This paper builds on advances in social ontology to develop a new understanding of how mainstream economic modelling affects reality. We propose a new framework for analyzing and describing how models intervene in the social sphere. This framework allows us to identify and articulate three key...

Suicide is a major social problem. It is highly associated with the economic situation in any country. Unemployment is one of the major indicators of economic development and it also adversely affects suicidal behaviour in different ways. This paper attempts to close the gap between unemployment...

The publishing conduct of scientists is increasingly becoming the object of science-based ethical considerations. Studies have shown that questionable publishing conduct is not a rare phenomenon in this area. National and international scientific organisations are making recommendations about...

The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...

The aim of this paper is to briefly analyze the development of economics thought in Indonesia. This paper highlights issues concerning the country's economics teaching as well as the overall performance of its economists. The paper is divided into four sections and ends up with a section that is...

This paper, following McGoun's (1997) seminal article comparing the economy of financial securities to a hyperreal poker game, argues that finance and accounting researchers should take the “linguistic turn” that has rejuvenated theory and research in many, if not most, of the social science...

The 2008 economic crash led to remarkable shifts of opinion among world leaders. Does this crisis create favourable conditions for the reform and revitalisation of economics itself-from a subject dominated by mathematical techniques to a discipline more oriented to understanding real-world...

We study the consequences of a firm engaging in corporate social responsibility within the firm's operations, rather than doing so outside the firm through charitable donations. After April 2018 protests, Starbucks enacted policies that anybody could sit in their stores and use the bathroom...

Neoclassical economists of the current era frequently pay lip service to Adam Smith's theories to certify the validity of natural-laws-based, laissez-faire policies. However, neoclassical theories are fundamentally disconnected from Adam Smith's notion of value, his understanding of the economic...

German Abstract: 2016 jährte sich das Erscheinen des Artikels von John Maurice Clark mit dem in der Überschrift genannten Titel im Journal of Political Economy zum hundertsten Mal. Clark legt in diesem Artikel seine Vorstellungen zur Entwicklung einer „economics of responsibility“ und zur...