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Professor Modigliani on price controls: the baleful influence of the perfectly competitive model

Block, Walter - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 5, pp. 27-30

. Further, that the economics profession is well advised to reject the perfectly competitive model, and instead embrace one of …

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The feasibility of an expenditure tax

Pressman, Steven - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 8, pp. 3-15

Argues that while an expenditure tax would increase the complexity and administrative burdens of taxation, these problems are not overwhelming. The problems which have led others to conclude that an expenditure tax is infeasible, or would result in gross inequities, are ot insuperable. At worst...

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Transcendental realism – a foundation for evolutionary economics?

Philip, Pradeep - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 12, pp. 19-35

with an evolutionary conception of economics. Considers Tony Lawson′s work on transcendental realism as a point of … departure in the building of an argument which promotes the adoption of a pluralist and holistic conception of economics …. Suggests that, while Lawson′s transcendental realism has largely been developed independently of evolutionary economics, with …

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Disintegration of the Soviet politico‐economic system

Elliott, John E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 3, pp. 31-60

Examines the process of systemic disintegration in the USSR brought about by perestroika, demokratizatsiya and glasnost . Places Soviet economic crises in a broader political and nationalities context. Concludes that liberalization and democratization led both to the break‐up of the Communist...

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Ethics and economics: a view from ecological economics

Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 3, pp. 61-80

The exogenous and endogenous types of relationships between ethics and economics are explained in neoclassical and non … configure the theoretical perspectives of the endogenous theory underlying the interface between ethics and economics. The …

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Legal cartels and social contracts

Mixon, Franklin G. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 1, pp. 37-46

constitutional economics. Viewed from a contractarian framework (following Sobel and Holcombe), the Southwest Conference represent an …

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The Mishnah and Jewish dirigisme

Block, Walter - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 2, pp. 35-44

Presents evidence from the literature that Jews are generally to be found on the left side of the political economic spectrum. Various thories have been put foward to explain this phenomenon: historical accident, reaction to stereotypes, intellectualism, and the Mishnah. Concludes that Jews,...

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Discounting, hierarchies, and the social aspects of biodiversity protection

Gowdy, John M. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 4/5/6, pp. 49-63

Among biologists it is generally recognized that market activity is having a devastating effect on the biological world. The current worldwide loss of biodiversity may be of the same order of magnitude as the five mass extinctions which have decimated life on earth during the past 500 million...

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Ecology, environment and resources: contributions of an economist

Sinden, J.A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 4/5/6, pp. 88-97

Professor Clem Tisdell has written widely on the application of economics to resolve ecological, environmental and …

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Is national transferable quota an economic policy option?

Kuronuma, Yoshihiro - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 4/5/6, pp. 346-356

Examines one of the hypothetical economic policy options for international fisheries management, namely a national transferable quota (NTQ). Special emphasis will be placed on an examination of the voluntary agreement on the Antarctic whaling quota in 1962, as well as the trend in recent...

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