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Social economics: a perspective of diversity and community

Alexandrin, Glen - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 4, pp. 271-281

This paper analyzes the economics of Tommaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun in two ways. First, it shows that … Campanella, an early developer of economics, conceived of the discipline in a systematic way, in the process making it a …

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Experiences of economic transition in complex contexts

Rosser, Marina V. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 6, pp. 436-452

This paper focuses on nonlinear properties of economic transformation and provides illustrations from nearly a decade of economic transition experience of the formerly planned economies. A particular argument is that policies that move a system along “the edge of chaos” may have the best...

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South African state capacity and post‐apartheid economic reconstruction

Luiz, John M. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 8, pp. 594-614

The article examines the shift in the post‐apartheid government’s economic policy from its reconstruction and development programme to its growth, employment and redistribution policy. It argues that this move towards a more neo‐liberal paradigm reflects the growing reflection of the...

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The mountain of experience: how people learn in a complex, evolving environment

Dolfsma, Wilfred - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 8, pp. 675-684

experience”. This perspective allows a perception on humans in economics that combines reason, adaptation and volition. Some … implications of this perspective for economics are explored. …

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Crime and society

Fadaei‐Tehrani, Reza; Green, Thomas M. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 10, pp. 781-795

Theories of crime and delinquency tend to be discipline‐specific and are dominated by psychological, sociological, and economic approaches. The focus of this article will be on an economic approach to understanding criminal behavior and the design of effective policies for dealing with the...

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Development ethics: a research agenda

Clark, David A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 11, pp. 830-848

Development ethics is a new and rapidly expanding discipline within development studies and social science. The cultivation of development ethics has the potential to produce a coherent account of human well‐being for guiding development policy and thinking. Although discussions of...

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A model for the Smarandache anti‐geometry

Torretti, Roberto - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 11, pp. 876-886

in many ways in the same space. In this paper, one finds an economics model to this geometry by making the following …

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Knowledge, values and ideas: rethinking the notion of a social science

Armour, Leslie - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 1/2, pp. 34-72

for the reunification of knowledge. Issues in economics, sociology, and anthropology are examined kin terms of detailed …

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Norms for evaluating economic globalization

Gaburro, Giuseppe; O'Boyle, Edward J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 1/2, pp. 95-118

globalization. There are two perspectives regarding globalization: mainstream economics and personalist economics. The first … evaluating economic globalization. Mainstream economics brings to bear a few principles from positive economics. Personalist … economics employs a larger set of principles from normative economics. The authors hold fast to personalist economics as more …

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Why are Kalecki's rentiers so boom tired?

Potts, Nick - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 1/2, pp. 163-181

To many economists, not to mention all central bankers, inflation is considered to be public enemy number one. This paper seeks to understand why inflation should be so despised. To escape from simultaneous restrictions a temporal single system (TSS) approach is employed. Firstly a simple...

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