著者
一ノ瀬 篤 Atsushi Ichinose 桃山学院大学経済学部
出版者
桃山学院大学総合研究所
雑誌
桃山学院大学経済経営論集 (ISSN:02869721)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.50, no.1, pp.219-246[含 英語文要旨], 2008-06

In the U.K., Pitt's sinking fund was established in 1786 to deal with the accumulation of national debt. Pitt's fund regarded the compound interest principle as important. The initial fund was supported by a budgetary surplus of some one million pounds. But as the nation rushed into the war with France in 1793, extraordinary budgetary deficits emerged. Under such circumstances, the sinking fund, which was founded on the principle of compound interest, was obliged to depend on the new issue of government bonds as its source. Consequently the sinking fund merely embodied a policy of' raising sinking funds by borrowing money'. Criticism against the wastefulness of Pitt's fund flared up after the war, the leading critics being R. Hamilton and D. Ricardo. As a result, the fund was abandoned in 1828 after more than 40 year's duration. Hamilton mainly criticized the policy of 'raising sinking funds by floating new government bonds', but he also never overlooked the fictitious nature of the compound interest principle. In the present-day Japan, National Debt Consolidation Fund(NDCF)bears the role of a sinking fund. Corresponding to the so-called re-flotation of national debt in 1965 F.Y., it was decided to annually transfer a sum of money(equal to 1.6% of the outstanding national debt at the beginning of the previous year)from government's general accounts to NDCF. The figure of 1.6% corresponds to the durable life of the facilities that the government was expected to build(in the case of construction bonds), and it was assumed the government would recover its investment in 60 years. NDCF was to deposit and employ this sum to redeem outstanding debts. Now, as this 1.6% deposit is inserted into the annual disbursements budget as a main item under bond expenditures, it unavoidably increases the sum of budgetary expenditures. Therefore, under the circumstances of persistent budgetary deficit, the sum of the above deposit increases the annual volume of newly issued government bonds by that very sum. The result is as follows: to meet the necessary sum for the sinking fund, the government is compelled to raise money by issuing new government bonds. Thus the scale of annual government revenue/expenditure is amplified to the same extent. If this waste of labor could be justified, it would be in the case where the sinking fund usefully fulfills the function of debt management, or in the case where the fund plays the role of emergency reserves. But neither function could be nor should be expected with regard to NDCF. Our present NDCF seems to continue only by inertia and only for the purpose of exhibiting the government's pose that it is not idle in trying to reduce the national debt. The sinking fund in present-day Japan has not employed the principle of compound interest, so that its fictitious character is not easily exposed. But it is not likely that we will be able to escape the unsparing criticisms made by Robert Hamilton some 200 years ago.
著者
山内 太 Futoshi YAMAUCHI 京都産業大学経済学部
雑誌
京都産業大学総合学術研究所所報 (ISSN:13488465)
巻号頁・発行日
no.7, pp.79-90, 2012-07

本稿は,幕末期に,水害と闘ったある村落指導者・苗木家に関する物語である。18世紀以来中郷屋村の庄屋を務めていた苗木家は,中郷屋村のみならず,村を超えて,西蒲原地域において,代々活動してきた。そして幕末期には,藩や地域社会に,地域指導者としての役割を期待される存在となっていた。そして彼らは、藩や地域社会の期待に応えていた,ということを明らかにした。
著者
津田 直則 Naonori Tsuda 桃山学院大学経済学部
出版者
桃山学院大学総合研究所
雑誌
桃山学院大学経済経営論集 = ST. ANDREW'S UNIVERSITY ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS REVIEW (ISSN:02869721)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.49, no.4, pp.139-178, 2008-03-10

The article examines the co-operative values and management efficiency in the case of the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation(MCC). In the first section of the article, the history of the MCC is investigated, which is divided into three periods, 1956-70, 1971-90 and 1991-2006. In the second section of the article, which will appear in the following volume of the bulletin, the co-operative values, management efficiency and their relations would be analyzed. The First Period(1956-70)of the history of the Mondragon co-operatives is characterized by founding the basis of co-operatives and expanding business projects in various sectors of the Basque economy in Spain. In the Second Period(1971-90), the Mondragon Co-operative Group suffered from the oil shock effects and began to construct the protecting system against stagnation by inventing the institutional systems of solidarity. At the same time, the management top of the Group increased investments at foreign countries for attaining the superior competitive condition in international markets. In 1987, the First Co-operative Congress of the Mondragon Co-operative Group decided the famous Ten Principles as the value basis of the organization of the Group. They are: Open admission, Democratic Organization, Sovereignty of Labor, The Instrumental Character of Capital, Self-Management, Pay Solidarity, Group Cooperation, Social Transformation, Universal Nature and Education. In 1991, the beginning year of the Third Period(1991-2006), the Third Co-operative Congress was hold. The key decisions at the congress were:(a)The centralization of the organization and pursuit of a strategy for the sake of survival in the international market.(b)The reorganization of the co-operatives away from the regional groupings and toward to the sector groupings for increasing efficiency.(c)The renaming of the Mondragon Co-operative Group as the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation(MCC). In 2006, the performance of MCC is as follows. MCC Co-operatives107 Subsidiary companies126 MCC workforce83,601 MCC Total Assets27,550(million of euros)MCC Equity4,696(million of euros) Total Turnover(Industrial)6,880(million of euros) Total Turnover(Distribution)6,510(million of euros) MCC Overall Investment1,240(million of euros)
著者
野尻 亘 Wataru Nojiri 桃山学院大学経済学部
出版者
桃山学院大学総合研究所
雑誌
桃山学院大学人間科学 = HUMAN SCIENCES REVIEW, St. Andrew's University (ISSN:09170227)
巻号頁・発行日
no.37, pp.63-99, 2009-10-20

