飲酒運転は間違いなく無条件に良くない。
しかし、だからといって、一律に機械的に免職するとは、いかがなものか。
たとえば、賭けマージャンは良くない。
だからといって、賭けマージャンをしたものを一律に免職するのは良くない。
もちろん、賭けマージャンと飲酒運転では、罪のレベルが違う。
しかし罪と罰の関係には均衡がとられるべきだ。
極端な厳罰主義は、社会にとって、むしろ有害である。
ある国では、二百万人の収監者がいる。
もちろん適切に法が執行された結果ではあるが、社会が負担する収監費用は莫大なものになる。
ただし、もちろん、飲酒運転自体は、決しておこなってはならないことである。
職員の酒酔いは免職か停職に(中国新聞) - goo ニュース
しかし、だからといって、一律に機械的に免職するとは、いかがなものか。
たとえば、賭けマージャンは良くない。
だからといって、賭けマージャンをしたものを一律に免職するのは良くない。
もちろん、賭けマージャンと飲酒運転では、罪のレベルが違う。
しかし罪と罰の関係には均衡がとられるべきだ。
極端な厳罰主義は、社会にとって、むしろ有害である。
ある国では、二百万人の収監者がいる。
もちろん適切に法が執行された結果ではあるが、社会が負担する収監費用は莫大なものになる。
ただし、もちろん、飲酒運転自体は、決しておこなってはならないことである。
職員の酒酔いは免職か停職に(中国新聞) - goo ニュース
 | 罪と罰〈1〉 (光文社古典新訳文庫)フョードル・ミハイロヴィチ ドストエフスキー光文社このアイテムの詳細を見る |
「熱烈歓迎」中国人客 クルーズ船、長崎の商店街に特需(朝日新聞) - goo ニュース
内容説明
A landmark eyewitness expos of how China's factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future
In The China Price, acclaimed Financial Times correspondent Alex Harney uncovers the truth about how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices to the rest of the world. What she has discovered is a brutal, Hobbesian world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with ubiquitous corruption and a lack of transparency to exact an unseen and unconscionable toll in human misery and environmental damage.
In a way, Harney shows, what goes on in China is inevitable. In a country with almost no transparency, where graft is institutionalized and workers have little recourse to the rule of law, incentives to lie about business practices vastly outweigh incentives to tell the truth. Harney reveals that despite a decade of monitoring factories, outsiders all too often have no idea of the conditions under which goods from China are made. She exposes the widespread practice of using a dummy or model factory as a company's false window out to the world, concealing a vast number of illegal factories operating completely off the books. Some Western companies are better than others about sniffing out such deception, but too many are perfectly happy to embrace plausible deniability as long as the prices remain so low. And in the gold-rush atmosphere that's infected the country, in which everyone is clamoring to get rich at once and corruption is rampant, it's almost impossible for the Chinese government's own underfunded regulatory mechanisms to do much good at all.
But perhaps the most important revelation in The China Price is how fast change is coming, one way or another. A generation of Chinese flocked from the rural interior of the country to its coastline, where its factory work largely is, in the largest mass migration in human history. But that migration has slowed dramatically, in no small part because of widespread disenchantment with the way of life the factories offer. As pollution in China's industrial cities worsens and their infrastructure buckles, and grassroots activism for more legal recourse grows, pressures are mounting on the system that will not dissipate without profound change. Managing the violence of that change is the greatest challenge China faces in the near future, and managing its impact on the world economy is the challenge that faces us all.
From Publishers Weekly
Dreaded by competitors, the China price has become the lowest price possible, the hallmark of China's incredibly cheap, ubiquitous manufacturers. Financial Times editor Harney explores the hidden price tag for China's economic juggernaut. It's a familiar but engrossing tale of Dickensian industrialization. Chinese factory hands work endless hours for miserable wages in dusty, sweltering workshops, slowly succumbing to occupational ailments or suddenly losing a limb to a machine. Coal-fired power plants spew pollutants into nearly unbreathable air. Migrants from the countryside, harassed by China's hukou system of internal passports, form a readily exploitable labor pool with few legal protections. The system is fueled by Western investment and, Harney observes, hypocrisy. Retailers like Wal-Mart impose social responsibility codes on their Chinese suppliers, but refuse to pay the costs of raising labor standards; the result is a pervasive system of cheating through fake employment records and secret uninspected factories, to which Western companies turn a blind eye. But Harney also finds stirrings of change; aided by regional labor shortages, rising wages and intrepid activists. Chinese workers are demanding―and gradually winning―more rights. Packed with facts, figures and sympathetic portraits of Chinese workers and managers, Harney's is a perceptive take on the world's workshop. (Mar. 31)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
 | The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive AdvantagePenguin Press HC, Theこのアイテムの詳細を見る |
内容説明
A landmark eyewitness expos of how China's factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future
In The China Price, acclaimed Financial Times correspondent Alex Harney uncovers the truth about how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices to the rest of the world. What she has discovered is a brutal, Hobbesian world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with ubiquitous corruption and a lack of transparency to exact an unseen and unconscionable toll in human misery and environmental damage.
In a way, Harney shows, what goes on in China is inevitable. In a country with almost no transparency, where graft is institutionalized and workers have little recourse to the rule of law, incentives to lie about business practices vastly outweigh incentives to tell the truth. Harney reveals that despite a decade of monitoring factories, outsiders all too often have no idea of the conditions under which goods from China are made. She exposes the widespread practice of using a dummy or model factory as a company's false window out to the world, concealing a vast number of illegal factories operating completely off the books. Some Western companies are better than others about sniffing out such deception, but too many are perfectly happy to embrace plausible deniability as long as the prices remain so low. And in the gold-rush atmosphere that's infected the country, in which everyone is clamoring to get rich at once and corruption is rampant, it's almost impossible for the Chinese government's own underfunded regulatory mechanisms to do much good at all.
