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Author-Name: Deborah Figart 
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Figart 
Title: Gender as More Than a Dummy Variable: Feminist Approaches to Discrimination 
Abstract:
  To avow that gender is more than an independent--or dummy--variable is to
 posit the centrality of gender (as well as race and class) in economic
 analysis. Conventional economic methods tend to neglect the process by
 which gender interacts with and shapes other social forces and
 institutions. The basis for a feminist alternative is the assertion that
 the social construction of gender permeates men's and women's labor market
 experiences. A feminist definition of discrimination is proposed which
 emphasizes process as well as outcomes; measurable as well as
 unquantifiable repercussions. Labor market discrimmation is a
 multidimensional interaction of economic, social, political, and cultural
 forces in both the workplace and the family, resulting in differential
 outcomes involving pay, employment, and status. Several propositions
 toward developing feminist approaches to labor market discrimination are
 illustrated with examples of feminist research. These propositions
 delineate feminist work on: the importance of praxis-based research; the
 necessity for methodological pluralism; the role of power in wage-setting
 within the firm; the impact of macro-social institutions; and the
 intersections of gender, race, class, and other social forces. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-32 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: discrimination, gender, labor markets, method, feminist theory, wages, employment, 
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Author-Name: David George 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: George 
Title: Working Longer Hours: Pressure from the Boss or Pressure from the Marketers? 
Abstract:
  The century-long decline in the amount of time spent working for income
 has been reversed over the last twenty-five years. By one account, this
 reversal is primarily traceable to a rise in the power fo employers who
 find more work hours per employee to be in their interest. By another
 account, that I argue to be the more convincing, the major cause of the
 change is the growing sophisticated of advertising and marketing which has
 stimulated demand and led to voluntarydecisions to work more. Education is
 presented as an example of the effects that rising
 &#x201c;marketization&#x201d; has on a product's nature. Decreased hours
 of study and grade inflation are offered as two examples of the crowding
 out of production for oneself at the expense of production for sale in the
 market. While no attempt is made to draw clear normative conclusions
 regarding educational trends, the paper concludes with a normative
 assessment of the trend toward greater time spent in the workplace. I
 argue that the historically recent rise of &#x201c;workaholism&#x201d;
 suggests that for at least a portion of the workforce, market forces have
 created preferences to work more that are ranked lower than what they
 replace; that the overworked American is too often one in the grip of an
 unpreferred preference regarding work. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 33-65 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000023 
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Author-Name: Kenneth Mischel 
Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mischel 
Title: Webs of Significance: Understanding Economic Activity in its Cultural Context 
Abstract:
  This paper makes the case for developing accounts of economic activity by
 placing such activity in its ambient cultural contexts. It is shown that
 doing so provides the basis for credibly attributing significance to
 economic acts and coming to terms with the belief structures economic
 agents employ, e.g., what they expect of each other, expect others expect
 of them, and so on. The role of culture systems as social orchestrators is
 discussed. The implications of a context-sensitive explanatory approach
 for the commitment to view economic behavior as rational are considered. A
 wider conception of economic rationality is proposed. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 67-84 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: cultural contexts, cooperation, rationality, symbolic reasoning, 
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Author-Name: Piet-Hein van Eeghen 
Author-X-Name-First: Piet-Hein 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Eeghen 
Title: The Capitalist Case Against the Corporation 
Abstract:
  The paper criticizes the corporation from a liberal-capitalist point of
 view, arguing that incorporation violates the right and responsibilities
 of private ownership. Aspects of current capitalist practice which
 popularly concentration, speculative instability and excessive
 growth/profit orientation) are traced back to the corporate form rather
 that to genuinely capitalist institutions such as private property and
 free exchange. Some disadvantages connected to the proposed repeal of
 incorporation for private enterprise are discussed. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 85-113 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: corporation, capitalism, socialism, principle of persona responsibility, 
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Author-Name: Mark Lutz 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lutz 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 115-123 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000026 
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Author-Name: Robert Drago 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Drago 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 123-128 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000027 
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Author-Name: William Waller 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Waller 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 128-132 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000028 
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Author-Name: Maryann Keating 
Author-X-Name-First: Maryann 
Author-X-Name-Last: Keating 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 132-135 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000029 
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Author-Name: James Buss 
Author-X-Name-First: James 
Author-X-Name-Last: Buss 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 136-139 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000030 
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Author-Name: Metin Cosgel 
Author-X-Name-First: Metin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cosgel 
Title: Consumption Institutions 
Abstract:
  Consumption institutions reflect socially constructed systems of rules
 that generate regularities in people's consumption behavior. This paper
 seeks to understand these institutions by using insights from recent
 developments in rhetorical analysis and the economics of institutions in
 order to develop an analogy between speech and consumption and to explore
 parallels between the institutions that surround them. Just as a speaker
 utilizes speech institutions (e.g., language, speech codes), a consumer
 utilizes a variety of consumption institutions (e.g., the meanings
 produced by specific arrangements of goods, dress codes) in making
 statements. Consumption institutions serve as both constraints and
 enablers, providing the knowledge that assist individuals to relate to
 each other through intersubjectively shared categories of communication.
 They serve a dual function by providing knowledge for the consumer to send
 and the audience to interpret messages. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 153-171 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: consumption, institutions, Veblen, modernism, rhetoric, knowledge, 
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Author-Name: Alexandra Bernasek 
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bernasek 
Author-Name: Richard Porter 
Author-X-Name-First: Richard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Porter 
Title: Private Pressure for Social Change in South Africa: the Impact of the Sullivan Principles 
Abstract:
  The Sullivan Principles represented an attempt in the 1970s and 1980s in
 the United States to apply private pressure, as an alternative to
 government sanctions, to put an end to apartheid in South Africa. In this
 paper we assess the impact of the Principles on the employment practices
 of a sample of U.S. firms operating in South Africa that were signatories
 to the Principles. We examine the extent of their commitment to improving
 conditions of employment for their nonwhite employees, in the areas of
 employment growth, wages, and advancement into management and supervisory
 positions. Our results indicate that the impact of the Sullivan Principles
 was modest at best. The evidence leads to the conclusion that in this
 case, private pressure was not a powerful force for social change. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 172-193 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: Sullivan Principles, South Africa, Apartheid, Corporate responsibility, 
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Author-Name: Irene Tinker 
Author-X-Name-First: Irene 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tinker 
Author-Name: Gale Summerfield 
Author-X-Name-First: Gale 
Author-X-Name-Last: Summerfield 
Title: Background of the NGO Forum and Overview of the Family and Economic Transformation: Problems and Strategies 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 196-200 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000033 
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Author-Name: Gale Summerfield 
Author-X-Name-First: Gale 
Author-X-Name-Last: Summerfield 
Title: Economic Transition in China and Vietnam: Crossing the Poverty Line is Just the First Step for Women and Their Families 
Abstract:
  This paper compares the changing strategies of women and their families
 during the economic transition in China and Vietnam. Employment strategies
 to improve the family' s well-being have resulted in increased rural-urban
 migration by men and young women, while middle-aged, married women remain
 in the countryside taking care of the farms and children. Although women
 have been able to take advantage of new opportunities for employment in
 nonstate firms and their own entrepreneurial endeavors, their employment
 strategies are limited by increasing discrimination in hiring and layoffs.
 Moreover, the policy problems play out within the family in changing
 bargaining power, including decisions about education and health care. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 201-214 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: women, families, strategies, bargaining power, 
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Author-Name: Jean Pyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Jean 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pyle 
Title: Women, the Family, and Economic Restructuring: the Singapore Model? 
Abstract:
  Singapore is promoting itself as a model for Asian development, citing
 its high growth rates and stable society. It contends that its approach
 differs dramatically from that of the West because of its solid value
 system regarding families and community. This paper examines the ways
 women and changing family policies have been critical components of
 Singapore's growth. It shows, however, that rather than having a long-term
 consistent view of appropriate family size and roles, the Singaporean
 government adopted strikingly different policies (particularly toward
 fertility) over the past three decades, as it attempted to affect the
 supply of labor in the short-run and over the longer term and thereby
 maintain growth rates. This sheds a different light on Singapore's claims
 regarding its stable approach to families, particularly since policy
 changes since the mid-1980s have placed intense demands on women's limited
 time by encouraging increased female labour force participation and
 increased fertility. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 215-223 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: Singapore, female labor force participation, fertility policies, birth rate, export-oriented development, supply of labor, 
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Author-Name: Veronica Montecinos 
Author-X-Name-First: Veronica 
Author-X-Name-Last: Montecinos 
Title: Economic Reforms, Social Policy, and the Family Economy in Chile 
Abstract:
  Chile's long tradition of welfare programs included
 &#x201c;generous&#x201d; benefits for many working women. The social
 security system, however, perpetuated significant forms of gender and
 class inequality. In the 1970s and 1980s, poverty was greatly increased by
 sweeping market reforms. The military government responded to the high
 social costs with a minimal safety net which targeted expectant mothers,
 small children and the extremely poor, but was inadequate for most of the
 population. After the return of democracy, income distribution has
 improved in the 1990s. Yet, much needs to be done to promote family
 well-being through effective and participatory social policies. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 224-234 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: women, family, social security, Chile, well-being, 
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Author-Name: Jan Knippers Black 
Author-X-Name-First: Jan Knippers 
Author-X-Name-Last: Black 
Title: Responsibility Without Authority: the Growing Burden for Women in the Caribbean 
Abstract:
  After achieving independence and limited economic self-assertion in the
 sixties and seventies, most Caribbean states have been reabsorbed by a now
 globalized neocolonial system. The &#x201c;structural adjustment&#x201d;
 exacted in the process has exacerbated hardship and inequality generally
 and has been particularly hard on women. It has deprived them of resources
 and authority while requiring them to assume service and welfare
 responsibilities being abandoned by the state. As male unemployment rises,
 more women are working longer hours for less in new maquiladora
 industries. But women are elaborating new collective strategies for
 pooling resources, nurturing souls, and regenerating energies. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 235-242 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: gender, structural adjustment, Caribbean, coping collectively, 
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Author-Name: Monique Cohen 
Author-X-Name-First: Monique 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cohen 
Title: A Road Map for Measuring Development Impact: a Woman's and Family Perspective 
Abstract:
  This paper discusses women's strategies during the economic reforms with
 a focus on housing policies. It uses the housing issue to address the
 importance of identifying impacts on both women as individuals and as
 family members when evaluating development programs. A case study of a
 family in Cairo illustrates the issues involved. The paper then considers
 modifications for impact assessment of programs so that the concept of end
 user is broadened to include the woman and the family. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 243-250 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: women, family, strategies, development, housing, shelter, 
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Author-Name: Irene Tinker 
Author-X-Name-First: Irene 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tinker 
Title: Family Survival in an Urbanizing World 
Abstract:
  Among the urban poor in the Global South, an increasingly large
 percentage of women are household heads because weakened kin structures
 have allowed men to cease supporting their families. Women produce income
 at home in order to combine work and childcare despite government
 regulations and community planners that discourage such use. Changes in
 policies regarding tenancy rights for women, housing design, and home
 production would recognize a woman's dual use of her home. New
 organizations for home-based workers offer some measure of protection.
 Solutions to family survival require a research focus on survival issues
 relating to men as well as to women. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 251-260 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: urban, housing rights for women, tenancy rights for women, [women's housing rights], microenterprise, home-based work, urban food production, 
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Gilbert 
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gilbert 
Title: Adam Smith on the Nature and Causes of Poverty 
Abstract:
  Adam Smith's views on poverty have received less attention than one would
 expect, but they are worth examining. In the Moral Sentiments Smith takes
 a skeptical, ironic view of the striving for material goods and wealth.
 Poverty is treated not as a condition of economic deprivation but as a
 cause of social isolation and psychic unease. In the Lectures on
 Jurisprudence Smith theorizes the amval of economic inequality as a
 society advances from the hunting to the herding stage. He sees
 &#x201c;poverty&#x201d; (poorness) as widespread but not problematic in
 commercial society, since wage earners do not experience actual misery. In
 the growth model of the Wealth of Nations, laborers earn a wage that
 affords them all the necessities and even a few conveniences and luxuries.
 True, grinding poverty characterizes the stationary and declining
 economies only. Smith is oddly silent on state assistance to the poor but
 incisive on the health and moral consequences of urban-industrial
 development for the lower classes. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 273-291 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: poverty, Smith, Poor Law, poor, 
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Author-Name: William Waters 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Waters 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 392-393 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000010 
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Author-Name: Christine Rider 
Author-X-Name-First: Christine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rider 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 394-396 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000011 
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Author-Name: Edward O'Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Boyle 
Title: Minutes of the Special Executive Council Meeting Association for Social Economics August 1, 1996 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 397-398 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000012 
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Author-Name: Edward O'Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Boyle 
Title: Minutes of the General Membership Meeting Association for Social Economics 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 399-401 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000013 
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Author-Name: R. Donald 
Author-X-Name-First: R. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Donald 
Title: Adam Smith and the Natural Wage: Sympathy, Subsistence and Social Distance 
Abstract:
  This article focuses on Adam Smith's attitude toward wages as the natural
 price of labor. It argues that his subsistence wage had similarities with
 the medieval Schoolmen's notion of the just wage as being established
 through markets. He further agreed with them that the market wage had to
 be sufficient to nurture community standards of virtue. His application of
 the concept differed from theirsn due to his recognition of the problems
 caused by social distance. In a commercial society, impersonal relations
 added difficulties to the attainment of a just wage and could diminish
 virtue. As a result, sympathy from employers and from public officials was
 needed as part of the Smithian standard of wages. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 292-311 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: Just wage, subsistence wage, social distance, division of labor, sympathy, self-interest, 
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Author-Name: Kwangsu Kim 
Author-X-Name-First: Kwangsu 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim 
Title: Adam Smith: Natural Theology and Its Implications for His Method of Social Inquiry 
Abstract:
  This paper sees a systematic unity between Smith's theological view and
 scientific study of society. Smith's theological outlook as to a
 benevolent deity is grasped as a metaphysical doctrine in his system of
 social science. It arises from the fact that while Smith's opinion
 concerning God's attributes is established, in the first instance, on the
 basis of his empirical study of nature, it also stands irrespective of
 other facts which are not in line with the patterns of order and design.
 Smith's metaphysical proposition as such is methodologically suggestive in
 that it proposes theoretical possibilities for progress and harmony and
 rules out the features of conflict at the analytic level. This implies a
 difficulty in subscribing to a conventional interpretation that introduces
 the &#x201c;two Smiths's&#x201d; view (the duality of his method and
 vision). 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 312-336 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: Smith's natural theology, a metaphysical doctrine, a unity between natural theology and science, the &#x201c;Smiths'&#x201d; view, 
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Author-Name: Amy Farmer 
Author-X-Name-First: Amy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Farmer 
Author-Name: Jill Tiefenthaler 
Author-X-Name-First: Jill 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tiefenthaler 
Title: An Economic Analysis of Domestic Violence 
Abstract:
  While economists have been studying the family as an economic unit for
 almost thirty years, most models have focused on cooperative family units.
 Domestic violence, one of the most widespread violent crimes against
 women, is one example of a family unit that is better explained as a
 noncooperative re1ationship. In this paper, a noncooperative model of
 domestic violence is presented. The comparative statics from this model
 predict that women's incomes and other financial support received from
 outside the marriage (family, welfare, shelters, divorce settlements,
 etc.) will decrease the level of violence in intact families because they
 increase the woman's threat point. Implications of the theoretical model
 are discussed and empirical evidence is summarized. The results from
 existing and new analysis provide support for the hypothesis that improved
 economic opportunities for women will decrease the level of violence in
 abusive re1ationships. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 337-358 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: domestic violence, household bargaining, noncooperative, 
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Author-Name: Diane Dewar 
Author-X-Name-First: Diane 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dewar 
Title: Medical Technology in the United States and Canada: Where Are We Going? 
Abstract:
  U.S. and Canadian policies concerning medical technology acquisition and
 diffusion are compared. Healthcare resources are allocated primarily
 through insurance incentives in the U.S. and through budget controls in
 Canada. Technological acquisitions, a small component of healthcare
 expenditures, are influenced by industry competition in the U.S., and by
 U.S. marketing in Canada. Healthcare utilization, a large component of
 expenditures, has caused similar resource allocation issues in both
 countries. Both countries are becoming more similar in their healthcare
 policies. Canada is becoming more privatized in financing healthcare
 services, and the U.S. is moving toward more conservative medicine. Both
 countries face similar challenges in technological acquisition and
 diffusion. Care must be taken that administrative hurdles do not alter the
 stream of returns to technology so that the R&D of beneficial technologies
 will be encouraged. Also, evaluation methods must objectively measure the
 economic costs and benefits of technological services so that technologies
 that yield net benefits to society will be promoted. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 359-378 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: Medical technology, United States, Canada, health care systems, 
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Author-Name: Jochen Runde 
Author-X-Name-First: Jochen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Runde 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 379-381 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000006 
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Author-Name: Bruce Pietrykowski 
Author-X-Name-First: Bruce 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pietrykowski 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 381-385 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
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Author-Name: William Dugger 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dugger 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 385-388 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000008 
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Author-Name: Tom Mayer 
Author-X-Name-First: Tom 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 389-392 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000009 
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Author-Name: Hans Jensen 
Author-X-Name-First: Hans 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen 
Title: Introduction 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 409-415 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769700000014 
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Author-Name: Anatol Rapoport 
Author-X-Name-First: Anatol 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rapoport 
Title: Memories of Kenneth E.Boulding 
Abstract:
  The forty-year friendship between the author and Kenneth Boulding was
 cemented by three affinities. (1) an intense common interest in the
 system-theoretic approach to the philosophy of science, especially its
 &#x201c;organismic&#x201d; direction; (2) shared feeling that in its
 development the scientific outlook largely bypassed the introspective mode
 of cognition; (3)an uncompromising rejection of violence especially of its
 sanctioned, rationalized type, organized by power elities (war). The wide
 divergence of out attitude toward religion had no effect on the intimacy
 and intensity of the friendship. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 416-431 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: Cognition, peace activism, religion, science, system, truth, values, 
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Author-Name: Robert Solo 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Solo 
Title: Boulding Among the Structuralists 
Abstract:
  The character of structuralism is given as studies of systems of
 perception wherein the author interposes in organizing element between
 observation and perception. The organizing element for Piaget is the
 cognitive structure, for Foucault the epistime, for Kuhn the paradigm, for
 Solo ideology, and for Boulding the image. The idea and significance of
 &#x201c;the image&#x201d; in Boulding's book The Imageis analyzed and the
 place of that work in Boulding's grand project, to create a universal
 science, is indicated. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 432-444 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: structuralism, Kenneth Boulding, Jean Piaget, Michel Foucault, Thomas Kuhn, Robert Solo, 
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Author-Name: L. Randall Wray 
Author-X-Name-First: L. Randall 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wray 
Title: Kenneth Boulding's Reconstruction of Macroeconomics 
Abstract:
  Boulding's reconstruction of macroeconomics provides a
 &#x201c;microfoundation&#x201d; based on liquidity preference theory, a
 balance sheet approach, and a process of homeostasis. These
 microfoundations are consistent with his aggregate theory and avoid
 fallacies of composition&#x2014;such as the paradox of thrift&#x2014;as
 well as the &#x201c;adding up&#x201d; problems of marginal productivity
 theory. His distrubution theory links income shares to the determinants of
 employment and output and the conditions of equilibrium of saving
 investment. His definitions provide clear alternatives to the NIPA
 definitions adopted in &#x201c;Keynesian&#x201d; theory. He provides an
 alternative view of fiscal and monetary policies that will not prove to be
 impotent in the face of the ongoing conservation counterrevolution.
 Indeed, his theories are quite close to the modern Post-Keynesian
 understanding of &#x201c;endogenous money&#x201d; the deficit-growth
 relation, and the investment-saving connection, while his policy
 recommendations are often consistent with those of Post-Keynesians. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 445-463 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: Boulding, macroeconomics, Keynesian economics, Post-Keynesian, economics, balance sheets, homeostasis, 
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Author-Name: O.P. Albino Barrera 
Author-X-Name-First: O.P. Albino 
Author-X-Name-Last: Barrera 
Title: Degrees of Unmet Needs in the Superfluous Income Criterion 
Abstract:
  The task of modern political economy is made more difficult by the
 confusion surrounding the ranking of competing claims in the social order.
 This paper is about situating particular interests within the broader
 claims of society. Using Catholic social thought's universal access
 principle, overlapping claims for economic resources are weighed according
 to the unmet needs of the contending parties in the following order of
 importance: (1) as constitutive for physical survival and basic health,
 (2) as determinative of life prospects, and (3) as life-enhancing. The
 finer specification of superfluous income into this threefold tpology
 opens the door to a more nuanced application of distributive justivce
 where norms grow stricter and the tolerance for inequality becomes much
 narrower as the strength of claims grows in proportion to the urgency of
 unmet needs. The contribution of this paper lies in its refinement of the
 concept of superflkuous income by distingushing varying degrees of unmet
 needs through a typology that provides terms of reference that are
 specified in their function, in their theological warrants and in the
 strength of their claims. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 464-486 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: Catholic social thought, superfluous income, universal access principle, unmet needs, distributive justice, 
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Author-Name: S. J. Philip 
Author-X-Name-First: S. J. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Philip 
Author-Name: J. Chmielewski 
Author-X-Name-First: J. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Chmielewski 
Title: Workers' Participation in the United States: Catholic Social Teaching and Democratic Theory 
Abstract:
  Workers' participation has stirred renewed interest because of recent
 economic and political transformation. The article presents workplace
 participation as key in maintaining democratic values. The tenth
 anniversary of Economic Justice for Allprovides the occasion to reexamine
 its social ethical arguments for workplace participation. The weight of
 those arguments is assessed in light of: their wide, antecedent background
 in theory and practice manifested in both the U.S. and Germany, the modern
 effectiveness of works' councils, and the extension of the ethical
 arguments in more recent Catholic social teaching. The article examines
 the theological and philosophical principles of Economic Justice for Allas
 they bear on economic participation. Central to these arguments is the
 fostering of free personal activity within a diverse, institutionally
 plural society. Toward society's common good, economic participation
 directs productive and service activites. The traditional category of
 subsidiarity offers a channel along which contemporary democratic analysis
 can invigorate the social teaching tradition, namely, in highlighting the
 functions of communication, information transfer, and education within
 cooperative activity. Such cooperation addresses the gap in structures of
 representation as well as the ethical requirement of secured expression.
 Workers' participation effectively represents and sustains democratic
 culture. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 487-508 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 55 
Year: 1997 
Keywords: codetermination, common good, economic democracy, Economic Justice for All, German social thought, subsidiarity, works councils, workers' participation, 
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Author-Name: Brooks Hull 
Author-X-Name-First: Brooks 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hull 
Author-Name: Frederick Bold 
Author-X-Name-First: Frederick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bold 
Title: Product Variety in Religious Markets 
Abstract:
  This paper analyzes the relationship between religious market product
 variety and church membership. We find that denominational variety is
 negatively associated with the total level of church membership in U.S.
 counties. This result appears 10 contradict the standard religious product
 variety model. Our data are consistent with a more general view of markets
 that incorporates the cost to consumers of product variety. Where product
 variety has significant costs, an increase in variety may reduce total
 market penetration. The paper suggests market characteristics that might
 give rise to this situation, characteristics present in the religion
 market. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-19 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: religion, church, product variety, concentration, 
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Author-Name: Chuck Skoro 
Author-X-Name-First: Chuck 
Author-X-Name-Last: Skoro 
Author-Name: R. Larry Reynolds 
Author-X-Name-First: R. Larry 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reynolds 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 94-97 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000010 
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Author-Name: Charles Wilber 
Author-X-Name-First: Charles 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilber 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 98-103 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000011 
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Author-Name: Peter Danner 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Danner 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 103-105 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
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Author-Name: David Andrews 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Andrews 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 105-108 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000013 
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Author-Name: Mario Giampietro 
Author-X-Name-First: Mario 
Author-X-Name-Last: Giampietro 
Author-Name: Kozo Mayumi 
Author-X-Name-First: Kozo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mayumi 
Title: Another View of Development, Ecological Degradation, and North-South Trade 
Abstract:
  Based on N. Georgescu-Roegen's bioeconomic paradigm, this paper
 reconsiders the neoclassical economic paradigm which endorses continuous
 global economic growth through stimulated trade. We suggest that, in view
 of sustainability, it is fundamental to acknowledge: (1) the importance of
 preserving the identity and integrity of economic systems in different
 regions of the world through enlarging as much as possible
 self-sufficiency and equity assessed at national and regional levels; and
 (2) the importance of including respect for biospheric equilibria as one
 criterion to be used to regulate world economic activity and trade. We
 examine differences and similarities of the past and present patterns of
 ecological degradation. We also present two types of efficiency to assess
 technological changes and the drive toward unsustainability. Then we
 discuss an entropy-based theory of North-South trade issues and three
 points for promotion of sustainability. Finally, we show that the true
 origin of currentecological crisis lies in a deep change in the perception
 of the relation between humans and nature that affects the mode of
 technological development of modern society. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 20-36 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: development, efficiency, Jevons's paradox, North-South trade, ecological degradation, bioeconomics, 
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Author-Name: Christopher Wonnell 
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wonnell 
Title: Roemer and Market Socialism 
Abstract:
  Professor John Roemer has defended a future market socialist order. His
 model would encompass an egalitarian coupon market for the ownership of
 firm shares, a private sector for firms below a certain size, a system of
 public bank loans for the raising of capital, and an industrial policy of
 differential interest rates for various economic sectors. This paper
 argues that such a model would generate perverse incentives for firms,
 shareholders, public officials, and private entrepreneurs. It also argues
 that Roemer's contention that such a model would produce a more
 environmentally sensitive polity is problematic. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 37-46 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: market socialism, Roemer, environment, externalities, 
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Author-Name: Howard Sherman 
Author-X-Name-First: Howard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sherman 
Title: Critique of the Critique: Analysis of Hodgson on Marx on Evolution 
Abstract:
  Hodgson claims that Marxism is incompatible with Darwinian biological
 evolution. That was true of earlier Socialist and Communist theories of
 economic determinism, but it is not true of the contemporary generation of
 critical Marxists. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 47-58 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: Marxism, institutionalism, evolution, 
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Author-Name: Oren Levin-Waldman 
Author-X-Name-First: Oren 
Author-X-Name-Last: Levin-Waldman 
Title: Plant Closings: Is WARN an Effective Response? 
Abstract:
  Congress has sought to address the issue of transitional economies
 through the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN),
 which is supposed to provide workers and their communities with advance
 notice of a shutdown. With advance notice, workers can then plan for the
 closure and avail themselves of the transitional type services available
 under other programs. By this theory, then, WARN might be viewed as a
 stepping stone in the direction of a more comprehensive employment policy.
 This, however, presupposes that the states administering other programs
 through their Dislocated Worker Units (DWU) are actually receiving
 accurate information closures and compliance with WARN in their
 jurisdiction. In this paper, I examine WARN both in theory and in
 practice. Data drawn from surveys conducted of DWUs suggests that the
 information we have about closure, its impact, and WARN is uneven, and
 therefore does not easily lend itself to a clear policy path. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 59-79 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: plant closure, WARN, transitional economies, displacement, comprehensive employment policy, 
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Author-Name: David George 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: George 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 81-84 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
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Author-Name: Jerry Petr 
Author-X-Name-First: Jerry 
Author-X-Name-Last: Petr 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 84-86 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
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Author-Name: Robert Dimand 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dimand 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 86-90 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
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Author-Name: Mark Setterfield 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: Setterfield 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 90-93 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000009 
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Author-Name: Hans Jensen 
Author-X-Name-First: Hans 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen 
Title: Dead Economists as Inspirators of Living Social Economists 
Abstract:
  An attempt is made in this article to demonstrate that Alfred Marshall
 and John Maynard Keynes erected a number of signposts that point in the
 direction of a normative, institutional and policy-oriented social
 economics of labor. They opined that dysfunctioning institutions had
 thrown most members of the working class into an abyss of poverty.
 According to Marshall, poverty was caused by institutional neglect of
 education for the masses. Hence he recommended a drastic overhaul of those
 institutions that impinged on education. Keynes argued that the rentiers
 were the villains because they had intentionally reduced their funding of
 entrepreneurial investments. Consequently, investments dwindled and
 unemployment caused working-class poverty to rise above its customary
 levels. Keynes's solution was public investment in private enterprises,
 which he called socialization of investment. This would cause euthanasia
 of the anti-social rentiers. Because of their recommendations, Marshall
 and Keynes called themselves socialists. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 119-135 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: Keynes, Marshall, signposts, superentrepreneurs, extended state, nuclear state, 
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Author-Name: Geoff Hodgson 
Author-X-Name-First: Geoff 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodgson 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 236-239 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000024 
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Author-Name: Samuel Cameron 
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cameron 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 239-242 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000025 
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Author-Name: Edward O'Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Boyle 
Title: Ninth World Congress of Social Economics: an invitation to attend 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 247-248 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000026 
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Author-Name: John Gowdy 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gowdy 
Author-Name: Susan Mesner 
Author-X-Name-First: Susan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mesner 
Title: The Evolution of Georgescu-Roegen's Bioeconomics 
Abstract:
  Georgescu-Roegen's work is usually divided into two categories, his
 earlier work on consumer and production theory and his later concern with
 entropy and bioeconomics beginning with his 1966 introductory essay to his
 collected theoretical papers published in the volume Analytical Economics.
 Most economists usually praise his earlier work on pure theory and ignore
 his later work which is highly critical of neoclassical economics. Those
 economists sympathetic to his later work usually take the position that he
 &#x201c;saw the light&#x201d; and gave up neoclassical theory some time in
 the 1960s to turn his attention to the issues of resource scarcity and
 social institutions. It is argued here that there is an unbroken path
 running from Georgescu's work in pure theory in the 1930s, 1940s, and
 1950s, through his writings on peasant economies in the 1960s, leading to
 his preoccupation with entropy and bioeconomics in the last 25 years of
 his life. That common thread is his preoccupation with
 &#x201c;valuation.&#x201d; The choices our species makes about resource
 use and the distribution of economic output depends upon our valuation
 framework. Georgescu-Roegen's work begins in the 1930s with a critical
 examination of the difficulties with the hedonistic valuation framework of
 neoclassical economics, moves in the 1960s to the conflict between social
 and hedonistic valuation, and culminates in the 1970s and 1980s with his
 examination of the conflict between individual, social, and environmental
 values. This paper traces the evolution of Georgescu-Roegen's thought
 about valuation and the environmental and social policy recommendations
 which arise out of his bioeconomic framework. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 136-156 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: agrarian economics, bioeconomics, entropy, Georgescu-Roegen, sustainability, utility theory, valuation, 
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Author-Name: Diane Dewar 
Author-X-Name-First: Diane 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dewar 
Title: Allocating Organ Transplant Services: What Can Be Learned from the United States Experience? 
Abstract:
  Issues concerning organ procurement and transplantation in the United
 States are described and related to the Canadian health care environment.
 Although the United States has a national organ procurement system and
 national transplant guidelines are in place, many complications exist
 regarding the allocation of organ transplant services. Current proposals
 to increase organ donation are critiqued and new guidelines are proposed
 for the organ transplantation system. These guidelines help to protect the
 right of access to these health resources among the socially or
 economically disadvantaged. Given the similarities between the United
 States and Canada in terms of population demographics and medical
 treatment protocols, these guidelines are applicable to both countries in
 order to more appropriately blend economic and ethical criteria to
 allocate organ transplantation services more efficiently and effectively. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 157-174 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: Medical technology, organ transplantation, United States, Canada, economics, equity, ethics, 
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Author-Name: John Berdell 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Berdell 
Title: Adam Smith and the Ambiguity of Nations 
Abstract:
  What is the status of the nation state in Adam Smith's much celebrated
 intellectual system, the &#x201c;Science of the Legislator&#x201d;? This
 paper argues that it was historically transitory. Two aspects of Smith's
 treatment of states and international relations are examined. The first
 aspect concerns Smith's conception of the gains from international trade
 and openness. The second concerns his understanding of the dynamics of
 international conflict. These two aspects of Smith's conception of
 international relations go some way towards revealing the bases of his
 (skeptical) advocacy of a dramatic transformation of the British polity.
 Indeed, while the jurisprudential component of Smith's projected science
 of the legislator was never completed, surviving early lecture notes
 suggest that he regarded the nation-state as a transitional form: one that
 had already begun to need replacement in his day. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 175-189 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: Adam Smith, nationalism, openness, 
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Author-Name: Stephanie Seguino 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephanie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Seguino 
Author-Name: Sandra Butler 
Author-X-Name-First: Sandra 
Author-X-Name-Last: Butler 
Title: To Work or Not to Work: Is That the Right Question? 