Alfred Russel Wallace observed the distribution and boundaries of animals inhabiting the Malay Archipelago. The distribution of marsupials in the Australian region is a prominent feature of the area. In Borneo, however, the mammals do not include marsupials. The many parrots of the Australian region are rare in the Oriental region. The birds of the Oriental region do not migrate to Lombok Island, and these are not seen on Celebes or islands further to the east. The Lombok Strait were regarded as the dividing line between these two zoogeographic regions. The boundary between the zoogeographical regions, crossing the Lombok Strait indicated by Wallace was later to be called "Wallace's line" by Thomas Henry Huxley. Later, Mayr conducted further studies on Wallace's line, asserting that differences in the faunas of Bali and Lombok were not due to crustal movements in the Tertiary period, as Wallace had asserted, but rather to sea levels changes in the Pleistocene glacial epoch. During that time, sea levels were 70-100m lower, but because the Lombok Strait is a deepwater strait, the land on either side was not connected. In addition to this, Simpson points out that the eastern end of the Sunda shelf, which is the Asian continental shelf, is Wallace's line, while the West end of the Sahul shelf, which is the Australian continental shelf, is Lydekker's line. The area between these is known as the "Wallacea" transitional zone. Currently, "Wallacea" is believed to have been formed when the Australian continental crust broke off from the Antarctic at the end of the Cretaceous and collided with the southeastern border of the Eurasian continental crust during the mid Miocene. After the collision of these continental plates, there were violent movements in the crust and fault activity. Subsequently, the animals of the both continents migrated to islands, repeating cycles of either evolution or extinction, eventually creating today's diverse distribution of organisms. In other words, modern interpretation of Wallace's line differs greatly from past interpretation. Wallace and other traditional biogeographers believed that Wallace's line is the boundary created by isolation by geographical barriers. At the present time, Wallace's line is explained by collisions along the borders of the earth's plates. In other words, Wallace's line was the "frontier" where different types of species living on different plates were exposed to each other and interacted when the plates collided.
著者
富山大学経済学部資料室
出版者
富山大学経済学部資料室
巻号頁・発行日
2017-08

この目録は富山大学経済学部の前身校である旧制高岡高等商業学校が昭和4(1929)年度に受入登録したF. v. ヴィーザー(Friedrich von Wieser, 1851-1926)旧蔵の学位論文276件,雑誌等の抜刷481件を含むヴィーザー文庫 1554件1593冊を収録するものである。旧制高岡高等商業学校は大正13(1924)年に富山県の商都高岡に設置された。本州日本海側では唯一の文部省直轄社会科学専門教育研究機関として地域研究も行い,1935(昭和10)年に『富山売薬業史史料集』を編纂出版した。昭和19(1944)年に高岡工業専門学校に転換,約5万冊の蔵書は昭和24(1949)年に発足した新制富山大学に継承された。ヴィーザー文庫を含む専門図書と雑誌は経済学部資料室が所蔵している。第74回経済学史学会全国大会が平成22(2010)年5月に富山大学経済学部において開催され,八木紀一郎氏により「富山大学のフリートリヒ・v・ヴィーザー文庫」が報告された。ヴィーザー文庫について残されていた情報は高岡高等商業学校図書館図書原簿と富山大学附属図書館の書庫で発見された1325枚の図書カードのみであったため,平成23(2011)年度学長裁量経費(教育研究活性化等経費)「F. v. Wieser文庫の再整理:データベース構築と電子化並びに収蔵経緯の究明」を受け,桂木健次氏を中心として経済学部教員による収蔵文献及び文庫についての調査が行われ目録が作成された。研究成果は『富山大学紀要.富大経済論集』に報告されている。