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Evaluating the persistence of subsistence work in contemporary economies: Some lessons from Moscow
Williams, Colin C.; Rodgers, Peter - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) July, pp. 721-737
Purpose – Contrary to the view that the subsistence economy is some minor residue persisting in only a few peripheral enclaves of modern economies, the purpose of this paper is to begin to chart the importance and prevalence of subsistence work across the contemporary economic landscape and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561116
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State, public sector and theoretical prerequisites to a model of an “economy without taxes”
Papava, Vladimer - In: International Journal of Social Economics 27 (2000) 1, pp. 45-61
The paper offers a new view of the role of state based on recognition of the economic ability of the state as a separate factor of production. Recognizing the state’s economic ability is as a fifth factor of production and correspondingly gives indirect taxes the status of factor income as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014804983
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Evaluating the persistence of subsistence work in contemporary economies
Williams, Colin C.; Rodgers, Peter - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) 9, pp. 721-737
Purpose – Contrary to the view that the subsistence economy is some minor residue persisting in only a few peripheral enclaves of modern economies, the purpose of this paper is to begin to chart the importance and prevalence of subsistence work across the contemporary economic landscape and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805753
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Traditional production activities and resource sustainability
Asafu‐Adjaye, John - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 4/5/6, pp. 125-135
Undertakes a survey of traditional and non‐traditional production activities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland, Australia. Ecologically sustainable development issues in relation to indigenous people have not been paid much attention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014806027
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081257
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081258
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081264
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081280
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081296
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081304