Abstract:
  This paper applies thematic analysis to survey data obtained from a
 sample of AFDC recipients to investigate the complexities of single-parent
 decision-making in low-income households. A basic needs budget is
 developed to determine the adequacy of women's wages to provide for
 children's minimal material needs. In surveys, parents indicate their
 primary goal is the well-being of the children, determined by the adequacy
 of several types of resources, which we categorize into four groups: 1)
 material resources, 2) caring resources, 3) community resources, and 4)
 the macro-level environment. Using this framework, we develop a schematic
 model of single-parent decision-making, incorporating the assumption that
 children's level of need and well-being are determined not only by the
 cost and availability of material resources but also by psychological
 factors such as gender conflicts, neighborhood safety, as well as parents'
 time and social networks that provide caring labor. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 190-219 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: single parents, basic needs, AFDC, gender, 
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Author-Name: Gregory Dow 
Author-X-Name-First: Gregory 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dow 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 221-227 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000020 
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Author-Name: Ross Emmett 
Author-X-Name-First: Ross 
Author-X-Name-Last: Emmett 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 227-229 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000021 
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Author-Name: Paul Burkett 
Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Burkett 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 230-233 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
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Author-Name: Robert Prasch 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Prasch 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 234-236 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000023 
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Author-Name: Elba Brown-Collier 
Author-X-Name-First: Elba 
Author-X-Name-Last: Brown-Collier 
Title: Johnson's Great Society: Its Legacy in the 1990s 
Abstract:
  The collection of legislative actions proposed and negotiated by Johnson
 included many different programs. The goals, objectives and implementation
 strategies were not clearly defined. Over the past thirty years, the
 success and/or failure of these programs has been discussed with no
 consensus emerging. The historical record of expenditures both as a
 percentage of GDP and as a percentage of federal outlays, however, reveals
 a lasting impact of the &#x201c;Great Society&#x201d; legislation. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 259-276 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: War on Poverty, Great Society, Lyndon B. Johnson, poverty programs, federal outlays, income distribution, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000027 
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Author-Name: Kishor Thanawala 
Author-X-Name-First: Kishor 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thanawala 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 377-378 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000036 
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Author-Name: Ross Emmett 
Author-X-Name-First: Ross 
Author-X-Name-Last: Emmett 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 379-381 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000037 
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Author-X-Name-Last: O'Hara 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 381-386 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000038 
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Author-Name: John Hisnanick 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hisnanick 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 386-389 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000039 
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Author-Name: Jouni Paavola 
Author-X-Name-First: Jouni 
Author-X-Name-Last: Paavola 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 389-393 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000040 
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Author-Name: Edward J. O' Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward J. O' 
Author-X-Name-Last: Boyle 
Title: Minutes of the General Membership Meeting 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 395-398 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000041 
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Author-Name: Maxime Fougere 
Author-X-Name-First: Maxime 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fougere 
Author-Name: Giuseppe Ruggeri 
Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruggeri 
Title: Flat Taxes and Distributional Justice 
Abstract:
  Income tax reform has become a hot topic in both the United States and
 Canada. Over the past few years, a variety of proposals have been advanced
 for the replacement of the current income tax system and most proposals
 involve a compression of the multi-rate structure into a single rate and a
 shift to some form of consumption tax base. Flat taxes are advocated on
 the belief that they will provide a strong stimulus to investment,
 employment and output. Their supporters are convinced that the economic
 benefits are sufficiently large to make everyone better off, therefore
 there is no need to be concerned about the distributional effects of flat
 taxes. However, the claims about potentially large efficiency gains from
 flat taxes are not supported by research. Evaluating the effects of a
 consumption-base flat tax of the type proposed by Hall and Rabushka is one
 of the main purposes of the paper. Using a microdata set for Canada, which
 allows identifying taxpayers by both income level and family type, we show
 that flat taxes not only increase income inequality but also have
 important horizontal equity implications. We argue that a full debate on
 income tax reform requires a detailed evaluation of both polar
 alternatives to the current hybrid income tax: a move to a consumption
 base and a move to a comprehensive income tax. Toward that end, we have
 performed a simulation which estimates the distributional effects of a
 comprehensive income base with across the board rate reductions in order
 to maintain revenue-neutrality. We show that this option has advantages
 over the consumption-base flat tax in terms of both vertical and
 horizontal equity. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 277-294 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: income tax reform, flat taxes, equity, 
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Hodgson 
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodgson 
Title: A Reply to Howard Sherman 
Abstract:
  In the Spring 1998 (56(1): 47-58) issue of this journal, Howard Sherman
 criticized the alleged methodological individualism and critique of
 Marxism by Geoffrey Hodgson. This reply denies that Hodgson is a
 methodological individualist and defends his Veblenian criticism of Marx.
 It is also contended that Marx was not a Darwinian and did not incorporate
 essential Darwinian ideas in his thinking. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 295-306 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: Marxism, Darwinism, Veblen, 
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Author-Name: Howard Sherman 
Author-X-Name-First: Howard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sherman 
Title: Rejoinder to Hodgson 
Abstract:
  Hodgson's critiques of Marxism are irrelevant to most contemporary
 Marxists because they are not economic reductionists, do not believe in
 just two classes locked in continuous battle, and do not have a
 teleological view of history. Hodgson's biological metaphor is very useful
 for the Marxist view of social evolution as a set of relevant questions to
 be asked. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 307-310 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: evolution, institutionalism, Marxism, 
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Author-Name: Zohreh Emami 
Author-X-Name-First: Zohreh 
Author-X-Name-Last: Emami 
Author-Name: Timothy Riordan 
Author-X-Name-First: Timothy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Riordan 
Title: Tony Lawson on Critical Realism: What's Teaching Got to Do with It? 
Abstract:
  In this article we explore the implications of Tony Lawson's critical
 realism for teaching. Rather than offering a critique of Lawson's
 perspective, we use his ideas as they appear to relate to our experience
 as educators in our respective disciplines. In this sense we hope to
 suggest a way of integrating disciplinary scholarship and reflection on
 teaching. Therefore, we emphasize the aspects of Lawson's work which are
 most meaningful to us, namely his attempt to develop a combination of
 epistemological relativism and ontological realism and his emphasis on the
 relationship between social structure and human agency. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 311-323 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: Lawson, transcendental realism, critical realism, social structure, human agency, teaching, 
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Author-Name: Roy Rotheim 
Author-X-Name-First: Roy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rotheim 
Title: On Closed Systems and the Language of Economic Discourse 
Abstract:
  This article addresses a few of the major points identified by Tony
 Lawson in his book Reality and Economics(Routledge 1997). Traditional
 economic models are profoundly closed, emanating from reasoning processes
 that are both deductivist and positivist by nature. Here, individuals are
 prescribed to behave according to mechanical, socially abstracted fashions
 that, in fact, belie any semblance of real human choice. Moreover, as
 Lawson observes, relationality in these models is strictly external, in
 that the natures of individuals are not affected by their participation in
 market activity. Under these conditions, models can be easily constructed
 by which markets yield unique equilibrium outcomes, whereby the constancy
 of the conjunctions of events yield law-like economic assertions. Instead,
 Lawson embraces a critical realist perspective that posits human behavior
 to be both structured and internallyrelational, i.e., where interactions
 with others can affect the very natures of those individuals. As such,
 human relations can be temporally situated in the context of structured
 social contracts, while still embodying the organic elements from which
 those agents and structures can be reproduced and transformed. From these
 principles, this essay explores some recent work in Keynesian and Post
 Keynesian thought. In addition, this critical realist framework considers
 some developments in New Keynesian Economics and Endogenous Growth Theory. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 324-334 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: critical realism, Post and New Keynesian economics, endogenous, growth theory, 
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Author-Name: Alex Viskovatoff 
Author-X-Name-First: Alex 
Author-X-Name-Last: Viskovatoff 
Title: Is Gerard Debreu a Deductivist? Commentary on Tony Lawson's Economics and Reality 
Abstract:
  Tony Lawson has argued that the methodology of neoclassical economics is
 deductivist: in constructing their formal models, economists hope to be
 able to provide explanations based on laws, as described by the
 deductive-nomological model of explanation. This article argues in
 contrast that neoclassical economics cannot be understood as following
 just one methodology. It is argued that neoclassicism exhibits two
 methodologies, one &#x201c;official&#x201d; and one tacit. The former is
 empiricist, and corresponds to the practice that has been described by
 Lawson. The latter, which can be called &#x201c;hypothetico-deductive
 rationalism&#x201d;, amounts to the position that knowledge of the world
 can be obtained without any empirical verification of one's assumptions,
 simply by exploring the implications of the assumptions one makes. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 335-346 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: Deductivism, formalism, rationalism, models, economic theory, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000033 
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Author-Name: Allin Cottrell 
Author-X-Name-First: Allin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cottrell 
Title: Realism, Regularities, and Prediction 
Abstract:
  Problems are identified with the transcendental argument that Lawson uses
 to make a case for realism in economics: this argument relies heavily upon
 an unproblematized conception of Free Will. Lawson's substantive
 conclusions are not vitiated, but the argument presented here suggests
 that he underestimates the role of regularities and prediction in
 economics. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 347-355 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: scientific realism, economics, prediction, 
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Author-Name: Deborah Figart 
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Figart 
Author-Name: Lonnie Golden 
Author-X-Name-First: Lonnie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Golden 
Title: The Social Economics of Work Time: Introduction 
Abstract:
  How do social economists conceptualize and analyze time, particularly
 time spent in paid employment? In this symposium regarding this quite
 &#x201c;timely&#x201d;" issue, it is evident that social economics views
 work time as something more than its presentation in neoclassical
 economics. For neoclassical economists, time is a scarce resource that,
 when commodified as labor, serves as a factor of production and means to
 the end of consumption for optimizing firms, individuals, and families. It
 is also more than the radical political economics understanding of time as
 the yardstick measuring the value created by labor. Instead, time spent on
 the job is all at once a source of income, personal identity, and relative
 status within society, the workplace and household, and a constraint on
 individuals' ability to pursue self-directed activities and social
 reproduction. Work time is determined within a complex web of evolving
 culture and social relations, as well as traditionally conceived market,
 technological, and macroeconomic forces and institutions such as
 collective bargaining and government policy. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 411-424 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
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Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Drago 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 551-554 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000051 
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Author-Name: David George 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: George 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 554-557 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000052 
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Author-Name: Cathleen Zick 
Author-X-Name-First: Cathleen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zick 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 557-560 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000053 
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Author-Name: Laura Leete 
Author-X-Name-First: Laura 
Author-X-Name-Last: Leete 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 560-562 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000054 
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Author-Name: Kea Tijdens 
Author-X-Name-First: Kea 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tijdens 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 562-566 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000055 
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Author-Name: Barry Bluestone 
Author-X-Name-First: Barry 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bluestone 
Author-Name: Stephen Rose 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rose 
Title: The Macroeconomics of Work Time 
Abstract:
  In this paper we demonstrate that because of stagnating wages and rising
 job insecurity, there has been a change in the labor supply regime in the
 U.S. macroeconomy since the 1970s. There is now greater labor supply at
 any given officially measured unemployment rate. This induced growth in
 the quantity of labor effort is coming from experienced, incumbent workers
 and therefore does not show up in the official unemployment rate. While
 this may diminish family and community life, the increased aggregate labor
 supply means rising aggregate demand is being absorbed even at
 unemployment rates of less than 5 percent without sparking inflationary
 pressures. Because of this upward structural trend in weekly hours,
 monetary policy authorities must now recognize that standard jobless
 measures have become a misleading gauge of available labor. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 425-441 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: labor supply, working time, monetary policy, job insecurity, job instability, 
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Author-Name: Jerry Jacobs 
Author-X-Name-First: Jerry 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs 
Author-Name: Kathleen Green 
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Green 
Title: Who Are the Overworked Americans? 
Abstract:
  This paper analyzes three trends in working time in the United States
 over the last thirty years. First, we document an increasing bifurcation
 of working time, with growth evident among those working both long and
 short hours. An international comparison also shows that the United States
 stands out as having among the highest percentage of workers putting in 50
 hours per week or more. Second, we argue that there is a mismatch between
 working time and the preferences of American workers. On average, those
 working very long hours express a desire to work less, while those working
 short hours prefer to work more. Third, we maintain that the sense of
 being overworked stems primarily from demographic shifts in the labor
 force rather than from changes in average working time per se. Even in the
 absence of a dramatic rise in time spent on the job, the growth in the
 proportion of American households consisting of dual-earner couples and
 single parents has created a growing percentage of workers who face
 heightened time pressures and increased conflicts between work and their
 private lives. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 442-459 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: working time, work-family conflict, over work, under work, dualearners, time famine, 
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Author-Name: Deborah Figart 
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Figart 
Author-Name: Ellen Mutari 
Author-X-Name-First: Ellen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mutari 
Title: Degendering Work Time in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Policy Frameworks 
Abstract:
  Policy initiatives providing for alternative working time arrangements as
 well as a shortened standard work week have become prevalent in recent
 years, especially among the highly industrialized countries of northern
 Europe. We find that despite institutional differences, Germany, France,
 and Sweden have adopted policies that explicitly or implicitly contribute
 to the gendering of work time. Increasingly, what differentiates gender
 roles is not whetherindividuals have a job, but the amount of timespent in
 paid employment. The expansion of overtime for men and part-time jobs for
 women reinforces the skewed division of domestic labor and occupational
 segregation. European unions are acquiescing to work reorganization
 policies that promote the expansion of both part-time and overtime as long
 as these policies are coupled with measures facilitating work
 redistribution to save jobs. Broader visions of work reduction as a means
 to gender equity have been shunted to the background. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 460-480 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: work time, European Union, women's employment, part-time work, flexibility, labor market policy, 
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Author-Name: Linda Bell 
Author-X-Name-First: Linda 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bell 
Title: Differences in Work Hours and Hours Preferences by Race in the U.S. 
Abstract:
  Significant differences exist in actual and preferred work hours by race.
 Specifically, black males work 20 percent fewer annual hours than white
 males. The differences between black and white women are small. Black
 workers are significantly more likely than white workers to prefer
 additional work and fewer are satisfied with their current hours of work.
 I use the hours-inequality hypothesis of Bell and Freeman (1995,1997) to
 evaluate the extent to which race differences in work hours and hours
 preferences are related to race differences in incentives. I demonstrate
 that whereas white workers work longer hours in response to overall wage
 variation in their relevant labor market cell, black workers react to the
 wage variation among black workers but not to the variation overall. The
 fact that labor market incentives are different for otherwise similar
 black and white workers is difficult to reconcile with standard
 competitive theory. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 481-500 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: work hours, labor supply, race differences, wage inequality, hours preferences, 
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Author-Name: Julia Heath 
Author-X-Name-First: Julia 
Author-X-Name-Last: Heath 
Author-Name: David Ciscel 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ciscel 
Author-Name: David Sharp 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sharp 
Title: The Work of Families: The Provision of Market and Household labor and the Role of Public Policy 
Abstract:
  This paper examines the ability of the family to perform both its
 economic and institutional functions in today's economy. We argue that
 individual and family choice with respect to paid and unpaid labor is
 severely limited. This lack of alternatives in work is generated by three
 social forces that shape the economic landscape: (1) a tradition rooted in
 patriarchy; (2) the market system; and (3) the social policies of the
 state. We create a framework within which the work of families can be
 analyzed over the past two decades. The analysis is based on data from
 three waves of the PSID: 1972, 1983, and 1992. Three family
 types&#x2014;dual-earner, male-earner, and female-earner family
 structures&#x2014;are examined for the nature and intensity of the work
 effort, the change in labor commitment over time, changes in real income
 and hourly earnings, and the effect of the increasing encroachment of the
 market on the family's distribution of labor between the two spheres.
 Finally, the work of families is examined within the context of the social
 policies of government, including a review of the institutional
 difficulties of providing family friendly policies in the current social
 environment. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 501-521 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
Keywords: work of families, paid and unpaid work, social capital, family wage, work hours, family policy, 
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Author-Name: Lonnie Golden 
Author-X-Name-First: Lonnie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Golden 
Title: Working Time and the Impact of Policy Institutions: Reforming the Overtime Hours Law and Regulation 
Abstract:
  This paper analyzes implications for worker well-being if legislation in
 the U.S. Congress is passed permitting employers and non-supervisory
 employees who agree to substitute future compensatory time off in lieu of
 premium pay for overtime work, calculated over an 80-hour two-week
 standard. The impact on worker welfare is predicted applying augmented
 worker utility and employer demand for hours functions. Plausible
 inter-temporal scenarios suggest that unless workers gain more control
 over the timing of their overtime and comp time hours, they are likely to
 experience a net loss in welfare. This will occur to the extent employers
 use the new overtime regulation to vary work hours and schedules more
 closely with fluctuations in output demand as opposed to better
 customizing work hours to fit workers' needs to balance work with
 competing demands on their time, that is, adopting a short rather than
 longer-run time horizon regarding the restraint of labor costs.
 Alternative policies are more likely to raise welfare. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 522-541 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000048 
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Author-Name: Ellen Mutari 
Author-X-Name-First: Ellen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mutari 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 543-546 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000049 
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Author-Name: Thomas Palley 
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Palley 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 546-550 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 56 
Year: 1998 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769800000050 
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Author-Name: Lanse Minkler 
Author-X-Name-First: Lanse 
Author-X-Name-Last: Minkler 
Title: The Problem with Utility: Toward a Non-Consequentialist/Utility Theory Synthesis 
Abstract:
  I develop the argument that our current decision-making framework,
 utility theory, when used by itself, is 1) descriptively incomplete, 2)
 theoretically flawed, and 3) ethically questionable. In response, I offer
 an exploratory framework that incorporates both consequentialist and
 non-consequentialist motivations. Adding a commitment function provides a
 synthesis which remedies the problems associated with the sole use of
 utility theory. Finally, I show how philosophers Immanuel Kant, W.D. Ross,
 and Martin Buber provide an ethical basis for the framework. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 4-24 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Utility, commitment, duty, consequentialism, non-consequentialism, ethics, 
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Author-Name: Severyn Bruyn 
Author-X-Name-First: Severyn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bruyn 
Title: The Moral Economy 
Abstract:
  Scottish philosophers in the eighteenth century interpreted the market
 economy as a &#x201c;civil society,&#x201d; a path toward freedom and a
 new morality, separate from monarchal government. They expected markets to
 be self regulating and expected them to function with ties to a moral
 life. The market was a civil order, but that vision was destroyed when
 corporations rose to power in succeeding centuries, and governments were
 enlarged to regulate markets. Today we see a concern about big
 corporations and government bureaucracy, and a return to the idea of a
 &#x201c;civil society.&#x201d; This article proposes that today's vision
 of &#x201c;civil society&#x201d; is advanced by an economy that returns to
 its principles of self (civil) regulation. Markets become civil and self
 regulating when government, business, and nonprofits cooperate to create
 systems of social accountability for the common good. A self-regulating
 market is constructed experimentally through civil associations with
 self-enforceable codes of conduct, civic-oriented partnerships,
 legislation, banking, investments, and corporations whose policies are
 based on stakeholder studies that reduce moral and financial costs. Modest
 steps toward a self-regulating economy offers a foundation for today's
 version of a &#x201c;civil society.&#x201d; 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 25-46 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: civil society, self regulation, civil markets, common goods, countervailing powers, social inventions, stakeholder theory, 
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Author-Name: Milan Zafirovski 
Author-X-Name-First: Milan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zafirovski 
Title: Profit-Making as Social Action: an Alternative Social-economic Perspective 
Abstract:
  This article reconsiders the status of profit-making in neoclassical
 economics. This reconsideration is based on a social-economic perspective
 as distinguished from the &#x201c;pure&#x201d; economic approach used by
 neoclassical theory. This paper argues that this perspective is more
 adequate, since it endeavors to do justice to the complexity of the
 phenomenon. While the economic approach views profit-making as a purely
 economic activity insulated from the social framework, the social-economic
 sees it as an "ideal type" of social action and thus situates it within
 this framework. In contrast to the former approach that treats
 profit-making as driven exclusively by rational factors, the latter
 conceptualizes it as being induced by a myriad of variables, rational and
 non-rational ones. The paper elaborates these differences between the two
 approaches. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 47-83 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Profit-making, social-economic, social action, neoclassical, rational, 
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Author-Name: William Dugger 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dugger 
Title: Old Age is an Institution 
Abstract:
  Corporations institutionalize managerial and professional positions in a
 hierarchical pyramid in which many young professionals begin work at a
 lower and wider level of the pyramid where positions are numerous.
 However, as the professionals start climbing up the pyramid in their
 careers, the number of positions rapidly declines at higher levels. The
 pyramid gets narrower as the professionals climb up into fewer and fewer
 positions. Since they usually either move up or out in their career climb,
 as the young professionals begin aging, more and more of them are forced
 out to look for jobs elsewhere or eventually, to retire. This article
 develops a simple model that shows how this particular way of organizing
 work results in premature retirement and aging for many workers.
 Alternative ways of organizing work are discussed in which premature aging
 and retirement do not take place. Furthermore, a number of implications
 are explored and various projections made all of which show that the
 so-called future crisis in the Social Security and Medicare Systems in the
 United States is exaggerated. If reform is really needed, what is called
 for is adjustment in the way work is organized, not abandonment of
 security for the elderly. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 84-98 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Corporate hierarchy, Social security, Old age, Retirement, 
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Author-Name: John Cameron 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cameron 
Author-Name: Tidings Ndhlovu 
Author-X-Name-First: Tidings 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ndhlovu 
Title: Keynes and the Distribution of Uncertainty: Lessons from the Lancashire Cotton Spinning Industry and the General Theory 
Abstract:
  This paper attempts to demonstrate that Keynes's practical writings on
 the crisis in the Lancashire cotton spinning industry in the 1920s were
 consistent with the 1930s theoretical conceptualisation of user costs in
 the General Theory. It is suggested that the key (common) link between
 these analyses is Keynes's concern with how uncertainty is distributed, in
 specific historical circumstances, between institutions at the levels of
 the firm, industry, the industry-financial institution interface, and the
 local and global economies. It is this concern which still has important,
 if not more, research and policy relevance today. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 99-123 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: General theory, Institutional, Keynes, Lancashire cotton industry, Uncertainty, User costs, 
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Author-Name: John Gowdy 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gowdy 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 124-127 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000029 
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Author-Name: Mario Seccareccia 
Author-X-Name-First: Mario 
Author-X-Name-Last: Seccareccia 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 127-131 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000030 
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Author-Name: Edward O'Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Boyle 
Title: Minutes of the Executive Council Meeting Association for Social Economics July 24,1998 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 134-137 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000031 
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Author-Name: Mary Hampton 
Author-X-Name-First: Mary 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hampton 
Author-Name: John Heywood 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Heywood 
Title: The Determinants of Perceived Underpayment: The Role of Racial Comparisons 
Abstract:
  Using a sample of young employed physicians, the determinants of
 perceived underpayment are examined for both white and minority workers.
 The examination confirms the importance of earnings comparisons within
 racial groups but also finds a substantial role for comparisons between
 racial groups. Workers apparently perceive racial earnings differences (as
 measured by economists) and build them into an assessment of the fairness
 of their labor market treatment. This finding emerges for both whites and
 minorities and occurs in a sample in which the pattern of earnings
 indicates a modest minority earnings premium. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 141-155 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: comparison income, perceived underpayment, measured discrimination, young physicians, 
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Author-Name: John Tiemstra 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tiemstra 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 256-258 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000042 
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Author-Name: Ralph Allen 
Author-X-Name-First: Ralph 
Author-X-Name-Last: Allen 
Author-Name: Jack Stone 
Author-X-Name-First: Jack 
Author-X-Name-Last: Stone 
Title: Market and Public Policy Mechanisms in Poverty Reduction: The Differential Effects on Poverty Crime 
Abstract:
  This paper reports the results of an empirical test of the hypothesis
 that three mechanisms of poverty reduction-improved market opportunities,
 government cash transfer payments, and government in-kind transfer
 payments have differential impacts on the relative return to legal and
 illegal activity and, in turn, on the rate of property crime. In addition,
 the paper reports empirical tests of the hypothesis that these
 differential impacts of market and government policy mechanisms vary by
 type of property crime. Employing measures of each of these mechanisms,
 time series models for Burglary, Auto Theft, and Robbery are estimated
 from yearly, national, Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data for the period 1959
 through 1995. The results indicate that poverty reductions due to improved
 market conditions have similar impacts on each type of property crime.
 However, the direction and magnitude of the impact of different government
 policy mechanisms varies between and within particular types of crimes.
 The paper concludes with an application of these findings to recent
 legislation, The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Act (TANF), which
 overhauled the federal public assistance program. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 156-173 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Property crime, proverty, public policy, TANE in-kind transfers, cash transfers, 
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Author-Name: Philip Arestis 
Author-X-Name-First: Philip 
Author-X-Name-Last: Arestis 
Title: Introduction 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 174-176 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000034 
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Author-Name: Bruce Pietrykowski 
Author-X-Name-First: Bruce 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pietrykowski 
Title: Beyond the Fordist/Post-Fordist Dichotomy: Working Through The Second Industrial Divide 
Abstract:
  The publication of The Second Industrial Dividehelped to initiate a
 sustained inquiry into the transformation of work under industrial
 capitalism in the late twentieth century. The argument that the breakdown
 of Fordist mass production ushered in a new production paradigm in the
 shape of flexible systems of work organization is reexamined. The dominant
 role of high-volume mass production and its craft-based counterpart can
 continue to coexist well into the future. Nevertheless, current income and
 employment trends appear to disadvantage the traditional blue-collar
 Fordist worker and industrial unions. The cause of these trends may not,
 however, be directly linked to skills associated with computer technology.
 Finally, the type of flexibility most closely associated with the work of
 Piore and Sabel&#x2014;flexible specialization&#x2014;is discussed. It is
 argued that flexible specialization within industrial districts that (a)
 foster the development of socially informed economic action and (b)
 constrain competitive behavior may form the basis for the creation of
 different employment opportunities that challenge the dominant logic of
 capitalist development through which flexible employment strategies are
 used in tandem with corporate downsizing and increased managerial control. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 177-198 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Fordism, flexible specialization, industrial district, work organization, employment, skill, 
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Author-Name: M. G. Marshall 
Author-X-Name-First: M. G. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Marshall 
Title: Flexible Specialization, Supply-Side Institutionalism, and the Nature of Work Systems 
Abstract:
  Alongside neo-classical supply-side analysis, there was the emergence in
 the 1980s of a new strand of anlysis seeking to develop a
 social-institutional perspective on the supply-side of modern industrial
 economies. This paper contrasts the views of labor market 'flexibility'
 provided by neo-classical analysts and supporters of deregulation with
 those of the Flexible Specialization and Diversified Quality Production
 theorists and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Flexible
 Specialization in comparison to its main 'institutionalist' rival. It
 concludes that the anlysis of 'supply-side institutionalism' and the
 evidence provided by important empirically based studies, suggests that
 public policy directed towards: optimizing job training, promoting
 employee participation and inter-firm co-operation, and restricting the
 ability of firms to indulge in short-termism will be most productive in
 promoting the cause of socially progressive industrial production and
 'goodwork'. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 199-219 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Flexible specialization, diversified quality production, supply-side institutionalism, works systems, labor market flexibility, quality of work, 
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Author-Name: Pascal Petit 
Author-X-Name-First: Pascal 
Author-X-Name-Last: Petit 
Title: Structural Forms and Growth Regimes of the Post-Fordist Era 
Abstract:
  A theoretical anlysis of contemporary institutional changes in the
 developed economies is attempted in order to characterize what a post
 fordist growth regime could be. One starts to recall some stylized facts
 about the present growth regime, i.e. about the contemporary dynamics of
 productivity on one side and of demand formation on the other side. We
 then discuss the main theoretical tools provided by the Regulation theory
 to analyse the institutional nexus which frames the growth regimes. The
 analytical framework of institutional change that we derive insist on the
 predominance at each period of one of the five structural forms that are
 distinguished by the Regulation School. As did the dynamics of
 institutional changes with the wage labor relationships in the previous
 period, today's evolutions of the forms of competition (broadly taken)
 condition all institutional changes. This gives us a general grid to
 define the features of a post Fordist regime. Still differences in history
 and structures leave room for sizeable differentiation in the national
 trajectories of the developed economies, all the more so that competition
 between nation States much prevent them to launch the structural policies
 that would be relevant with the new regime. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 220-243 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Institutional change, economic growth, regulation theory, growth regimes, post Fordism, 
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Author-Name: Judy Klein 
Author-X-Name-First: Judy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Klein 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 244-247 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000038 
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Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 247-249 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000039 
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Author-Name: Christine Rider 
Author-X-Name-First: Christine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rider 
Title: Art, Ethics, and Economics 
Abstract:
  A comparison of the neoclassical and the social economics paradigms,
 showing that the explicit inclusion of values enhances the explanatory
 value of social economics. This is illustrated by using literary examples
 to explain the difficulty the competitive model has in providing analyses
 and solutions for modern problems of product safety, natural resource
 overexploitation, urban congestion, and stakeholder rights. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 263-277 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Social economics, neoclassical economics, globalization, economic paradigms, competitive model, methodology, values, non-mainstream economics, moral hazard, whistleblower, privatization, congestion, pollution, corporate governance, 
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Author-Name: John Heywood 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Heywood 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 403-405 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000010 
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Author-Name: Mark Setterfield 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: Setterfield 
Title: Book Review 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 405-410 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000011 
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Author-Name: Patrick Primeaux 
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Primeaux 
Title: Book Review 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 410-412 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000012 
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Author-Name: John Connor 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Connor 
Title: A Task for Economists 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 278-280 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000002 
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Author-Name: Edward O'Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Boyle 
Title: Toward an Improved Definition of Poverty 
Abstract:
  This essay attempts to show that there is a satisfactory resolution to
 the long-standing controversy as to the whether poverty is measured
 strictly in terms of a minimal-living (or absolute) standard or an
 income-distribution (or relative) standard, a resolution which is based on
 the duality of human nature. Indeed such a two-dimensional definition of
 poverty already is in place in Ireland&#x2014;the first place (it seems)
 to actually sort out this controversial matter. In that sense, this
 author's principal concern is with the fourthquestion raised by this
 symposium: &#x201c;What assumptions and definitions underlie your
 estimates which you believe to be especially important?&#x201d; This essay
 is relatively short in length in order to present its central message more
 forcefully: substantial improvement in the way poverty is officially
 defined and measured is possible if more careful consideration is given to
 the reason why poverty is two-dimensional. An Appendix on how poverty is
 defined and measured in Ireland is attached because the arguments
 presented in the discourse there are relevant to the discourse on poverty
 in the United States. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 281-301 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Absolute poverty, Relative poverty, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000003 
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Author-Name: Robert Rector 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rector 
Author-Name: Kirk Johnson 
Author-X-Name-First: Kirk 
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson 
Author-Name: Sarah Youssef 
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Youssef 
Title: Response to Edward O'Boyle Article 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 302-305 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000004 
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Author-Name: John Bishop 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bishop 
Author-Name: John Formby 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Formby 
Author-Name: Buhong Zheng 
Author-X-Name-First: Buhong 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zheng 
Title: Distribution Sensitive Measures of Poverty in the United States 
Abstract:
  This paper develops and applies new measures of poverty that overcome a
 number of specific methodological flaws in the official US poverty
 statistics. Sen's distribution sensitive index of poverty and each of its
 components are estimated at several distinct poverty thresholds for the
 period 1961-1996. Distribution sensitive measures of urban poverty are
 corrected for interarea differences in the cost of living and for
 comprehensive incomes. Recently developed statistical inference procedures
 are applied. Official poverty statistics are shown to be seriously
 misleading in some time periods and the choice of a poverty line affects
 conclusions concerning changes in poverty. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 306-343 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: poverty, distribution sensitive, time series, urban areas, 
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Author-Name: Edward O'Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Boyle 
Title: Distribution Sensitive Measures Of Poverty In The United States: Comment 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 344-350 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000006 
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Author-Name: Robert Rector 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rector 
Author-Name: Kirk Johnson 
Author-X-Name-First: Kirk 
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson 
Author-Name: Sarah Youssef 
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Youssef 
Title: The Extent of Material Hardship and Poverty in the United States 
Abstract:
  The Census Bureau has estimated the nation's annual poverty rate since
 1963 using data from the Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS)
 conducted in March of each year. Census deems a household
 &#x201c;poor&#x201d; if annual income falls below specified income
 thresholds. There are two problems with this methodology. First, the
 Current Population Survey dramatically undercounts household economic
 resources. Second, the fact that household income falls below a specific
 level reveals little about the nature of material deprivation within the
 household. This paper will take an alternative approach to assessing
 poverty: examining the material living conditions of low-income Americans.
 Using data from various government surveys this paper examines ownership
 of property and consumer durables; housing space, and housing conditions;
 food and nutriment consumption; and the height, thinness and obesity of
 low-income persons. Finally, we attempt an overall assessment of material
 deprivation based on material living conditions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 351-387 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: poverty, living conditions, housing, hunger, income, malnutrition, 
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Author-Name: John Bishop 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bishop 
Author-Name: John Formby 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Formby 
Author-Name: Buhong Zheng 
Author-X-Name-First: Buhong 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zheng 
Title: Extent of Material Hardship and Poverty in the United States&#x2014;Comment 
Abstract:
  This paper comments on the work of Rector et al. (1999a, 1999b). The
 poverty lines implicit in their restrictive material deprivation approach
 are disputed and the claim that America has triumphed over poverty is
 rejected. Evidence is presented showing that poverty among the poorest
 Americans has significantly increased and is now near an all time high.
 The long economic expansion since the recession of 1990-1991 has left
 hardcore poverty essentially unchanged and relative deprivation among the
 poorest of the poor has increased 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 388-399 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: material deprivation, relative deprivation, hardcore poverty, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000008 
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Author-Name: William Van Lear 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Lear 
Title: Book Review 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 400-403 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000009 
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Author-Name: Anthony Scaperlanda 
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Scaperlanda 
Title: Matters of Economic Justice 
Abstract:
  Economic justice is an important subject to be studied by academics. It
 is also central to public policy debates on such issues as the need for
 adequate wages, the prevalence of poverty, and the adverse impacts of the
 globalization of production. Questions of economic justice are
 fundamentally questions about the ethics of income distribution. This is
 an introduction to a volume devoted to matters of economic justice. In it,
 I establish the importance of the subject, briefly describe the six
 articles in the volume, and present a set of principles and selected
 suggested readings to guide future discussions and study of economic
 justice. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 419-426 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Economic justice, equity, globalization, heterodox economists, ideology, poverty, stewardship, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000014 
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Author-Name: Morris Altman 
Author-X-Name-First: Morris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Altman 
Title: The Methodology of Economics and the Survival Principle Revisited and Revised: Some Welfare and Public Policy Implications of Modeling the Economic Agent 
Abstract:
  The focus of this paper is on the survival principle, as articulated by
 Milton Friedman, that dominates the methodology of the conventional wisdom
 either explicitly or implicitly. The survival principle is revised
 applying the behavioral approach to economics, which differs fundamentally
 with Friedman's methodology. This discussion is contextualized by a
 comparison of the different approaches to the modeling of economic agents
 and the substantive implications of this for theory and public policy and
 thereby for economic welfare and economic justice. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 427-449 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Survivor principle, x-efficiency, behavioral economics, assumptions, welfare, 
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Author-Name: Hans. Jensen 
Author-X-Name-First: Hans. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen 
Title: The Development of T.R. Malthus's Institutionlist Approach to the Cure of Proverty: From Punishment of the Poor to Investment in Their Human Capital 
Abstract:
  William Godwin had a dual influence on Thomas Robert Malthus. First,
 Malthus wrote the premier (1798) edition of his Essay on the Principle of
 Population to refute Godwin's thesis that institutional reforms could halt
 the growth of population and thereby pave the way toward universal
 affluence. There were only two checks on population, said Malthus in 1798:
 vice and misery. Second, pursuant to his discovery of virtuous checks on
 population in Scandinavia, Malthus reread Godwin's principal works. He now
 accepted Godwin's dual proposition that population growth could be
 stopped, even reversed, by the virtuous check of moral restraint and that
 this check could be made operational through institutional realignment. In
 the second (1803) edition of his Essay, Malthus argued, therefore, that
 poverty could be replaced by prosperity through institutional changes in
 the form of the introduction of universal education and gradual abolition
 of the poor law. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 450-465 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: institutional reforms, Godwin, Malthus, misery, moral restraint, vice, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000016 
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Author-Name: Robert Prasch 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Prasch 
Author-Name: Falguni Sheth 
Author-X-Name-First: Falguni 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sheth 
Title: The Economics and Ethics of Minimum Wage Legislation 
Abstract:
  Recent empirical studies have led the economics profession to question
 the proposition that minimum wage legislation necessarily leads to greater
 unemployment. This paper extends the analysis of these studies by
 providing several theoretical reasons why these empirical results may
 reflect a larger truth. Moreover, it addresses a relatively neglected
 aspect of the minimum wage debate - its ethical dimensions. Specifically,
 do the elementary principles of economic justice mandate that employees
 who &#x201c;play by the rules&#x201d;, should earn a &#x201c;living
 wage&#x201d;? This paper argues that the minimum wage is a successful
 economic policy that is consistent with economic justice. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 466-487 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000017 
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Author-Name: John Davis 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Davis 
Title: Is Trade Liberalization an Important Cause of Increasing U.S. Wage Inequality? The Interaction of Theory and Policy 
Abstract:
  The majority of mainstream economists believe that globalization and
 trade liberalization have had a minor role in increasing U.S. wage
 inequality. A minority argues that capital mobility and outsourcing
 indicate a larger effect. This paper first surveys these views, and then
 argues that how we understand the policy consequences of trade
 liberalization helps determine the character of our analysis of the issue
 itself. Thus, a shift in policy perspective, to consider the "equity
 costs" of trade liberalization in terms of eroded U.S. labor market
 institutions, produces a larger framework for analyzing the consequences
 of globalization and trade liberalization than is available in traditional
 comparative advantage efficiency reasoning. From this wider perspective,
 trade liberalization has likely had a greater impact on U.S. wage
 inequality than even the minority mainstream position allows. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 488-506 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: globalization, trade liberalization, wage inequality, outsourcing, equity costs, institutions, comparative advantage, 
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Author-Name: Brent McClintock 
Author-X-Name-First: Brent 
Author-X-Name-Last: McClintock 
Title: The Multinational Corporation and Social Justice: Experiments in Supranational Governance 
Abstract:
  The multinational corporation (MNC) is dichotomous in nature. While on
 the one hand it is a vehicle for private capital accumulation, when
 socially-embedded it may serve as a means to further social provisioning
 and social justice. A social economics approach to the MNC is developed to
 incorporate both private and social transaction costs in international
 production and trade where the divergence in these costs may require
 collective action to mitigate the effects of social dislocation. These
 issues are illustrated by experiments in corporate codes of conduct
 related to child labor and environmental sustainability. Since corporate
 codes may be insufficient to socially embed the activities of MNCs,
 efforts to develop supranational governance mechanisms to better achieve
 social justice are also considered. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 507-522 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Multinational corporation, social justice, corporate codes of conduct, child labor, transaction costs, supranational governance, 
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Author-Name: Michael Scaperlanda 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Scaperlanda 
Title: Immigration Justice: Beyond Liberal Egalitarian and Communitarian Perspectives 
Abstract:
  Immigration law resides within a complex web of interconnected political,
 cultural, and economic realities. Politically the world is organized
 around nation states, which exercise the legal authority to control their
 borders. Multiple factors push people into emigrating from their country
 of origin or pull people toward immigrating to particular countries. Given
 historic migration patterns and the fluidity of national borders, cultures
 transcend these boundaries, creating demand for transnational mobility.
