 1) privatization and economic development; 2) state, society, and space; 3) urbanization of capital, labor, and land; and 4) the environment and Chinese political ecology. The paper closes with the remark that a rapidly transforming urban China has presented itself as a fertile and resourceful testing ground for critical and innovative geographic enquiries.展开更多
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文摘The fusion of digital technology and education has ushered in an era of intelligent educational environment.The course of Political Economy in colleges and universities not only imparts economic knowledge and cultivates financial quotient,but also bears the important task of improving students ideological and moral character.It is worth exploring how to effectively use digital technology to integrate ideological and political education into political economy more accurately.On the basis of building the ideological and political education system of political economy course,this paper explores the practical path of ideological and political education in the era of digital intelligence from three aspects:"before class","during class"and"after class".
文摘In the Empire Series,Hardt and Negri attempt to develop biopolitical critique to contemporary capitalist society.Hardt and Negri develop their own biopolitical critique based on their understanding of Foucauldian biopolitics.In the meantime,many arguments of biopolitical critique come precisely from Marx’s critique of political economy.Identifying biopolitical production as the hegemonic paradigm of contemporary capitalist production,Hardt and Negri accomplish the transition from the critique of political economy to biopolitical critique.However,such assertion does not mean a major rupture in the relation between the critique of political economy and biopolitical critique.On the contrary,it only implies an intertwined relationship between them.Moreover,if regarding Foucault’s discussion about political economy and biopolitics as a medium,then the conclusion can be made:There are overlaps between biopolitical critique and the critique of political economy,and the source of biopolitical critique can also be traced directly back to Marx.
文摘Under China’s socialist system,state-owned enterprises are key forces driving the economic trajectory and providing strong momentum.These enterprises not only bear the crucial responsibility of advancing the process of national modernization but also serve as the core of the national economic lifeline through their irreplaceable status and function amidst changing times.In the new era,with the advent of the technological revolution and the wave of globalization,state-owned enterprises face unprecedented opportunities and challenges.As a significant aspect of state-owned enterprise reform,the mixed ownership reform is not only a transformation in the structure of enterprise ownership but also a reflection of China’s broader,comprehensive reform efforts.By deeply advancing this reform,it will help optimize the allocation of state-owned assets and significantly boost technological and management innovation within state-owned enterprises,ensuring their competitiveness in the intense market environment.Therefore,this paper will conduct an in-depth analysis of the mixed ownership reform of state-owned enterprises from the perspective of Marxist political economy.
文摘Globalization, which is characterized by the escalating mobility of capital, people, ideas and information on a universal scale, has become a sweeping theme in the contemporary world. Tourism and its associated economic activities are evidently not immune to such a wider context of the world economy. In the past one or two decades, a stable increase has been witnessed in international tourist flows, inter-regional and inter-organizational alliances, and foreign direct investment. These trends are especially prevalent in the developing world, largely because of their pristine nature, di- verse culture, inexpensive goods and services, cheap labours, and other resources. However, it has been cautioned by some scholars, especially those from the Third World countries, that tourism is an industry run by and for the rich, more powerful nations and their corresponding multinational corporations. This article, from the perspective of political economy, supplemented with views from development studies, made a normative analysis on the impacts of the glob- alization of tourism on the Third World destination countries. Specifically, these impacts have been detailed in terms of economic, sociocultural, and ecological domains. It was demonstrated that without appropriate planning and manage- ment, the costs of Third World tourism development may accrue to the extent that its benefits are burned out. To avoid this happening, some suggestions have been made.
文摘The Invisible Hand Of Divine Providence in Christian Theology leads mankind continuously with teleological aim.Adam Smith’s“Invisible Hand of Political Economy”leads society to the highest level of prosperity,where the benefits of households,businesses and the state are optimized.Adam Smith,influenced by the Theology of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas,transfers the Hand of Divine Providence to economic life and lets individuals function on the basis of their own interest and the“sympathy”governing their economic relations.Two patterns run at the same time.The economic circuit is driven by the good choice of the invisible hand,and mankind is driven by the good providence of God.The purpose of our work is to present this coincidence of the two“long hands”of God and the Economy and the influences that the Philosophy of Ethical Emotions of Political Economy has received from Theology.
