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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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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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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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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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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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/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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welfare theory, and to examine the policy implications of discarding the Walrasian core of neoclassical economics. Design …/methodology/approach – Current work in behavioral economics and game theory shows that economic behavior depends on social context, a point … and bioeconomics. Findings – Neoclassical welfare economics continues to dominate economic theory and policy even though …
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(or economics) as the true science of man. …
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responsibility in economics and business. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents and discusses as a holistic, organic … changes in several dimensions in mainstream economics. This change of perspective is called a turn towards sustainability. To … paper concludes that circulation economics presupposes a change in paradigm, from a mechanistic to an organic world view. …
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Purpose – This paper aims to show the interrelation and relevancy of the concept and theory of cultural lag to social justice. The conception of social justice, though wide in scope, is applied in this paper to the limited domain of equality of opportunity and fairness with respect to income...
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