 The global economy coupled with disparate economic opportunities between
 nations spurs immigration. War, civil unrest, and natural disasters also
 contribute to the international movement of peoples. In this article, I
 explore the foundations of a socially just immigration regime. Part one
 provides an overview of the push-pull factors influencing the decision of
 individuals and families to migrate. Part two places these decisions
 within the context of United States immigration law, exploring both the
 statutory and con-stitutional restrictions on entry into the United
 States. Part three examines the difficulties inherent in attempts to
 develop a coherent and just immigration policy out of liberal political
 theory or the communitarian response. In Part four, I place the
 immigration justice issue within the framework of Roman Catholic social
 teaching, concluding that such a framework provides a secure basis for
 constructing a just immigration jurisprudence. Finally, Part five briefly
 reflects on the justness of current United States immigration law in light
 of the theory developed in Part four. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 523-542 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
Keywords: Immigration, Natural Law, Constitution, Catholic, Communitarian, Liberal Egalitarian, 
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Author-Name: Julie Nelson 
Author-X-Name-First: Julie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nelson 
Title: Call for Papers Feminist Philosophies of Love and Work 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 545-546 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 57 
Year: 1999 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346769900000021 
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Author-Name: John Murray 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Murray 
Title: Communal Viability and Employment of Non-Member Labor: Testing Hypotheses with Historical Data 
Abstract:
  A well developed body of theory associates the employment of non-member
 labor by collective organisations with their eventual dissolution.
 Manuscript and published data on hiring of outside laborers by nineteenth
 century American religious communes allows for tests of two propositions
 taken from this literature: that employment of non-members increased over
 time and that such employment was responsible for the communes' eventual
 demise. The first was upheld but no evidence was found to support the
 second. In fact, employment of non-members was found instead to be
 associated with communal prosperity, in economic, religious, and survival
 terms. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-16 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Commune Employment Shakers, 
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Author-Name: Robert Bennett 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bennett 
Title: The Logic of Membership of Sectoral Business Associations 
Abstract:
  This paper assesses the logic of membership of sectoral business
 associations in Britain using evidence from a proportionate stratified
 random sample of associations. The British system gives no statuatory
 status to business associations. As a result the size and fragmentation of
 associations is similar to the US, membership of associations is
 interpreted in terms of the logic of specific business service demand and
 the logic of collective activities. Expectations from models of collective
 action, associability and involvement are used to interpret association
 membership. The paper argues that the normal distinction between
 associations as trade, professional or "peak" bodies is too simplistic in
 not properly differentiating the types of member. The paper employs
 instead a set of six categories dependent on the type of members:
 companies, owner-managers, the self-employed, and individuals, as well as
 bodies with mixed membership, and federations (which are associations of
 associations). Survey evidence demonstrates that member motives for
 joining, lapsing and constraining service development differ significantly
 between association types and tend most strongly to emphasise the logic of
 individual services as complements to the logic collective activity.
 Analysis of the rates of joining and lapsing membership show evidence of
 reluctance to join and high rates of lapsing. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 17-42 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Collective Services, Business Services, Business Representation, Competitiveness, Business Associations, 
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Author-Name: Oren Levin-Waldman 
Author-X-Name-First: Oren 
Author-X-Name-Last: Levin-Waldman 
Title: Minimum Wage and Justice? 
Abstract:
  The debate over the minimum wage is often conducted on a technical level,
 primarily focusing on the effects of wage increases. In recent years the
 debate has often been between those who maintain that increases in the
 minimum wage will result in disemployment, particularly among teenagers,
 on the one hand and those who maintain that increases will offer much
 needed assistance to the poor on the other. Lost in this focus have been
 serious discussions of the ethical grounds for such a policy. Core to the
 issue of the minimum wage are questions of justice and the type of society
 we would like to create. This article argues that the technical approach
 to the minimum wage so often taken is an outgrowth of a particular
 conception of justice, one predicted on liberal neutrality. A different
 conception of justice would enable us to view the minimum wage as but one
 tool for achieving other social objectives. Moreover, a justice approach
 to the minimum wage would enable us to consider our values because we
 would be required to engage in a more philosophically grounded discussion
 of the policy and the issues it raises. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 43-62 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Minimum Wage, Justice, American Liberal Tradition, Liberalism, Values, Self-Sufficiency, Mutuality, Common Project, 
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Author-Name: Ward Morehouse 
Author-X-Name-First: Ward 
Author-X-Name-Last: Morehouse 
Author-Name: Stuart Speiser 
Author-X-Name-First: Stuart 
Author-X-Name-Last: Speiser 
Author-Name: Ken Taylor 
Author-X-Name-First: Ken 
Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor 
Title: The Universal Capitalism Movement in the United States 
Abstract:
  Ideas on how to make the fruits of capitalism more braodly enjoyed are
 not new. A rich body of thought exists advocating a redefinition of
 socioeconomic mechanisms to this end within the context of private
 property. This article traces the evolution of this thinking within the
 United States from before the American Revolution to the present. The
 culmination of this intellectual tradition is the universal stock
 ownership plan (USOP). The means of, and prospects for, experimenting with
 such an initiative are discussed. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 63-80 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Capitalism, Economic Democracy, Universal Capitalism, Universalstock Ownership, Economic Equality, Distribution Of Income, Distribution Of Wealth, Economic Evolution, Economic Opportunity, Economic Rights, Economic Justice, American Economic History, 
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Author-Name: John Hisnanick 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hisnanick 
Author-Name: Dale Coddington 
Author-X-Name-First: Dale 
Author-X-Name-Last: Coddington 
Title: The Immunisation Status of Poor Children: An Analysis of Parental Altruism and Child Well-Being 
Abstract:
  One out of every five children in the United States is growing up in a
 household where the family income is at or below the poverty threshold.
 The stress of poverty creates heighten parental stress, straining their
 capacity to provide warmth, understanding, and guidance for their
 children. The lack of an adequate income simply may not allow parents to
 focus their time and energies on parenting; rather, they are constantly
 struggling to survive. From an economic viewpoint, poverty 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 81-107 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Immunisation Status, Poverrty, Parental Alturism, 
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Author-Name: Gary Mongiovi 
Author-X-Name-First: Gary 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mongiovi 
Title: Shackle on Equilibrium: A Critique 
Abstract:
  This paper presents a critical evaluation of Shackle's views on economic
 method. Shackle's arguments against equilibrium analysis are shown to
 apply to orthodox theory, which has subjectivist foundations, but not to
 the objectivist classical approach associated with Sraffa. The long-period
 equilibrium method is indispensable to the analysis of how market
 societies function. Moreover, since the classical theory contains no trace
 of the factor substitution mechanisms that underpin neoclassical
 orthodoxy, its explanations of distribution, employment and outputs must
 take explicit account of institutions, power and ethical norms. Thus there
 is no conflict between social economics and the method of the classical
 economists and Sraffa. On the contrary, the classical approach provides a
 rigorous framework for the investigation of the very issues that are at
 the center of institutional and social economics. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 108-124 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Shackle, Sraffa, Equilibrium, Uncertainty, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/003467600363138 
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Author-Name: Warren Samuels 
Author-X-Name-First: Warren 
Author-X-Name-Last: Samuels 
Title: Walter Adams and James W. Brock's The Tobacco Wars: The Final Shot of a Warrior for Competitive Markets and Responsible Government 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 125-133 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
X-DOI: 10.1080/003467600363147 
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Author-Name: James Henderson 
Author-X-Name-First: James 
Author-X-Name-Last: Henderson 
Title: &#x201c;Political Economy is a Mere Skeleton Unless&#x2026;&#x201d;: What Can Social Economists Learn From Charles Dickens? 
Abstract:
  Charles Dickens was a reformer who sought to reform economic conditions.
 Convinced that the reforms proposed by the economists of his day would not
 benefit those victimized by the Industrial Revolution, he also sought to
 reform economics. Dickens' prime targets were McCulloch, Malthus, and
 Nassau Senior. Reviewing Dickens's efforts at social reform, Chesterton
 made the distinction between pessimistic reformers, who describe how bad
 people are under bad conditions, and optimistic reformers, who describes
 how good people are under bad conditions. The author draws similar
 parallels between mainstream economists and social economists. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 141-151 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Charles Dickens, Mcculloch, Malthus, Nassau Senior, Social Economists, Reform, 
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Author-Name: Michael Smith 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith 
Title: On the Use of the Prisoners' Dilemma to Analyze the Relations Between Employment Security, Trust, And Effort 
Abstract:
  Sociologists and political scientists have argued that the explanatory
 adequacy of economics is undermined by unreasonable assumptions of
 rationality. Yet interpretations that make strong rationality assumptions
 remain common. Analyses of the effects of employment security on work
 effort provide one example. The iterated prisoners' dilemma has been used
 to deduce a positive effect of employment security on work effort. Several
 difficulties with this approach are identified, including that the
 cooperative solution to the iterated prisoners' dilemma game i) requires
 infinite play or uncertainty about the end of the repetitions of the game;
 ii) is made less likely where there are structural bases for divergent
 interests; iii) ignores the possibility that employers might choose to
 shift the game to another arena. In general, there is the difficulty that
 employer-employee relations involve three simultaneous prisoners'
 dilemmas. The paper concludes that the hyper-rational approach implied in
 the prisoners' dilemma is an unpromising route for the analysis of the
 effects of employment security. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 153-175 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Prisoners' Dilemma, Tit-FOR-TAT Strategy, Employment Security, Effort, 
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Author-Name: William Redmond 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Redmond 
Title: Consumer Rationality and Consumer Sovereignty 
Abstract:
  Important social benefits of the market system are predicated on the
 assumption that consumers can effectively pursue their interest in the
 marketplace. Cause for concern exists to the extent that high consumption
 expenditures lead to relatively low levels of personal savings in the U.S.
 To the extent that they do, in fact, over spend, consumers appear to
 deviate from economic assumptions of rationality. This paper examines four
 conceptions of rationality (two variants of rational choice theory,
 institutionalism, and one derived from economic sociology), with a view to
 evaluating implications for consumer sovereignty under each. By explicitly
 accounting for differences among individuals, economic sociology appears
 to offer more realistic policy solutions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 177-196 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Rationality, Rational Choice, Consumer Sovereignty, Saving, Decision Making, Policy, 
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Author-Name: Mathew Forstater 
Author-X-Name-First: Mathew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Forstater 
Title: Adolph Lowe on Freedom, Education and Socialization 
Abstract:
  The lifework of Adolph Lowe (1893-1995) was greatly motivated by his
 struggle with the problem of &#x201c;freedom and order&#x201d;. This paper
 explores Lowe's largely overlooked and under-examined writings on
 education and political philosophy, important components of his
 &#x201c;political economics&#x201d;. Lowe's concern with the socialization
 function of education is highlighted and related to his notion of
 &#x201c;spontaneous conformity&#x201d;, as well as the ideas of Vygotsky
 on imaginative children's play and C. S. Peirce on habit-change. Taking
 Gorman's critique of Schutz's conception of freedom as a point of
 departure, and drawing on the work of C. Wright Mills, Lowe's own
 conception of freedom is critically examined. For Lowe, the stronger the
 commitment to community, the greater is the possibility for individual
 autonomy without the threat of social disruption. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 225-239 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Adolph Lowe, Freedom, Education, Socialization, Spontaneous Conformity, Imagination, 
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Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Darity 
Author-Name: Ashwini Deshpande 
Author-X-Name-First: Ashwini 
Author-X-Name-Last: Deshpande 
Title: Intergroup Economic Inequality Across Countries: An lntroductory Essay 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 273-276 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050132328 
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Author-Name: Peggy Lovell 
Author-X-Name-First: Peggy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lovell 
Title: Race, Gender and Regional Labor Market Inequalities in Brazil 
Abstract:
  This study investigates the relationship between unequal regional
 development and racial and gender wage inequality in Brazil. Using sample
 data from the 1991 Brazilian census, I estimated monthly wages for a
 white, brown and black women and men working in the states of S"o Paulo
 and Bahia. The findings suggest that while women and Afro-Brazilians in
 Brazil's most developed region of S"o Paulo had the advantages of higher
 levels of state sponsored work benefits and more equitable occupational
 and wage distribution, they nevertheless experienced the greatest
 discrimination. In contrast, the less developed state of Bahia where
 racial and gender gaps in education, occupation and wages were the most
 severe, wage discrimination was lowest. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 277-293 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Labor Market Discrimination, Race And Gender, Brazil, Regional Development, 
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Author-Name: Morton Stelcner 
Author-X-Name-First: Morton 
Author-X-Name-Last: Stelcner 
Title: Earnings Differentials among Ethnic Groups in Canada: A Review of the Research 
Abstract:
  Canada has a large foreign-born population with an increasingly diverse
 ethnic profile. The 1986 Employment Equity Act designated ''visible
 minorities,'' Aboriginal peoples, women, and disabled persons as facing
 labor market disadvantages. This review of a growing body of research on
 ethnic earning differentials shows that the sizeable earnings shortfall of
 Aboriginal peoples could be ''explained'' by their lesser endowments of
 work-related characteristics. The high variance in discrimination
 estimates among men can be traced to the treatment of immigration effects,
 aggregation of diverse ethnic groups, and the choice of the
 non-discriminatory earnings norm. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 295-317 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Canada, Visible Minorities, Ethnicity, Earnings Discrimination, 
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Author-Name: Patrick Mason 
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mason 
Title: Understanding Recent Empirical Evidence on Race and Labor Market Outcomes in the USA 
Abstract:
  Racial inequality remains a substantial problem in American society.
 Competing explanations of African American - white inequality often
 overlap but they are often also quite contentious. Recent empirical
 studies on the role of race and labor have tended to absolve the market
 process of contributing to persistent racial discrimination. The most
 sophisticated studies that claim to show no discrimination within the
 labor market rely on a single test score variable (the AFQT) within one
 dataset. However, the AFQT over-estimates African American - white
 pre-labor market skill differences, its predictions have not been
 replicated by studies that employ different measures of cognitive skills,
 and it yields inconsistent and counter-intuitive results when decomposed
 into its component parts. After reviewing some of the most recent
 literature, this study concludes that the notion that competition will
 eliminate discrimination within the labor market is little more than
 conservative political ideology masquerading as science. So-called
 pre-labor market inequality, which may also be summarized as the class and
 cultural background of individuals, does have an impact on individual
 well-being and intergenerational mobility. However, we are unable to
 distinguish the manner in which class background matters. Is it because
 superior class position creates an advantage in skill acquisition or
 because is it because superior social status increases access to persons
 embedded into positions of power and authority? In addition, several
 studies present strong empirical evidence of discrimination within the
 labor market. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 319-338 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Race, Discrimination, Wage, Inequality, Labor Market, 
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Author-Name: R. Quinn Moore 
Author-X-Name-First: R. Quinn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore 
Title: Multiracialism and Meritocracy: Singapore's Approach to Race and Inequality 
Abstract:
  This paper characterizes Singapore's efforts to tackle the problem of
 persistent racial inequality in terms of the notion of fair meritocracy.
 Singapore's race policy attempts to level the playing field through its
 unique race-based self-help organizations and a comprehensive, racially
 integrated, public housing program. Individuals are then sorted by the
 ostensibly objective mechanism of a standardized test based educational
 system. The social and economic implications of this policy are examined
 and, using summary data from the 1980 and 1990 censuses, the extent to
 which Singapore has been successful in creating a fair multiracial
 meritocracy is assessed. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 339-360 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Inequality, Meritocracy, Race, Singapore, Education, Housing, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050132364 
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Author-Name: Samuel Myers 
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Myers 
Title: If Not Reconciliation, Then What? 
Abstract:
  The Australian policy of reconciliation between indigenous people and
 non-indigenous settlers is seen as a precursor to recent American efforts
 to solve its race relations problems via a policy of racial
 reconciliation. The empirical context of the problem of racial inequality
 in Australia is presented and the theoretical context of the Australian
 reconciliation process is discussed. Described is the concept of white
 privilege and explained is a context that views American policies on race
 relations as largely lacking new ideas and viable strategies for remedying
 racial and ethnic economic inequality. Qualitative findings are discussed
 based on interviews of Aboriginal and white intellectuals inside and
 outside Australian universities supporting an optimistic assessment of the
 likely success of racial reconciliation as a policy instrument in
 Australia. Less optimism is expressed for the success of that policy in
 the United States. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 361-380 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Remedies, Racial Inequality, Reconciliation, Aborigines, Indigenous Australians, Black-WHITE Inequality, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050132373 
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Author-Name: Ashwini Deshpande 
Author-X-Name-First: Ashwini 
Author-X-Name-Last: Deshpande 
Title: Recasting Economic Inequality 
Abstract:
  Arguing that it is necessary to refine the study of Indian inequality by
 studying patterns of inter group disparity, this essay highlights the
 salience of caste for this purpose. Outlining the imperatives of an
 economic enquiry into contemporary caste inequality, the essay critically
 reviews the small body of the theoretical and empirical work, attempting
 to highlight the different theoretical perspectives that underlie the
 literature. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 381-399 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: South Asia, India, Caste, Economic Inequality, Economic Disparity, Deprivation, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050132382 
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Author-Name: John Elliott 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Elliott 
Title: Adam Smith's Conceptualization of Power, Markets, and Politics 
Abstract:
  This paper argues that Adam Smith is a/the "founding father figure" of
 modern social/political economy as well as economics. Smith wrote
 extensively and insightfully on the subject of power , and thereby class
 and stratafication in society. This paper explicates four main types of
 power relations in Smith's analysis, notably drawing on the Wealth of
 Nations : wealth power, monopoly power, employer power, and political
 power. Smith's focus on power helps to differentiate his broader vision
 and rich discourse from that of many contemporary neoclassical writers and
 sharpens our appreciation for his contributions to social and political
 economy. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 429-454 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Wealth Power, Monopoly Power, Employer Power, Political Power, Invisible Hand, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050204292 
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Author-Name: Eckehard Rosenbaum 
Author-X-Name-First: Eckehard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenbaum 
Title: What is a Market? On the Methodology of a Contested Concept 
Abstract:
  Some economists find markets everywhere and assume that they emerge
 spontaneously once a set of necessary conditions such as well-defined
 property rights is fulfilled. Others emphasise the role of organisations
 and contend that markets are actually less dominant. But despite claims to
 the contrary, the market concept is hardly analyzed in depth. Nor are
 there serious attempts to examine empirically where markets exist. Against
 this background, the paper addresses the question of what is a market? It
 begins by illustrating how the literature has hitherto defined the concept
 of a market. On the basis of methodological considerations, which center
 on the subject matter of economic analysis, the paper provides a revised
 conceptualisation of markets in terms of those conditions under which
 stylised facts about relative prices can be observed. The final part of
 the paper discusses the link between the conceptualisation of a market and
 the informational role of relative prices highlighted by the Austrian
 School. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 455-482 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Market, Institution, Methodology, Austrian Approach, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050204300 
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Author-Name: David Haddorff 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Haddorff 
Title: Religion and the Market: Opposition, Absorption, or Ambiguity? 
Abstract:
  This article addressed the complex relationship between religion and the
 market by proposing three basic paradigms, and then applying them to
 contemporary Christian social thought (or social ethics). The first
 conflicting model, following Max Weber and Karl Marx, views religion and
 the market in opposition, which results in greater secularisation. The
 second, following Emile Durkheim, proposes a 'functionalist' model of
 society, in which the market itself becomes sacred. The third, following
 Karl Polanyi, claims the two are more dialectical, in that both are
 affected by the power of the other; they remain in an ambiguous
 relationship. The author argues that the third model is the most coherent
 description of this complex relationship as well as the one most
 consistent with the convictions of Chrstian social thought. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 483-504 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Secularisation, Dystopian, Hom Economics, Functionalism, Dialectical, Double Movement, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050204319 
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Author-Name: Siobhan Austen 
Author-X-Name-First: Siobhan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Austen 
Title: Culture and the Labor Market 
Abstract:
  This paper explores the relationship between culture and labor market
 behavior. An attempt is made to clarify, from an economic perspective, the
 meaning of culture; to discuss the importance of cultural studies in the
 economic analysis of the labor market; and to outline the major
 theoretical issues that are associated with adopting a cultural
 perspective on economic behavior in the labor market. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 505-521 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
Keywords: Culture, Labor Market, Labor Economics, Social Norms, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050204328 
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Author-Name: Daniel Finn 
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Finn 
Title: A Thoroughly Embodied Economics: A Review of Personalist Economics by Edward J. O'Boyle 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 523-528 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050204337 
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Author-Name: Maureen Maloney 
Author-X-Name-First: Maureen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Maloney 
Title: A review of Personalist Economics 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 529-534 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050204346 
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Author-Name: Peter Danner 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Danner 
Title: A Review of Personalist Economics 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 535-538 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050204355 
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Author-Name: Edward O'Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Boyle 
Title: Personalist Economics: Moral Convictions, Economic Realities, And Social Action 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 539-552 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 58 
Year: 2000 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760050204364 
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Author-Name: Andrew Yuengert 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yuengert 
Title: Rational Choice with Passion: Virtue in a Model of Rational Addiction 
Abstract:
  By incorporating a divided self into the rational addiction framework,
 this paper provides a rationale for and an explicit analysis of two types
 of budget-shrinking behaviors - actions taken to limit access to lifetime
 wealth in a given period, and actions taken to change the effective price
 of the addictive good. Moreover, internal conflict models provide a
 normative rationale, absent from rational addiction models, for policies
 that limit access to addictive goods. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-21 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Rational Addiction, Internal Conflict, Passion Goods, Reason, Aristotle, Virtue, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760010017492 
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Author-Name: Sabine O'Hara 
Author-X-Name-First: Sabine 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Hara 
Title: Urban Development Revisited: The Role of Neighborhood Needs and Local Participation in Urban Revitalization 
Abstract:
  Traditional models of economic development such as economic base and
 urban revitalization models have been found wanting. Both models rely on
 expert-based assessments of local development needs. More recent
 approaches call for a stronger focus on local development needs and
 resident skills as the basis for designing development strategies. One
 such neighborhood-based approach to development is presented in this
 paper. Its initial step was a survey of 444 households representing 1398
 residents conducted in the Hamilton Hill and Vale neighborhoods of
 Schenectady, New York a 'downsized' community of about 65,000 residents in
 the Capital District of New York State. Survey results show a strong need
 for recreation, childcare, a grocery store, care for the elderly and home
 repairs. Residents' self-assessed job skills and interests appear to be
 well suited to meet these needs. Yet despite these promising results,
 barriers to neighborhood-based development persist. These barriers
 reiterate the long history of isolation prevalent in US inner city
 neighborhoods. Two issues are particularly characteristic of the barriers
 that continue to keep urban neighborhoods isolated from their larger
 context. They are: (1) a lack of effective communication between local
 residents and decision makers; and (2) a lack of valuation systems that
 properly assess the value of social and environmental context and their
 contributions to local development. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 23-43 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Neighborhood-BASED Urban Development, Job Creation, Needs Assessment, Social Context, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110036265 
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Author-Name: Steve Fleetwood 
Author-X-Name-First: Steve 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fleetwood 
Title: Conceptualizing Un employment in a Period of Atypical Em ployment: A Critical Realist Perspective 
Abstract:
  An adequate conceptualization and measurement of unemployment should
 express the reality of employment. Designing theoretical concepts that
 adequately express reality requires appropriate methodological
 foundations. This paper uses critical realism to demonstrate that the
 deductive method encourages the construction of theoretical concepts in
 such a way as to reduce the multidimensional, qualitative reality of
 employment and unemployment to the quantitative, single dimension of
 variables, whereupon they cease to be adequate expressions of the reality
 they are designed to investigate. Part-time employment is used to
 exemplify atypical employment and to illustrate how the latter differs
 from typical employment in a number of dimensions, most of which are
 qualitative in nature. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 45-69 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Critical Realism, Methodology, Ontology, Deductive Method, Unemployment, Atypical Employment, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760010017500 
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Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Title: Metaphors of Knowledge in Economics 
Abstract:
  "Knowledge" takes a central place in economics. This paper shows that the
 metaphor pervasively used in neoclassical economics to understand
 knowledge is that of "capital". Taking capital as a metaphor of knowledge
 introduces problems in neoclassical economic theory, as becomes apparent
 when economics addresses issues of learning and technological development.
 Instead, it is argued that economists could learn from what philosophers
 such as Gilbert Ryle and Michael Polanyi have said about how to understand
 knowledge. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 71-91 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Economic Theory, Knowledge, Learning, Technology, Philosophy Of Economics, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760010017519 
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Author-Name: Daniel Fusfeld 
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fusfeld 
Title: Review Essay on Economics for the Common Good 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 93-101 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760010017528 
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Author-Name: Lanse Minkler 
Author-X-Name-First: Lanse 
Author-X-Name-Last: Minkler 
Title: Review Essay on Economics for the Common Good 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 103-108 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760010017537 
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Author-Name: Steven Pressman 
Author-X-Name-First: Steven 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pressman 
Title: The Challenge of Social Economics: A Review Essay 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 109-114 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760010017546 
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Author-Name: Mark Lutz 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lutz 
Title: Sorting the Wash 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 115-125 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760010017555 
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Author-Name: Theodore Burczak 
Author-X-Name-First: Theodore 
Author-X-Name-Last: Burczak 
Title: Ellerman's Labor Theory of Property and the Injustice of Capitalist Exploitation 
Abstract:
  The traditional Marxian arguments for the injustice of capitalist
 exploitation generally focus on the ownership patterns of productive
 property. Exploitation is thus viewed either as the result of illegitimate
 private ownership or as the result of the unequal distribution of
 productive assets. This paper seeks to contribute a different perspective
 on the injustice of exploitation. It argues that exploitation violates
 principles of appropriative and contractual justice, rather than
 distributive justice. To make this case, the paper shows how Ellerman's
 labor theory of property might be combined with Resnick and Wolff's
 Marxian theory of exploitation and enriched by Nussbaum's interpretation
 of Aristotelian moral theory to challenge the justice of the
 wage-for-labor-time exchange, without making reference to the existence or
 distribution of private property. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 161-183 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Ellerman, Labor Theory Of Property, Exploitation, Justice, Marxism, Aristotle, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110035572 
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Author-Name: Patrick Welch 
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Welch 
Author-Name: J. J. Mueller 
Author-X-Name-First: J. J. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mueller 
Title: The Relationships of Religion to Economics 
Abstract:
  The relationships between religion and economics are both complex and
 controversial. In this paper is explored one method for organizing those
 relationships. Four categories are examined which help identify possible
 options: economics separate from religion economics; in service of
 religion; religion in service of economics; and religion in union with
 economics. The paper begins with a definition of what is included under
 the headings of religion and economics. Next, each of the four categories
 is described and discussed. Conclusions close the paper. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 185-202 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Economics And Religion, Economic Methodology And Thought, Social Economics, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110035581 
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Author-Name: Stephanie Bell 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephanie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bell 
Author-Name: John Henry 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Henry 
Title: Hospitality versus Exchange: The Limits of Monetary Economies 
Abstract:
  This paper attempts to specify theoretically the origins of money. Rather
 than the exchange-based view of neoclassical economists where money is
 seen as a transaction cost-reducing instrument (and where exchange itself
 is asserted to be a universal phenomenon), we argue that money is a social
 relationship, specifically a debt relationship, that emerges with
 propertied, class society. "Primitive" (pre-class) society could not
 generate money, as the rule of hospitality, universally practiced among
 such organizations, precluded debt and the self-interested behavior that
 is consistent with debt. Adopting the Chartalist position on the matter,
 we show that money is symptomatic of privilege, of inequality, of economic
 and political power. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 203-226 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Chartalism, Debt, Exchange, Hospitality, Money, Property, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110036166 
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Author-Name: Jouni Paavola 
Author-X-Name-First: Jouni 
Author-X-Name-Last: Paavola 
Title: Towards Sustainable Consumption: Economics and Ethical Concerns for the Environment in Consumer Choices 
Abstract:
  The article examines individual action informed by ethical concerns for
 the environment as a strategy for moving toward more sustainable
 consumption. The article first employs a model of rational choice to
 analyze independent consumer choices among the usually assumed self- and
 welfare-centered consumers and then expands the model to analyze the
 implications of other than self- and welfare-centered motivations for
 consumer choice. The article next analyzes interdependent consumer choices
 informed by self- and welfare-centered values with the help of a simple
 game-theoretic model and then moves on to examine the implications of
 nonutilitarian environmental concerns for interdependent consumer choice
 in the same game-theoretic framework. The article concludes that although
 a strategy based on individual action may have limited promise when
 environmental concerns are widely shared, the case for collective action
 remains strong because of both efficiency and equity reasons. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 227-248 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Consumer Choice, Environment, Rationality, Preferences, Values, Sustainability, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110036175 
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Author-Name: Bijou Yang Lester 
Author-X-Name-First: Bijou Yang 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lester 
Author-Name: Roger McCain 
Author-X-Name-First: Roger 
Author-X-Name-Last: McCain 
Title: An Equity-based Redefinition of Underemployment and Unemployment and Some Measurements 
Abstract:
  An attempt is made in this article to redefine underemployment and
 unemployment without making reference to an excess supply of labor or any
 causal mechanism of unemployment. Instead, underemployment and
 unemployment are defined in terms of equity which draws upon the
 individual's preferences. A specific proposal is that underemployment be
 defined by the presence of contribution inequity relative to at least half
 the persons employed in a field that the underemployed person might prefer
 to move into. Empirically, most recent survey data on preferences for
 contingent and other nontraditional employment are used to illustrate the
 application of the concept. The major finding is that nearly 10 million
 Americans in the nontraditional workforce are underemployed. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 133-159 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Underemployment, Unemployment, Contingent Employment, Consumption Inequity, Contribution Inequity, Superfairness, 
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Author-Name: Warren Samuels 
Author-X-Name-First: Warren 
Author-X-Name-Last: Samuels 
Title: The Political-Economic Logic of World Governance 
Abstract:
  The article identifies, neutrally, several factors together making for
 world governance, by whatever name. These are a desire by people to
 participate in the making of decisions that affect them in important ways
 and the growth of international political externalities. The analysis is
 conducted with consideration given to the nature and scope of governance,
 vis-a-vis government, the role and significance of international
 organizations, and the logic of representative democracy. The result
 amounts to a political equivalent to the merger solution for
 externalities. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 273-284 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Externalities, Governance, World Government, Democracy, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110053897 
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Author-Name: Edward Fullbrook 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fullbrook 
Title: Conceptual Displacement: From the Natural to the Social 
Abstract:
  This paper distinguishes between epistemological naturalism, which it
 supports, and ontological naturalism, which it opposes. It sketches the
 emergence of anti-naturalist social theory among nineteenth-century
 African-American intellectuals and its refinement by twentieth-century
 feminists. These movements challenged ontological naturalism in the social
 sciences by substituting social constructionist concepts of race and
 gender for naturalist ones. Economics awaits a similar liberation. The
 paper identifies four naturalist concepts&#x2014;atomism, determinism and
 biologically determined race and gender differences&#x2014;as structuring
 mainstream economic theory. It concludes that ontological naturalism is
 inconsistent with the application of the epistemology of the natural
 sciences to the social sciences. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 285-296 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Race And Gender, Methodology, Naturalism, Social Theory, Atomism, Determinism, Neoclassical Economics, 
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Author-Name: Kazuya Ishii 
Author-X-Name-First: Kazuya 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ishii 
Title: The Socioeconomic Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi: As an Origin of Alternative Development 
Abstract:
  This paper tries to present the overall socioeconomic thoughts of Mahatma
 Gandhi as an origin of alternative development. The first section of the
 paper provides Gandhi's criticism of modern civilization, that of
 economics and that of Marxist socialism and communism. The second section
 analyzes his ideas for a "post-modern" construction of India, where his
 views on Swadeshi (self-reliance), his theory of trusteeship (theory of
 class and distribution) and his images of an ideal village economy are
 examined. The paper, referring to the works of E. F. Schumacher and the
 Other Economic Summit as well, concludes that Gandhian style of
 development theories have persistently furnished a critique of "modern"
 ways of thinking and presented alternative visions of socioeconomic
 development. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 297-312 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110053914 
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Author-Name: Kelvin Jasek-Rysdahl 
Author-X-Name-First: Kelvin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jasek-Rysdahl 
Title: Applying Sen's Capabilities Framework to Neighborhoods: Using Local Asset Maps to Deepen Our Understanding of Well-being 
Abstract:
  This paper examines how an approach resembling Sen's capabilities
 framework is being applied by low-income neighborhoods in efforts to
 strengthen community and improve quality of life for residents. It will
 begin with a brief review of Sen's capabilities framework, followed by a
 detailed description of neighborhood resource surveys. A final section
 will bring the two ideas together and will explain how the work being done
 in neighborhoods can be viewed as an extension of Sen's approach,
 deepening our understanding of well-being. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 313-329 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Sen, Capabilities, Community, Asset Mapping, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110053923 
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Author-Name: Alan Shipman 
Author-X-Name-First: Alan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Shipman 
Title: Privatized Production, Socialized Consumption? Old Producer Power Behind the New Consumer Sovereignty 
Abstract:
  The scepticism of economists&#x2014;mainstream and
 heterodox&#x2014;towards "new economy" ideas goes beyond the indignation
 of long-established traditions being told to rewrite their basic rules.
