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Poverty as a transient reality in a globalised world: an economic choice

Slabbert, A.D.; Ukpere, W.I. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 38 (2011) August, pp. 858-868

Purpose – Poverty is indeed a terrible monster confronting humanity today. It is alarming and, indeed, not without despair to note that 22,000 children under five die every day as a result of poverty. Thus, in a calendar year, more than eight million children do not progress past the age of...

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Crisis, what crisis? : industrial strategies and path dependencies in four European countries after the crash

Garcia Calvo, Angela; Coulter, Steven - In: Journal of economic policy reform 25 (2022) 3, pp. 191-210

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Posiciones legales y complementariedades institucionales

Pagano, Ugo - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 5 (2003) July-December, pp. 17-54

Legal positions (such as rights, duties, liberties, powers, liabilities and immunities) are linked together by strong institutional complementarities that differ from the usual institutional complementarities that have been recently considered in economic literature. Legal positions not only...

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Does nationalization increase stakeholder democracy?

Scott, Simeon - In: Social Responsibility Journal 6 (2010) July, pp. 164-182

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the theory and practice of stakeholder democracy. After examining the liberal notion of representative democracy, the paper seeks to identify the democratic deficit associated with the shareholder and stakeholder approaches to corporate...

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Unfettered capitalism: why it is neither efficient nor just

Hosseini, Hamid - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 26 (2010) May, pp. 99-111

of welfare economics, assume that it is efficient, just, smooth functioning, and self-regulating. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper utilizes conceptual/theoretical research and arguments that have emerged in the literatures of public economics … and welfare economics. Findings – In addition to proving the above, the paper also finds that Adam Smith is actually a …

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The development of market orientation: a consideration of institutional influence in China

Kshetri, Nir - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 21 (2009) 1, pp. 19-40

Purpose – China has followed an unique transition from central planning to a market economy. The purpose of this paper is to examine how China's unique blend of capitalism and socialism has influenced Chinese firms’ market orientation. Design/methodology/approach – Broadly speaking this...

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Moral considerations in outsourcing to foreign labor

Pierlott, Matthew F. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) May, pp. 582-592

This paper argues that the principles of capitalism do not condone the widespread practice of labor exploitation occurring across the globe. Instead, they demand that some countermeasure be enacted to mitigate the structural oppression of laborers in less developed economies. Through heavy use...

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Agrarian Distress under Global Integration: Impoverishing Growth and “Perverse” Supply Response

Rao, J. Mohan; Vakulabharanam, Vamsi - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2009) 3

This paper aims to explain theoretically two apparently paradoxical phenomena witnessed in the Telangana region of South India between 1985 and 2000. First, despite the rapid growth of real agricultural output during this period, per-capita consumption of the majority of the agricultural...

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Karl Marx and Milton Friedman: bedfellows in thought

Wellington, Donald C.; Zandvakili, Sourushe - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) June, pp. 425-432

Purpose – The paper aims to offer a viewpoint that economic surplus is a notion shared by economists as diverse as Karl Marx and Milton Friedman. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is an interpretation and critique of the literature of the work by Marx and Friedman. Findings – The...

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Islam versus liberalism: contrasting epistemological inquiries

Choudhury, Masudul Alam - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) March, pp. 239-268

Purpose – To address the much heated debate now raging in the international scene, namely between Islam and the West as two great civilization forces of mankind. Design/methodology/approach – The objective is achieved by studying it in the light of rigorous analysis involving the...

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