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On People's Welfare in Aganbegyan's The Economic Challenge of Perestroika
Raiklin, Ernest - In: International Journal of Social Economics 16 (1989) 7, pp. 16-33
The major objective of Aganbegyan′s book is to enhance arguments made by Gorbachev in the latter′s Perestroika. New Thinking for Our Country and the World . Like his leader, Aganbegyan asserts that the ultimate purpose of perestroika is people′s welfare and that the policy of the...
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Ona’ah
Block, Walter - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 9, pp. 722-729
Ona’ah is a Hebrew word indicating the Jewish Talmudic law which, according to various interpretations, proscribes both fraud and over‐charging. The present essay sharply distinguishes between these two concepts, accepting the former as legitimate but rejecting the latter on grounds of...
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Conservation and prudent management are the key to the preservation of the environment
Roy, K.C.; Tisdell, C.A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 1/2/3, pp. 274-289
Economic development requires the use of natural resources. Increasing population makes increasing demand on such resources thereby leading to the degradation of the environment. Excessive use of resources can lead to a situation where declining supply can no longer satisfy the demand. Hence,...
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Full social cost pricing in the energy sector
Lawrey, Roger - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 7/8/9, pp. 925-947
of resources due to inefficient pricing. The aim of this article is to investigate the likely divergence between … efficiently. To do so, the paper applies the concept of full social cost pricing to five different generation technologies in the … it may promote pricing closer to marginal private costs, will not result in efficient outcomes in the presence of …
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The economic function in the Hindu worldview: its perennial social relevance
Chakraborty, S.K.; Chakraborty, D. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) October, pp. 714-734
economics and allied matters. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is a conceptual one that highlights a few crucial … economics in the context of Hinduism. …
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Factors that influence choice of major: why some students never consider economics
Calkins, Lindsay Noble; Welki, Andrew - In: International Journal of Social Economics 33 (2006) August, pp. 547-564
Purpose – In the fall of 1996, Walstad suggested that the economics profession needed to obtain the students …/methodology/approach – To recruit majors and to address Walstad's concern, economics and non-economics majors were surveyed to determine which … factors they consider important when choosing a major and to better understand why some students never consider economics …
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Economics and religion: Globalization as the cause of secularization as viewed by Adam Smith
Alvey, James E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) March, pp. 249-267
Purpose – In the Western world the voices calling for a secular society have grown ever louder over the last three centuries. This paper seeks to return to one of the founders of modernity for guidance. Adam Smith advocated globalization on economic and moral grounds....
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Person: an economic agent for the electronic age
O'Boyle, Edward J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) July, pp. 472-484
versus individual and individualism. Second, it traces the origins of personalist economics to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Smith …, shows why personalist economics departs from mainstream economics, and how it is linked to Weber and Walras principally … through Schumpeter. Findings – This paper provides a schematic showing that personalist economics originates with Aristotle …
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A model of human behaviour for sustainability
Zabel, Hans-Ulrich - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) August, pp. 717-734
Purpose – The paper aims to explicate the systematic creation of social and ecological scarcities within an absolutely monetised economy and derives the necessity to change the “rules of the game” for doing business towards sustainability. Therefore, a model of human behaviour is developed...
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Prejudice against female children: economic and cultural explanations, and Indian evidence
Tisdell, Clem; Regmi, Gopal - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) June, pp. 541-553
/methodology/approach – Using economic analysis, this paper outlines and illustrates the basis of the economics of parental discrimination against … West Bengal and in Orissa in Kondh-dominated village to determine the extent to which economics explains parental …
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