文摘Providing high-quality economic forecasts is an important responsibility of the International Monetary Fund(IMF) in maintaining world financial and economic stability. However, errors are inevitable in IMF economic forecasts for its member countries. Based on forecast method and information, and political factor, this paper creates a political economics framework for analyzing the IMF's forecast errors, and tests the effects of various factors on the IMF's forecasts using the panel data analysis method. According to our findings, if a country receives IMF loans and shares a similar vote with the United States at the UN General Assembly, it will more likely receive an optimistic forecast by the IMF. Meanwhile, member countries' data availability and IMF forecast errors for major economies may also affect forecast on a country. Therefore, this paper proposes recommendations on further improving the IMF's forecast quality by creating more independent forecast procedures and enhancing forecast data quality and forecast accuracy.
文摘In contemporary media ecosystem, media content is not only produced by employees rather it is also produced by its users in the form of curating stories, writing feedback, engaging in online discussions and at the same time disseminating the content through their personal online profiles. Keeping these views in mind, this paper critically examines the political economy of <em>Ippodhu</em> (Tamil Nadu based news website), a hyperlocal news application, in terms of digital labour, audience as participatory commodities and audience as producers, which Alvin Toffler terms as prosumer. Further, this paper explores how social media, analytics, or other analytical tools create value or anti-value for <em>Ippodhu</em>. The qualitative data obtained through in-depth interview reveals that readers/audiences of <em>Ippodhu</em> are commodified in two ways, first they consume the content of the website by spending their time, which will be sold to the advertisers and secondly by creating free content either in the writing stories, uploading photographs or even in the form of comment which will be consumed by other readers/audiences which result in the chain of production of values.
文摘The article intends to work about Friedrich List political economy starting from a specific point of view: idea of nation. Published in 1841, The National System of Political economy establishes a hard dialogue with the Wealth of nations written by Smith. The criticism is built around the idea of nation. In List, the nation, as synonym of productive forces, is a critic to the Smith's nation idea as a free market. The List's idea of nation is a product of a group of structural (and not only cultural or mental) transformations that occurred during the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 in Europe. The result is the emergency of a new form of State, the nation-State. The political economy elaborates their critics in the measure in capitalism changes. The nation, in the national system of political economy of List, synthesizes the unification of the territory, the consolidation of the national industry and an internal market free from barriers and interlinked by a modem net of transports. In a contradictory way, that nation idea is based in great territory and its empire and not on the nationality principle, according to which, each people, yet that very small, has the right to its own territory. The unified and industrially developed States build immense empires that, in practical terms, contravene the principle of nationality
文摘China's economic and social ties with Africa have grown sturdily since 2000 and the shifts are so marked that, by 2009, China's share in sub-Saharan Africa's total exports and imports exceeded that between China and other regions in the world. Africa has as well received year-on-year increases in foreign aid from China as compared to Latin America and Asia. This paper seeks an analysis of the increasing economic and social ties between China and Africa. Employing the political economy framework, this paper uses secondary sources of data to rake out the benefits and the threats as well as the political dynamics associated with the ties between the two regions. The paper reveals that China's deep-rooted relationship with Africa is translated in benefits including foreign aid, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), construction of physical amenities and human resource development for Africa. However, enormous threats including loss of employment, deprivation of human rights and collapse of industries, which are being entrenched by various degrees of leadership deficiencies, are apparent. The paper concludes that the ties, in terms of nature and effects, do not essentially represent change from the already existing ties between Africa and the West but only represent continuity in the dependency syndrome with a new "benefactor-exploiter". The solution for Africa, as the paper suggests, does not lie in closure of ties with China but in a knowledgeable, willing and action-oriented leadership which can consolidate the benefits and reverse the threats emerging from the ties.
