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Cultural lag: a relevant framework for social justice

Brinkman, Richard L.; Brinkman, June E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) 3, pp. 228-248

Purpose – This paper aims to show the interrelation and relevancy of the concept and theory of cultural lag to social justice. The conception of social justice, though wide in scope, is applied in this paper to the limited domain of equality of opportunity and fairness with respect to income...

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Economics and religion

Alvey, James E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) 3, pp. 249-267

Purpose – In the Western world the voices calling for a secular society have grown ever louder over the last three centuries. This paper seeks to return to one of the founders of modernity for guidance. Adam Smith advocated globalization on economic and moral grounds....

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John Paul II's vision of the social economy

O'Boyle, Edward J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) 6, pp. 520-540

of the social economy that was published by the International Journal of Social Economics in fall 1998. This author is … significant for what they teach about the premises employed in economics. His own philosophy of the human person reinforces the … four premises of personalist economics more so than the premises of the mainstream and challenges the mainstream at its …

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Prejudice against female children: economic and cultural explanations, and Indian evidence

Tisdell, Clem; Regmi, Gopal - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) 6, pp. 541-553

/methodology/approach – Using economic analysis, this paper outlines and illustrates the basis of the economics of parental discrimination against … West Bengal and in Orissa in Kondh‐dominated village to determine the extent to which economics explains parental …

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Thomas Hobbes and the displacement of political philosophy

Vinnicombe, Thea - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) 8, pp. 667-681

(or economics) as the true science of man. …

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A model of human behaviour for sustainability

Zabel, Hans‐Ulrich - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) 8, pp. 717-734

Purpose – The paper aims to explicate the systematic creation of social and ecological scarcities within an absolutely monetised economy and derives the necessity to change the “rules of the game” for doing business towards sustainability. Therefore, a model of human behaviour is developed...

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Analysis of the potential and problems of new institutional economics for third world development

Herath, Gamini - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) 10, pp. 877-892

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to provide a critical evaluation of the potential of new institutional economics …

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The death of homo economicus : is there life after welfare economics?

Gowdy, John M.; Iorgulescu Polimeni, Raluca - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) 11, pp. 924-938

welfare theory, and to examine the policy implications of discarding the Walrasian core of neoclassical economics. Design …/methodology/approach – Current work in behavioral economics and game theory shows that economic behavior depends on social context, a point … and bioeconomics. Findings – Neoclassical welfare economics continues to dominate economic theory and policy even though …

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Payment for health in Singapore

Reisman, David - In: International Journal of Social Economics 33 (2006) 2, pp. 132-159

Purpose – Singapore's rapid economic progress has been accompanied by a series of experiments in medical savings and health insurance. This paper aims to examine the “three Ms” – Medisave, MediShield, and Medifund – in order to establish the way in which the policy‐instruments are...

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Factors that influence choice of major: why some students never consider economics

Noble Calkins, Lindsay; Welki, Andrew - In: International Journal of Social Economics 33 (2006) 8, pp. 547-564

Purpose – In the fall of 1996, Walstad suggested that the economics profession needed to obtain the students …/methodology/approach – To recruit majors and to address Walstad's concern, economics and non‐economics majors were surveyed to determine which … factors they consider important when choosing a major and to better understand why some students never consider economics …

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