Teaching and Research

International Institutions,Soft Budget Constraint and Credible Commitments——China’s Accession to WTO and the Political Logic of the Reform of State-owned Enterprises

TIAN Ye

2011, (11): 6-13. DOI:

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The soft budget constraint is regarded as a crucial factor responsible for the low efficiency of state-owned enterprises.Due to the problem of time inconsistency,the budget constraint of SOE will not be hardened unless the government’s commitments are credible.And the government’s commitments will be more credible if it ties its own hands through delegation.As far as institutional design is concerned,the central government can delegate the authority either to the local government through decentralization,or to international organizations by internationalization.China’s accession to WTO and its positive effects on the SOE reform reflect the logic of international delegation.

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Globalization and the Changing Function of the State in Social Security——On the Dual Effects of WTO Membership on China’s Social Security Policies

LIN Jing

2011, (11): 14-21. DOI:

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In globalization process,how state adjust its social security policies to meet the faster and more comprehensive resource flows becomes one of the most debated academic inquires.In the past thirty something years,drastic changes have taken place in China’s relations with the outside world.In view of this situation,the paper intends to discuss the changing social security policies of China since China’s accession to the WTO.The paper argues that globalization has showed "dual effects" on China’s domestic security policies.On the one hand,the state now places more emphases on the efficiency of social development so as to reduce its responsibilities for social protection.Meanwhile,non-state organizations are introduced to compensate for the reduced duties of the state for social security.On the other hand,the state increases its function in basic social security to provide better welfare for low-income groups.With the dual effects of globalization,the state is able to reduce the burden of public expenditure and at the same time maintain social stability and regime legitimacy,which are essential for the state to face new challenges brought about by globalization.

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China’s Compliance with WTO Rules:A Comprehensive Assessment

LIU Hong-song

2011, (11): 22-30. DOI:

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This paper presents a comprehensive assessment of China’s compliance with WTO rules on the basis of examining China’s implementation of WTO rules in domestic laws and the cases in which China was complained in DSB.The author finds out that of the major WTO agreement-related legal regimes such as laws of foreign trade,foreign investment and intellectual property right protection,of China have been consistent or basically consistent with WTO rules.Although there were cases in which China failed to comply with WTO rules,it was within an understandable extent on the ground that China held different interpretation of the WTO rules.No evidence for China’s intentional noncompliance was found.

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Re-recognition of the Textual Relations of Marx and Engels

WU Jia-hua

2011, (11): 31-39. DOI:

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The study of the textual relations of Marx and Engels is the premise of studying their ideological relations.The textual relations of Marx and Engels include their co-author relation,cooperation relation,publication relation,and review relation.The complicated early co-author relation of Marx and Engels determined that authorship of their texts can be clarified only relatively.The right way to solve the problem of the authorship of Marx or Engels in the work Das Capital,for instance,is to examine if Volumes Ⅱ and Ⅲ of Das Capital edited by Engels had accurately reflected Marx’s ideas,if the basic principles of Marxism had been explained in a better way,and if the spread of Marx’s ideas had been promoted.

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Direct Manifestation of the Original Appearance of the Manuscripts——A Description of the Version of Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 in Its Original Sequence

YANG Hong-yuan

2011, (11): 40-45. DOI:

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All the interpretation of Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 has been based on the German version or the Russian translation of logic layout.However,Volume Two of Part One published in 1982 had two different versions.In addition to the version of "logical layout" was a version in "the original sequence".The latter was compiled on the basis of the remaining texts of the original manuscripts of the "three notebooks".This was said to manifest directly the original appearance of Marx’s writings.Considering that the version in the original sequence is seldom known and not sufficiently used,the author attempts to offer an introduction to this version with descriptions in depth after careful reading and comparison of the two versions of MEGA2.

