This paper provides an appraisal of the Social Wage aspects of the wages and incomes policies pursued in Australia between 1983 and 1996, when wage fixing arrangements were known as the Accord, being descriptive of consensus between Government, Labor and Business. The Accord is shown to have...

The article explores the conceptual dynamics set into motion by the encounter between the policy prescriptions inspired by the mainstream economics and the very concrete reform experience after 1989. The raise of the new institutionalism is discussed as one of the most significant reactions and...

In this paper, I critically review the history of Japanese economic growth and the depression after World War 2 based on a recognition induced from Arrow's impossibility theorem such that pursuit of economic efficiency inevitably loses elasticity of society against the change of environment....

Disagreements about economic policy stem not just from differences in normative values, but also from differences in beliefs about which outcomes are likely. We review a selection of survey work showing this. We also report on our own work with US and Russian research subjects, which employs a...

This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on productivity of firms in Ghana. The paper also investigates the effect of FDI spillovers on domestic firms in Ghana. The results indicate that firms with high proportion of foreign capital are more productive than those with...