 With its emphasis on trade through interand intra-corporate networks, the
 "new economy" presents a model of exchange very different from that used
 by mainstream (neoclassical) economics. Its assurance of equality within
 the network, like neoclassical economists' equality before the market, is
 attained only by ignoring the power imbalances built into the new network
 forms. The enhanced "consumer sovereignty" associated with recent
 technological change, deregulation and trade integration is shown to be
 just as open to market power abuses as were consumers in the traditional
 economy. Rather than representing a break with the past, recent structural
 changes in highincome economies are argued to continue a long-running
 trend for consumption and production to be spatially and temporally
 separated, so that the individual pleasures of the first can
 counterbalance the collective pressures of the second. Producers remain in
 control of most supply chains, and the intensification and deskilling of
 consumption reinforces rather than reverses these same processes in
 production, by promoting longer work hours and closer pay-performance
 links. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 331-352 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Consumption, Network Economy, Market, Information Technology, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110053932 
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Author-Name: Edward O'Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Boyle 
Title: Personalist Economics: Unorthodox and Counter-Cultural 
Abstract:
  There are two reasons why personalist economics lies outside the
 mainstream. Personalist economics (1) rejects the premises of mainstream
 economics, and (2) takes exception to certain dominant values of today's
 culture whereas the mainstream is much more at ease with contemporary
 Western culture. This paper addresses both reasons and is organized
 accordingly. In it the author argues that the individualism and the
 autonomous individual of mainstream economics have their roots in the
 seventeenth-eighteenth century Enlightenment, that is well before the
 development of electronic means of communication. Personalism and the
 acting person of personalist economics emerged during the electronic stage
 of communication and, the author argues, are much better suited to the
 twenty-first century. The author calls for a reconstruction of economics
 which would replace the autonomous individual with the acting person. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 367-393 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Individualism, Personalism, Autonomous Individual, Acting Person, Culture, Human Body And Spirit, Human Individuality And Sociality, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110095396 
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Author-Name: Robert Defina 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Defina 
Author-Name: Kishor Thanawala 
Author-X-Name-First: Kishor 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thanawala 
Title: The Impact of Transfers and Taxes on Alternative Poverty Indexes 
Abstract:
  Changes in the headcount rate are the standard metric for gauging how
 public transfers and taxes affect US poverty. An alternative strategy, one
 theoretically more appealing and complete, is to rely on
 distribution-sensitive indexes (Sen 1976, 1981). How would policy's
 measured impacts change if such an approach were to be used? This study
 provides empirical evidence using three selected poverty indexes from the
 class developed by Foster et al . (1984). Pre- and post-policy values of
 each index are estimated for the total population and for twenty-three
 demographic sub-groups using data from March Current Population Surveys
 covering the period 1992 to 1998. The results indicate that the
 alternative indexes produce consistent ordinal rankings of policy's
 impact. (In contrast, the measured cardinal effects of policy differ
 substantially across indexes.) The empirical evidence has a clear
 implication for anti-poverty policy: government transfers and taxes are
 effective in lowering poverty headcount rates, in reducing the depth of
 poverty and in lessening the relative deprivation among the poor. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 395-416 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Poverty Measurement, Distribution-Sensitive Poverty Indexes, Anti-POVERTY Policy, 
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Author-Name: Irmi Seidl 
Author-X-Name-First: Irmi 
Author-X-Name-Last: Seidl 
Author-Name: Clem Tisdell 
Author-X-Name-First: Clem 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tisdell 
Title: Neglected Features of the Safe Minimum Standard: Socio-economic and Institutional Dimensions 
Abstract:
  This article describes and critically investigates core features of the
 safe minimum standard of conservation (SMS), as outlined by
 Ciriacy-Wantrup, which have been neglected, de-emphasized or poorly
 interpreted. Different ensuing interpretations and developments of SMS,
 aimed at giving it a theoretical basis and operationalizing it, are
 scrutinized. It is shown that the definition of features such as
 irreversibility, uncertainty, threshold and critical zone imply a
 socio-economic and institutional approach of SMS. Hence, endeavors to find
 a formal and positive foundation (game theory) or to identify SMS as an
 adjunct to cost-benefit analysis are unsuccessful. Rather, approaches
 assigning the definition of acceptable resource use to politics and
 society conform with SMS (e.g. by political norm setting or societal
 discourse). Furthermore, the paper discusses close normative relatives of
 SMS and identifies intragenerational distributional justice as a crucial
 variable for setting SMS. It is argued that SMS is a socio-economic and
 institutional approach; this should be the basis for further discussion
 and development of SMS. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 417-442 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Safe Minimum Standard, Resource Conservation, Irreversibility, Game Theory, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Social Choice, 
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Author-Name: Chris Fuller 
Author-X-Name-First: Chris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fuller 
Title: The Mind of the Social Individual: A Comment on Sherman and Hodgson 
Abstract:
  In the Spring 1998 (56(1): 47-57) and Fall 1998 (56(3): 295-306, 307-310)
 issues of this review, Howard Sherman and Geoffrey Hodgson debated, inter
 alia , the extent to which Veblen-Ayres institutionalism is compatible
 with Marx and recent Marxist work. This paper argues that the differences
 between Hodgson and Sherman"s positions do not rely on assumptions of
 "illogical" behavior, individualist arguments or structural conceptions of
 the individual. Instead, the debate turns on the authors' respective
 conceptions of the formation and role of the human mind in what it is to
 be a social individual. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 443-454 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Marxism, Veblen, Habits, Rationality, Class, Institutions, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110081562 
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Author-Name: Pamela Cawthorne 
Author-X-Name-First: Pamela 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cawthorne 
Author-Name: Gavin Kitching 
Author-X-Name-First: Gavin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kitching 
Title: Moral Dilemmas and Factual Claims: Some Comments on Paul Krugman's Defense of Cheap Labor 
Abstract:
  In 1998, Paul Krugman published a collection of short polemical essays on
 economic themes under the title The Accidental Theorist And Other
 Dispatches from the Dismal Science . Among those essays was one entitled
 "In Praise of Cheap Labor: Bad Jobs at Bad Wages Are Better than No Jobs
 at All". This brief article is an extended comment on that piece, which
 happened to contain factual claims central to the empirical research
 program of one of us, and ethical and political issues of concern to us
 both. Our view is that in his essay on cheap labor, (as indeed in many of
 the others in the collection), Krugman makes some pungent and telling
 criticisms of other writers on economic matters and&#x2014;in this
 particular case&#x2014;of some analytically weak and ethically dubious
 claims which are frequently espoused by contemporary anti-capitalist and
 anti-globalization radicals conventionally regarded as being on the
 political left. But at the same time&#x2014;or so we shall
 argue&#x2014;his own polemic is, in important ways, undermined by the
 narrowness of the theoretical framework within which it is constructed,
 and most especially, by Krugman's almost total lack of an historical
 perspective in which to see either contemporary debates over global
 capitalism or the ethical issues at their heart. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 455-466 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Cheap Labor, Economic Theory, History, Radicalism, 
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Author-Name: Barry Clark 
Author-X-Name-First: Barry 
Author-X-Name-Last: Clark 
Author-Name: John Elliott 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Elliott 
Title: John Stuart Mill's Theory Of Justice 
Abstract:
  John Stuart Mill has traditionally been portrayed as self-contradictory
 and failing to construct a unified social theory. Recent scholarship,
 however, has challenged this view, finding Mill's work to be creatively
 synthetic in bridging the antinomies inherent in liberal democratic
 thought. This revisionist interpretation of Mill is advanced by an
 understanding of his theory of justice and its role in shaping his policy
 positions on issues such as welfare, education, voting rights, property
 rights, taxation, government intervention, and the future of capitalism. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 467-490 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Capitalism, Ethics, Equality, Justice, Liberty, Rights, Security, Socialism, Taxation, Utilitarianism, 
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Author-Name: Hans Jensen 
Author-X-Name-First: Hans 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen 
Title: John Stuart Mill's Theories of Wealth and Income Distribution 
Abstract:
  Although he was much influenced by David Ricardo when he wrote the
 classical part of his Principles , John Stuart Mill was not a Ricardian
 when he penned his theories of wealth and distribution. They are based on
 a triple foundation. First, a belief that economics is a moral discipline.
 Second a theory of custom-driven human behavior. Third, an empirically
 formed conviction that the institutions of state, education and business
 cooperate to structure the distribution of income. On the basis of these
 presuppositions, Mill formulated 1) an institutional theory of the
 formation of human and non-human wealth and 2) an even more institutional
 theory of distribution demonstrating how the aforementioned institutions
 malignantly skew the distribution of income to the advantage of the
 propertied classes and to the extreme disadvantage of the working class.
 As a social economist, Mill recommended institutional reforms designed to
 eradicate the poverty of the working class. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 491-507 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: Capitalism, Classes, Distribution, Education, Institutions, Poverty, Reforms, Utility, Wealth, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110081599 
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Author-Name: Jennifer Ball 
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ball 
Title: J. S. Mill on Wages and Women: A Feminist Critique 
Abstract:
  "J. S. Mill on Wages and Women" questions the common belief that Mill,
 despite his feminism, never suggested an end to the sexual division of
 labor because of his devotion to the concept of efficiency and other
 tenets of classical economics. A review of Mill's analysis of a
 competitive labor market indicates that he believed it to be fully
 consistent with women's equality in the workforce. In fact, in his works
 on women, it becomes clear that Mill was concerned that the logical
 extension of classical economic principles might lead to the
 commodification of domestic duties, including child rearing, a notion he
 evidently feared. Therefore, it was Mill's fear of, rather than dedication
 to, extreme allegiance to efficiency and unimpeded capitalism that limited
 his feminism. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 509-527 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 59 
Year: 2001 
Keywords: J. S. Mill, Classical Thought, Economics And Feminism, Occupational Segregation, Sexual Division Of Labor, Domestic Duties, Women'S Wages, 
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Author-Name: Lindon Robison 
Author-X-Name-First: Lindon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Robison 
Author-Name: A. Allan Schmid 
Author-X-Name-First: A. Allan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schmid 
Author-Name: Marcelo Siles 
Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Siles 
Title: Is Social Capital Really Capital? 
Abstract:
  Social capital has emerged as a paradigm capable of bridging across
 various social science disciplines. However, its adoption by social
 scientists from different disciplines has led to multiple and often
 conflicting definitions. Besides conflicting definitions, some social
 scientists have argued that social capital lacks the properties of capital
 and should be called something other than capital. This paper resolves
 many of the problems created by conflicting definitions by pointing out
 that the differences have arisen primarily because scientists have
 included in the definition expressions of its possible uses, where it
 resides, and how its service capacity can be changed. This paper argues
 that these applications of social capital should not be included in its
 definition. This paper also defends the social capital paradigm against
 the claim that it lacks capital-like properties by pointing out that
 social capital, when defined as sympathy, has many important capital-like
 properties including transformation capacity, durability, flexibility,
 substitutability, opportunities for decay (maintenance), reliability,
 ability to create other capital forms, and investment (disinvestment)
 opportunities. Finally, this paper compares social capital to other forms
 of capital including cultural capital and human capital. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-21 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Sympathy, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Organizational Capital, Human Capital, Physical Financial Capital, Transformation Capacity, Durability, Flexibility, Substitutability, Decay Maintenance, Reliability, Investment Disinvestment, 
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Author-Name: John Tomer 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tomer 
Title: Human Well-Being: A New Approach Based on Overall and Ordinary Functionings 
Abstract:
  This paper develops a concept of human well-being that integrates
 economic and noneconomic aspects of life. Philosophers, humanistic
 psychologists, and religious traditions have been very helpful in pointing
 out the true noneconomic potential of human life. Our new approach to
 well-being, the overall/ordinary approach includes these higher aspects of
 human life. In addition to the ordinary adult human functionings,
 basically the functionings Sen mentions, the new approach includes a group
 of higher human functionings which are called overall human functioning.
 To adequately assess a person's or a society's well-being, it is necessary
 to consider both people's ordinary (or lower) functionings and their
 overall (or higher) functionings. Raising societal well-being requires
 capital formation, particularly investment in personal and social capital. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 23-45 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Human Well-BEING, Functionings, Welfare, Happiness, Humanistic Philosophy And Psychology, Personal Capital, Social Capital, Human Nature, Religion, 
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Author-Name: Clive Beed 
Author-X-Name-First: Clive 
Author-X-Name-Last: Beed 
Author-Name: Cara Beed 
Author-X-Name-First: Cara 
Author-X-Name-Last: Beed 
Title: Work Ownership Implications of Recent Papal Social Thought 
Abstract:
  This paper examines a particular employment inference of recent Papal
 social thought, for a Western developed economy context. The Papal
 documents studied are Centesimus Annus (1991), Sollicitudo Rei Socialis
 (1987), and Laborem Exercens (1981). The first and shortest section of the
 paper outlines a number of principles from the encyclicals aiming to guide
 employment organisation and policy relevant to Western and all economies.
 To permit their full consideration, an illustration is given how
 implications affecting forms of employment organization might be drawn
 from just one of the principles--the right to private property ownership.
 Private property ownership rights are argued to be constrained in specific
 ways, to relate instrinsically to employment organization, and to underpin
 other principles emphasized in the encyclicals, such as the priority of
 labor over capital. A selection of recent non-official-Church Catholic
 Social Thought is compared with the approach here. Since the encyclicals
 deal with issues only at the level of principle, the paper notes cases
 where attempts have been made to apply some of the employment
 organizational implications in practice. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 47-69 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Catholic Social Thought, Employment, Private Ownership, Worker Participation, Esops, Cooperatives, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110127092 
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Author-Name: Bisakha Sen 
Author-X-Name-First: Bisakha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sen 
Title: Does Married Women's Market Work Affect Marital Stability Adversely? An Intercohort Analysis Using NLS Data 
Abstract:
  Over most of the twentieth century, the U.S. has witnessed considerable
 increases in divorce rates. Conventional economic literature believes that
 married women's entry into market work may have contributed to this by
 decreasing the gains from marriage arising from specialization between
 spouses. However, since the 1980s, divorce rates have ceased to increase
 though married women's labor supply continues to rise, suggesting that the
 relationship has changed across time and birth cohorts. Here I use two
 cohorts of women, those born between 1944-1954 and those born between
 1957-1964, to test whether this is the case. My findings indicate that the
 detrimental effect of married women's market work on marital stability has
 indeed decreased substantially across cohorts, and such work may even be
 beneficial to marital stability among the recent cohort. Therefore, it
 appears that women's market work can no longer be held culpable for the
 breaking up of American families. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 71-92 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Women, Work, Marital, Divorce, Intercohort, Change, 
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Author-Name: Sourushe Zandvakili 
Author-X-Name-First: Sourushe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zandvakili 
Title: Trends in Earnings Inequality among Young Adults 
Abstract:
  The initial stage of labor market activity for young adults influences
 their labor market engagement and earnings profiles over their life cycle.
 I examine earnings inequality among young adults in a dynamic setting.
 Education, marital status, race are contributors to the observed earnings
 inequality. Earnings equalization is observed in the long run, and the
 proportion of earnings inequality attributed to education, marital status,
 and race is found to be significant. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 93-107 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Inequality, Mobility, Generalized Entropy, Nlsy, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110127119 
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Author-Name: Richard Nelson 
Author-X-Name-First: Richard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nelson 
Title: Thoughts Stimulated by Reading Geoffrey Hodgson's Economics and Utopia 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 109-113 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110127128 
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Author-Name: Jack Vromen 
Author-X-Name-First: Jack 
Author-X-Name-Last: Vromen 
Title: Impurities all around? Some thoughts on Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Economics & Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is not the End of History 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 115-123 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110127137 
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Hodgson 
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodgson 
Title: Visions of Mainstream Economics: A Response to Richard Nelson and Jack Vromen 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 125-133 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760110127146 
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Author-Name: Stephen Ziliak 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ziliak 
Title: Pauper Fiction in Economic Science: "Paupers in Almshouses" and the Odd Fit of Oliver Twist 
Abstract:
  The almshouse dominated the thinking about poverty and the poor during
 America's period of industrialization and its greatest economic downturns.
 Yet economists had surprisingly little to say about the facts of almshouse
 demography, and what they have written has been a rather bad fiction when
 seen in contrast with American novels. The main object of the paper is to
 delineate typical characters and characteristics of almshouses in America,
 and to examine the plausibility of various literary characterizations in
 light of the facts. The data certainly suggest new stories about paupers
 in American history: economists, and even the new social historians, have
 gotten it wrong. Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, the
 typical pauper living in an almshouse was not Oliver Twist (as many
 believe). He was not the Shiftless Man of the classical imagination (as
 Malthusians and Benthamites believe). The typical pauper of an American
 almshouse was plural. Instructive examples in American literature include
 Lennie, of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men ; Denver, of Toni Morrison's
 Beloved ; Mrs. Thomson, of Edward Eggleston's The Hoosier School-Master ;
 and Forrest Gump, of Winston Groom's Forrest Gump . 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 159-181 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Welfare, Poverty, History, Rhetoric, Fiction, Classical Economists, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760210146622 
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Author-Name: William Dugger 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dugger 
Author-Name: Howard Sherman 
Author-X-Name-First: Howard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sherman 
Title: Response To Three Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 307-311 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676022000017525 
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Author-Name: Jochen Runde 
Author-X-Name-First: Jochen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Runde 
Title: Information, Knowledge and Agency: The Information Theoretic Approach and the Austrians 
Abstract:
  Both the Information Theoretic Economics and Austrian Economics
 investigate the impact on market activity of problems of information and
 knowledge. The conceptions of information and knowledge they employ,
 however, as well as their respective views on and treatment of economic
 agency, are quite different. The purpose of this paper is to examine these
 differences, not primarily from an abstract philosophical point of view,
 but by looking at substantive examples of the economics offered by the two
 approaches. An attempt is made to explain the Austrian preference for
 non-formalist approaches to economic analysis. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 183-208 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Economics Of Information, Austrian Economics, Agency Theory, Asymmetric Information, Economic Explanation, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760210146613 
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Author-Name: Alfonso Sousa-Poza 
Author-X-Name-First: Alfonso 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sousa-Poza 
Author-Name: Fred Henneberger 
Author-X-Name-First: Fred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Henneberger 
Title: An Empirical Analysis of Working-Hours Constraints in Twenty-one Countries 
Abstract:
  The aim of this paper is to analyze working-hour constraints in an
 international setting. We use data from the latest Work Orientations data
 set of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). The survey was
 conducted in 1997 and, in this paper, data for twenty-one countries are
 used. Our main results are: (1) In most countries the majority of workers
 do not face hours constraints; (2) Of the workers that are constrained,
 the largest portion is underemployed. Only in Denmark, Norway, and
 Switzerland is this not the case; (3) Workers in the five Eastern European
 countries considered here are among the most constrained; (4) A comparison
 with the 1989 ISSP data set reveals that hours constraints have increased
 in Israel, the United States, and West Germany and decreased in Great
 Britain and Norway in the 1990s; (5) GDP per capita and unemployment
 levels are correlated with hours constraints; (6) A multivariate analysis
 shows that certain socio-demographic characteristics and work conditions
 influence hours constraints and that these factors differ across
 countries. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 209-242 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Working Time, Desired Working Time, Hours Constraints, Crossnational Analysis, 
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Author-Name: Giuseppe Fontana 
Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fontana 
Author-Name: Bill Gerrard 
Author-X-Name-First: Bill 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gerrard 
Title: The Significance of the Monetary Context of Economic Behavior 
Abstract:
  The dominant paradigm in economics views economic behavior as allocative
 activity in a neutral, C-M-C' economy. As a consequence, money is treated
 as a veil that is inessential to the real functioning of the economic
 system. This paper argues that one of Keynes's fundamental insights is the
 significance of the monetary context of economic behavior. This insight
 has been developed by the post-Keynesian theory of money as a
 "time-machine vehicle" that provides the causal link between uncertainty
 and unemployment. The Circuitist theory of money as the means of final
 payment provides a complementary radical perspective on the significance
 of the monetary context. This paper investigates the methodological and
 theoretical implications of these radical monetary theories and assesses
 their contribution towards the development of a general theory of a
 monetary production, M-C-M' economy. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 243-262 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Keynes, Post-KEYNESIAN, Circuitist, Money, Uncertainty, Encompassing Principle, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760210146587 
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Author-Name: Ken McCormick 
Author-X-Name-First: Ken 
Author-X-Name-Last: McCormick 
Title: Veblen and the New Growth Theory: Community as the Source of Capital's Productivity 
Abstract:
  A century ago Thorstein Veblen argued that knowledge, which is produced
 and possessed by the community as a whole, is the foundation on which the
 productivity of "capital" rests. Orthodox economists chose to ignore
 Veblen and instead accepted John Bates Clark's definition of capital and
 the marginal productivity theory that goes with it. Recently, however,
 mainstream economists working on the "New Growth Theory" have rejected
 Clark's approach and have redefined capital so as to emphasize the
 importance of knowledge as well as its social character. Nevertheless,
 they still have an important lesson to learn from Veblen about growth,
 namely that technological development is nothing less than a process of
 cultural transformation. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 263-277 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Veblen, New Growth Theory, Technological Change, Capital, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760210146596 
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Author-Name: Mayo Toruno 
Author-X-Name-First: Mayo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Toruno 
Title: Marxism, Institutionalism and Social Evolution 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 279-281 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760210146604 
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Author-Name: Enrico Marcelli 
Author-X-Name-First: Enrico 
Author-X-Name-Last: Marcelli 
Title: Review Essay of Dugger and Sherman's Reclaiming Evolution (Routledge 2000): Implications for the Study of Social Conflict in US Metropolitan Regions 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 283-289 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676022000017499 
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Author-Name: John Bellamy Foster 
Author-X-Name-First: John Bellamy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Foster 
Title: An Evolutionary Critique of Economics in the Making 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 291-297 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676022000017507 
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Author-Name: John Henry 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Henry 
Title: "Enabling Myths": A Critique of Dugger and Sherman, Reclaiming Evolution , Chapter 4 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 299-305 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676022000017516 
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Author-Name: Robert McMaster 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: McMaster 
Title: Introduction: Reform in the Provision of Health Care 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 323-329 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676021000013331 
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Author-Name: Michael Keaney 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Keaney 
Title: Unhealthy Accumulation: The Globalization of Health Care Privatization 
Abstract:
  Health care reform in the industrialized countries, enacted during the
 last two decades, is entering a new phase of consolidation and further
 development, now extending to the less developed countries. This marks a
 significant element of the more general phenomenon commonly referred to as
 "globalization." This paper examines how the processes of institutional
 reform and adjustment have been and are being managed, toward the
 projected end of a global regulatory regime governing trade in health
 services. Elaborated are the complex interplays between local and
 international actors, ideologies and technologies. The paper concludes by
 forecasting the likely trajectory of future institutional adjustments
 based on an extrapolation of the foregoing. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 331-357 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Health Care, Globalization, Trade, Regulation, Economic Policy, Accounting, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676021000013430 
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Author-Name: Evelyn Forget 
Author-X-Name-First: Evelyn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Forget 
Title: National Identity and the Challenge of Health Reform in Canada 
Abstract:
  Health reform remains the most contentious policy issue in Canada.
 Medicare is subject to the same political forces that demand state
 retrenchment in other areas, but it has escaped wholesale reorganization
 because of the commitment of Canadians to the principles of medicare,
 because the provinces and the federal government remain locked in a battle
 about provincial autonomy, and because the existing system serves the
 interests of various professional groups including organized medicine.
 Nevertheless, reform and, especially, expansion of coverage is essential
 if the existing system is to be sustained. The most encouraging aspect of
 current debate is the recognition that we can look beyond the U.S. for
 reforms more consistent with the underlying values of Canadians than is
 the U.S. system. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 359-375 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Health Care, Reform, Health Economics, Neo-LIBERALISM, Medicare, Social Values, 
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Author-X-Name-First: Kor 
Author-X-Name-Last: Grit 
Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Title: The Dynamics of the Dutch Health Care System--A Discourse Analysis 
Abstract:
  In this article, we analyze recent dynamics of the Dutch health care
 sector, a hybrid system of public, private and professional elements, in
 terms of clashing discourses. Although these elements are intricately
 interwoven, this does not mean that the system is stable. Most notably,
 since the eighties the introduction of more market elements in the health
 care system has been widely debated. Hospitals introduced different
 methods commonly used in businesses, for instance. The position of
 managers in the institutions of health care has become more central. A
 discourse analysis shows the concomitant patterns of institutional change
 in the health care sector. We distinguish four different discourses
 concerning health care: economic, political, medical-professional and
 caring discourses. These different discourses give rise to, for example,
 different views of good care, the character and position of the patient,
 and leadership in health care organizations--views that sometimes clash
 intensely. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 377-401 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Health Care System, The Netherlands, Discourse Analysis, Institutional Change, Modernization, ECONOMIZATION, Health Care Management, 
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Author-Name: Robert McMaster 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: McMaster 
Title: A Socio-instutionalist Critique of the 1990s' Reforms of the United Kingdom's National Health Service 
Abstract:
  This paper argues that the on-going reforms to the UK's National Health
 Service initiated in the 1990s represent potentially profound
 institutional change to the values underpinning the process of care. The
 market-orientation of the reforms is highlighted, and it is asserted that
 the theoretical rationale for this is informed by the nascent neoclassical
 health economics and new institutionalist literatures, which exhibit
 utilitarian propensities in that both stress outcomes and at best relegate
 process. Drawing from the seminal contribution of Thorstein Veblen, the
 paper argues that market-oriented reform in the UK may induce a shift from
 a Hippocratic ethos to a more individualistic value system. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 403-433 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Institutional Change, Neoclassical Health Economics, Reform, Utilitarianism, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676021000013386 
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Author-Name: Michael Lawlor 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lawlor 
Title: Academic Medicine Under Economic Stress: A Case Study of the Institutional Change Transforming American Health Care 
Abstract:
  American Academic medicine--the system of education and research that
 trains the coming generations of physicians, produces new basic and
 clinical bio-medical research and provides the medical safety net in many
 U.S. urban areas--is in a funding crisis. This essay lays out an
 historical and analytical account of the institutions, functions and
 funding mechanisms of this enterprise. The objective is to interpret the
 forces that led to the current impasse in which the medical education
 establishment now finds itself, and what the future is likely to hold as
 the forces of budgetary stringency and market competition continue to
 accelerate. A comprehensive review of the cross-subsidy system, its
 intricate relationship to the federal financing of health care and its
 origin in the Vannevar-Bush-inspired post-war research establishment is
 offered. The standpoint of economic theory is then taken to suggest that
 the intertwined functions of academic medicine be viewed from two
 perspectives. One, it can be viewed as a financially unnecessary mix of
 public and private goods. Two, it is an institutional framework for joint
 production that evolved under the post-Flexner, post-Bush era reforms of
 scientific medicine, but which now may be in need of modifications to its
 mission. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 435-469 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: American Health Care System, Academic Medicine, Costs, Cost Shifting, Managed Care, Medical Education Funding, Balance Budget Act 1977, 
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Author-Name: Anthony Scaperlanda 
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Scaperlanda 
Title: Global Society in 2052 
Abstract:
  A globalized economy is a fact of life in 2002. Will globalization be
 sustained for the next fifty years? Yes, is the answer if the goals and
 procedures of multilateral organizations such as the IMF are refocused and
 if a new social contract is developed among employers, workers, and
 governments at all levels. Guidelines for shaping the new social contract
 are outlined. They are taken from the writings of Thomas Friedman and Pope
 John Paul II. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 491-505 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Countervailing Power, Economic Globalization, European Union, Multilateral Organizations, Multinational Enterprise Mne, Social Contract, Social/ECONOMIC Justice, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676022000028037 
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Author-Name: Jeffrey James 
Author-X-Name-First: Jeffrey 
Author-X-Name-Last: James 
Title: Information Technology, Transactions Costs and Patterns Of Globalization in Developing Countries 
Abstract:
  Though there are a number of mechanisms through which information
 technology promotes globalization, what is common to these mechanisms is
 that they can all be interpreted as a reduction in transactions costs
 between the trading partners. Thus interpreted, we show that developing
 countries differ in the extent to which, via reductions in transactions
 costs, they gain from increased trade and foreign investment as ratios to
 total output. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 507-519 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Information Technology, Transactions Costs And Globalization, 
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Author-Name: Donald Richards 
Author-X-Name-First: Donald 
Author-X-Name-Last: Richards 
Title: The Ideology of Intellectual Property Rights in the International Economy 
Abstract:
  Since the arrival of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 a number
 of side agreements have also been negotiated that seek further
 rationalization of the emerging global economy. Prominent among these is
 the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights, or TRIPS.
 Enforcement of the TRIPS agreement would involve the multilateral trade
 sanctions mechanism of the WTO. This paper examines justificatory
 arguments for the defense of intellectual property rights in the
 international economy. These arguments are based on the "classic"
 philosophic writings of Locke, Hegel, and Bentham. It is found that these
 well-known philosophic defenses for exclusive property rights do not hold
 up well when applied to intellectual property. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 521-541 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Intellectual Property, Trips, Wto, Philosophy, Property Rights, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676022000028055 
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Author-Name: Barbara Wiens-Tuers 
Author-X-Name-First: Barbara 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wiens-Tuers 
Author-Name: Elizabeth Hill 
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hill 
Title: Do They Bother? Employer Training of Temporary Workers 
Abstract:
  Using the backdrop of an economy emerging from a decade of restructuring
 and on the brink of the longest expansion on record, this paper is an
 exploratory work that examines employer-provided training to temporary
 workers and the characteristics of firms associated with that training.
 The focus is on the training of two types of temporary workers:
 intermediated workers employed by temporary agencies and working for other
 firms and "in-house" temporary workers who are employed by the firm for
 which they are working. Results indicate that factors associated with the
 training of regular or standard employees differ from those factors
 associated with the training of temporaries. Further, factors associated
 with the training of the two types of temporary workers differ. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 543-566 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Nonstandard Work, Training, On-THE-JOB Training, Temporary Workers, Informal Training, Intermediated Workers, 
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Author-Name: Douglas Mair 
Author-X-Name-First: Douglas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mair 
Author-Name: Anthony Laramie 
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Laramie 
Title: Full Employment: Gift Horse or Trojan Horse? 
Abstract:
  Kalecki's 1943 essay Political Aspects of Full Employment (PAFE) is
 widely recognised as a seminal essay in the theory of the political
 business cycle. The paper argues that PAFE may also be interpreted as an
 early recognition by Kalecki of the phenomenon of rent seeking. Kalecki's
 discussion of the rent-seeking behavior of businessmen is shown to have
 anticipated Olson's subsequent theory of distributional coalitions. A
 Kalecki-Olson analysis provides an explanation for the movement in income
 shares in the UK since 1975. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 567-593 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
Keywords: Kalecki, Olson, Political Business Cycles, Income Shares, 
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Author-Name: John Henry 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Henry 
Title: Marx, Veblen and Contemporary Institutional Political Economy : Henry on O'Hara 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 595-602 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676022000028082 
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Author-Name: Howard Sherman 
Author-X-Name-First: Howard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sherman 
Title: Marxist Institutionalism 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 603-608 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676022000028091 
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Author-Name: Phillip Anthony O'Hara 
Author-X-Name-First: Phillip Anthony 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Hara 
Title: The Role of Institutions and the Current Crises of Capitalism: A Reply to Howard Sherman and John Henry 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 609-618 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 60 
Year: 2002 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676022000028109 
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Author-Name: Elizabeth Oughton 
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth 
Author-X-Name-Last: Oughton 
Author-Name: Jane Wheelock 
Author-X-Name-First: Jane 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wheelock 
Title: A capabilities approach to austainable household livelihoods1With thanks to the Economic and Social Research Council for funding 'Enterprising livelihoods in rural households: new and old ways of working' Award number R000238213 on which the empirical work is based. 
Abstract:
  The aim of this article is to build a framework with which to compare the
 reality of household livelihoods and the models put forward by economists
 and policy makers. It applies Sen's framework of human flourishing to a
 real world situation with a view to developing the understanding of the
 relationships between household livelihoods and individual well being. In
 undertaking this, it contributes to the advancement of the capability
 approach. The article explores the institutional elements that embed
 individuals in the wider social relations of household, gender and economy
 in order to clarify the links between household endowments and individual
 flourishing. It tests and explores this framework through application to
 an analysis of microbusiness households in the rural north of England,
 where insecurity is almost invariably associated with running a business.
 The conclusions argue that it is impossible to understand the
 microbusiness enterprise as separate from the household within which it is
 located, and discuss the implications of this analysis for policy making. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-22 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: household livelihoods, well being/flourishing, economics of insecurity, policy models, small business, 
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Schneider 
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schneider 
Title: Neoliberalism and economic justice in South Africa: revisiting the debate on economic apartheid 
Abstract:
  Although the political environment in South Africa is vastly improved,
 economic apartheid still exists: the economic divisions along racial lines
 created by apartheid are still in place today. Despite these divisions,
 neoliberal economists continue to press for a largely unregulated market
 system, which is unlikely to improve the lives of most black South
 Africans. This paper documents the role neoliberal economic theory has
 played and is continuing to play in frustrating and opposing fundamental
 change in the distribution of land, income and assets in South Africa.