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New Changes in the Japanese Labor Relations and the Implications for China——A Study Based on the Institutional Theory of the French Regulation School

LÜ Shou-jun

2011, (11): 46-54. DOI:

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Since the 1990s,Japan’s labor relations have undergone profound changes.Cases in point include deregulation of the dispatch system,an increasing number of informal wage-earners,and the consequent rising unemployment rate and widened gap between the rich and the poor.This paper attempts to inspect the causes,the development course and the impact of the changes on Japan’s labor relations by referring to the institutional theory of the French regulation school.First,the features of the traditional Japanese labor relations are generalized according to the theories of institutional hierarchical system and institutional complementary system.This is meant to demonstrate the characteristics of the new changes in the Japanese labor relations since the 1990s.Then,major causes for these changes are analyzed from the perspectives of domestic and international background.The author holds that the international background consists of globalization and the prevalence of neo-liberalism and the convergence theory of capitalism.The domestic background is of two factors,too.From the macro perspective the Japanese government had undergone neo-liberalist structural reforms;from the micro perspective the Japanese enterprises had changed their employment strategies.All this led to Japan’s irrational imitation of the American model of labor relations.Finally,a theoretical critique of the new changes in the Japanese labor relations and their impact is presented.Conclusions are reached that the new changes in the Japanese labor relations are the major causes for the long-term depression of the Japanese economy,and the Japanese experience offers implications for the adjustment and policy making of the Chinese labor and personnel management system.

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The Formation,Evolution and Performance Analysis of the Swedish Labor Relations of Mutual Interests

LIU Feng-yi, HU Chun-ling

2011, (11): 55-63. DOI:

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Of the labor relations in contemporary developed capitalist countries,the Swedish model is the most stable and enjoys the highest level of mutual interests.The Swedish model is realized through the combined efforts of group negotiation at the enterprise level and public policies at the social level.The paper maintains that while the Swedish model faces challenges,it has developed certain institutional advantages of promoting economic and social development.Although the specific contents of the mutual interests to be shared by the employers and labors may be adjusted along with the changes in domestic and world economy,they show a generally spiraling trend.Therefore,the Swedish model of labor relations cannot be denied.

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On A Working Day of Certain Hours Represents Product of the Same Value——A Response to Proposition One in the Controversy over "Proportional to"

SHEN You-jia, YU Bin

2011, (11): 64-69. DOI:

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The debate over "proportional to" involves two propositions.The first: a working day of certain hours always represents product of the same value;The second: the magnitude of commodity value decreases along with increasing labor productivity.This paper is a response to the contraversy over the First Proposition.In the debate were expressions like "the actual selling price","phase difference" and "value exchange coefficient".These expressions were not used to address the problem in reality,that is,they were not used to explain the phenomenon that in the capitalist mode of production"rules are only used as the regulation of the average which is irregulate in itself and functions blindly." On the contrary,they were meant to deny the general law of inevitability that "no matter what changes take place in the productive force,the value provided by the same labor in the same working hours is always the same" by citing cases of accidental deviation in some enterprises.Obviously,this kind of denial is in vain.

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A Review of Network Political and Ideological Education in the Past Decade

WANG Hong, LIU Peng

2011, (11): 75-82. DOI:

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Since the start of the new century the Internet has undergone rapid development.Along with this is the rise of network political and ideological education and considerable achievement has been made.Studies of the network political and ideological education have experienced three stages,namely,the starting stage,the developing stage,and the stage of further growth.Profound researches have been done from various perspectives on the concept of network political and ideological education,related factors to it,opportunities and challenges it faces,development strategies and so on.The paper presents a review of the development course and achievements of network political and ideological education.Limitations of these researches and future prospects are offered accordingly.All this is expected to contribute to further accomplishment of the practice and research of network political and ideological education.

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A Review of Studies on the Subject and Object of Ideological and Political Education

DAI Yan-jun, DONG Zheng-hua

2011, (11): 83-87. DOI:

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The paper explores the educational and philosophical sources of the subject and object of ideological and political education based on a review of its current research achievements.The authors hold that the epistemological origin of the subject and object theory in ideological and political education comes from reflections of educational philosophy on the relation between the educator and the educated,and the transformation of philosophic dual epistemology to the paradigm of communication practice.

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