But perhaps the most important revelation in The China Price is how fast change is coming, one way or another. A generation of Chinese flocked from the rural interior of the country to its coastline, where its factory work largely is, in the largest mass migration in human history. But that migration has slowed dramatically, in no small part because of widespread disenchantment with the way of life the factories offer. As pollution in China's industrial cities worsens and their infrastructure buckles, and grassroots activism for more legal recourse grows, pressures are mounting on the system that will not dissipate without profound change. Managing the violence of that change is the greatest challenge China faces in the near future, and managing its impact on the world economy is the challenge that faces us all.
From Publishers Weekly
Dreaded by competitors, the China price has become the lowest price possible, the hallmark of China's incredibly cheap, ubiquitous manufacturers. Financial Times editor Harney explores the hidden price tag for China's economic juggernaut. It's a familiar but engrossing tale of Dickensian industrialization. Chinese factory hands work endless hours for miserable wages in dusty, sweltering workshops, slowly succumbing to occupational ailments or suddenly losing a limb to a machine. Coal-fired power plants spew pollutants into nearly unbreathable air. Migrants from the countryside, harassed by China's hukou system of internal passports, form a readily exploitable labor pool with few legal protections. The system is fueled by Western investment and, Harney observes, hypocrisy. Retailers like Wal-Mart impose social responsibility codes on their Chinese suppliers, but refuse to pay the costs of raising labor standards; the result is a pervasive system of cheating through fake employment records and secret uninspected factories, to which Western companies turn a blind eye. But Harney also finds stirrings of change; aided by regional labor shortages, rising wages and intrepid activists. Chinese workers are demanding―and gradually winning―more rights. Packed with facts, figures and sympathetic portraits of Chinese workers and managers, Harney's is a perceptive take on the world's workshop. (Mar. 31)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
新型インフル影響沈静化 中国クルーズ再び活況 富裕層１３４７人乗せ博多寄港(西日本新聞) - goo ニュース
 | 中国貧困絶望工場 「世界の工場」のカラクリアレクサンドラ・ハーニー日経BP社このアイテムの詳細を見る |
ＮＹ原油、６０ドル割れ＝終値で、２カ月弱ぶり(時事通信) - goo ニュース
8 人中、4人の方が、「このレビューが参考になった」と投票しています。
石油危機のレバレッジ, 2007/12/2
By tishbite - レビューをすべて見る
石油価格の高騰の原因は、＜レバッレジ＞の一言につきる。
アメリカのローカルな価格指標「WTI」に投機資金が入ると
そこに年金資金が注ぎ込まれるようになり
かつての１００倍ものマネーが動くようになった。
今度はその指標を元に世界中の原油価格が上るようになった。
そしてそれは天然ガスなどの価格上昇をも招いた。
即ち、最初の投機資金に
数万、数十万倍のレバレッジがかかり
そこにピークオイルや資源ナショナリズム、
中国パニックや戦争までが
次々と乗っかり
世界中の資源価格が跳ね上げられているという構図だ。
皆が賭けている所に賭ける
そして長い長いバンドワゴンの行列を作る
そこに合理的に解釈できる価格など無い
…しかしそれは投機としてはきっと正しい。
９８年にLTCMが破綻した時、
使っていたレバレッジは５０倍だったという。
今のリスクは
その時と比べてどれくらいになっているだろう。。。
この本にはそんな石油価格高騰のメカニズムや
それによって起きている「２１世紀型石油危機」の
その先にある、より大きな危機
…デタラメな価格の影響による産業としての衰退
そしてそれらとは一線を画した
よりリアルなエネルギーのあり方までが
幅広く書かれており
たいへん参考になるものだった。
 | 石油 もう一つの危機石井 彰日経BP社このアイテムの詳細を見る |
8 人中、4人の方が、「このレビューが参考になった」と投票しています。
石油危機のレバレッジ, 2007/12/2
By tishbite - レビューをすべて見る
石油価格の高騰の原因は、＜レバッレジ＞の一言につきる。
アメリカのローカルな価格指標「WTI」に投機資金が入ると
そこに年金資金が注ぎ込まれるようになり
かつての１００倍ものマネーが動くようになった。
今度はその指標を元に世界中の原油価格が上るようになった。
そしてそれは天然ガスなどの価格上昇をも招いた。
即ち、最初の投機資金に
数万、数十万倍のレバレッジがかかり
そこにピークオイルや資源ナショナリズム、
中国パニックや戦争までが
次々と乗っかり
世界中の資源価格が跳ね上げられているという構図だ。
皆が賭けている所に賭ける
そして長い長いバンドワゴンの行列を作る
そこに合理的に解釈できる価格など無い
…しかしそれは投機としてはきっと正しい。
９８年にLTCMが破綻した時、
使っていたレバレッジは５０倍だったという。
今のリスクは
その時と比べてどれくらいになっているだろう。。。
この本にはそんな石油価格高騰のメカニズムや
それによって起きている「２１世紀型石油危機」の
その先にある、より大きな危機
…デタラメな価格の影響による産業としての衰退
そしてそれらとは一線を画した
よりリアルなエネルギーのあり方までが
幅広く書かれており
たいへん参考になるものだった。