 Neoliberal policies stem from an ideological attachment to free markets,
 rather than a substantive analysis of how market forces play out in an
 unequal society like that in South Africa. By choosing to focus on
 narrowly defined economic criteria such as GDP growth and allocative
 efficiency, neoliberal economists marginalize the vast problems created by
 inequality and poverty and thus overlook the potential benefits of a
 redistributive strategy. Neoliberal economic policies have been installed
 in South Africa by the ANC via GEAR and other policy initiatives, but
 these policies have made little progress in solving South Africa's
 economic problems. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 23-50 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: Apartheid, neoliberalism, economic theory, South Africa, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676032000050257 
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Author-Name: Christopher Niggle 
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher 
Author-X-Name-Last: Niggle 
Title: Globalization, Neoliberalism and the attack on social security 
Abstract:
  Neoliberal political movements advocate privatization of public pension
 systems. Globalization imposes pressure on nations to conform to
 neoliberal policy views with respect to the design and structure of social
 insurance, including public pension systems. The paper begins with an
 investigation of the economic, ethical and ideological dimensions of the
 privatization debates in the U.S.; it argues that privatization advocates
 may be largely moved by ideology, since the other reasons advanced appear
 weak or unfounded. The second part discusses the history of Social
 Security, the purposes for its creation, and some of its economic effects.
 Differences between public and private pension systems are considered. A
 brief international comparison of some aspects of public pension system
 finance and benefit structures is presented. The final section considers
 the ethical, macroeconomic and distributional implications of
 privatization, prefunding and payroll tax funding, and argues for a pay as
 you go system financed with income taxes. In order to promote equity,
 economic security, community, and social cohesion, public pension systems
 should be universal in coverage. In order to reduce the inequality, income
 insecurity, and aged poverty generated by market economies, public pension
 systems ought to be progressive: benefit/contribution ratios should be
 inversely proportional to income, and progressive income taxes should
 finance the system. To promote economic growth, the systems should be
 financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, and should not be prefunded except for
 an emergency reserve. The fiscal policy recommendations partially depend
 upon the theory developed by Abba Lerner in the 1940s, and recently
 advanced by Wynne Godley and Randy Wray: Lerner's &#x201c;principle of
 functional finance.&#x201d; 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 51-71 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676032000050275 
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Author-Name: Mark Peacock 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: Peacock 
Title: Two-tier rationality and reflexivity: an examination of the foundations of economic reason 
Abstract:
  This paper develops a two-tier concept of rationality which broadens the
 orthodox notion of instrumental rationality in economics. In the first
 section, I conceive the idea of &#x201c;background rationality&#x201d; to
 consist in the ability to act normally, i.e., according to social
 conventions appropriate to the context. Background rationality is a
 necessary condition for the exercise of its instrumental counterpart.
 Implications and applications of this for economic phenomena are
 investigated in Section II. The third section draws parallels between the
 approach to rationality developed in this paper and Thorstein Veblen's
 notion &#x201c;habits of thought&#x201d;. I argue that a viable concept of
 rationality must itself be subject to explanatory scrutiny and
 justification and not merely posited as given. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 73-89 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: Rationality, norms, conventions, ethnomethodology, Veblen, 
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Author-Name: Hamid Hosseini 
Author-X-Name-First: Hamid 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hosseini 
Title: Why development is more complex than growth: clarifying some confusions 
Abstract:
  Development economics, as the economics of the less advanced nations,
 emerged during the 1940s and the 1950s. Although many pioneers of this
 policyrelated branch of economics were aware of the peculiarities of the
 poor unindustrialized countries, many development economists,
 unfortunately, ignored the special circumstances of the LDCs and proposed,
 for these countries, policy prescriptions usually advocated for the more
 advanced nations. Adhering to monoeconomics, many historians of
 development thought traced the roots of development to the writings of
 Adam Smith and other pioneers of modern economics, with roots in Western
 industrialized societies. Thus,many development economists ignored the
 realism/relevance required for the study of the LDCs. An unfortunate
 consequence of the above has been the confusion of development With the
 less complex notion of growth. This confusion, I argue, led to the use of
 per capita GDP as the sole measure of development, and to the utilization
 of the growth models like the Harrod-Domar as the solution by development
 economists and international agencies. In this essay, attempt has been
 made to clarify the various confusions about development vs. growth, to
 demonstrate why development is a lot more complex, and to seek the causes
 of the confusion. To demonstrate these theoretically, we have utilized
 various economic tools, including Leibenstein's notion of x-inefficiency
 and Hla Myint's notion of organizational dualism. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 91-110 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: development, growth, monoeconomics, duo-economics, industrialization, capitalism, the Harrod-Domar model, x-inefficiency, dualism, market failure, conventional economics, Keynesianism, 
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Author-X-Name-First: Evelyn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Forget 
Title: Passion and craft: economists at work 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 111-128 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676032000050266 
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Author-Name: Daniel Finn 
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Finn 
Title: The moral ecology of markets: on the failure of the amoral defense of markets 
Abstract:
  Many economists have defended capitalism; most have tried to do so within
 the self-imposed methodological constraint that economists should employ
 only empirical arguments, not normative ones. This essay examines three
 classic amoral defenses of capitalism&#x2014;by Milton Friedman, James
 Buchanan, and Friedrich Hayek&#x2014;and argues that each fails on its own
 terms, since each implicitly incorporates moral presumptions essential to
 the author's argument. Constructively, the essay proposes that no one can
 adequately endorse (or critique) markets without making a moral evaluation
 of their context&#x2014;their &#x201c;moral ecology.&#x201d; Four issues
 are identified as necessarily addressed in every adequate evaluation of
 markets. The essay does not endorse any one position on these elements,
 but argues instead that seemingly incommensurable standpoints on
 markets&#x2014;ranging from Marxist to libertarian&#x2014;actually
 represent positions on the these four basic issues. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 135-162 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: markets, morality, capitalism, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Friedrich Hayek, 
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Author-Name: Hans Westlund 
Author-X-Name-First: Hans 
Author-X-Name-Last: Westlund 
Title: Social economy and employment - the case of Sweden 
Abstract:
  Recent research has shown growing shares of employment in the social
 economy (or non-profit sector) both in the European Union and in the
 United States. In the EU, there seems to be growing hopes that the social
 economy will be capable of contributing to local progress on the
 unemployment issue in crisis regions. This paper analyses employment in
 certain entrepreneurial forms, usually considered belonging to the social
 economy, in Sweden during the 1990s. The results show considerable
 regional differences of employment in the social economy, but also that
 its share of the labor market is very limited. The effect of
 social-economic organizations on employment, therefore, is probably mainly
 indirect in as much as they function as platforms for cooperation between
 firms or else as embryos for enterprises by strengthening local
 entrepreneurship and helping to nurture a deposit of social capital which
 has visible effects on private business and jobs. However, these effects
 need more detailed examinations. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 163-182 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: social economy, third sector, social capital, employment, 
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Author-Name: Tom De Herdt 
Author-X-Name-First: Tom 
Author-X-Name-Last: De Herdt 
Title: Cooperation and fairness: the flood-Dresher experiment revisited 
Abstract:
  In this paper we set out to deepen our understanding of the importance of
 fairness in decision-making within the context of Prisoners' Dilemma
 games. A review of the &#x201c;historic&#x201d; Flood-Dresher experiment
 provides a useful empirical basis, as it allows us to look in considerable
 detail at how the experimental players made up their minds. We try out
 several game-theoretical readings of the experimental results, and find
 some value in Adam Smith's age-old concept of rules of conduct. We find
 that fairness considerations are much more than mere excuses for taking a
 free ride or pointers to focal points. They seem to play a considerable
 role both at a conscious and at a less-than-conscious level. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 183-210 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: cooperation, fairness, prisoners' dilemma, rules of conduct, 
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Author-Name: Bisakha Sen 
Author-X-Name-First: Bisakha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sen 
Title: Why do Women feel the way they do about market work: the role of familial, social and economic factors 
Abstract:
  Various empirical studies find evidence of that women tend to
 underestimate the probability that they will work in the market in the
 future. This can lead to initial under-investment in market human capital
 and resulting earnings penalties later in life. However, virtually no
 study investigates the familial, social and economic factors that cause
 women to plan/expect not to work. Thus the onus of
 &#x201c;incorrect&#x201d; plans is placed wholly on the women, and society
 absolved of any responsibilities in helping form those plans. This work
 uses data from the NLSYW and investigates the effects of a wide range of
 factors on women's future work plans. Results indicate that plans are
 definitely not formed in a vacuum, and that familial, social and economic
 circumstances all play a decisive role in shaping them. Some suggestions
 are made for policy formation to encourage women to plan on working in
 future. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 211-234 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: Women, work, plans, family, human capital, 
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Author-Name: David Spencer 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Spencer 
Title: Love's labor's lost? the disutility of work and work avoidance in the economic analysis of labor supply 
Abstract:
  This paper explores the origins and evolution of the concept of the
 disutility of work. The original formulation of this concept developed by
 Stanley Jevons and by Alfred Marshall recognizes the variability of work
 motives stressing the effects of both the quantity and quality of work on
 labor supply. Subsequent writers, notably Lionel Robbins, and later Gary
 Becker, focus on the opportunity cost of work time, to the neglect of the
 content of work. These writers lose sight of the influence of the nature
 of work on the supply of labor. Contemporary research on the economics of
 labor supply, while accepting the presence of agency problems surrounding
 the enforcement of the labor contract, continues to consign the
 determinants of work motives to a black box. The new emphasis on the
 problem of &#x201c;shirking&#x201d; by workers, in particular, offers an
 unbalanced treatment of the causes and consequences of work resistance. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 235-250 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: labor supply, effort, shirking, work motivation, work avoidance, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676032000098237 
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Author-Name: Stephen John Nash 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nash 
Title: On pragmatic Philosophy and Knightian uncertainty 
Abstract:
  Knight indicates that his proposition of uncertainty is based on two
 important premises: (a) that the proposition of uncertainty is premised on
 a reevaluation of the theory of knowledge, and (b) that the primary theory
 of knowledge used in this re-evaluation may be the Pragmatic theory of
 knowledge. It is instructive to follow up on the hints that Knight gives,
 regarding the influences on his work, so as to clarify aspects of
 Knightian uncertainty for contemporary research. Accordingly, this work
 first analyzes the main insights of Pragmatic philosophy. Second, the
 connection between these insights and the definition of Knightian
 uncertainty is then outlined. Third, some conclusions as to the
 implications of this analysis are drawn. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 251-272 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: uncertainty, Pragmatic philosophy, Knight, 
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Author-Name: Sabine O'Hara 
Author-X-Name-First: Sabine 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Hara 
Author-Name: Adelheid Biesecker 
Author-X-Name-First: Adelheid 
Author-X-Name-Last: Biesecker 
Title: Globalization: Homogenization or Newfound Diversity? 
Abstract:
  The ongoing expansion of global markets and their concomitant global
 rules and value systems appears to be unavoidable as international
 agreements and institutions like the WTO, IMF, World Bank and EU support
 previously unknown levels of global market liberalization and free trade.
 National policies and institutions are rendered increasingly powerless in
 the process. Is the result of the expanding global market and one of its
 most far reaching regional example, the European Union, a growing loss of
 national and regional identity and homogenization or are there renewed
 opportunities for smaller scale, context specific economies and diverse
 institutions? These are the questions this special issue seeks to examine.
 It does so by assessing the impact of globalization and European
 Integration on five Western European economies that exemplify particular
 social-economic types&#x2014;the Anglo-Saxon model (Ireland), the
 Mediterranian model (Italy), the social market model (Germany and France)
 and the Scandinavian model (Denmark). The introductory chapter starts with
 a brief discussion of (1) the relevance of globalization to social
 economics, (2) institutional considerations of globalization pressures and
 'pressure-free' spaces and (3) a brief summary of the five contributions
 to this special issue and their assessment of recent developments in
 individual member countries of the European Union. While the chapter
 concludes that the answer to the question &#x201c;homogenization or
 diversity&#x201d; is still out, it observes that much of the answers to
 the apparent economic efficiency challenges given by the five European
 economies discussed, resemble each other. The homogenization of the new
 global reality may, paradoxically, lie in its diverse, yet common
 solutions. The real challenge may thus well lie in finding ways for these
 specificities to persist without resorting to the aggressive defense of
 regional and national identities. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 281-294 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: globalization, European integration, social economy, social capitalism, diversity, 
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Author-Name: Gerry Boucher 
Author-X-Name-First: Gerry 
Author-X-Name-Last: Boucher 
Author-Name: Grainne Collins 
Author-X-Name-First: Grainne 
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins 
Title: Having One's Cake and Being Eaten too: Irish Neo-liberal Corporatism 
Abstract:
  This paper argues that neo-liberal globalization has neither homogenized
 Ireland's institutional social economy nor forced a retreat into an Irish
 cultural fortress. Instead, the elite community of Irish social partners
 responded to its own national crisis, American led globalization and
 European integration by taking the country in two apparently contradictory
 directions at once: towards European neo-corporatism and Anglo-American
 neo-liberalism. In so doing, they refashioned Ireland's liberal
 corporatist welfare state into a new form of Irish neo-liberal corporatism
 symbolically situated between Boston, Berlin and London. However, it is
 unclear if the internal tensions generated within Irish society by this
 attempt to reconcile apparent contradictions, and the changing external
 environment, will allow the Irish to continue having their cake and eating
 it too. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 295-316 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: globalization, neo-liberalism, neo-corporatism, Irish institutional social economy, 
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Author-Name: Carmela D'Apice 
Author-X-Name-First: Carmela 
Author-X-Name-Last: D'Apice 
Author-Name: Sebastiano Fadda 
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastiano 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fadda 
Title: The Italian Welfare System in the European Context 
Abstract:
  The deep changes that have taken place over the past twenty years in the
 labor market, demographics, and social disparities have led European
 countries to reorganize their welfare systems in order to respond more
 effectively to these challenges. Although several of the European Union's
 core documents affirm social protection as a fundamental component of
 European society since it ensures political stability, social cohesion and
 economic progress, there is significant evidence that today's European
 countries will follow a United States approach of &#x201c;minimal social
 protection&#x201d; especially in the current climate of liberal ideologies
 and global market pressures. The erosion of historical commitments to
 social protection is aided by the fact that a significant number of
 European voters appear to favor tax reductions and don't seem to make the
 connection between low taxes and low social services and infrastructure
 spending. After a brief description of the Italian welfare system, this
 paper discusses Italy's reforms of the 1990s and reaches the conclusion
 that actual and planned reforms are paving the way for a residual model of
 welfare and social protection. It is further argued that a constant
 re-examination and restructuring of the welfare system is necessary in
 order to improve its effectiveness in reaching defined goals while at the
 same time responding to changing economic conditions. However,
 restructuring efforts should focus on improvements in internal efficiency,
 rather than on a general reductions of social expenditures. In fact, it is
 argued that the reduction of social expenditure in itself is neither a
 necessary consequence of globalization and European unification nor a
 necessary strategy to remain competitive. It is instead a reflection of
 cultural leanings and political choices. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 317-339 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: welfare, government expenditures, social cohesion, social support, globalization, 
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Author-Name: Ingo Bode 
Author-X-Name-First: Ingo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bode 
Title: The creeping disorganization of welfare capitalism or what is the future of Germany's social sector? 
Abstract:
  Drawing on the debate over the destiny of the coordinated market economy
 versus the expanding liberal market model, this article argues that the
 analysis of the re-regulation of capitalism must address the embedding
 infrastructure of the market. Since social support sectors are an
 important part of this embedding infrastructure the article focuses on
 organizational change within Germany's social sector as a basis for a new
 perspective on the future of German welfare capitalism and develops a
 complimentary understanding of the &#x201c;social sector economy.&#x201d;
 The empirical discussion focuses on organizations providing social support
 services in a direct or indirect way, on the changing environments in
 which they operate, and on their strategies for coping with change. The
 discussion indicates that the German model is slowly but surely evolving
 toward a &#x201c;disorganized&#x201d; welfare capitalism shaped by both
 formal institutional stickiness and considerable change of the social
 sector's service provisions. While this change leads to more heterogeneous
 outcomes in terms of welfare it is also conducive to social innovation. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 341-363 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: social economy, welfare, Germany, non-profit organizations, models of capitalism, organizational change, 
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Author-Name: Klaus Nielsen 
Author-X-Name-First: Klaus 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nielsen 
Author-Name: Stefan Kesting 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kesting 
Title: Small is Resilient&#x2014;the Impact of Globalization on Denmark 
Abstract:
  The aim of this article is to investigate the impact of globalization on
 the Danish economy. We focus on four possible influences of globalization
 and European integration (as one of the expressions of globalization)
 which are widely discussed in the scientific discourse on this topic and
 appear to be relevant for the Danish case. These dimensions are the
 reduction of the repertoire and effectiveness of national economic policy,
 the pressure for industrial restructuring, the seemingly required welfare
 retrenchment and the ideological implications of globalization as a
 predominant neo-liberal discourse. On the one hand we discuss Denmark as a
 typical example of a small European state and a Scandinavian welfare state
 regime, on the other hand we put emphasis on its nation peculiarities. The
 article shows that Denmark changed and adapted successfully to challenges
 of globalization while keeping the core of its particular form of the
 Scandinavian welfare model. In addition, both its smallness and its
 distinctive national characteristics equipped Denmark well to turn the
 impact of globalization into a successful strategy for survival. However,
 there are indications that the translation of neo-liberal ideas in the
 Danish negotiated economy will lead to political disruption that
 challenges fundamental features of the model. Whether this may undermine
 the dam that had hitherto held back the globalization pressures in the
 Danish context and secured a response in accordance with the inherited
 characteristics of the Danish model remains an open question. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 365-387 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: globalization, Scandinavian model, welfare state, industrial structure, economic policy, neoliberal discourse, negotiated economy, 
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Author-Name: Jean-Louis Laville 
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Louis 
Author-X-Name-Last: Laville 
Title: A New European Socioeconomic Perspective 
Abstract:
  Over the past few decades a new associationism and cooperativism
 perspective that takes on a broader, civil-society and solidarity-based
 view of the economy has developed in France. This perspective resonates
 with the long tradition of &#x201c;reform-economics&#x201d; that France is
 known for and expresses an understanding of economic relationships as
 embedded in non-market and non-monetary social relationships. Such broadly
 understood conceptions of economic activity defy narrow definitions of
 profit orientation, production and distribution. Economic activity motives
 include social and political ones that link 'civil entrepreneurs' in
 solidarity networks to service recipients and other stakeholders. One of
 the functional foundations of this new interdependent notion of the
 economy is the growing 'tertiarization' of economic activities, that is
 the &#x201c;intensification of social interactions within productive
 systems&#x201d; (Perret and Roustang 1993: 59&#x200a;-&#x200a;60). While
 the market economy is dependent on the non-monetary economy, the
 tertiarisation of production activities accentuates the interdependence
 between the market economy and non-market economies. This article seeks to
 analyze the links between the re-emergence of a civil and solidarity-based
 economy to the evolution of new forms of public commitment and the
 changing structures of productive activities in France. It further argues
 for a theoretical perspective that provides an analytical framework for a
 more comprehensive approach to the empirical complexity of social economic
 considerations consisting of three economic spheres: the for-profit
 economy, the public sector economy and the generally locally based
 non-monetary reciprocity based economy. Given its ability to link these
 three poles the civil and solidarity-based economy can revitalize social
 and political link and consolidate the social fabric while at the same
 time creating jobs. Yet despite this potential, its mission cannot be to
 the problems of unemployment and other failures of the market economy. It
 is instead to facilitate relationships between paid and volunteer work in
 a context that makes users, workers and volunteers the participants in
 collectively designed services and economic relationships. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 389-405 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: society, civil non profit organizations, cooperatives, stakeholders, social economics, 
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Author-Name: Jon Wisman 
Author-X-Name-First: Jon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wisman 
Title: The Scope and Promising Future of Social Economics 
Abstract:
  This essay explores the future potential for Social Economics. Since the
 beginning of modern economics, the mainstream has been steered by what
 might be called a material progress vision, whereby the generally
 unacknowledged pesumption is that economic growth will make the good life
 possible. Accordingly, such potential components of human welfare as more
 creative and fulfilling work, greater equality in the distribution of
 opportunity, wealth and income, and a greater degree of community can be
 more or less ignored for the present. Less guided by this vision, and
 unfettered by a pretense of value-neutrality, Social Economics does not
 view such components of welfare as subsidiary to economic growth. Instead,
 it is more focused upon the wholeness of social life, more concerned with
 the full requisites of the good and just society. By drawing upon recent
 work in psychology, sociology, and especially happiness research, Social
 Economics is found to offer a more promising orientation towards future
 economic concerns than does mainstream economics. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 425-445 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: Economic visions, happiness, work, community, justice, 
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Author-Name: Rebecca Blank 
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca 
Author-X-Name-Last: Blank 
Title: Selecting Among Anti-Poverty Policies: Can an Economist be Both Critical and Caring? 
Abstract:
  The first part of this paper reviews five major theoretical approaches
 that describe the fundamental causes of poverty, with particular attention
 to what these theories imply about government policy towards markets and
 the need for immediate poverty alleviation. Different causal theories have
 very different policy implications; it is difficult to recommend specific
 anti-poverty policies with making assumptions about the nature of economic
 markets and of individual behavior. The paper ends with comments about how
 to make these choices, arguing that the greater moral onus one associates
 with poverty, the more willing one should be to adopt less efficient
 strategies that do more to raise incomes among the poor. The
 interconnections between markets and social and political
 systems&#x2014;which often disadvantage poor populations&#x2014;suggests
 that some market regulations and targeted programs may be necessary to
 reduce poverty, especially if these can be implemented with minimal
 corruption and monitored for effectiveness. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 447-469 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: Poverty, income distribution, market systems, policy, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676032000160949 
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Author-Name: William Darity 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Darity 
Title: Will the Poor Always be with Us? 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 471-477 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676032000160930 
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Author-Name: Nancy Folbre 
Author-X-Name-First: Nancy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Folbre 
Title: Blowing the Whistle on Poverty Policy 
Abstract:
  This comment on Rebecca Blank's &#x201c;Poverty, Policy, and Ethics: Can
 an Economist be Critical and Caring?&#x201d; celebrates her insights but
 argues for an even more critical analysis of the meaning of
 &#x201c;caring&#x201d; in economic discourse. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 479-485 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: poverty, care, families, efficiency, welfare reform, 
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Author-Name: Oren Levin-Waldman 
Author-X-Name-First: Oren 
Author-X-Name-Last: Levin-Waldman 
Title: The Minimum Wage and the Cause of Democracy 
Abstract:
  Too often the minimum wage is conceived of as a small policy measure that
 will be of benefit to only a small segment of the labor market while
 imposing costs on another segment of the labor market. Unexplored,
 however, are the larger philosophic questions that such a small measure
 may actually raise. One such issue is the relationship between the minimum
 wage and democratic principles. In this paper I argue that the minimum
 wage furthers the ends of democratic society in that low-wage workers may
 achieve greater equality of standing with their piers to the extent that
 income inequality is at all lessened; their autonomy as individuals is
 enhanced through higher wages, which in turn enables them to claim the
 benefits of citizenship and participate more effectively in the democratic
 process; and it fosters greater economic development in that it raises the
 overall structure of a region and perhaps the productivity of that region. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 487-510 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: minimum wage, democracy, equality, autonomy, empowerment, voice, citizenship, economic development, 
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Author-Name: Veronika Eberharter 
Author-X-Name-First: Veronika 
Author-X-Name-Last: Eberharter 
Title: Structural Features of Female Employment Status and Earnings Mobility: The Experience in Germany 
Abstract:
  Structural changes in basic economic indicators, changes in traditional
 role patterns, and in female employment behavior shed light on the
 performance of the European labor markets in the 90s. This paper focuses
 on the cyclical sensitivity of women's employment status and earnings
 position in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel
 (GSOEP) we test the hypothesis that labor market adjustments are not
 gender-neutral but affect women's employment status and women's relative
 earnings position to a greater extent than those of men. Cross-sectional
 as well as longitudinal analysis indicate positive effects on female
 employment status and earnings position during a period with worsening
 economic indicators. Logistic regression analysis confirms an increasing
 likelihood of an upward earnings mobility for women in the 90s.
 Notwithstanding these positive trends the results show that - due to
 social norms and attitudes - women are still discriminated against in the
 labor market and in terms of their relative earnings position. Thus social
 policy is called upon to improve women's social and employment conditions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 511-533 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: Labor force and employment, size and structure (J210), personal income and wealth distribution (D310), earnings mobility (J60), 
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Author-Name: Krishna Mazumdar 
Author-X-Name-First: Krishna 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mazumdar 
Title: A New Approach to Human Development Index 
Abstract:
  Human development Index (HDI) was introduced by the United Nations
 Development Programme (UNDP) in 1990. For the first four years UNDP used
 the maximum and the minimum values of the data series to standardize the
 variables. In 1994 the procedure of standardization was modified with the
 introduction of arbitrary fixed minimum and maximum values for each
 variable. Both methods have merits and demerits. The present study
 proposes an alternative measure of estimating HDI which bridges the gap
 between the methods of computing HDI proposed by the UNDP in 1990 and
 1994. This study also incorporates unadjusted per capita real gross
 domestic product (PCRGDP) instead of adjusted PCRGDP used by the UNDP. The
 data from the Human Development Report (HDR) 2000 for 174 countries are
 used to test the robustness of the suggested index and the results are
 compared to those of the HDI. Also average values for full sample as well
 as top 20 percent and bottom 20 percent are offered to show the
 superiority of our method to that of the UNDP's HDI. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 535-549 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 61 
Year: 2003 
Keywords: Human Development Index (HDI), Rescaled New Human Development Index (RNHDI), Fixed goal posts, Moving goal posts, D2- statistics, 
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Author-Name: Nancy Folbre 
Author-X-Name-First: Nancy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Folbre 
Author-Name: Robert Goodin 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Goodin 
Title: Revealing Altruism 
Abstract:
  The traditional neoclassical economic view that preferences are
 &#x201c;inscrutable&#x201d; and can only be revealed through behavior
 would, if true, make it difficult for altruists to make efficient
 decisions. We question whether altruism should be defined as a preference
 that can be revealed, or indeed, as a preference at all. One alternative
 is to treat altruism as a disposition that can be strengthened or weakened
 by social institutions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-25 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: altruism as a preference, altruism as a disposition, neoclassical economics, institutions, 
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Author-Name: Lanse Minkler 
Author-X-Name-First: Lanse 
Author-X-Name-Last: Minkler 
Author-Name: Thomas Miceli 
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Miceli 
Title: Lying, Integrity, and Cooperation 
Abstract:
  While talk is cheap to some, it is expensive to others for whom moral
 considerations come into play. We employ a simple two-stage modified
 prisoner's dilemma game where integrity is endowed on a continuum to
 analyze when agents will lie in random economic interactions. If there is
 sufficient integrity in the population, all agents make a promise in the
 first stage to cooperate in the second. Some agents always lie, some
 always tell the truth, and some behave conditionally. Enhanced cooperation
 is a byproduct of integrity. In a second random interaction without the
 possibility of exit, some agents &#x201c;switch&#x201d; their behavior,
 that is, some who lied in the first period now tell the truth in the
 second (they've &#x201c;reformed&#x201d;), and some who told the truth in
 the first period now lie in the second (they've become
 &#x201c;cynical&#x201d;). 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 27-50 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: lying, integrity, cooperation, prisoner's dilemma, moral motivation, 
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Author-Name: Stephanie Bell 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephanie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bell 
Author-Name: John Henry 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Henry 
Author-Name: L Randall Wray 
Author-X-Name-First: L Randall 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wray 
Title: A Chartalist Critique of John Locke's Theory of Property, Accumulation, and Money: or, is it Moral to Trade Your Nuts for Gold? 
Abstract:
  The focus of this paper is John Locke's theoretical defense of economic
 inequality. It is well known that Locke identified labor as the original
 and just foundation of property. Succinctly, Locke's was a labor theory of
 property. Now, while Locke saw private property as legitimate, he proposed
 that the state of nature within which people interact is part of a social
 system that is regulated by distinct rules that limit accumulation. There
 is nothing in Locke's initial argument that allows for unbounded
 accumulation and consequent inequality. The justification for unbridled
 accumulation comes later, and rests squarely on Locke's treatment of money
 as a non-exploitive institution. For Locke, money allows unlimited
 accumulation while still adhering to the rules he established to govern
 morally correct behavior. In this paper, we challenge Locke's position by
 contrasting his exchange-based view of money with the debt-based or
 Chartalist theory of money. We demonstrate that when money is properly
 conceived, Locke's own moral strictures regarding property are violated,
 and his theoretical defense of the accumulation process is undermined. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 51-65 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: accumulation, chartalism, debt, exchange, Locke, money, privilege, property, spoilage, taxes, 
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Author-Name: Laura McCann 
Author-X-Name-First: Laura 
Author-X-Name-Last: McCann 
Title: Induced Institutional Innovation and Transaction Costs: The Case of the Australian National Native Title Tribunal 
Abstract:
  The theory of induced innovation says that technological innovations
 which economize on relatively scarce inputs will be invented and adopted.
 Hayami and Ruttan have hypothesized that this model also holds for
 institutional innovations. Coase and Williamson suggest that economic
 organization, such as vertical integration, is the result of transaction
 cost minimization. Coase discusses the transaction costs of negotiation
 versus other alternatives for solving externality problems. This paper
 brings these previously unconnected threads of the literature together and
 incorporates transaction costs in an induced institutional innovation
 model. This conceptual model is brought to bear on the issue of
 institutional innovations over time in relation to the National Native
 Title Tribunal. In addition to the reductions in transaction costs from a
 negotiated settlement rather than litigation, there are other advantages
 of negotiation. These may include improved &#x201c;quality&#x201d; of
 settlements, improved relations between the negotiating parties, and more
 timely resolution. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 67-82 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: transaction costs, induced innovation, property rights, 
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Author-Name: Walter Simmons 
Author-X-Name-First: Walter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Simmons 
Author-Name: Rosemarie Emanuele 
Author-X-Name-First: Rosemarie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Emanuele 
Title: Male and Female Recoveries in Medical Malpractice Cases 
Abstract:
  This study analyzes male and female recovery resulting from medical
 malpractice injuries to discern the importance to the recovery
 differential of gender differences in recoveries for medical malpractice
 injuries. We find that the pattern of recoveries follows one similar to
 that found in studying wage differentials between males and females.
 Differences in the relative magnitudes of foregone earnings and nonmarket
 loses are reflected in the composition of recoveries. In addition, we find
 a recovery gap in which females receive substantially less in recoveries
 when they receive male's average compensation for medical malpractice
 injuries. However, only a small portion of the male and female recovery
 differential is explained by the characteristics of the claims, leaving a
 substantial portion of the differential unexplained. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 83-99 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: malpractice, litigation, recoveries, decomposition, 
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Author-Name: Hans Jensen 
Author-X-Name-First: Hans 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen 
Title: Review Essay 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 101-112 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000183853 
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Author-Name: Ellen Mutari 
Author-X-Name-First: Ellen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mutari 
Title: Brothers and Breadwinners: Legislating Living Wages in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 
Abstract:
  Attention to the implicit and explicit wage theories articulated by
 economic actors and embedded in public policy reveals the underlying
 social norms and values in specific historical and industrial contexts.
 The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), the first federal minimum
 wage legislation in the United States, legitimated and institutionalized
 the idea that living standards and workers' needs matter in setting wages.
 They matter not simply in generating labor supply, but as the basis for
 government intervention in market mechanisms. Rather than viewing market
 mechanisms and government regulations dichotomously, economic actors
 debating the FLSA treated both market mechanisms and socially defined
 living standards as legitimate elements of wage-setting. Wage regulations
 also, by necessity, must grapple with issues of identity, that is, which
 workers (especially as defined by class, gender, and
 race&#x200a;-&#x200a;ethnicity) are deserving of particular living
 standards. Debates over the language in the FLSA reveal the contested
 nature of masculinity during the period of economic crisis in the 1930s.
 Advocates responded by defining a multiplicity of living wages
 corresponding with different living standards, as well as a multiplicity
 of strategies for achieving them. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 129-148 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: minimum wage, living wage, New Deal, gender, masculinity, economic policy, 
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Author-Name: David Ellerman 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ellerman 
Title: Autonomy-Respecting Assistance: Toward An Alternative Theory of Development Assistance 
Abstract:
  The purpose of this paper is outline an alternative theory of development
 assistance by analyzing the old strategies for technical cooperation,
 capacity-building and, in broader terms, development assistance in a way
 that will point to new strategies. The perspective is the very old idea
 that the best form of assistance is to help people help themselves. The
 problem is how can the helpers supply help that actually furthers rather
 than overrides or undercuts the goal of the doers helping themselves? This
 problem of supplying help to self-help, &#x201c;assisted
 self-reliance&#x201d; or assisted autonomy, is the fundamental conundrum
 of development assistance. The forms of help that override or undercut
 people's capacity to help themselves will be called &#x201c;unhelpful
 help.&#x201d; These two overriding and undercutting forms of unhelpful
 help are analyzed and strategies for autonomy-respecting help are
 presented. Moreover the volitional and cognitive sides of development
 assistance are given separate but parallel treatment. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 149-168 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: development assistance, unhelpful help, social engineering, benevolent help, autonomy-respecting assistance, volitional and cognitive aspects, 
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Author-Name: Frederic Lee 
Author-X-Name-First: Frederic 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee 
Author-Name: Steve Keen 
Author-X-Name-First: Steve 
Author-X-Name-Last: Keen 
Title: The Incoherent Emperor: A Heterodox Critique of Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory 
Abstract:
  It is somewhat common for heterodox economists to come to the defense of
 neoclassical microeconomic theory. This is due to many reasons, but
 perhaps the commonest one is ignorance. It seems that most heterodox
 economists are not aware of the many critiques or that as a collective
 they completely undermine neoclassical theory. The objective of the
 article is to dispel ignorance by using the existing criticisms to
 delineate a systematic critique of the core components of neoclassical
 microeconomic theory: the supply and demand explanation of the price
 mechanism and its application to competitive markets. The critique starts
 by examining the choices, preferences, utility functions, and demand
 curves, followed by examining production, costs, factor input demand
 functions and partial equilibrium, and ending with perfect competition and
 the supply curve. In the conclusion, the implications of the results will
 be extended to the firm and imperfectly competitive markets, and then the
 question whether general equilibrium theory or game theory can save
 neoclassical microeconomic theory. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 169-199 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: neoclassical microeconomic theory, heterodox critique, 
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Author-Name: Joseph Eisenhauer 
Author-X-Name-First: Joseph 
Author-X-Name-Last: Eisenhauer 
Title: Economic Models of Sin and Remorse: Some Simple Analytics 
Abstract:
  Economists have recently shown a renewed interest in studying immoral
 behavior and the feelings of guilt or remorse that such acts engender. Yet
 the research in this nascent literature has generally lacked mathematical
 rigor and precision, and the disparate models have not been reconciled
 with one another. The present paper reviews and formalizes several such
 efforts in an attempt to form a more unified starting point for future
 research in this area. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 201-219 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: morality, sin, contrition, remorse, 
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Author-Name: John Marangos 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Marangos 
Title: Was Shock Therapy Consistent with Democracy?  
