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Block, Walter - In: International Journal of Social Economics 33 (2006) 3, pp. 241-260

regulation of the economy is justified. What is new is that Epstein, one of the most extreme defenders of the minimal state, is …

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The finance of Katrina

Wood, J. Stuart - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) 8, pp. 579-589

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discover the causes of the devastation of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast and how it may be ameliorated. Design/methodology/approach – Economic analysis of the prior conditions causing susceptibility to flooding, and of the subsequent...

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Selling sex in the shadow economy

Sanders, Teela - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) 10, pp. 704-716

Purpose – This paper aims to examine, from a global macro perspective, the relationships between commercial sex, regulatory system and shadow economies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on eight years of research in the sex industries and literature from other sources that...

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Drugs, the informal economy and globalization

Seddon, Toby - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) 10, pp. 717-728

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the connections between illegal drugs and the informal economy and consider this in the light of the increasing levels of global interconnectedness in recent decades. Design/methodology/approach – This is a review of the...

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Real estate and serious forms of crime

Nelen, Hans - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) 10, pp. 751-762

knowledge. Practical implications – Strategies to prevent serious forms of crime in the real estate sector vary from self‐regulation …

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Government regulation of religion and investments in human and physical capital

Autiero, Giuseppina; Paolo Vinci, Concetto - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) 2, pp. 119-135

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the causal link between government regulation of religion and the … importance of government regulation of religion in the literature, its effect on output performance has not been thoroughly … analyzed yet. In this respect, the paper aims to further investigate the causal links between religion regulation related to …

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Theoretical tensions between regulation, governance, and strategic behaviour in a federated world order

Todeva, Emanuela - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) 10, pp. 784-801

peace, and the notion that the world's citizenship should be organised in a federated system of states, free to choose their … first section reviews leading regulation theories that explain how governments in their decision‐making capacity engage in … regulation at macro‐level of the entire socio‐economic system. The second section follows from this argument and discusses the …

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Regulation, awareness, compliance and SME performance in Cameroon's manufacturing and retail sectors

Akinboade, Oludele A.; Kinfack, Emilie - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) 12, pp. 933-950

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the regulation, awareness, compliance and performance of small and … registered for tax and those in the manufacturing sector see tax regulation as a burden. Those having opinions that regulation is … rigid, inconsistent and that there is corruption also opine that regulation is negatively impacting on business. High …

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Singing the critical life: folk, place, and the palimpsest of rhythms in the beat of the city

Weir, David - In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography 6 (2017) 1, pp. 46-59

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an ethnographic account of a folk music venue from the perspective of a participant observer. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on a classic thick description, describing the central participants in a performance and the operation...

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Temporary agency work: evolution, regulation and implications for performance

Forde, Chris; Slater, Gary - In: Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and … 3 (2016) 3, pp. 312-322

Purpose Temporary agency working continues to grow in the UK. The purpose of this paper is to look at a number of important developments in the agency industry, which generate implications for the performance of agencies, temps and the user firms in which temps work and to set out some of the...

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