日期:2007-11-26 这一讲我们要谈的话题是:Economic models and markets,经济体系与市??一个国家的经济资源包括了土地、劳动力和资本。所有这些资源都是有限度的。投入生产某种产品的资源多,投入其它商品生产的资源相对来讲就少。如何才能合理分配这些资源,换句话说,采取什么样的... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 这种情况现在已经改变。现代的技术使我们能够通过电子自动转帐购物系统来使用我们帐户上的存款,而不用先去把存款变成现金。只要用银行卡就可以直接购买东西。 而且住房互助会和信用社付的 利息 比银行要高,因此人们把存款转移到了银行以外的地方,成为我们所说的广义... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 下面我们再听一遍哈珀教授谈话。(略) 值得一提的是,根据经济学家的统计,实际流通的货币量只占货币总供应量的百分之六到百分之七。那么,为什么货币供应量一直被看作是个重要的经济问题呢?这是因为它与社会的经济活动历来都有可以预测的联系。 过去一个国家的政府... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 在上一讲中我们为您介绍了名义货币fiat money、信用货币credit money、信用手段credit instrument、信贷价值credit worthiness。这一讲我们要谈谈货币的供应量和相关的一些 词汇 。 要想对货币进行控制,就必须先要能够对它的量进行测定。经济学家用 Money 也就是钱这... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 我们刚才谈的是名义货币,也叫法定货币,英文是 Fiat money。 现代社会中还有另外一种形态的货币,叫做 Credit money,信用货币。随着 商品流通的发达,货币与商品交易有了时间的间隔,出现了所谓的延期交易,因而也就有了债权债务契约,也就是买卖当事人之间或借贷双... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 人们在历史上曾经使用小麦或金银等贵重金属作为购买其它 商品 的交换媒介,也就是货币。这种交换媒介本身的内在价值相当于要交换的商品的价值。 但现代形式的货币,不管是纸钞、硬币、还是电子货币,它们本身都与要交换的商品价值并不相等。一张五元或是五十元的纸币本... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 下面我们分段听一遍巴里克拉克的谈话以及中文翻译:(英文略) 尽管可携带的问题解决了,进一步的问题仍然存在,也就是持久性的问题。因为小麦随着时间的推移会腐烂,它不是好的价值储存手段。 好的价值储存手段当然是贵重金属,比如金银。因此很容易理解为什么它们会... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 从历史上来看,有很多不同形式的货币都因为不能完全满足这三种特性的要求而逐步被淘汰,让位给新的符合这些特性要求的货币形式。澳大利亚墨尔本大学商学院的哈珀教授对此作了介绍。他说: In the earliest days, for example in ancient Babylon, measures of wheat we... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 在这一讲中,我们介绍了货币的三种特性。这三种特性的英文是: 1 portability 可携带性 2 durability 持久性 3 divisibility 可分性 不过,随着我们走入了电子货币的时代,这些货币特性的定义也许又要重新改写。 现在我们再复习一下这一讲涉及的另外一些英文 词汇 : 1... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 下面再请您完整收听一遍澳大利亚财经记者卡鲁关于货币历史的介绍。(略) 接下来澳大利亚墨尔本大学商学院的哈珀教授解释了货币的三个基本功能: We look at the functions of money. Firstly it's a medium of exchange, so it's some commodity which facilitates th... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 And then in the seventh century we had money in the form of precious metal. There was always a problem of making sure that the coin that you got had enough precious metal in it to give it a value. When things got tough, you often found some civilisa... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 经济是现代社会生活的重要组成部分,每天的新闻报道中都充满了有关预算赤字、股票风波、经济上扬或衰退的消息。但是,货币、市场和经济到底是什么?全球或地区的经济究竟是如何运作的?政府的政策又会如何影响到一个国家的经济状况呢? 请收听金融世界! 现代人的衣食... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 China granted foreign banks more freedom to conduct the crucial local currency business yesterday, moving ahead of its market-opening schedule as required by World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments.Starting yesterday, foreign banks like HSBC have... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 BOC expands RMB service in Hong Kong Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited (BOCHK) Monday expanded Renminbi (RMB) services in Hong Kong, allowing designated merchants to open RMB accounts and raising maximum limit for locals to exchange and remit the cur... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 Retail Hedge-Fund Mkt Perking Up HEDGE FUNDS are creeping into the investment mainstream in Asia as retail investors weary of several years of stock-market losses are increasingly attracted by the prospect of ending the year with more money than they... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 China announced a further move to reform its exchange rate forming mechanism yesterday, introducing an internationally prevalent price-finding mechanism in the interbank foreign exchange market. China announced a further move to reform its exchange r... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 政府加快开放期货业 Although the futures industry is the only financial sector that has no set timetable for opening-up under China's WTO commitment, there are signs that the government is already moving fast on this front. The quick pace, which beca... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 Listed firms may be allowed to sell shares The country's regulators will consider allowing listed firms to sell shares as a first step toward lifting its suspension on new IPOs in domestic markets, but no timetable has been set, domestic media report... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 Bank of China gets key approval for HK IPO Bank of China, China's top foreign exchange lender, has secured key approval from the State Council to launch a HK$60 billion (US$7.7 billion) Hong Kong initial public offering in the first half of 2006, a H... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-26 中国经济概述 The size of the Chinese economy is likely to climb, in world rankings, from its current position as the sixth largest to the second largest by 2030, said economists with global investment bank Lehman Brothers. With its gross domestic pro... 阅读全文>> |
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