Abstract:
  The transition process in Russia and Eastern Europe was dominated in the
 literature and in policy making by the shock therapy process. However,
 shock therapy was short-lived. Governments that implemented shock therapy
 were not able to sustain the reform program since they lost power after
 the first term as a result of unfavourable electoral results. The new
 governments implemented gradualism. While after the first term shock
 therapy governments were substituted by gradualists, a government in
 favour of shock therapy never substitute any gradualist governments. The
 aim of the paper is to demonstrate that shock therapy was inconsistent
 with a democratic process of decision-making. Actually shock therapy was
 only consistent with a pluralistic political structure in the tradition of
 Hayek, Buchanan and Friedman. Foreign aid was inadequate to ensure the
 continuation of the shock therapy reforms within a democratic environment. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 221-243 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: shock therapy, democracy, foreign aid, economic reforms, 
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Author-Name: Kenneth Greene 
Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth 
Author-X-Name-Last: Greene 
Author-Name: Bong Joon Yoon 
Author-X-Name-First: Bong Joon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yoon 
Title: Religiosity, Economics and Life Satisfaction 
Abstract:
  This paper uses a large individual data set from the Euro Barometer
 Survey (ICPSR 1993) to estimate the influence of religious phenomena on
 self-perceived satisfaction of an individual, controlling for
 macroeconomic conditions, effects of his political stance, and other
 socio-economic variables. Our estimated ordered logit model results show
 that an individual's life satisfaction is positively related to measures
 of strong religious attachment in the sense of being willing to commit to
 attending religious services frequently. Our other findings include that
 no strong evidence exists for the hypothesis that leftists suffer more
 from income inequality. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 245-261 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: Religious phenomena, self-perceived satisfaction, Euro barometer survey, ordered logit model, 
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Author-Name: Lanse Minkler 
Author-X-Name-First: Lanse 
Author-X-Name-Last: Minkler 
Title: Preference Pollution, Reasons, and Other Murky Motivations: on some hidden costs of the market 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 263-271 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000183862 
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Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Title: Consuming Symbolic Goods: Identity & Commitment - Introduction 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 275-276 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
X-DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253891 
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Author-Name: Andrew Trigg 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Trigg 
Title: Deriving the Engel Curve: Pierre Bourdieu and the Social Critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs 
Abstract:
  In Post Keynesian Economics, theorists have sought an alternative to
 neoclassical choice theory by turning to Maslow's hierarchy of needs
 (Pasinetti 1981, Lavoie 1992). Instead of each individual surveying a
 complete choice set, individuals prioritize (basic) physiological needs,
 moving with increasing incomes to satisfy safety and social needs, through
 to the higher needs associated with self-actualization. This framework
 provides a theoretical foundation for the Engel curve, since as incomes
 increase consumers become satiated when particular needs are satisfied. As
 an alternative to the neoclassical preoccupation with prices and
 substitution, a Post Keynesian theory of consumption has been formulated
 with income effects as the cornerstone. The main problem with Maslow's
 approach is that individual needs are innate, so that questions of social
 interaction and culture are seriously downgraded. In this article, the
 social theory of Pierre Bourdieu is offered as an alternative to the
 Maslow approach, providing the basis for a social critique of consumerism
 and an alternative evolutionary theory of consumption. In this approach,
 the structure of the social hierarchy both constrains the consumption of
 lower social strata and leads to subtle, less conspicuous consumption
 patterns at the top of the social hierarchy: a scenario that could provide
 a social foundation to the Engel curve. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 393-406 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: Maslow, hierarchy of needs, Post Keynesian, consumption, culture, Engel curve, Bourdieu, evolutionary theory, 
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Author-Name: Amitai Etzioni 
Author-X-Name-First: Amitai 
Author-X-Name-Last: Etzioni 
Title: The Post Affluent Society 
Abstract:
  Discomfort about the overarching goal of capitalist economies, and the
 idea that achieving ever higher levels of consumption of products and
 services is a vacuous goal, has been with us since the onset of
 industrialization. This contribution looks at the phenomenon and
 foundations of voluntary simplicity. Its psychological implications and
 consequences for societies are discussed. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 407-420 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: consumption, consumerism, voluntary simplicity, capitalism, 
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Author-Name: Alan Shipman 
Author-X-Name-First: Alan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Shipman 
Title: Lauding the Leisure Class: Symbolic Content and Conspicuous Consumption 
Abstract:
  Symbolic consumption is assessed as an evolution of previously identified
 conspicuous consumption, after this has undergone a
 &#x201c;de-materialization&#x201d; that is socially, as much as
 ecologically, driven. As Veblen observed, the shift of wealth towards new
 forms of physical and financial capital with industrialization compels
 traditional wealth-holders to redefine privilege in terms of cultural
 capital. Accompanying social changes enable them to do so. The limited
 reproducibility of items consumed for their symbolic value, and slow
 transmissibility of the means of symbolic consumption, force holders of
 new wealth to compete for status on terms set by the established leisure
 class. Conspicuity shifts from quantity to quality, from the appropriation
 of materially valued products to the appreciation of culturally valued
 products. This paper examines some key implications of a shift from
 &#x201c;waste&#x201d; to &#x201c;taste&#x201d; in conspicuous consumption
 for the social and natural environment, and for economic development. In
 particular, it explores the possibility of branded products representing
 the mass production of symbolic goods in high-income economies; and the
 brand premium's potentially beneficial consequences for global income
 distribution, when branded production relocates to lower-income economies
 in conditions of free trade. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 277-289 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: conspicuous consumption, cultural capital, brands, globalization, environment, Veblen, Bourdieu, 
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Author-Name: Martha Starr 
Author-X-Name-First: Martha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Starr 
Title: Consumption, Identity, and the Sociocultural Constitution of "Preferences": Reading Women's Magazines 
Abstract:
  This paper shows how the concept of identity may figure importantly into
 shifts in preferences and patterns of consumption. We explore the 1970s
 emergence of the &#x201c;working woman&#x201d; - a woman who worked
 outside the home and regarded work as central to her identity. Women's
 magazines were especially involved in working out the &#x201c;working
 woman&#x201d; image, stressing how products could be used to attain her
 readily-identifiable appearance and efficient, pleasant home life. As
 such, they played into a shift in social valuation of female identities -
 away from those centered on traditional feminine pursuits, towards those
 centered on intensified labor-force involvement, consumerism, and
 commodified private life. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 291-305 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: consumption, preferences, culture, women's labor force participation, advertising, commodification, 
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Author-Name: Bruce Pietrykowski 
Author-X-Name-First: Bruce 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pietrykowski 
Title: You Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movement 
Abstract:
  Recent work by Schor revives concerns raised by Veblen and Hirsch over
 the destructive consequences of competitive consumption. In contrast,
 Twitchell argues that increased access to commodities as symbols of luxury
 signals a democratization of class and social status. Rather than playing
 the role of dupes, consumers are active co-conspirators in the creation
 and maintenance of luxury goods markets. While flawed, each of these
 perspectives has something important to offer to social economists
 interested in understanding consumption. A key question for social
 economists is whether material pleasure and the symbolic expression of
 identity through consumer goods is compatible with a more politicized,
 socially conscious consumption ethos. Food consumption offers a fruitful
 starting point for pursuing this issue. I begin by examining food and its
 symbolic role in identity formation. I then consider the Slow Food
 movement and explore the ways in which it maintains a central role for
 material pleasure while promoting a socially and environmentally conscious
 stance toward consumption. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 307-321 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: consumer identity, cultural capital, food consumption, social capital, slow food, 
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Author-Name: Gill Seyfang 
Author-X-Name-First: Gill 
Author-X-Name-Last: Seyfang 
Title: Consuming Values and Contested Cultures: A Critical Analysis of the UK Strategy for Sustainable Consumption and Production 
Abstract:
  The term &#x201c;sustainable consumption&#x201d; is subject to many
 interpretations, from Agenda 21's hopeful assertion that governments
 should encourage less materialistic lifestyles based on new definitions of
 &#x201c;wealth&#x201d; and &#x201c;prosperity&#x201d;, to the view
 prevalent in international policy discourse that green and ethical
 consumerism will be sufficient to transform markets to produce continual
 and &#x201c;clean&#x201d; economic growth. These different perspectives
 are examined using a conceptual framework derived from Cultural Theory, to
 illustrate their fundamentally competing beliefs about the nature of the
 environment and society, and the meanings attached to consumption.
 Cultural Theory argues that societies should develop pluralistic policies
 to include all perspectives. Using this framework, the paper examines the
 UK strategy for sustainable consumption, and identifies a number of
 failings in current policy. These are that the UK strategy is strongly
 biased towards individualistic, market-based and neo-liberal policies, so
 it can only respond to a small part of the problem of unsustainable
 consumption. Policy recommendations include measures to strengthen the
 input from competing cultures, to realize the potential for more
 collective, egalitarian and significantly less materialistic consumption
 patterns. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 323-338 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: consumption, Cultural Theory, sustainable development, green consumerism, economic growth, institutions, 
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Author-Name: Metin Cosgel 
Author-X-Name-First: Metin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cosgel 
Author-Name: Lanse Minkler 
Author-X-Name-First: Lanse 
Author-X-Name-Last: Minkler 
Title: Religious Identity and Consumption 
Abstract:
  Consumption choices assist in solving the problem of how to convey and
 recognize religious identities. In the communication of an identity,
 individuals use the knowledge embedded in consumption norms, which
 restrict the range of choices to a smaller set and abbreviate the required
 knowledge for encoding and decoding messages. Using this knowledge as a
 shared framework for understanding, individuals with religious beliefs can
 choose consumption to express the intensity of their commitment to these
 beliefs. Because individuals and societies have different beliefs, norms,
 commitments, and expressive needs, consumption choice can help to express
 these differences. Our explanation contrasts with incentive-based
 approaches that view religious consumption norms as solutions to
 free-rider problem inherent in clubs. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 339-350 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: religion, consumption, norms, identity, commitment, communication, knowledge, 
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Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Title: Paradoxes of Modernist Consumption - Reading Fashions 
Abstract:
  Fashion is the quintessential post-modernist consumer practice, or so
 many hold. In this contribution, I argue that, on the contrary, fashion
 should be understood as a means of communicating one's commitment to
 modernist values. I introduce the framework of the Social Value Network,
 to relate such values to institutionalized consumption behavior, allowing
 one to signal to others. Modernist values are not homogenous, and are in
 important ways contradictory, giving rise to the dynamics of fashion that
 can be observed. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 351-364 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: consumption, fashion, institutions, socio-cultural values, 
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Author-Name: David George 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: George 
Title: Are Unpreferred Preferences Weak in Symbolic Content? 
Abstract:
  &#x201c;Symbolic consumption&#x201d; is formally unrelated to
 &#x201c;second-order preferences&#x201d;, but the ability to symbolically
 consume and the ability to have preferences about one's preferences are
 each uniquely human characteristics. The major question addressed in this
 paper is this: are symbolic preferences more or less likely than other
 preferences to be &#x201c;unpreferred&#x201d; by the agent experiencing
 and acting upon them? In previous writings on second-order preferences, I
 demonstrated the propensity of market forces to overproduce preferences
 that are judged to be worse than what they replace and underproduce
 preferences that are judged to be better. In this paper, I offer reasons
 for believing that the market inefficiency in preference production
 suggests a decline in symbolic consumption. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 365-377 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: Symbolic consumption, second-order preferences, market failure, 
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Author-Name: Elias Khalil 
Author-X-Name-First: Elias 
Author-X-Name-Last: Khalil 
Title: The Gift Paradox: Complex Selves and Symbolic Good 
Abstract:
  Symbolic utility involves appreciation and esteem and expressed by
 symbolic products (gifts), while substantive utility entails ordinary
 welfare satisfied by substantive products. For neoclassical theory, both
 utilities are symmetrical or fungible and, hence, substitutable along the
 uni-dimensional utility function. If they are substitutable, though, why
 would agents be judged as &#x201c;crass&#x201d; if they intentionally
 remind the recipient of the cost of the substitution? For normative
 sociological theory, the judgment of &#x201c;crassness&#x201d; would arise
 if the agent mixes moral norms with non-moral substantive interests. The
 two are supposed to be non-fungible, stemming from multiple selves. If
 both utilities are non-fungible and stem from multiple selves, though, why
 do we call agents who spend on gifts beyond their means
 &#x201c;fools,&#x201d; while those who spend very little
 &#x201c;cheapskates&#x201d;? It seems that there must be a supervising,
 single self that makes decisions on the proper division of the budget
 between substantive products and gifts. But this invites the single-self
 idea from the back window, reverting back to the neoclassical approach. We
 would be caught in a vicious cycle of anomalies. To get out of the cycle,
 this paper identifies the critical issues and suggests an alternative,
 complex-self view. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 379-392 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: unitary-self view, multiple-self view, complex-self view, 
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Author-Name: Charles Wilber 
Author-X-Name-First: Charles 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilber 
Title: Ethics and Social Economics: ASE Presidential Address, January 2004, San Diego, California 
Abstract:
  In this talk I pull together my past work on the role of ethics in
 economic theory. In doing so I note that mainstream economic theory is
 permeated with an ethical viewpoint and that any alternative approach,
 including social economics, necessarily must be so also. I outline the
 alternative theories of normative ethics and illustrate how they impact
 the doing of economics and the setting of economic policies. But this is
 just a beginning. A major challenge for social economists is to carry
 forward the task of incorporating a richer ethics into the practice of
 economics. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 425-439 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: commodification, consequentialist, deontological, preference sovereignty, self interest, value permeation, virtue theory, world view, 
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Author-Name: Philip Arestis 
Author-X-Name-First: Philip 
Author-X-Name-Last: Arestis 
Author-Name: Malcolm Sawyer 
Author-X-Name-First: Malcolm 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sawyer 
Title: On the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy and of Fiscal Policy 
Abstract:
  There has been a major shift within macroeconomic policy over the past
 two decades or so in terms of the relative importance given to monetary
 policy and to fiscal policy in both policy and theoretical terms. The
 former has gained considerably in importance, with the latter being rarely
 mentioned. Furthermore, the nature of monetary policy has shifted away
 from any attempt to control some monetary aggregate (prevalent in the
 first half of the 1980s), and instead monetary policy has focused on the
 setting of interest rates as the key policy instrument. There has also
 been a general shift towards the adoption of inflation targets and the use
 of monetary policy to target inflation. This paper considers the
 significance of this shift in the nature of monetary policy. This enables
 us to question the effectiveness of monetary policy, and to explore the
 role of fiscal policy. We examine these questions from the point of view
 of the "new consensus" in monetary economics and suggest that it is rather
 limited in its analysis. When the analysis is broadened out to embrace
 empirical issues and evidence the clear conclusion emerges that monetary
 policy is relatively impotent. The role of fiscal policy is also
 considered, and we argue that fiscal policy (under specified conditions)
 remains a powerful tool for macroeconomic policy. This is particularly an
 apt conclusion under current economic conditions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 441-463 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: new consensus, macroeconomics, monetary policy, fiscal policy, 
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Author-Name: Peter Riach 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Riach 
Author-Name: Judith Rich 
Author-X-Name-First: Judith 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rich 
Title: Fishing for Discrimination 
Abstract:
  The use of bogus, unsolicited job applications with the intention of
 measuring employment discrimination extends across 30 years and six
 countries. Preferential treatment of male applicants has been detected in
 Departments of Psychology in U.S. universities. Such investigations have
 also detected a relative disinclination to hire homosexuals in Ontario law
 firms, Turkish workers in Germany, older job applicants in the U.S.A., and
 the disabled in France. Many of these studies dispatched only a single
 application to employers; consequently they are a test of 'preferential
 treatment', rather than discrimination. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 465-486 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: discrimination, experiments, resumes, hiring, survey, 
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Author-Name: Johnston Birchall 
Author-X-Name-First: Johnston 
Author-X-Name-Last: Birchall 
Author-Name: Richard Simmons 
Author-X-Name-First: Richard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Simmons 
Title: The Involvement of Members in the Governance of Large-Scale Co-operative and Mutual Businesses: A Formative Evaluation of the Co-operative Group 
Abstract:
  This article focuses on the key question for co-operatives and mutuals of
 whether they can continue to be genuine member-owned and controlled
 businesses once they become very large. After providing a commentary on
 current attempts to revitalise member democracy in the UK consumer
 co-operative sector, it outlines the "mutual incentives model" developed
 by the authors to explain what motivates people to participate. The main
 part of the article then provides a formative evaluation of one very large
 co-operative society, the Co-operative Group. Drawing on a recent project
 carried out with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council,
 and in partnership with the UK Co-operative College, it discusses findings
 from datasets of 450 area committee members and a random sample of
 non-active members. The findings are structured according to the mutual
 incentives framework, including individualistic and collectivistic
 incentives, resources and mobilization factors. The conclusion is that the
 Group is having some success with its member participation strategy
 despite problems of scale. Steady, incremental improvements are identified
 that should enable the strategy to succeed, showing that there is no
 simple correlation between size and democracy. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 487-515 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: co-operatives, mutual incentives theory, size and democracy, stakeholder involvement, 
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Author-Name: Morris Altman 
Author-X-Name-First: Morris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Altman 
Title: Why Unemployment Insurance Might Not Only Be Good for the Soul, It Might Also Be Good for the Economy 
Abstract:
  Contrary to the conventional view that unemployment insurance serves to
 directly increase the rate of unemployment as well as reducing an
 economy's competitiveness by increasing the market wage of labor, the
 argument presented in this paper is that this worldview critically depends
 on unrealistic behavioral assumptions. A more realistic modeling suggests
 that unemployment rates need not rise and competitiveness need not
 deteriorate with the introduction of or improvements in unemployment
 insurance, which can also induce increases in economic efficiency. These
 analytical predictions are consistent with the empirics of unemployment
 insurance. Unemployment insurance can therefore protect the unemployed
 without damaging the economy. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 517-541 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 62 
Year: 2004 
Keywords: unemployment insurance, x-efficiency, competition, bargaining power, wellbeing, 
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Author-Name: Colin Williams 
Author-X-Name-First: Colin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams 
Title: Unraveling the Meanings of Underground Work 
Abstract:
  Across the social sciences, the dominant &#x201c;thin&#x201d; reading of
 monetary exchange that views it as universally market-like and motivated
 by monetary gain is being challenged by a &#x201c;thicker&#x201d; reading
 that seeks to unpack the complex and messy characters and logics of
 monetised transactions. Until now, this re-reading has occurred by
 studying small alternative economic spaces (e.g., car boot sales, local
 currency schemes) that can be easily explained away as peripheral or even
 superfluous to an understanding of mainstream monetised exchange. To
 provide a more forceful challenge, therefore, this paper interrogates a
 form of work often seen as an exemplar of market-like work undertaken for
 the purpose of monetary gain, namely the underground sector. Reporting
 empirical evidence that unravels the heterogeneous and embedded characters
 and logics underpinning this work, this paper calls for those promulgating
 a thicker reading to be bolder and interrogate the meanings of monetary
 transactions in more mainstream spaces. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-18 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: hidden economy, informal sector, gift-giving, cultural turn, Nottinghamshire, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500047842 
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Author-Name: Wolfram Elsner 
Author-X-Name-First: Wolfram 
Author-X-Name-Last: Elsner 
Title: Real-World Economics Today:The New Complexity, Co-ordination and Policy 
Abstract:
  More realistic economics has to start out from the most basic
 socio-economic phenomena and processes, i.e. dilemma-prone
 interdependencies and strong uncertainty among agents that have become
 ubiquitous phenomena in the world today. In the reality of the
 &#x201c;new&#x201d; economy these are represented by functional and
 spatial fragmentation of value-added chains, global de-regulation and
 disembedding of the most powerful economic agents, on one hand, and
 increasing complexity and high integration of goods and services and
 net-based tele-IC-technologies on the other hand. All these rather new
 phenomena entail ubiquitous actual or potential co-ordination failure,
 either in the form of conventional &#x201c;market failure&#x201d;, with a
 complete mutual blockage of action, or of &#x201c;wrong&#x201d;
 co-ordination, or technological &#x201c;lock-in&#x201d;. Both forms are
 indicative of an insufficient capacity of the co-ordinated action
 required. In contrast, capability of sustainable innovative action in a
 broad sense requires new forms of co-ordination beyond
 &#x201c;market&#x201d; and &#x201c;hierarchy&#x201d;. Economics thus has
 to be defined more than ever as a science of effective co-ordination and
 the generation of innovative and sustainable collective action capacity.
 The global corporate economy has developed individualist arrangements to
 cope with that new co-ordination problem, such as local clusters and
 hub&spoke networks, which all have severe shortcomings. Against this
 background, the paper develops a setting with ubiquitous direct
 interdependencies, net-externalities, &#x201c;strategic&#x201d; strong
 uncertainty and ubiquitous (latent) social-dilemma problems. It discusses
 the possibility of an ideal decentralized and spontaneous co-ordination
 through emergent institutionalized collective action, specifically of
 &#x201c;well-governed&#x201d; network co-operation. In conclusion, it is
 argued that only a hybrid system of networks together with a new public
 policy role, supporting collective learning and emergent institutional
 co-ordination, i.e. an &#x201c;interactive&#x201d; and
 &#x201c;institutional&#x201d; policy approach, is capable of solving the
 co-ordination problems of the &#x201c;new&#x201d; economy. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 19-53 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: complexity, co-ordination, co-operation, evolution, governance, information, information society, interaction, institutions, &#x201c;interactive policy&#x201d;, local clustering, networks, &#x201c;new economy&#x201d;, Prisoners' Dilemma, 
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Author-Name: Carole Green 
Author-X-Name-First: Carole 
Author-X-Name-Last: Green 
Author-Name: Marianne Ferber 
Author-X-Name-First: Marianne 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferber 
Title: Do Detailed Work Histories Help to Explain Gender and Race/Ethnic Wage Differentials? 
Abstract:
  The continuing gender and race/ethnic pay gaps continue to be a matter of
 considerable concern. Using detailed NLSY data we examine the effects of a
 number of variables often thought to explain a large part of these gaps.
 Because the new variables explain some of the differentials our results
 provide no justification for ascribing all the remaining differentials to
 discrimination. On the other hand, they explain very little and therefore
 give no support to those who would discount the possibility of
 discrimination. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 55-85 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: gender, race/ethnicity, earnings gap, human capital, discrimination, NLSY, 
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Author-Name: Sam Cameron 
Author-X-Name-First: Sam 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cameron 
Title: Wiccanomics? 
Abstract:
  This paper looks at the doctrines of 'Wicca', or what might be termed as
 pagan or white magic by its adherents, in terms of the economics of
 religion. The primary focus of the paper is the issue of the degree of
 product differentiation involved from established religion in terms of two
 things: the concept of God (or deities) and the ideas of sin. The main
 contribution of the paper is that it presents (for the first time ever, so
 far as the author is aware) an economic analysis of the doctrine of a
 'rebound' effect of any attempts to do harm to other people through the
 practice of magic. Some basic microeconomic concepts suggest that the
 moral force of this rebound law is a difficult one to sustain except under
 very unreasonable assumptions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 87-100 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: Wicca, economics of religion, spells, distribution, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500048022 
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Author-Name: William Jackson 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jackson 
Title: Capabilities, Culture and Social Structure 
Abstract:
  Sen's capability approach has a culturally specific side, with
 capabilities influenced by social structures and institutions. Although
 Sen acknowledges this, he expresses his theory in individualistic terms
 and makes little allowance for culture or social structure. The present
 paper draws from recent social theory to discuss how the capability
 approach could be developed to give an explicit treatment of cultural and
 structural matters. Capabilities depend not only on entitlements but on
 institutional roles and personal relations: these can be represented
 openly if capabilities are disaggregated into individual, social and
 structural capacities. The three layers interact, and a full analysis of
 capabilities should consider them all. A stratified method implies that
 raising entitlements will not on its own be enough to enhance capabilities
 and that cultural and structural changes will be needed. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 101-124 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: capability approach, culture, human agency, social structure, social policy, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500048048 
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Author-Name: Flavio Comim 
Author-X-Name-First: Flavio 
Author-X-Name-Last: Comim 
Title: Capabilities and Happiness: Potential Synergies 
Abstract:
  The paper compares two prominent approaches to assessing Human
 Well-Being, the Capability Approach and the Subjective Well-Being
 Approach. It investigates the differences and the similarities between
 these approaches. An argument is made for exploring the potential
 synergies between them. Finally, the papers of this special edition are
 briefly introduced. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 161-176 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: human well being, capability approach, subjective well-being, happiness, adaptive preferences, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500129871 
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Author-Name: Des Gasper 
Author-X-Name-First: Des 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gasper 
Title: Subjective and Objective Well-Being in Relation to Economic Inputs: Puzzles and Responses 
Abstract:
  Systematic, large discrepancies exist between direct measures of
 well-being and the measures that economists largely concentrate on,
 notably income. The paper assesses and rejects claims that income is
 satisfactorily correlated with well-being, and addresses the implications
 of discrepancies between income measures and measures of subjective
 well-being (SWB) and objective well-being (OWB) and also between
 subjective and objective well-being measures themselves. It discusses a
 range of possible responses to the discrepancies: for example, examination
 of the specifications used for income, SWB and OWB, and looking for other
 causal factors and at their possible competitive relations with economic
 inputs to well-being. It rejects responses that ignore the discrepancies
 or drastically downgrade their significance by adopting a well-being
 conception that ignores both SWB and OWB arguments (e.g.: by a claim that
 all that matters is choice or being active). It concludes that the
 projects of Sen and others to build syntheses of the relevant responses
 require further attention. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 177-206 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: subjective well-being, objective well-being, well-being, Easterlin paradox, capability approach, 
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Author-Name: Bruno Frey 
Author-X-Name-First: Bruno 
Author-X-Name-Last: Frey 
Author-Name: Alois Stutzer 
Author-X-Name-First: Alois 
Author-X-Name-Last: Stutzer 
Title: Happiness Research: State and Prospects 
Abstract:
  This paper intends to provide an evaluation of where the economic
 research on happiness stands and in which interesting directions it might
 develop. First, the current state of the research on happiness in
 economics is briefly discussed. We emphasize the potential of happiness
 research in testing competing theories of individual behavior. Second, the
 crucial issue of causality is taken up illustrating it for a particular
 case, namely whether marriage makes people happy or whether happy people
 get married. Third, happiness research is taken up as a new approach to
 measuring utility in the context of cost-benefit analysis. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 207-228 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: causality, cost-benefit analysis, happiness research, life satisfaction approach, marriage, selection, subjective well-being, terrorism, 
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Author-Name: Miriam Teschl 
Author-X-Name-First: Miriam 
Author-X-Name-Last: Teschl 
Author-Name: Flavio Comim 
Author-X-Name-First: Flavio 
Author-X-Name-Last: Comim 
Title: Adaptive Preferences and Capabilities: Some Preliminary Conceptual Explorations 
Abstract:
  The Capability Approach (CA) as developed by Amartya Sen and Martha
 Nussbaum, has in part been a response to the problem of adaptive
 preferences. Their argument says that people might adapt to certain
 unfavorable circumstances and any self-evaluation in terms of satisfaction
 or happiness will in this case necessarily be distorted. To evaluate
 people's well-being in terms of functionings and capabilities guarantees a
 more objective picture of people's life. Next to this strong criticism on
 subjective measurements of well-being, we observe an increasing interest
 in Subjective Well-Being (SWB) or Happiness studies that are included in
 the broader field of Hedonic Psychology. In this paper, we thus revise the
 original critique of adaptive preferences and compare it with a more
 detailed analysis of adaptation as it is presented in hedonic psychology.
 It becomes clear that adaptation can be a positive as well as a negative
 phenomenon and that the adaptive preference critique had a particular
 narrow view on adaptation. However, this does not mean SWB-research is not
 any longer susceptible to this critique. An alternative way to assess
 people's subjective well-being, but which could be considered to be more
 in line with the CA, is proposed by Daniel Kahneman's Objective Happiness.
 These are all relatively new considerations, especially in economics.
 Therefore much more research needs to be done on the positive and negative
 aspects of adaptation to understand its consequences on well-being -
 especially when evaluated within the capability-space. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 229-247 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: functionings, capabilities, adaptation, subjective well-being, objective happiness, 
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Author-Name: Benedetta Giovanola 
Author-X-Name-First: Benedetta 
Author-X-Name-Last: Giovanola 
Title: Personhood and Human Richness: Good and Well-Being in the Capability Approach and Beyond 
Abstract:
  This paper aims at developing the Capability Approach's (CA) underlying
 philosophical anthropology and ethics by focusing on the work of its major
 exponents, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. I first discuss CA's critique
 of happiness as subjective well-being and defend the idea of 'flourishing'
 which ultimately refers to the Aristotelian concept of eudaimonia. I then
 focus on the notions of 'good' and 'well-being' and address the problem of
 the compatibility between a substantive notion of the Good (expressed
 through universal moral values) and individual preferences. I thus tackle
 the issue of adaptive preferences (which is investigated both from a
 methodological and an ethical perspective) and suggest that the process of
 adaptation should be thought in the dynamic frame of the constitution of
 the self. Therefore, in the second half of the paper I investigate the
 CA's idea of personhood and focus on some important assumptions behind its
 underlying anthropological model - above all the notion of 'human
 richness'. As a result, I first point out the dynamic dimension of
 personhood, according to which individuals are 'becoming themselves' in
 search of self-realisation and construction of their identities. Second, I
 highlight its relational dimension, according to which every one is the
 expression of the anthropological richness and at the same time represents
 the highest possibility of richness for every other one. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 249-267 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: adaptive preferences, Amartya Sen, Aristotle, capabilities, capability approach, ethics, good, identity, Karl Marx, Martha Nussbaum, personhood, philosophical anthropology, richness, well-being, 
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Author-Name: Jean-Michel Bonvin 
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Michel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bonvin 
Author-Name: Nicolas Farvaque 
Author-X-Name-First: Nicolas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Farvaque 
Title: What Informational Basis for Assessing Job-Seekers?: Capabilities vs. Preferences 
Abstract:
  The evaluative function of local public actors has been exacerbated in
 recent years with the individualisation of social policies. One of their
 tasks is to select the appropriate informational basis in order to assess
 welfare claimants. Amartya Sen's capability approach offers a theoretical
 and normative framework to analyse this evaluative function. In
 particular, it insists on the importance of &#x201c;objectivating&#x201d;
 people's preferences with reference to their capabilities. The weight that
 is to be attached to individual preferences in the course of public action
 can be a matter of controversy. Claimants &#x201c;capability for
 voice&#x201d;, we argue, should be developed. This capability refers to
 their effective possibility to express their concerns with regard to the
 choice of the informational basis. It is argued that local institutions
 prohibiting capability for voice will produce adaptive preferences,
 whereas procedural institutions promoting reflexive public evaluation and
 capability for voice will result in a fairer wording of individual
 preferences. At a situated level, the way to connect subjective and
 objective information when assessing people very much depends on the
 position of the evaluator. Several illustrations show that the fairness of
 evaluation, and its impact on the people's capability set, depend on this
 positional perspective. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 269-289 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: capability approach, preferences, Sen, job-seekers, capability for voice, positional objectivity, situated public action, 
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Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Author-Name: Deborah Figart 
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Figart 
Author-Name: Robert McMaster 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: McMaster 
Author-Name: Martha Starr 
Author-X-Name-First: Martha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Starr 
Title: A new editorial team for RoSE 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 315-316 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500254927 
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Author-Name: Barry Gordon 
Author-X-Name-First: Barry 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gordon 
Title: Aristotle and Hesiod: The economic problem in Greek thought 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 395-404 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255395 
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Author-Name: Robert Faulhaber 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Faulhaber 
Title: The rise and fall of &#x201c;self-interest&#x201d; 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 405-422 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255460 
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Author-Name: E. K. Hunt 
Author-X-Name-First: E. K. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hunt 
Title: The normative foundations of social theory: An essay on the criteria defining social economics 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 423-445 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255494 
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Author-Name: John Elliott 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Elliott 
Title: Fact, value, and economic policy Objectives 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 447-464 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255569 
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Author-Name: James Wible 
Author-X-Name-First: James 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wible 
Title: Towards a process conception of rationality in economics and science 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 465-481 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255601 
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Author-Name: Edward O'Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Boyle 
Title: Homo Socio-Economicus: Foundational to social economics and the social economy 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 483-507 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255635 
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Author-Name: Deborah Figart 
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Figart 
Title: Gender as more than a dummy variable: Feminist approaches to discrimination 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 509-536 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255692 
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Author-Name: Edward O'Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Boyle 
Title: Introduction: The best of the Review of Social Economy: 1944&#xa0;-&#xa0;1999 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 317-322 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500254976 
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Author-Name: Bernard Dempsey 
Author-X-Name-First: Bernard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dempsey 
Title: Ability to Pay 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 335-346 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255098 
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Author-Name: Franz Mueller 
Author-X-Name-First: Franz 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mueller 
Title: The principle of solidarity in the teachings of Father Henry Pesch, S.J. 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 347-355 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255171 
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Author-Name: Josef Solterer 
Author-X-Name-First: Josef 
Author-X-Name-Last: Solterer 
Title: Quadragesimo Anno: Schumpeter's alternative to the omnipotent state 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 357-368 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255239 
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Author-Name: Stephen Worland 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Worland 
Title: Justice and welfare economics 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 369-382 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255288 
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Author-Name: F. Knox 
Author-X-Name-First: F. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Knox 
Title: The doctrine of consumers' sovereignty 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 383-394 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500255338 
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Author-Name: Patrick Welch 
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Welch 
Title: Presidential address, association for social economics, January 2005 
Abstract:
  In recent years social economists have been utilizing a broader than
 conventional perspective for examining the behavior of economic agents.
