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The Current Crisis in the Former Soviet Union and the Perspectives of Its Resolution

Raiklin, Ernest - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 2/3/4, pp. 103-116

Gives a brief account of what has happened, what is happening and what is going to happen in the country formerly called the Soviet Union. Analyses the socio‐economic nature of the Soviet system and its evolution prior to Gorbachev′s reforms. Presents the causes for the emergence of...

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The finance of Katrina

Wood, J. Stuart - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) July, pp. 579-589

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discover the causes of the devastation of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast and how it may be ameliorated. Design/methodology/approach – Economic analysis of the prior conditions causing susceptibility to flooding, and of the subsequent...

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Institutions, incentives, and disaster relief: The case of the Federal Emergency Management Agency following Hurricane Katrina

Westley, Christopher; Murphy, Robert P.; Anderson, … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) July, pp. 501-511

bureaucracy. It discusses private and public sector responses to the situation in New Orleans following Katrina and to disasters …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081324

Pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet models of economic growth and development

Raiklin, Ernest - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) November, pp. 968-1010

Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is a theoretical understanding of the most general trends of Russian economic development during the country's pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet time frames. Design/methodology/approach – The objectives are designed in such a way as to include a...

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The bureaucracy of murder: empirical evidence

Jr, Franklin G. Mixon; Sawyer, W. Charles; Treviño, Len J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) September, pp. 855-867

and Wintrobe (1986) Breton and Wintrobe describe the Nazi bureaucracy as a flexible microstructure that zealously carried … out the “Final Solution” to the “Jewish question”. In this model of bureaucracy, superiors accomplish their aims not by … dictating rigid top-down orders to passive subordinates, but by allowing competition among parts of the bureaucracy and trading …

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The bureaucracy of murder: empirical evidence

Mixon, Franklin G.; Sawyer, W. Charles; Treviño, Len J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) 9, pp. 855-867

and Wintrobe (1986) Breton and Wintrobe describe the Nazi bureaucracy as a flexible microstructure that zealously carried … out the “Final Solution” to the “Jewish question”. In this model of bureaucracy, superiors accomplish their aims not by … dictating rigid top‐down orders to passive subordinates, but by allowing competition among parts of the bureaucracy and trading …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805235

Pre‐Soviet, Soviet and post‐Soviet models of economic growth and development

Raiklin, Ernest - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) 11, pp. 968-1010

Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is a theoretical understanding of the most general trends of Russian economic development during the country's pre‐Soviet, Soviet and post‐Soviet time frames. Design/methodology/approach – The objectives are designed in such a way as to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805308

Institutions, incentives, and disaster relief

Westley, Christopher; Murphy, Robert P.; Anderson, … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) 7, pp. 501-511

bureaucracy. It discusses private and public sector responses to the situation in New Orleans following Katrina and to disasters …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805466

The finance of Katrina

Wood, J. Stuart - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) 8, pp. 579-589

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805473

The Soviet and post‐Soviet allocation of land rent

Raiklin, Ernest - In: International Journal of Social Economics 25 (1998) 10, pp. 1466-1471

This paper attempts to analyze the mechanism of land rent distribution under the Soviet and post‐Soviet conditions. The subject is examined from a purely theoretical point of view. The procedure is as follows: first, the socioeconomic meaning of the word “Soviet” is defined. Second, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014806230