In this paper we address the issue of the role of ideology and political preferences of publically engaged economists and contribute to the debate on consensus in economics. To do so, we conduct a social network analysis on the signatories of economist petitions, which we identify as one channel...

The increased representation of minority students on the campuses of predominantly White universities in the United States presents increased opportunities for intercultural contact. Studying dating experiences across racial and ethnic lines has been used to determine the existence of a...

This paper addresses the puzzle of why the inclusion of non-financial social justice or religious criteria by professional fund managers has been so popular in Malaysia and yet has had to date relatively little influence in the United States stock market. Drawing from over 125 ethnographic...

The 2008 collapse of the world financial system, while proximately linked to the housing bubble and risk laden mortgage backed securities, was a consequence of the financialization of the U.S. economy since the 1970s. This paper examines the institutional and income dynamics associated with...

Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors’ behaviors, procuring organizations’ roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in which to examine this...

This paper investigates how the control benefits of a broker’s structural position are constrained by the perceived quality of actors a broker may represent in an exchange. I propose that brokers prefer to represent high quality actors but also that the value an actor places on representation...

Tax evasion has existed historically. The present study lists rationalizations for tax evasion in a survey consisting of 18 questions. This survey has been used in the past including a survey of business students in China by McGee, Yoon and Li (2015). The present study surveys Chinese business...

Understanding factors that may be connected to human trafficking in the US can help people in the US and other nations better understand and combat the problem. A better understanding of human trafficking can benefit anti-trafficking efforts of public administrators in governmental agencies and...

This article shows how the network structure of economic expertise can influence the diffusion of ideas and economic policymaking in times of crisis. Applying social network analysis, we analyse the networks of economic policy advice in the United States and Germany around the Council of...