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An economic analysis of factors influencing fertility in the Pacific island countries

Gani, Azmat - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 1/2/3, pp. 345-353

Factors influencing fertility rates in the developing island countries of the South Pacific are investigated using a simple model incorporating cross‐country data. Empirical results obtained provide confirmation that high infant mortality is significantly associated with high fertility rates....

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Deforestation mechanisms: a survey

Wibowo, Dradjad H.; Byron, R. Neil - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 1/2/3, pp. 455-474

Tropical deforestation continues at a very alarming rate. Certain forms of deforestation are economically desirable, but economic criteria alone are not sufficient for deciding whether a deforestation project is desirable. Previous studies on deforestation mechanisms are grouped into four...

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The modernization of Japan, as seen from the career of an enlightened Shishi (noble‐minded patriot)

Ishida, Hiroshi - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 7/8/9, pp. 866-885

Tsuda Hiromichi is a most representative shishi (noble‐minded patriot) of the Meiji Restoration Era. He came from a middle class warrior family of Okayama han. Trained first in Confucianism and later in Western technologies, he was appointed to new high positions in the military and civil...

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The Swedish agricultural landscape – economic characteristics, valuations and policy options

Drake, Lars - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 7/8/9, pp. 1042-1062

The Swedish agricultural landscape has changed dramatically since 1945. Agricultural land has been abandoned and the general trend has been towards less scenic and biological variety. People express a relatively high willingness to pay for preservation of agricultural landscape in contingent...

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Property rights, “takings” and environmental management

Dragun, Andrew K. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 7/8/9, pp. 1061-1079

Property rights are often seen to be the cause and the solution of a wide range of social problems especially those affecting the natural environment. But, the property rights box is indeed pandoran, spawning as many questions as it answers as a function of diverse theoretical perspectives. The...

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Reconciling “weak” and “strong” sustainability

Hediger, Werner - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 7/8/9, pp. 1120-1144

A conceptual and analytical approach is presented to reconcile weak and strong sustainability. It involves a reconsideration of the conception of total capital from an ecological‐economic system perspective. In particular, natural capital is classified into non‐renewable resources, renewable...

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Conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: main actors and the costs to bear

Virchow, Detlef - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 7/8/9, pp. 1144-1161

In the last decade the importance of natural resources for a sustainable agricultural development has been increasingly discussed on international fora and conferences. Only recently the erosion of genetic resources and its consequences for the global welfare in general and for agricultural...

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Morality, economics and life

Armour, Leslie - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 10/11, pp. 1199-1226

A human life seems to have infinite value, and morality appears to demand that no effort be spared to preserve or to maintain it. Yet health care costs could destroy the economy if all available knowledge was applied to every person on the globe. There is no guaranteed solution, but this paper...

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Methodological controversies in economics and political economy

Hall, Thomas W.; Elliott, John E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 10/11, pp. 1249-1284

thought in economics and political economy is presented. The development of “orthodox” methodology is traced, and the …, complex mathematical models in contemporary economics as practiced in the USA – especially in light of the relevance and … importance of primarily verbal, interpretive methodologies in the realm of applied and policy‐oriented economics – are examined. …

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Essentialism and epochalism within the context of Irish state‐building

O’Neil, Daniel J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 10/11, pp. 1285-1301

epochalism (economics) in the creation of new states. It focuses on the Irish state‐building process, examining the thought of …

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