 While traditionally the focus has been on the one-dimensional maximizing
 &#x201c;individual with this newer approach the focus is on the
 multidimensional &#x201c;person.&#x201d; Thus the name &#x201c;Personalist
 Economics.&#x201d; Long ago the British writer Thomas Carlyle devoted
 volumes of pages to the sorts of topics and issues that are prominent in
 the personalist approach. Here are explored some areas of overlap between
 Carlyle's and today's personalist perspective, and some questions that
 might be raised about the two approaches. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 537-545 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: dynamics and mechanics, nexus, union v. aggregation, work, heroism, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500364320 
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Hodgson 
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodgson 
Title: Knowledge at work: Some neoliberal anachronisms 
Abstract:
  With a predilection for market solutions, neoliberalism upholds that the
 individual is generally the best judge of his or her interests. Yet
 markets are never universally applied as a mechanism of allocation and
 there are reasons, in principle, why capitalism will always have
 &#x201c;missing markets.&#x201d; Concentrating on the application and
 appropriateness of neoliberal theory to the workplace, this article argues
 that firms are not markets, despite some tendencies in modern theory to
 conflate the two. The employment contract is a key characteristic of
 modern firms, but neoliberal theory is often silent on the distinction
 between an employment contract and a contract for services, and largely
 ignores the asymmetrical rights of authority within contracts of
 employment. Furthermore, the social nature of knowledge represents a
 challenge to neoliberal theory and policy, because it sometimes makes it
 more difficult to define individual property rights. Accordingly, with the
 growth of the knowledge economy, neoliberalism to some extent is an
 anachronism. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 547-565 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: neoliberalism, firms, markets, employment contracts, knowledge, Veblen, Hobson, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500364403 
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Author-Name: Irene van Staveren 
Author-X-Name-First: Irene 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Staveren 
Title: Modelling care 
Abstract:
  1 This article compares how different types of models&#x2014;Walrasian
 and heterodox&#x2014;have integrated unpaid labour and, more specifically,
 care, as an economic activity. The article will discuss four models that
 have, each in their own way, incorporated unpaid labour, or care, as a
 variable, a sector, or parameter. The analysis of these model experiences
 will both reveal insights into the role of models in general, and appear
 to shed light on unpaid labour and caring as particular economic
 activities, with their own behavioural specifications and relationships to
 other economic variables. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 567-586 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: models, care, unpaid labour, realism, feminist economics, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500364429 
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Author-Name: Michael Lewis 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lewis 
Author-Name: Steven Pressman 
Author-X-Name-First: Steven 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pressman 
Author-Name: Karl Widerquist 
Author-X-Name-First: Karl 
Author-X-Name-Last: Widerquist 
Title: The basic income guarantee and social economics 
Abstract:
  This article introduces the Review of Social Economy symposium on the
 basic income guarantee (BIG). It argues that there are several ways in
 which the BIG is consistent with social economics. First, the BIG is an
 attempt to meet the minimum material needs of US citizens and contribute
 to the common good. Second, important arguments for a BIG move beyond the
 positive-normative dichotomy. Finally, the BIG would help individuals
 function as social citizens. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 587-593 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: poverty, basic income, redistribution, social economics, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500364536 
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Author-Name: James Bryan 
Author-X-Name-First: James 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bryan 
Title: Have the 1996 welfare reforms and expansion of the earned income tax credit eliminated the need for a basic income guarantee in the US? 
Abstract:
  Welfare was reformed significantly in 1996, and the Earned Income Tax
 Credit (EITC) was expanded substantially during the last decade. In the
 wake of these events, welfare rolls have shrunk dramatically and
 employment among the poor has increased, leading many to conclude that
 these policies have achieved important equity and efficiency goals. It is
 argued here that these conclusions are too strong. The work requirements
 and time limits of welfare reform create equity outcomes that are dubious
 and leave the potential for inefficiencies in the allocation of labor. The
 EITC excludes almost half of the poor population under age 65, rewards
 poorer working families less well than it does less poor working families,
 and provides a sizable work disincentive for a large proportion of its
 recipients. It is shown here that the poor are not homogeneous.
 Specifically, the very poor have a much higher incidence of physical and
 other disabilities. The ability to work varies substantially with income
 among the poor. There is a case to be made for a much more straightforward
 form of redistribution, such as the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG). It is
 quite possible that a BIG would accomplish goals of equity and efficiency
 more fully than the current mosaic of redistributive programs. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 595-611 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: income redistribution, welfare, welfare reform, EITC, basic income guarantee, negative income tax, 
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Author-Name: Michael Howard 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Howard 
Title: Basic income, liberal neutrality, socialism, and work 
Abstract:
  Liberal critics often object to basic income (BI) on the grounds that it
 violates reciprocity and is biased toward those who choose voluntarily to
 opt out of work and thus violate the principle of liberal neutrality
 toward conceptions of the good life. In the first part of this paper I
 argue that liberal neutrality favors BI. Marxist critics of BI are less
 likely to accept liberal neutrality, but I argue in the second part that
 the argument for BI in the first part applies with equal force to Marxist
 objections that BI is unfairly exploitative of workers. Marxists are also
 less likely to accept current labor market trends, seeing socialism as
 affording more opportunity for guaranteeing everyone a right to decent
 work, and suspecting BI of making the unfair inequalities of capitalism a
 little more palatable while diverting attention from a more equitable
 socialist alternative. I argue that BI is not incompatible with socialism
 or Marxism, and should not be opposed to but rather combined with
 strategies for full employment. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 613-631 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: basic income, liberalism, Marxism, socialism, work, reciprocity, exploitation, 
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Author-Name: Almaz Zelleke 
Author-X-Name-First: Almaz 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zelleke 
Title: Basic income in the United States: Redefining citizenship in the liberal state 
Abstract:
  This paper examines citizenship-based arguments for work-conditioned
 welfare and basic income. I argue that the most common citizenship-based
 justifications for work requirements&#x2014;the paternalistic and civic
 republican arguments&#x2014;are flawed because of their selectivity, and
 that the only defensible citizenship-based justification for work
 requirements is the socialist model, which enforces work requirements
 universally on all. I offer as a liberal alternative a radically pluralist
 notion of citizenship, with a kind of universal economic suffrage at its
 core, to justify an unconditional basic income in the US. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 633-648 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 63 
Year: 2005 
Keywords: basic income, guaranteed minimum income, workfare, citizenship, welfare, work, 
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Author-Name: Mark White 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: White 
Title: Multiple utilities and weakness of will: A kantian perspective 
Abstract:
  This paper argues that a Kantian model of decision-making, one that
 incorporates moral duties alongside standard preferences and constraints,
 can account for the complexities of actual ethical choice within a model
 with a single (constrained) preference ranking. Multiple utilities are
 required only to explain the failure to make appropriate decisions. Such
 occasions, often referred to as cases of weakness of will or akrasia, are
 easily explained with this approach, which is also consistent with the
 recent work of philosopher John Searle on action theory and rational
 choice. More generally, this paper highlights the need for discussion of
 the will in economics. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-20 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: multiple utilities, weakness of will, choice, will, Immanuel Kant, John Searle, 
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Author-Name: Clive Beed 
Author-X-Name-First: Clive 
Author-X-Name-Last: Beed 
Title: What is the relationship of religion to economics? 
Abstract:
  In this journal, Welch and Mueller (WM) (2001) demonstrated a
 classificatory method for conceptualizing relationships between religion
 and economics. No judgement can be drawn from WM as to which of their four
 classifications might be a, or the, correct one. They conclude that the
 relationships are &#x201c;both complex and controversial&#x201d;, and that
 before any assessment can be apprehended adequately of how the two fields
 interact, &#x201c;the permutations and subcategories implied by the
 system&#x201d; used need to be identified and explored more thoroughly.
 This paper pursues that path, but argues that a more determinate verdict
 than WM's is possible. Here, an alternative interpretation of the
 relationship between religion and economics is investigated, in which WM's
 categories are assessed. In the alternative, WM's four classes are not
 taken to possess equal intellectual merit, as they appear to be. Using
 more current and comprehensive definitions of religion than WM's, a case
 is constructed that three of their four categories possess greater
 intellectual value than the remaining one. These three are here collapsed
 into one new mega-category regarded as that most validly describing the
 relationship between religion and economics. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 21-45 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: religion, economics, theology, options, relationship, 
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Author-Name: Andrew Mearman 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mearman 
Title: Critical realism in economics and open-systems ontology: A critique 
Abstract:
  This paper examines the treatment of ontology offered by critical
 realism. It addresses much of the material elaborated upon in two editions
 of this journal. Three main groups of criticisms are made here of the
 critical realist treatment of open systems. It is argued that critical
 realism, particularly in the project in economics emanating from
 Cambridge, UK, tends to define systems in terms of events. This definition
 is shown to be problematic. The exemplar of a closed system provided by
 critical realism of the solar system is shown to be flawed in that it is
 not closed according to the closure conditions identified by critical
 realism. Second, the negativity of the definitions adopted is problematic
 for heterodox traditions attempting to build positive programmes.
 Furthermore, the dualism of the definitions is also inconsistent with
 Dow's approach, which has ramifications for the coherence of post
 Keynesianism. Third, the definitions tend to polarize open and closed
 systems and ignore the degrees of openness evident in reality. The
 polarization of systems leads to polarized methodology and unsustainable
 arguments to reject so-called &#x201c;closed-systems methods.&#x201d; 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 47-75 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: open systems, closed systems, critical realism, post-Keynesianism, dualism, 
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Author-Name: Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee 
Author-X-Name-First: Mohsen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bahmani-Oskooee 
Author-Name: Gour Goswami 
Author-X-Name-First: Gour 
Author-X-Name-Last: Goswami 
Title: Military spending and the black market premium in developing countries 
Abstract:
  Researchers who have been concerned with the economic implications of
 military spending have mostly concentrated on its impact on economic
 growth, corruption, real exchange rate and inflation. In this paper we
 investigate the impact of military spending on black market premium, an
 area that has not been tackled so far. After adding a measure of military
 spending to a well established model of black market premium form the
 literature, we estimate the model by pooling annual data over the
 1985&#xa0;-&#xa0;1998 period across 61 developing countries. Results from
 five panel specifications provide considerable evidence that higher
 military spending leads to higher black market premium. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 77-91 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: black market premium, military spending, developing countries, 
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Author-Name: Thomas Turner 
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Turner 
Title: Industrial Relations Systems, Economic Efficiency and Social Equity in the 1990s 
Abstract:
  A feature of many European countries after World War II was the kind of
 institutional arrangements that developed between capital and labour. A
 central question in the literature concerns whether neo-liberal
 competitive labour markets or organized corporatist labour markets are
 more efficient. In this paper the economic and social outcomes from these
 different market arrangements are compared for a number of OECD countries
 from the 1980s to the end of the 20th century. Although, in the 1990s
 strongly corporatist countries remain a great deal more egalitarian than
 liberal market economies, the evidence from this paper indicates that the
 latter have outperformed countries with corporatist type arrangements
 regarding employment and economic growth. It appears that the economic
 dividend arising from strongly institutionalized industrial relations
 systems is no longer being delivered. Yet, the outcomes of liberal
 economic policies of deregulation are increasingly unequal societies. The
 challenge for advanced democratic societies is to deliver on both social
 equity and economic growth. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 93-118 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: corporatism, economic performance, social equity, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760500530193 
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Author-Name: Jonathan Wight 
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wight 
Title: Adam Smith's Ethics and the &#x201c;Noble Arts&#x201d; 
Abstract:
  Adam Smith's character-based ethical system lays the foundation for his
 vision of the social and economic good. Within this system, the arts
 perform a critical role. Smith's essays &#x201c;Of the Imitative
 Arts&#x201d; and his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres are useful
 companions to The Theory of Moral Sentiments in analyzing the mechanisms
 whereby literature and the arts excite moral development. The arts stretch
 the boundaries of imagination and perspective, stimulating self-awareness
 and self-reflective growth. When combined with rational thought,
 decision-making takes place through an internal dialogue in which this
 wider perspective weighs upon one's &#x201c;impartial spectator&#x201d;
 and becomes the background for action. According to this view, the arts
 provide positive externalities for society and should be encouraged
 through public policy. The arts promote a conversation that becomes part
 of the common goods of society, including that of science. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 155-180 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: Adam Smith, arts, ethics, morals, moral imagination, 
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Author-Name: Nyiwul Mabughi 
Author-X-Name-First: Nyiwul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mabughi 
Author-Name: Tarek Selim 
Author-X-Name-First: Tarek 
Author-X-Name-Last: Selim 
Title: Poverty as social deprivation: a survey 
Abstract:
  The concept of poverty is discussed using qualitative and quantitative
 measures as an indicator for social deprivation. Poverty can be absolute,
 relative, income based, consumption based, or entitlement based. The
 variation in the concept of poverty reveals its dimensionality. However,
 when closely examined, these dimensions are seen to be conceptually
 interrelated and complementary rather than substitutable. The concept used
 to define poverty determines the methods employed to measure it. Composite
 indicators can hide important policy messages inherent in their
 constituent variables. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 181-204 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: poverty, social deprivation, Sen's entitlements, human development, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600721122 
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Author-Name: Martha Starr 
Author-X-Name-First: Martha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Starr 
Title: Growth and conflict in the developing world: Neo-liberal narratives and social-economy alternatives 
Abstract:
  The last quarter of the 20th century saw an increase in violent conflicts
 across the globe. With connections between growth, poverty and conflict
 increasingly difficult to ignore, research has begun examining economic
 dimensions of conflict. This paper reviews and critiques this new
 research, much of it conducted by the World Bank. The research argues that
 war results from poverty, and poverty from misguided economic policies, so
 that reducing conflict requires redoubling efforts to promote growth via
 neo-liberal reforms. I criticize the conceptual underpinnings of this
 argument, including its overemphasis on individual incentives and its
 claim that social and economic injustices do not contribute to violent
 conflicts. Instead I argue that social economics provides valuable
 alternative perspectives on conflict that take seriously its social
 dimensions, especially problems of economic justice and the common good. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 205-224 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: growth, violent conflict, social economics, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600721130 
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Author-Name: Rudi Verburg 
Author-X-Name-First: Rudi 
Author-X-Name-Last: Verburg 
Title: John Stuart Mill's Political Economy: Educational Means to Moral Progress 
Abstract:
  The interrelation between John Stuart Mill's political economy and his
 social philosophy is often neglected by economists, even though social and
 moral progress is the aim and focus of Mill's work as scholarship on Mill
 has made clear in past decades. This paper aims to show how Mill's
 political economy fits his framework of progress. It is argued that Mill
 characterized his economics in accordance with his theory of (individual)
 development, which explained how people could be induced to change
 patterns of behavior that prevented progress, enabling &#x201c;a tendency
 towards a better and happier state.&#x201d; Mapping out how to overcome
 the Malthusian trap of poverty, the most serious stumbling block to man's
 material and moral improvement, Mill brought economics into action as an
 instrument for progress. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 225-246 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: mill, progress, poverty, political economy, population, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600721155 
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Author-Name: Peter Leeson 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Leeson 
Author-Name: Peter Boettke 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Boettke 
Title: Was Mises right? 
Abstract:
  This paper argues that Mises's methodological position has been
 misunderstood by both friends and foes alike. On the one hand, Mises's
 critics wrongly characterize his position as rejecting empirical work. On
 the other hand, his defenders wrongly interpret his stance as rejecting
 empirical analyses on the grounds that they contradict apriorism and push
 economics towards historicism. We show that Mises's methodological
 position occupies a unique place that is at once both wholly aprioristic
 and radically empirical. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 247-265 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: Ludwig von Mises, economic methodology, apriorism, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600721163 
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Author-Name: Mariano Torras 
Author-X-Name-First: Mariano 
Author-X-Name-Last: Torras 
Title: Book Review 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 267-270 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600721171 
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Author-Name: Stephen Dunn 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dunn 
Title: Prolegomena to a Post Keynesian health economics 
Abstract:
  Post Keynesian economics has no specific association with, or has made no
 specific contribution to, Health economics or healthcare policy. In one
 sense this is perhaps unsurprising. Post Keynesian economics is for many a
 distinct approach to macroeconomics. Nevertheless, it has always invoked a
 strong microeconomic supply-side analysis and thus the purpose of this
 paper is to make some prefatory remarks as to the types of contributions
 Post Keynesian economics can make to the economics of healthcare and
 healthcare policy. The relevance of Post Keynesian themes, such as the
 relevance of history, uncertainty, distributional issues, and the
 importance of political and economic institutions for healthcare economics
 and health policy, is highlighted. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 273-299 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: Post Keynesian economics, health economics, healthcare financing, macroeconomics, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600892709 
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Author-Name: J. Robert Branston 
Author-X-Name-First: J. Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Branston 
Author-Name: Lauretta Rubini 
Author-X-Name-First: Lauretta 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rubini 
Author-Name: Roger Sugden 
Author-X-Name-First: Roger 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sugden 
Author-Name: James Wilson 
Author-X-Name-First: James 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson 
Title: The healthy development of economies: A strategic framework for competitiveness in the health industry 
Abstract:
  Applying a strategic decision-making perspective on the economics of
 business, we suggest that a competitive locality in the health industry is
 one that, relative to other localities, is effective in: (1) providing the
 healthcare that enables everyone to participate fully in the democratic
 development of the locality; (2) providing the healthcare that is
 democratically identified as a direct objective of this development; (3)
 contributing through the health industry to any other democratically
 determined objectives of the locality's development. The paper
 hypothesizes that strategic decision-making in organizations is an
 especially significant determinant of the impacts of the health industry.
 We conclude that: (i) a locality that suffers concentration in the power
 to determine the objectives of its health industry could not be strictly
 competitive in that industry; (ii) the first best way to achieve
 competitiveness in the health industry would be to democratize its
 strategic decision-making. What this would entail in practice is discussed
 in some detail. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 301-329 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: health industry, competitiveness, strategic decision-making, economic development, economic democracy, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600892717 
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Author-Name: Luis Francisco Carvalho 
Author-X-Name-First: Luis Francisco 
Author-X-Name-Last: Carvalho 
Author-Name: Joao Rodrigues 
Author-X-Name-First: Joao 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rodrigues 
Title: On markets and morality: Revisiting Fred Hirsch 
Abstract:
  This article argues for the continuing relevance of Fred Hirsch's The
 Social Limits to Growth (1976), valued as a critical analysis of the
 consequences of markets on the moral fabric of society. Two concepts that
 are fundamental to Hirsch&#x2014;the commercialization bias and the
 depleting moral legacy&#x2014;will be scrutinised. We further claim that
 this book, by emphasizing the tendency to market expansion and the
 corresponding commodification of increasing spheres of social life, while
 simultaneously acknowledging its adverse consequences on the motivational
 appeal of social and moral norms, offers insights that justify revisiting
 it. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 331-348 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: Fred Hirsch, markets, morality, neoliberalism, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600892758 
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Author-Name: James Buss 
Author-X-Name-First: James 
Author-X-Name-Last: Buss 
Author-Name: Arthur Romeo 
Author-X-Name-First: Arthur 
Author-X-Name-Last: Romeo 
Title: The changing employment situation in some cities with living wage ordinances 
Abstract:
  More than 120 municipalities (cities, towns, and counties) have
 introduced living wage ordinances. These laws mandate that certain
 employers in their jurisdiction pay their workers wages that are above
 federal and state minimum levels. The opponents of these laws argue that
 these ordinances have adverse impacts on local labor markets. This study
 considers rates of growth of employment and unemployment trends in a
 sample of these cities before and after they introduced their living wage
 ordinances. It finds that while a few cities have had negative labor
 market experiences after introducing their living wage law these cities
 represent the exception rather than the rule. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 349-367 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: living wage, living wage ordinance, Campaign for Living Wages, local labor market conditions, urban/suburban unemployment, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600892766 
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Author-Name: Alain Marciano 
Author-X-Name-First: Alain 
Author-X-Name-Last: Marciano 
Title: David Hume's model of man: Classical political economy as &#x201c;inspired&#x201d; political economy 
Abstract:
  The purpose of this paper is to analyse David Hume's model of man. We
 show that three major elements characterize his representation of man:
 first the weaknesses and limitations of human rationality; second, the
 psychological foundations of human behaviour, with a particular focus on
 the role of association in human cognition; and third, the collective
 dimension of individual learning through a process of communication based
 on sympathy. Therefore, we show that the theory of human nature and human
 cognition Hume proposes is different from the narrow view of man as homo
 &#x153;conomicus that is used by mainstream economists. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 369-386 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: Hume, associationist psychology, cognition, sympathy, <i>homo &#x153;conomicus</i>, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600892782 
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Author-Name: Rudy Fichtenbaum 
Author-X-Name-First: Rudy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fichtenbaum 
Title: Labour market segmentation and union wage gaps 
Abstract:
  There has been a great deal of research regard the effects of unions on
 union&#xa0;-&#xa0;non-union wage gap. Most of the studies regarding the
 impact of unions on wages have assumed that apart from the division
 between union and non-union workers, the labour market is relatively
 homogeneous. A number of economists, however, have argued that the labour
 market is segmented, implying that there are distinct labour markets and
 that some workers employment opportunities are concentrated in &#x201c;bad
 jobs&#x201d; while other workers employment opportunities are concentrated
 in &#x201c;good jobs&#x201d; which are rationed. This paper will explore
 whether the relative wage differential between union and non-union workers
 differs between the independent primary, subordinate primary and secondary
 labour markets. Labour market segments are defined using &#x201c;job
 zones&#x201d;. &#x201c;Job zones&#x201d; are distinct groups defined by
 the level of specific vocational preparation necessary for a particular
 occupation, allowing for the comparison of skill levels and training for
 each occupation. The data on &#x201c;job zones&#x201d; comes from the
 Occupational Information Network database (O*Net). We estimate separate
 equations for union and non-union workers in each segment using data from
 the Current Population Survey and calculate union non-union differentials
 for each labour market segment. The findings of this paper suggest that
 the greatest differentials are in secondary labour markets followed by
 differentials in the subordinate primary labour market and that the
 smallest wage differentials are in the independent primary labour market. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 387-420 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: wages, unions, segmented labor markets, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600892808 
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Author-Name: David George 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: George 
Title: Social class and social identity 
Abstract:
  Over the last 25 years, the relative economic situation of women,
 African-Americans, and other groups facing economic discrimination has
 improved but, paradoxically, the relative economic situation of the
 population's lower half has worsened. These opposite trends are surprising
 since the very groups whose overall situation has improved remain
 disproportionately represented in the bottom half. This paper presents
 several likely explanations of the trends. First, there has been a
 historically unique distancing of the upper economic half from the lower
 economic half that has lessened the former's interest in aiding the
 latter. Second, the increasing belief in free markets that has
 characterized the period is argued to be consistent with the removal of
 prejudices based on race, gender, and ethnicity while at the same time
 eroding institutions that relieve class income differences. Third, the
 fact that one can &#x201c;exit&#x201d; from a social class, but must raise
 one's voice to improve the treatment of one's gender or race is argued to
 have weakened the overall status of the lower half, while strengthening
 the overall status of women and African-Americans. And fourth, certain
 psychological biases are argued to have caused weakened support for
 collective efforts to improve the condition of the lower half. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 429-445 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: gender, race, social class, social identity, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760601024401 
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Author-Name: Mark Hayes 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hayes 
Title: On the efficiency of fair trade 
Abstract:
  This paper uses competitive equilibrium theory to analyze the economic
 efficiency of international &#x201c;fair trade&#x201d; between ethical
 consumers and low-income producers. The main analytical innovations are
 the reconsideration of the labor supply decision in a state of Keynesian
 involuntary unemployment as a choice between work and, not leisure, but
 inferior production activities; and the application of Pigou and
 Robinson's theory of employer monopsony, leading to a focus on the
 &#x201c;local fair trade organization&#x201d;, which has a similar effect
 to a labor union or minimum wage in eliminating monopsony rents. A price
 premium is found neither necessary nor sufficient for fair trade, and in a
 state of involuntary unemployment a premium does not lead to inefficient
 allocation. The conclusion is that fair trade improves welfare by
 strengthening competition for labor, and should be encouraged as a
 complementary element of an enlightened trade liberalization policy. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 447-468 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: fair trade, efficiency, involuntary unemployment, monopsony, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760601024419 
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Author-Name: Jochen Hartwig 
Author-X-Name-First: Jochen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hartwig 
Title: Explaining the aggregate price level with Keynes's principle of effective demand 
Abstract:
  The mainstream view of Keynes's principle of effective demand is that it
 states something about quantities&#x2014;and about quantities only. The
 principle is held to determine the levels of output and employment in a
 world not governed by Say's law. This paper argues that the principle of
 effective demand goes beyond this to explain not only 'real' activity
 levels but also the aggregate price level. A variant of the post-Keynesian
 D/Z-model is brought together with Marxian reproduction schemes to derive
 this result. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 469-492 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: effective demand, multiplier, post-Keynesianism, <i>D/Z</i>-model, reproduction schemes, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760601024443 
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Author-Name: Vinca Bigo 
Author-X-Name-First: Vinca 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bigo 
Title: Open and closed systems and the Cambridge School 
Abstract:
  In recent years a group of researchers at Cambridge (UK) have
 (re)introduced conceptions of open and closed systems into economics. In
 doing so they have employed these categories in ways that, in my
 assessment, both facilitate a significant critique of current disciplinary
 practices and also point to more fruitful ways of proceeding. In an issue
 of this journal, Andrew Mearman has advanced three criticisms of the
 Cambridge position which, if valid, would seriously undermine this
 assessment. Below I defend the Cambridge position against Mearman's
 criticisms. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 493-514 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: ontology, open systems, closed systems, economics, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760601024468 
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Author-Name: Manuel Carvajal 
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Carvajal 
Title: Economic grounds for affirmative action: The evidence on architects and engineers in South Florida 
Abstract:
  Using data developed for, and presented to, the US District Court, this
 study evaluates the performance of women-, African-American-, and
 Hispanic-owned firms vis-a-vis firms owned by neither women nor minorities
 in three different South Florida markets: architecture, structural
 engineering, and civil engineering. After controlling for the influence of
 experience, size, and location, three of the most commonly used
 determinants of firms' earnings, the empirical results suggest that the
 three markets do not convert firms' characteristics into economic outcomes
 in the same manner for women and Hispanic owners as for owners who are
 neither women nor minorities. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 515-538 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: affirmative action, discrimination, earnings, ethnic disparities, gender disparities, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760601024476 
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Author-Name: Julio Videras 
Author-X-Name-First: Julio 
Author-X-Name-Last: Videras 
Author-Name: Christopher Bordoni 
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bordoni 
Title: Ethnic heterogeneity and the enforcement of environmental regulation 
Abstract:
  We examine the relationship between the administrative enforcement of
 environmental regulation, ethnic heterogeneity, and other community
 characteristics in New Jersey and New York. We find that the percentage of
 non-white population in a community is positively related with
 administrative penalties imposed on violators. However, penalties are
 lower in more ethnically diverse communities. This result may be due to
 the fact that these communities are less likely to coordinate to create
 solidarity across ethnic groups and demand stronger enforcement. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 539-562 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 64 
Year: 2006 
Keywords: ethnic heterogeneity, environmental justice, enforcement, regulation, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760601024500 
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Author-Name: Bengt Johannisson 
Author-X-Name-First: Bengt 
Author-X-Name-Last: Johannisson 
Author-Name: Lena Olaison 
Author-X-Name-First: Lena 
Author-X-Name-Last: Olaison 
Title: The moment of truth&#x2014;Reconstructing entrepreneurship and social capital in the eye of the storm 
Abstract:
  There are many images of entrepreneurship which all pay attention to the
 importance of social capital. Nevertheless, these understandings of
 entrepreneurship do not tell us about the capabilities and social
 ingenuity that people hit by a natural or man-made catastrophe may evoke.
 We have studied how the effects of the hurricane Gudrun, which hit
 southern Sweden in January 2005, were dealt with by civic and formal,
 private as well as public, organizations. The lessons from our rich case
 accounts are reflected upon in the perspective of ephemeral organizing and
 used to craft our notion of 'emergency entrepreneurship'. Its proposed
 features include coping with rupture in everyday life by the
 acknowledgement of local knowledge and leadership and the use of bridging
 as well as bonding social capital facilitating immediate (inter)action and
 swift trust. This appears as a spontaneous collective effort, 'social
 bricolage', which means combining and locally&#x2014;in time as well as in
 space&#x2014;integrating chunks of everyday routines according to the
 events and associated needs that the drama produces. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 55-78 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: emergency entrepreneurship, social capital, natural catastrophe, ephemeral organization, Sweden, 
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Author-Name: Phil Cooke 
Author-X-Name-First: Phil 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooke 
Title: Social capital, embeddedness, and market interactions: An analysis of firm performance in UK regions 
Abstract:
  This article presents results of a research project examining the effects
 of social capital on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance.
 The first main part of the article is a review of literature of relevance
 to the study. The second part reports the main quantitative results of
 research on the role of social capital in SME markets in the UK. It
 compares SME performance and social capital usage across UK regions, with
 samples stratified according to degrees of knowledge intensiveness of
 firms and economic status of their area. It shows, perhaps surprisingly,
 that for many SMEs the &#x201c;market&#x201d; is more or less wholly
 constituted by social capital. The third main part of the article
 investigates in depth a number of representative and illustrative cases of
 SMEs deploying social capital in distinctive ways within markets. It shows
 that without social networks most firms cannot function in markets. It
 shows high performance firms to be the most intensive users of social
 capital. This research on social capital underlines the distorted nature
 of mainstream (neoclassical) economic theory by demonstrating
 &#x201c;relational embeddedness&#x201d; to be an important indicator of
 SME performance. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 79-106 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: social capital, embeddedness, firm performance, SME, regions, UK, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760601132170 
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Author-Name: Irene van Staveren 
Author-X-Name-First: Irene 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Staveren 
Author-Name: Peter Knorringa 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Knorringa 
Title: Unpacking social capital in Economic Development: How social relations matter 
Abstract:
  Social capital is a contested concept, embraced by the mainstream as
 &#x201c;the missing link&#x201d; in economic analysis. This article
 suggests a way to turn it into a more meaningful understanding of how
 social relations matter in the economy. It will do so by unpacking the
 concept into various elements, distinguishing what social relations are
 from what they do, and by recognizing power in social relationships. We
 will illustrate our alternative approach with two case studies on the
 Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SME) footwear sector in Ethiopia and
 Vietnam. We conclude with suggestions on how this more contextual approach
 to the understanding of the economic influences of social relations may
 contribute to social economics. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 107-135 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: social capital, trust, SME, footwear, Ethiopia, Vietnam, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760601132147 
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Author-Name: John Davis 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Davis 
Title: Call for papers - Annual allied social sciences association meetings New Orleans, LA, January 4-6, 2008 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 139-140 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701235402 
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Author-Name: Peter Knorringa 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Knorringa 
Author-Name: Irene van Staveren 
Author-X-Name-First: Irene 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Staveren 
Title: Beyond social capital: A critical approach 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-9 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760601170204 
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Author-Name: Tom Schuller 
Author-X-Name-First: Tom 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schuller 
Title: Reflections on the use of social capital 
Abstract:
  The paper provides a framework for reviewing developments in thinking
 about social capital over the last decade and for assessing future
 prospects. It argues for giving particular value to social capital as a
 phenomenon (conceptual and empirical) which is most effective when viewed
 in interaction with other elements of analysis or policy. Two forms of
 interaction are addressed: between bonding and bridging social capital;
 and between human and social capital. The paper then tracks some of the
 developments in the policy research debate in order to illustrate the
 dilemmas involved in the deployment of the concept. The fourth section
 poses some methodological questions and possible future directions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 11-28 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: social capital, human capital, OECD, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760601132162 
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Author-Name: Bart Nooteboom 
Author-X-Name-First: Bart 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nooteboom 
Title: Social capital, institutions and trust 
Abstract:
  This paper analyzes the relations between social capital, institutions,
 and trust. These concepts are full of ambiguity and confusion. This paper
 attempts to dissolve some of the confusion, by distinguishing trust and
 control, and analyzing institutional and relational conditions of trust.
 It presents a tool for the analysis of the foundations of trust, and a
 diagnosis of its strength and viability. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 29-53 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: social capital, trust, institutions, control, reliability, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760601132154 
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Author-Name: John B. Davis 
Author-X-Name-First: John B. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Davis 
Title: Postmodernism and the individual as a process 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 203-208 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701345581 
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Author-Name: William Milberg 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Milberg 
Title: The shifting and Allegorical Rhetoric of &#x201c;neoclassical&#x201d; economics 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 209-222 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701345607 
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Author-Name: David F. Ruccio 
Author-X-Name-First: David F. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruccio 
Author-Name: Jack Amariglio 
Author-X-Name-First: Jack 
Author-X-Name-Last: Amariglio 
Title: Beyond the Highs and Lows: Economics as a &#x201c;process without a subject&#x201d; 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 223-234 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701345649 
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Author-Name: William M. Dugger 
Author-X-Name-First: William M. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dugger 
Title: How Society Makes Itself: The Evolution of Political and Economic Institutions 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 235-237 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701374243 
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Author-Name: Tonia Warnecke 
Author-X-Name-First: Tonia 
Author-X-Name-Last: Warnecke 
Title: Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 238-240 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600712022 
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Author-Name: Albino Barrera 
Author-X-Name-First: Albino 
Author-X-Name-Last: Barrera 
Title: Poverty, Work and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 241-244 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600711909 
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Author-Name: Thomas D. Jeitschko 
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas D. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jeitschko 
Title: Common Value Auctions and the Winner's Curse 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 245-248 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600712063 
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Author-Name: Peter T. Leeson 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter T. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Leeson 
Title: Balkanization and assimilation: Examining the effects of state-created homogeneity 
Abstract:
  This paper investigates the effects of state-created homogeneity on the
 ability of socially distant individuals to trade. I show that where the
 state is absent, socially distant agents adopt the customs, practices and
 institutions of outsiders they desire to interact with. By creating a
 degree of homogeneity, agents signal their credibility to each other.
