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The Social Self and the Need for an Alternative to Socialism
Armour, Leslie - In: International Journal of Social Economics 17 (1990) 9, pp. 4-16
Socialism is in trouble, but some serious problems which provoked socialist theory remain. These do not have to do so much with the class war – which is remediable – as with the difficulties of establishing and maintaining an effective “social self” in an economic system which does not...
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Ayn Rand versus Karl Marx
Machan, Tibor R. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 2/3/4, pp. 54-67
What sets Rand apart from other critics of Marx is that she is a philosophical/ethical/ political individualist who rejects the claim by Marx that “The human essence is the true collectivity of man” and advances, instead, a neo‐Aristotelian theory to the effect that each of us is a human...
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Transcendental realism – a foundation for evolutionary economics?
Philip, Pradeep - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 12, pp. 19-35
with an evolutionary conception of economics. Considers Tony Lawson′s work on transcendental realism as a point of … departure in the building of an argument which promotes the adoption of a pluralist and holistic conception of economics …. Suggests that, while Lawson′s transcendental realism has largely been developed independently of evolutionary economics, with …
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Looking into the Seeds of Time: The Price of Modern Development, second edition
Duhs, L.A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 27 (2000) 11, pp. 1132-1141
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Five dimensions of the interdependence of philosophy and economics integrating HET and the history of political philosophy
Duhs, Alan - In: International Journal of Social Economics 25 (1998) 10, pp. 1477-1508
Economics and political philosophy tend to lead separate existences in separate university departments. This paper … in time to the enduring questions of political philosophy. A more deep‐seated understanding of economics and of HET is … argues that there are gains to be had in the understanding of the teaching of economics if the intellectual divide between …
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Free-economics: The vision of reformer Silvio Gesell
Preparata, Guido Giacomo; Elliott, John E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) September, pp. 923-954
During the first decades of the 20th century, German Reformer Silvio Gesell (1862-1930) championed with a certain success the reforming wave of the epoch by complementing ingenious solutions to some of the most important economic issues of his time with theoretical insights that were as radical...
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Pragmatism in Neoclassical Thought
Ancil, Ralph E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 17 (1990) 5, pp. 31-53
A prima facie case is made that neo‐classical thinking is meaningfully influenced by the philosophy of pragmatism …. Three major aspects of this philosophy are considered based on the writings of leading pragmatists and instrumentalists such … problems in this philosophy.  …
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Free‐economics: The vision of reformer Silvio Gesell
Giacomo Preparata, Guido; Elliott, John E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) 10, pp. 923-954
During the first decades of the 20th century, German Reformer Silvio Gesell (1862‐1930) championed with a certain success the reforming wave of the epoch by complementing ingenious solutions to some of the most important economic issues of his time with theoretical insights that were as...
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Schumacher's Political Economy
Duhs, Alan; Alvey, Jim - In: International Journal of Social Economics 16 (1989) 6, pp. 67-76
The work of E.F. Schumacher is addressed in the broad context of economic philosophy. His economics present a frontal … attack on eo‐classical economics. He likewise rejects a Marxist analysis of society. And while he shares some of the concerns …
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Syllogistic Deductionism in Islamic Social Choice Theory
Alam Choudhury, Masudul; Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 17 (1990) 11, pp. 4-20
Pure economic theory ignores ethical values but in Islamic society these are seen as essentially recreated entities of the social order. Islam presents its worldview not as a pluralistic value but as one that calls for the organisation of social and economic order around its well‐defined...
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