文摘Although Theresa May the new British Prime Minister had followed Cameron to stand for staying in the EU,after taking office,she has openly stated on several occasions that she will respect the public opinions of the country and carry out a foreign policy of implementing Brexit according to the result of the referendum.In so doing,she has even made Boris Johnson,a controversy lead
文摘At the beginning of 2020,COVID-19 has blocked the pace of the world economic development.In the process of fighting the epidemic,different countries have formulated different policies and showed different effects from fighting it.After the end of COVID-19,the rapid social and economic recovery as well as their development require scientific and effective governance from all countries.From the perspective of comparative political economy theory,taking the COVID-19 epidemic as an example,this article points out the advantages and deficiencies of the national governance capacity,as well as seek ways to improve the national governance capacity.
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文摘Background:Since 2000,results based financing(RBF)has proliferated in health sectors in Africa in particular,including in fragile and conflict affected settings(FCAS)and there is a growing but still contested literature about its relevance and effectiveness.Less examined are the political economy factors behind the adoption of the RBF policy,as well as the shifts in influence and resources which RBF may bring about.In this article,we examine these two topics,focusing on Zimbabwe,which has rolled out RBF nationwide in the health system since 2011,with external support.Methods:The study uses an adapted political economy framework,integrating data from 40 semi-structured interviews with local,national and international experts in 2018 and thematic analysis of 60 policy documents covering the decade between 2008 and 2018.Results:Our findings highlight the role of donors in initiating the RBF policy,but also how the Zimbabwe health system was able to adapt the model to suit its particular circumstances-seeking to maintain a systemic approach,and avoiding fragmentation.Although Zimbabwe was highly resource dependent after the political-economic crisis of the 2000s,it retained managerial and professional capacity,which distinguishes it from many other FCAS settings.This active adaptation has engendered national ownership over time,despite initial resistance to the RBF model and despite the complexity of RBF,which creates dependence on external technical support.Adoption was also aided by ideological retro-fitting into an earlier government performance management policy.The main beneficiaries of RBF were frontline providers,who gained small but critical additional resources,but subject to high degrees of control and sanctions.Conclusions:This study highlights resource-seeking motivations for adopting RBF in some low and middle income settings,especially fragile ones,but also the potential for local health system actors to shape and adapt RBF to suit their needs in some circumstances.This means less structural disruption in the health system and it increases the likelihood of an integrated approach and sustainability.We highlight the mix of autonomy and control which RBF can bring for frontline providers and argue for clearer understanding of the role that RBF commonly plays in these settings.
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文摘History has brought us into a significant moment when the majority of the human kind has taken up resi-dence in urban settlements. The focus of global urbanization has shifted to the developing world and the center of manufacturing is no longer confined to the Global North. This paper provides a periodical assessment of the current status of China's urban transformation in the global context of a shifting emphasis of industrialization and urbaniza-tion. China's phenomenal urban transformation deserves a special attention not only because of its unparalleled scale and speed but also because of its distinct trajectory of growth that does not conform to normal theoretical ex-pectations. The results of assessment revealed an urban economy with remarkable hybridity, a society that is in-creasingly stratified, polarized, and segregated, and a juxtaposed urban space undergoing restless and pervasive transformation. A decentering world should entail a decentering knowledge production. A critical reflection upon the Chinese patterns and processes of urban transformation has identified 4 main issues with great potentials for inno-vative knowledge production, namely: 1) privatization and economic development; 2) state, society, and space; 3) urbanization of capital, labor, and land; and 4) the environment and Chinese political ecology. The paper closes with the remark that a rapidly transforming urban China has presented itself as a fertile and resourceful testing ground for critical and innovative geographic enquiries.