Excavating the Pilbara: A Polanyian Exploration

Taking its cues from the ‘substantivist’ economics of Karl Polanyi, the paper retraces a socio‐economic history of the Pilbara from the pastoral capitalism of the region's initially tenuous colonial settlement to the contemporary regime of extractive capitalism. Spatial fixes have been etched deeply into the landscape of this heterogeneously ‘productive’ region, but crises of social reproduction have remained endemic. Since the nineteenth century, disequilibrium has been the reigning principle, as successive failures of commodification and marketisation have marked a long and non‐linear history of double movements.     

上市公司高级管理人员社会责任的若干法律思考

上市公司的社会责任已经得到新公司法的正式确认,为此,上市公司高级管理人员的职务行为也应当相应地承担社会责任。本文探讨了上市公司高级管理人员社会责任的理论基础以及现行的部分法律依据,并提出公司的社会责任是上市公司高级管理人员社会责任的原因和前提的思路。