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International journal of social economics : Vol. 32, No. 1/2: 30 years of IJSE: festschrift in honour of professor John O'Brien (part 3)
Pettman, Barrie (contributor) - 2005
Purpose - The aim of this article is to analyze and compare the share economy and the constitutionaleconomy approaches. The fact that numerous world-class multinationals have chosen to offer stockoptions to managers and bonus share incentives to employees denotes a realization that...
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30 years of IJSE : festschrift in honour of Professor John O'Brien
Pettman, Barrie (contributor) - 2004
positions in the new government.Previously published in: The International Journal of Social Economics, Volume 31, Number 11 …
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Dualism, Duality and the Complexity of Economic Institutions
Jackson, William A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 4, pp. 545-558
Dualism - the division of an object of study into separate, paired elements - is widespread in economic and social theorising: key examples are the divisions between agency and structure, the individual and society, mind and body, values and facts, and knowledge and practice. In recent years,...
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Population Growth: A Comparison of Evolutionary Views
Jackson, William A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 6, pp. 3-16
Economists are divided about population growth: the pessimism of neo-Malthusians contrasts strongly with the optimism of cornucopians. Despite their differences, both schools of thought reject economic orthodoxy and prefer evolutionary forms of theory. Their interpretations of evolution are...
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A Brief History of Economics
Alvey, James E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 5, pp. 426-428
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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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