Argues the case for reform of US tax codes from a feminist viewpoint. “The household” and “the individual” are falsely distinguished in the tradition of taxing only adult male breadwinners -women being engulfed in “the household”. Describes recent analysis of human identity in terms...

Uses comprehensive data on the geographical and industry distribution of company-owned and franchised outlets in franchise chains to test hypotheses on the ownership fror choice in US state markets. Comfirms the importance of geographical factors, associating company ownership with urbanization...

An economic framework for understanding the incidence of less alienating job designs in varying industrial settings is developed. Both the supply and demand sides are discussed, and the approach is illustrated by consideration of the frequency of introduction of alienation-reducing job designs...

1982 US intra-industry trade (IIT) for 308 four-digit manufacturing products is related to industry characteristics in a cross-section regression study of the sources of two-way trade. Results indicate the empirical relevance of models which present IIT as the result of international external...