 These signals, in turn, enable inter-group exchange. Formal institutions
 provided by government can create noise in these signals. This noise
 incapacitates the information mechanism employed by heterogeneous agents
 to enable trade. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 141-164 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: homogeneity, institutions, self-enforcement, balkanization, assimilation, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600709960 
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Author-Name: Betsy Jane Clary 
Author-X-Name-First: Betsy Jane 
Author-X-Name-Last: Clary 
Title: Broadening the concept of rational economic behavior: A case study of cheese making at the Abbey of Tamie 
Abstract:
  Through an analysis of the business activities of a Trappist monastery,
 an attempt is made to add to the understanding of how ethical
 considerations, custom, and culture, as well as the profit motive, affect
 how actual economic decisions are made. This analysis is implemented
 through a case study of the cheese-making business of a monastery in the
 French Alps where the tradition of cheese, agriculture, and monks is
 important to the culture and customs of the area. The analysis finds that
 the monks are able to successfully conduct their business in ways that
 honor their custom and culture within the religious confines imposed by
 the monastery. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 165-186 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: monasteries, economic provisioning, ethics, culture, cheese production, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701374169 
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Author-Name: Gillian Hewitson 
Author-X-Name-First: Gillian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hewitson 
Title: Feminist economics as a Postmodern Moment 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 187-193 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701345508 
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Author-Name: Miriam Teschl 
Author-X-Name-First: Miriam 
Author-X-Name-Last: Teschl 
Title: What does it mean to be decentered? 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 195-201 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701345532 
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Author-Name: Joshua Frank 
Author-X-Name-First: Joshua 
Author-X-Name-Last: Frank 
Title: Meat as a bad habit: A case for positive feedback in consumption preferences leading to lock-in 
Abstract:
  The concepts of path dependence and lock-in have received growing
 acceptance but have generally been thought of as driven by positive
 feedback on the supply side of the economy. A case through example is made
 here of how endogenous preferences positive feedback in utility from
 consumption, social considerations, and institutional considerations can
 all lead to path dependence and the persistence of suboptimal consumption
 choices. The case here specifically relates to meat consumption and
 utilizes behavioral, institutional, as well as neoclassical approaches to
 justify the conclusion. It is argued that increased meat consumption,
 which at one time may have had positive value, has developed increasingly
 negative consequences both at the individual and social level. Negative
 impacts include health consequences, low production efficiency, and
 environmental damage, among others. Nevertheless, preferences for meat are
 maintained by multiple factors including historical dependence of tastes,
 socially established meanings of consumption choices, and institutional
 inertia. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 319-348 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: path dependence, lock-in, endogenous preferences, meat, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701635833 
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Author-Name: Ramya Vijaya 
Author-X-Name-First: Ramya 
Author-X-Name-Last: Vijaya 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 349-385 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2006 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600712188 
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Author-Name: Nuno Martins 
Author-X-Name-First: Nuno 
Author-X-Name-Last: Martins 
Title: Realism, universalism and capabilities 
Abstract:
  Amartya Sen's capability approach is a perspective that (unlike
 approaches that focus only on resources or goods) takes into account the
 heterogeneities between human individuals in the assessment of well-being
 and advantage. Nevertheless, the recognition of diversity between
 individuals also poses difficulties to the application of the capability
 approach in welfare analysis. Tony Lawson's structured ontology will be
 suggested here in order to render (empirical) diversity compatible with
 the need to make more general (possibly universal) welfare analysis (and
 policy prescriptions). This is so because Lawson's structured ontology
 distinguishes between an empirical level, where diversity exists, and an
 ontologically distinct level of the causal factors underlying the former:
 universalizing and generalizing can be made at this latter level. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 253-278 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: capabilities, diversity, structured ontology, realism, universalism, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701635817 
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Author-Name: Tom Walker 
Author-X-Name-First: Tom 
Author-X-Name-Last: Walker 
Title: Why economists dislike a lump of labor 
Abstract:
  The lump-of-labor fallacy has been called one of the &#x201c;best known
 fallacies in economics.&#x201d; It is widely cited in disparagement of
 policies for reducing the standard hours of work, yet the authenticity of
 the fallacy claim is questionable, and explanations of it are inconsistent
 and contradictory. This article discusses recent occurrences of the
 fallacy claim and investigates anomalies in the claim and its history.
 S.J. Chapman's coherent and formerly highly regarded theory of the hours
 of labor is reviewed, and it is shown how that theory could lend credence
 to the job-creating potentiality of shorter working time policies. It
 concludes that substituting a dubious fallacy claim for an authentic
 economic theory may have obstructed fruitful dialogue about working time
 and the appropriate policies for regulating it. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 279-291 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: lump-of-labor fallacy, hours of work, full-employment policy, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701635809 
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Author-Name: Marie-Laure Baron 
Author-X-Name-First: Marie-Laure 
Author-X-Name-Last: Baron 
Title: Defining the frontiers of the firm through property rights allocation: The case of the French retailer cooperative Leclerc 
Abstract:
  France harbours three large retailer cooperatives which, put together,
 account for more than a third of the national market share. The largest of
 these is Leclerc, a leading firm on the French territory. The paper
 presented here shows how, through the particular distribution of property
 rights and decision patterns, this cooperative, although hampered by an
 unstable size, manages to compete with integrated firms. Indeed, the
 processes that have been developed enable the cooperative to acquire
 long-term property rights on the specific assets (stores), while remaining
 in the cooperative framework. The system built is efficient because
 incentives remain high for members to increase their own performance. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 293-317 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: cooperatives, property rights, retailing, contract theory, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701635825 
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Author-Name: Stefan Mann 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mann 
Title: Beyond Bohm-Bawerk: Searching for a place for relations in economic theory 
Abstract:
  Although, in the nineteenth century, Bohm-Bawerk remarked that relations
 as a category are distinct from goods, economists today increasingly
 subsume relations as a particular category of goods, both semantically and
 by applying methods like Contingent Valuation. This paper shows where the
 main distinctions between goods and relations lie. It categorizes
 economically relevant relations along the lines of symmetry and relevance
 for bystanders. The main obstacles to applying valuation techniques
 developed for public goods are outlined. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 445-457 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: Bohm-Bawerk, relations, goods, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701667299 
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Author-Name: Emil Berendt 
Author-X-Name-First: Emil 
Author-X-Name-Last: Berendt 
Title: A mathematical note on Msgr. John A. Ryan's thought on the minimum wage 
Abstract:
  This paper examines Msgr. John A. Ryan's economic thought regarding the
 mechanics by which an increase in the minimum wage is funded. In
 particular, a mathematical comparative-static model is used to explore
 Msgr. Ryan's economic assumptions concerning the channels by which income
 is redistributed to workers from other factor owners. The analysis shows
 that Msgr. Ryan's approach includes assumptions regarding economic
 relationships and implies specific values of wage elasticities. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 459-473 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: just wage, minimum wage, John Ryan, income distribution, catholic social teaching, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600863197 
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Author-Name: Mark White 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: White 
Title: Book reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 475-502 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2006 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600712162 
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Author-Name: Deborah Figart 
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Figart 
Title: Social responsibility for living standards: Presidential address, association for social economics, 2007 
Abstract:
  This address presents a vision of economics&#x2014;drawing upon social,
 institutional, and feminist economics&#x2014;that supports the assertion
 that there should be social responsibility for living standards.
 Alternative definitions of what an economy is and what economics should
 study are related to three definitions of living standards presented in
 Amartya Sen's 1985 Tanner Lectures on the topic. A social provisioning
 approach to economic life emphasizes that provisioning needs to be
 organized to promote human flourishing. One contemporary challenge is to
 do this in a manner that sustains caring and promotes gender equity. 1 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 391-405 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: social provisioning, living standards, well being, capabilities, caring, gender equity, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701668487 
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Author-Name: Manuel Couret Branco 
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Couret 
Author-X-Name-Last: Branco 
Title: Family, religion and economic performance: A critique of cultural determinism 
Abstract:
  Arguing that some attitudes that may constitute an obstacle to the
 development process are culturally funded, cultural determinism pleads
 that underdevelopment is essentially generated endogenously, in other
 words, that people in developing countries, with their beliefs and their
 attitudes, are the more liable for the poverty in which they live. The
 simplicity of these arguments has seduced a large number of scholars but
 what seems to be a cultural brake on economic development could be
 explained otherwise. This critique of cultural determinism's arguments
 attempts to supply an alternative version of the interaction of culture
 and development, from which power, class, domination and the international
 division of labour will not be excised. In order to simplify this study
 only two of the cultural features most often referred to will be brought
 into focus: religion and family and patterns of kinship. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 407-424 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: development, underdevelopment, culture, religion, family, human rights, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701668438 
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Author-Name: Thomas Kemp 
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kemp 
Author-Name: Tim Wunder 
Author-X-Name-First: Tim 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wunder 
Title: Simulating inequality and social order in the classroom: A macroeconomic game 
Abstract:
  Actual economic activity often is too large or abstract for students of
 economics to understand. It has been the experience of the authors that
 when the economy is explained in terms of an autonomous classroom,
 students better understand that the economy is about the social process of
 determining what will be produced, how it will be produced, and for whom
 it will be produced. In the most basic sense the purpose of the simulation
 describe herein is to provide the student with personal experience of the
 market process. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 425-443 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 65 
Year: 2007 
Keywords: education, classroom games, inequality, macroeconomics, law, norms, fiscal policy, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760600863189 
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Author-Name: Heather Boushey 
Author-X-Name-First: Heather 
Author-X-Name-Last: Boushey 
Title: Family Friendly Policies: Helping Mothers Make Ends Meet 
Abstract:
  This paper examines how family friendly policies affect mothers' wages.
 Standard economic theory predicts that workers who desire family friendly
 policies would accept lower wages, all else equal. However, in the US
 labor market, the workers who have access to these policies tend to be in
 the higher-prestige and higher-earning occupations. This study examines
 the effects on wages of having had access to maternity leave and the
 ability to control one's schedule, using the Survey of Income and Program
 Participation. The present-day wages of mothers who were working prior to
 the birth of their first child and received pay during their maternity
 leave are 9 percent higher compared to other mothers, controlling for
 other personal and job-related characteristics. Mothers who report working
 their current schedule because it helps them address their caring
 responsibilities&#x2014;child care, elder care, or care for a sick family
 member&#x2014;do not suffer a wage penalty as a result. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 51-70 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: maternity leave, workplace flexibility, wages, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701668446 
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Author-Name: Stefano Lucarelli 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefano 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lucarelli 
Author-Name: Andrea Fumagalli 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fumagalli 
Title: Basic Income and Productivity in Cognitive Capitalism 
Abstract:
  In this article, basic income (BI) will not be considered as a measure to
 raise living standards and social well-being. Rather, it will be presented
 as an indispensable structural policy for achieving a healthier social
 order governed by a more equitable compromise between capital and labor.
 Embracing the French Regulation School approach, we maintain that such a
 compromise is founded on the redistribution of productivity gains.
 Describing the dynamics of productivity enables a better understanding of
 the main features and development of contemporary capitalism. In advancing
 our argument, we focus on the socioeconomic transformation that has
 overtaken the Fordist paradigm within Western countries and propose the
 term &#x201c;cognitive capitalism&#x201d; to describe the new economic
 system. We argue that BI can be seen as a viable economic policy able to
 contrast the instability generated by the present form(s) of accumulation,
 as it increases productivity through network and learning processes. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 71-92 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: basic income, productivity, cognitive capitalism, crisis, Regulation School, post-Fordism, knowledge, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802063000 
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Author-Name: Mark Friedman 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: Friedman 
Title: Living Wage and Optimal Inequality in a Sarkarian Framework 
Abstract:
  Principles from the social thought of the Indian philosopher P.R. Sarkar
 are employed to show that there exists an optimal level of economic
 inequality that joins the values of economic justice and efficiency.
 Sarkar favored establishing a living wage as well as a maximum wage that
 allows for work incentives. It is argued that the primary justification
 for inequality is to provide incentives for individual productivity, and
 that the value of those incentives should not exceed the economic
 contributions they produce. To determine the relative importance of income
 incentives in motivating individual economic contributions, it is found
 necessary to develop a multifaceted model of human productivity. Such a
 model is developed using concepts from humanistic psychology. A Sarkarian
 individual productivity curve is introduced in diagrammatic analysis to
 demonstrate the existence of an optimal level of inequality, and also to
 explain the persistence of extreme income inequality. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 93-111 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: inequality, living wage, P.R. Sarkar, PROUT, productivity, Maslow, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701668479 
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Author-Name: Deborah Figart 
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Figart 
Author-Name: John Marangos 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Marangos 
Title: Introduction to Living Standards and Social Well-Being 
Abstract:
  This special issue contains five articles on the subject of living
 standards and well-being, important topics in social economics. The
 authors assess the so-called squirrel cage of work-and-spend, and the
 culture of overconsumption in the USA and other industrialized countries.
 They evaluate overwork and the implications for balancing work and family,
 and underwork and the need for a basic income. The articles in this
 special issue point to a myriad of policy proposals to be found not only
 in employer practices but through broader universal policy solutions as
 well, such as nationally applicable labor standards, and access to paid
 leave and flexible scheduling. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-5 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: John A. Ryan, living standards, well-being, basic income, consumption, family policy, P.R. Sarkar, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701309868 
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Author-Name: Martha Starr 
Author-X-Name-First: Martha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Starr 
Title: Consumption, Work Hours, and Values in the Writings of John A. Ryan: Is it Possible to Return to the Road Not Taken? 
Abstract:
  The 1920s saw important debate about consumption and work hours. Some
 industrialists argued that work hours needed to remain high to sustain
 demand for output; others thought they could fall because people would buy
 goods to complement their leisure. In contrast, John A. Ryan thought that
 work hours could and should decline in the interests of &#x201c;industrial
 sanity, social well-being, and desirable human life.&#x201d; This paper
 discusses Ryan's views of consumption and work hours, which were far
 broader and richer than contemporary critique. Ryan's writings clarify
 that, if contemporary projects are to engender the sort of fundamental
 changes in everyday life contemplated in the 1920s, they need to consider
 social as well as individual values and the ineludible distributional
 dimensions of the consumerist lifestyle; otherwise their effects may be
 confined to promoting lifestyle adjustment among better-off groups. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 7-24 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: consumption, work hours, wellbeing, John Ryan, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701668453 
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Author-Name: Lonnie Golden 
Author-X-Name-First: Lonnie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Golden 
Author-Name: Barbara Wiens-Tuers 
Author-X-Name-First: Barbara 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wiens-Tuers 
Title: Overtime Work and Wellbeing at Home 
Abstract:
  When workers devote more time to paid work it raises income or prospects,
 but at what cost to those individuals and their families? Descriptive
 analysis of data from the 2002 General Social Survey Quality of Work
 module finds that working beyond one's usual schedule is associated with
 higher absolute and relative family income. However, working extra hours
 also is associated with greater work&#xa0;-&#xa0;family interference and
 lesser ability to take time off from work for family needs. There are
 additional detrimental effects on worker wellbeing, such as slightly more
 fatigue from work, when the extra work is required by the employer than
 when it is not. Thus, models of economic well being should incorporate
 whether or not extra work is imposed. Policies intended to improve social
 wellbeing should focus on limiting the incidence, frequency and specific
 repercussions of overtime work that is mandatory and enhancing workers'
 ability to avoid it. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 25-49 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: working hours, working time, overtime, overwork, work-life, quality of life, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701668495 
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Author-Name: David Fairris 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fairris 
Author-Name: Gurleen Popli 
Author-X-Name-First: Gurleen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Popli 
Author-Name: Eduardo Zepeda 
Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zepeda 
Title: Minimum Wages and the Wage Structure in Mexico 
Abstract:
  Instead of merely setting a lower bound on the wages of formal sector
 workers, minimum wages serve as a norm for wage setting more generally
 throughout the Mexican economy. Our results suggest that wages are
 commonly set at multiples of the minimum wage, and that changes in minimum
 wages influence wage changes across the occupational distribution.
 Moreover, our findings suggest that these normative features of minimum
 wages have their greatest impact on the mid-to-lower tail of the wage
 distribution, including the informal sector of the economy. Thus, the
 results lend support to the view that declining real minimum wages and
 stabilization programs that strengthened the link between wage levels,
 wage changes, and minimum wages, might account for a portion of the
 growing wage inequality in Mexico over the period of the late 1980s and
 early 1990s. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 181-208 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: wage distributions, minimum wages, wage inequality, Mexico, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701691489 
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Author-Name: Andrej Susjan 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrej 
Author-X-Name-Last: Susjan 
Author-Name: Tjasa Redek 
Author-X-Name-First: Tjasa 
Author-X-Name-Last: Redek 
Title: Uncertainty and Growth in Transition Economies 
Abstract:
  The paper investigates the relationship between fundamental uncertainty,
 a recurrent theme in post-Keynesian economic literature, and economic
 performance in transition economies. Uncertainty in the transitional
 economic environment is enhanced by factors such as institutional
 transformation, political and social instability, and legacies of the
 past. To capture the changes in the levels of transition-specific
 uncertainty, the authors have designed the uncertainty index, based on a
 weighted selection of Heritage Foundation and Freedom House data. The
 correlation between the uncertainty index and growth is strong and clearly
 negative. Panel data analysis based on a growth model, supplemented by
 variables to simulate transitional cycle, and performed on a sample of
 transition economies for the period 1995-2002, confirms that high levels
 of transition-specific uncertainty had a negative impact on economic
 growth. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 209-234 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: uncertainty, economic transition, institutions, economic growth, 
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Author-Name: Ben Fine 
Author-X-Name-First: Ben 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fine 
Title: Vicissitudes of Economics Imperialism 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 235-240 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701821987 
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Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Author-Name: Deborah Figart 
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Figart 
Author-Name: Robert McMaster 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: McMaster 
Author-Name: Martha Starr 
Author-X-Name-First: Martha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Starr 
Title: Editorial 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 137-138 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701817308 
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Author-Name: Nina Banks 
Author-X-Name-First: Nina 
Author-X-Name-Last: Banks 
Title: The Black Worker, Economic Justice and the Speeches of Sadie T.M. Alexander 
Abstract:
  This paper examines Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander's challenge to racial
 oppression within the US. In 1921, Alexander became the first African
 American woman to earn a PhD in economics. The author links Alexander's
 arguments for black political rights to the provision of economic justice
 for working class Americans. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 139-161 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: economic justice, black workers, full employment, redistributive policies, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701335707 
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Author-Name: Stefan Mann 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mann 
Title: Framing Obesity in Economic Theory and Policy 
Abstract:
  This paper explores several explanatory approaches for the rise and the
 prevalence of obesity in society. Both rationalist approaches and
 explanations involving information problems or weakness of will are
 considered. It is shown that many world religions take a united stance
 against obesity. While the recent rise in obesity can be explained
 rationally by a changed environment, information deficiencies and akrasia
 contribute to explaining its frequency in general. If the state
 intervenes, a &#x201c;fat tax&#x201d; carries much higher allocative
 losses than taxing overweight directly. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 163-179 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: welfare economics, second-order preferences, health economics, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701668461 
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Author-Name: Siobhan Austen 
Author-X-Name-First: Siobhan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Austen 
Author-Name: Noelle Leonard 
Author-X-Name-First: Noelle 
Author-X-Name-Last: Leonard 
Title: Measuring Women's Quality of Life: A Discussion of Alternative Approaches 
Abstract:
  This paper reports our experiences with the application of a number of
 alternative approaches to a study of women's economic circumstances and
 quality of life in a typical western city. The important work of,
 especially, Martha Nussbaum on the capabilities approach to evaluations of
 &#x201c;quality of life&#x201d; has highlighted pitfalls associated with
 the use of a narrow informational base in studies of women's lives and has
 emphasized the value of qualitative methods in these evaluations. However,
 to date, most discussions of the relevance of plural approaches to studies
 of women's lives have been conducted in the context of developing
 countries. This paper contributes a practical, current example of the
 relevance of such approaches to assessments of the lives of women in
 western countries as well. The research findings reported in the paper
 also cast further light on the importance of several, related themes in
 the literature on the capabilities approach, namely the importance of
 understanding how women's aspirations and expectations change with their
 economic and social experiences; and the importance of appreciating the
 social uses of language and how this affects the way in which women
 describe their lives. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 325-349 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: economic well-being, quality of life, adaptive preferences, qualitative methods, Australia, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701821839 
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Author-Name: Carole A. Green 
Author-X-Name-First: Carole 
Author-X-Name-Last: A. Green 
Author-Name: Marianne A. Ferber 
Author-X-Name-First: Marianne 
Author-X-Name-Last: A. Ferber 
Title: The Long-Term Impact of Labor Market Interruptions: How Crucial is Timing? 
Abstract:
  In this day of two earner and single adult families many women and a
 small but growing minority of men face the decision whether and when to
 drop out of the labor force for a time, most often in order to take care
 of young children or in some cases of elderly family members. In addition,
 both women and men face the risk of occasional interruptions in their
 labor force participation when they are unable to find a job. In this
 study we use the NLSY79 data to investigate the long run effects on
 earnings of dropping out of the labor force and/or of being unemployed
 during the first 15 years of the careers of men and women firmly attached
 to the labor force, with particular attention to the importance of the
 timing of these interruptions. After controlling for numerous relevant
 factors, we find no significant negative impact on wage growth associated
 with time out of the labor force either early on or later, but do find
 that unemployment during the second half of the period has such effects
 both for men and for women. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 351-379 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: labour market interruptions, women's labor force participation, NLSY79, wage growth, 
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Author-Name: Sebastian Berger 
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Berger 
Title: Karl Polanyi's and Karl William Kapp's Substantive Economics: Important Insights from the Kapp-Polanyi Correspondence 
Abstract:
  Based on the unpublished Kapp-Polanyi correspondence, the paper analyzes
 the relationship between the two economists, as well as the meaning and
 origin of substantive economics, i.e. one of the key concepts of
 institutional economics with distinctly European roots. The correspondence
 shows how both economists influenced each other in their similar
 understanding of the substantive economy, and reveals that these
 similarities and the mutual influence date back to the 'planning debate'
 of the 1920s and 1930s. The documents also evidence the importance of Carl
 Menger's definition of substantive economics in the posthumous and
 untranslated second edition of the Grundsatze der Volkswirtschaftslehre
 (Principles of Economics) (1923). As a result, Kapp's political economy,
 i.e. his social minima approach appears in new light. The latter
 actualizes the full potential of substantive economics for a modern
 political economy by integrating insights from Polanyi's substantive
 economics, Menger's differentiation of human needs according to their
 urgency, and Max Weber's substantive rationality. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 381-396 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: K. William Kapp, Karl Polanyi, substantive economics, social costs, social minima, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801932783 
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Author-Name: Thomas Palley 
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Palley 
Title: The Economics of Outsourcing: How Should Policy Respond? 
Abstract:
  Outsourcing is a central element of economic globalization, representing
 a new form of competition. Responding to outsourcing calls for policies
 that enhance national competitiveness and establish rules ensuring
 acceptable forms of competition. Viewing outsourcing through the lens of
 competition connects with early 20th-century American institutional
 economics. The policy challenge is to construct institutions that ensure
 stable, robust flows of demand and income, thereby addressing the
 Keynesian problem while preserving incentives for economic action. This
 was the approach embedded in the New Deal, which successfully addressed
 the problems of the Depression era. Global outsourcing poses the challenge
 anew and calls for creative institutional arrangements to shape the nature
 of competition. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 279-295 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: global outsourcing, globalization, international trade, institutionalism, competition, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701821896 
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Author-Name: Colin C. Williams 
Author-X-Name-First: Colin 
Author-X-Name-Last: C. Williams 
Author-Name: John Round 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Round 
Title: A Critical Evaluation of Romantic Depictions of the Informal Economy 
Abstract:
  The conventional portrayal of the formal/informal economy dichotomy
 endows the formal economy with positive attributes and the informal
 economy with negative characteristics. Recently, this hierarchy has been
 inverted by scholars portraying the informal economy positively as a
 chosen alternative and path to progress. This paper evaluates critically
 this emergent representation. Reporting a study of the informal economy in
 the Ukraine conducted in 2005/2006, a diverse array of informal economic
 practices are identified that amongst some groups represent an involuntary
 means of livelihood but amongst others a chosen alternative and some of
 which seem beneficial and others deleterious to economic development and
 social cohesion. The outcome is a call to transcend simplistic binary
 hierarchical depictions of the formal economy as
 &#x201c;bad&#x201d;/informal economy as &#x201c;good&#x201d; (or the
 inverse) and towards a finer-grained and more nuanced understanding of the
 diverse forms of informal work and their varying consequences for economic
 development and social cohesion. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 297-323 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: informal sector, underground economy, economic development, Ukraine, post-socialist societies, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801932700 
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Schneider 
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schneider 
Author-Name: Paul Susman 
Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Susman 
Title: Trade, People and Places: A Social Economic-Geographic Approach to Comparative Institutional Advantage 
Abstract:
  This paper examines the theoretical underpinning of contemporary trade
 policies through a social economics lens. The paper offers a social
 economic critique of the theory of comparative advantage and the recently
 developed theory of comparative institutional advantage. Subsequently, the
 paper develops a more comprehensive and general theory of comparative
 institutional advantage consistent with the principles and methodology of
 social economics. Furthermore, it suggests ways in which this social
 economic-geographic version of the theory of comparative institutional
 advantage can be used in the construction of trade policies which are more
 likely to have a beneficial impact on the welfare of communities and to
 foster the fulfilling of human needs and potential. This version of the
 theory serves to reorient the focus of economic policy to the welfare of
 the community and the income-generating possibilities of trade. And it
 serves as a superior guide to policymaking because it is better able to
 define the root causes of regional success than standard trade theories. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 469-499 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: trade, comparative advantage, comparative institutional advantage, social economics, geography, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801932684 
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Author-Name: Oliver Kessler 
Author-X-Name-First: Oliver 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kessler 
Title: Uncertainty, Rationality and the Study of Social Institutions 
Abstract:
  The insight that both ontological and epistemological perspectives are
 intertwined is certainly correct, but at the same time insufficient to
 differentiate mainstream from heterodox approaches to economic
 institutions. As this paper argues, it is important whether one starts
 from ontological or epistemological considerations first. The paper
 suggests that the difference can be described in terms of function versus
 rules and demonstrates that an intersubjective ontology for institutions
 requires also an intersubjective epistemology. Otherwise, ontological
 precepts contradict the epistemological ones with important repercussions
 for understanding knowledge, rationality and institutions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 501-522 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: uncertainty, risk, practical knowledge, linguistic turn, institutionalism, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801932692 
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Author-Name: Claudio Sardoni 
Author-X-Name-First: Claudio 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sardoni 
Title: Some Notes on the Nature of Money and the Future of Monetary Policy 
Abstract:
  In a debate on the future of monetary policy and the displacement of
 money, Woodford argued that, even if innovations should lead to a
 situation in which the banks' demand for reserves at the central bank is
 zero, the central bank can still influence the economy's interest rates
 because its liability is the economy's unit of account. This paper deals
 with these topics by considering the implications of emphasizing the
 function of money as unit of account. In the analysis of money from this
 perspective, social, institutional and economic factors play a crucial
 role. Money is a social and historical relation. Therefore, the
 displacement of money and central banks, though possible, is a complex
 process involving economic, social and political factors, not merely the
 result of innovations. The paper also looks at some aspects of Kaldor's
 theory, which is centered on the fundamental importance of money as unit
 of account. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 523-537 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: money, central banking, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801932734 
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Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Title: Giving-How Each Of Us Can Change The World 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 539-541 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801956253 
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Author-Name: Jack Reardon 
Author-X-Name-First: Jack 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reardon 
Title: Capitalism and its Economics-A Critical History 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 542-544 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701821961 
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Author-Name: Cristian Perez Munoz 
Author-X-Name-First: Cristian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Perez Munoz 
Title: Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 544-549 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801932742 
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Author-Name: Martha Starr 
Author-X-Name-First: Martha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Starr 
Title: The Economics of Non-selfish Behavior: Decisions to Contribute Money to Public Goods 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 549-552 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801932809 
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Author-Name: Miguel-Angel Galindo 
Author-X-Name-First: Miguel-Angel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Galindo 
Title: The Year of the Euro: The Cultural, Social, and Political Import of Europe's Common Currency 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 552-555 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801932791 
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Author-Name: John Tiemstra 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tiemstra 
Title: Rethinking the Costs of Economic Growth. Association for Social Economics Presidential Address, 2008 
Abstract:
  The source of economic development and growth is specialization in the
 context of comparative advantage. Growth in capital and other inputs,
 energy use, and technological change are insufficient to explain the
 magnitude of growth. Earlier critics of economic growth failed to connect
 growth to specialization, and so were distracted by nostalgia and
 sentiment. The specialization process itself produces three significant
 problems. First, as economies become more specialized, they become less
 flexible. Second, diversity tends to make ecological systems more robust,
 while specialization weakens them. Third, specialization produces social
 isolation. Solutions to these problems may be found in participatory,
 indicative planning. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 423-435 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: specialization, growth, competitiveness, environment, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801956246 
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Author-Name: Robert Mochrie 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mochrie 
Author-Name: John Sawkins 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sawkins 
Author-Name: Alexander Naumov 
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander 
Author-X-Name-Last: Naumov 
Title: Competition and Participation in Religious Markets: Evidence from Victorian Scotland 
Abstract:
  In 1885, the largest churches in Scotland were engaged in a dispute about
 state funding. We use data generated in the course of that dispute to test
 two related hypotheses. First, as market size (proxied by population)
 increases, the competitiveness (or complexity) of the religious market
 structure will not decrease. Second, religious activity, as measured by
 giving per member, church income and participation, will not decrease as
 market competitiveness (or complexity) increases. Empirical evidence lends
 support to the first hypothesis, but casts doubt on the second, and the
 supply-side theories underpinning it, which posit a causal link between
 increased competitiveness (complexity) and higher levels of religious
 activity. In interpreting the results the importance of a rich
 understanding of institutional arrangements&#x2014;particularly market
 structure, governance and financing&#x2014;is underlined. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 437-467 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 66 
Year: 2008 
Keywords: competition, institutional structure, Presbyterian, Scotland, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801932726 
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Author-Name: John Davis 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Davis 
Title: Identity and Individual Economic Agents: A Narrative Approach 
Abstract:
  This paper offers an account of how individuals act as agents when we
 employ a narrative approach to explaining their personal identities. It
 applies Korsgaard's idea of a &#x201c;reflective structure of
 consciousness&#x201d; to provide foundations for a richer account of the
 individual economic agent, and uses this to explain and distinguish the
 concepts of personal identity, individual identity, and social identity.
 The paper argues that individuals' personal identities may be in conflict
 with their socially constructed individual identities. Individuals' social
 identities are represented as a link between personal identity, and
 individual identity. The overall framework is proposed as an alternative
 to the atomistic individual conception and a contribution to the socially
 embedded individual conception. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 71-94 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: individuals, personal identity, Korsgaard, individual identity, social identity, Livet, social scaffolding, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802431009 
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Author-Name: Jonathan Wight 
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wight 
Title: Adam Smith on Instincts, Affection, and Informal Learning: Proximate Mechanisms in Multilevel Selection 
Abstract:
  Why do people give away knowledge in tutoring other people's children or
 when mentoring junior employees? Neoclassical economists explain informal
 learning as rational behavior that arises out of enlightened
 self-interest. They can also justify it as acts that satisfy the agent's
 preferences for the utility of others. By contrast, this paper shows that
 Smith's moral sentiments model anticipates a biological approach that
 explains additional and deeper motives for such exchanges. Instincts and
 emotions serve consequentialist ends because the ultimate causes of
 behavior are grounded in adaptations useful for survival and procreation.
 But man is largely innocent of this knowledge. The proximate causes of
 behavior&#x2014;that is, the adaptive mechanisms actually at work in human
 society&#x2014;are psychologically obscure&#x2014;not left to the
 conscious mind. Social and moral capital develop through instincts and
 affection, and mentoring and collaboration are examples of social
 exchanges that arise from them. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 95-113 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: Adam Smith, instinct, informal learning, multilevel selection, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802483679 
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Author-Name: Maryann Keating 
Author-X-Name-First: Maryann 
Author-X-Name-Last: Keating 
Title: The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 115-117 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801933385 
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Author-Name: Nazmi Sari 
Author-X-Name-First: Nazmi 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sari 
Title: Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 117-119 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802245375 
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Author-Name: Lorenzo Garbo 
Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Garbo 
Title: Human Development in the Era of Globalization. Essays in Honor of Keith B. Griffin 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 120-123 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802245359 
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Author-Name: Mark White 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: White 
Title: Introduction to Ethics and Economics 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-2 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802460693 
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Author-Name: Jennifer Baker 
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer 
Author-X-Name-Last: Baker 
Title: Virtue and Behavior 
Abstract:
  This paper supports Amartya Sen's contention that our moral behavior
 cannot be represented in economic modeling, given the assumptions accepted
 by most rational choice theorists. In this paper Sen's argument is
 supplemented by traditional virtue ethics, which can account for how and
 why &#x201c;commitment&#x201d; is counter-preferential. Yet the changes to
 economic methodology that Sen recommends are rendered unnecessary by a
 particular innovation in Stoic ethical theory. If the Stoic distinction
 between indifferent goods and moral goods is invoked, economics can
 proceed apace, under the assumption that it is the science that handles
 our behavior in regard to indifferents only. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 3-24 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: stoicism, ethics, value, virtue, rational choice, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802586000 
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Author-Name: Irene van Staveren 
Author-X-Name-First: Irene 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Staveren 
Title: Communitarianism and the Market: A Paradox 
Abstract:
  Communitarian philosophers understand morality as emerging in communities
 through the interaction between agents in practices. At first sight,
 communitarianism seems to provide a suitable perspective for
 conceptualizing morality in economics, since the economy might be regarded
 as a sequence of such practices in communities of business, households,
 and trading. But several well-known communitarians, such as MacIntyre,
 Anderson, and Etzioni, are rather sceptical about the economy, and in
 particular markets, as a location of moral behaviour, which leaves us with
 a paradox: How can economists re-conceptualize the dominant theory of
 markets towards a more morally embedded theory of economic life, using
 ideas from communitarianism, when at the same time communitarians deny the
 market as a location of morality? This article will argue, first, that
 such a sceptical view relies on a false dichotomy between market and
 morality. The dichotomy is explained by the acceptance by three major
 communitarian philosophers of a narrow theory of economic behaviour:
 rational choice theory. Second, the paper shows how three key
 communitarian ideas may be usefully applied to the understanding of
 economic behaviour. Third, the work by another communitarian, Walzer, is
 referred to, in order to show how communitarian thought may be related to
 progressive economic thought in order to conceptualize the market as a
 morally embedded institution. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 25-47 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: communitarianism, morally embedded market, MacIntyre, Etzioni, Anderson, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802431306 
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Author-Name: Mark White 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: White 
Title: Pareto, Consent, and Respect for Dignity: A Kantian Perspective 
Abstract:
  This paper argues that the Pareto standard, by which policy changes are
 approved if they benefit at least one person and harms no one, is
 ethically questionable despite its nearly universal acceptance among
 economists and philosophers alike. As usually implemented, the Pareto
 standard bypasses actual consent, relying instead on hypothetical consent
 based on imputed measures of preferences or wellbeing. By so circumventing
 actual choice, the Pareto standard violates the respect for the dignity of
 autonomous agents, as emphasized by Immanuel Kant. If actual consent is
 obtained, however, the independent relevance of the Pareto standard is
 endangered. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 49-70 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: Pareto improvement, preferences, consent, dignity, Immanuel Kant, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802450553 
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Author-Name: Ulrike Muehlberger 
Author-X-Name-First: Ulrike 
Author-X-Name-Last: Muehlberger 
Author-Name: Silvia Pasqua 
Author-X-Name-First: Silvia 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pasqua 
Title: Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment* 
Abstract:
  The number of workers on the border between self-employment and
 employment has strongly increased across Europe over the last decade. This
 paper investigates whether and in what respect these workers differ from
 employees and self-employed, and analyses whether these work relationships
 are a stepping stone to more stable employment in the short-run using
 Italian data. Depending on the data source, the
 &#x201c;para-subordinates&#x201d; represent between 1.8 percent and 5.3
 percent of the Italian labor force. Since most of them work only for one
 company and are strongly integrated into the firm of the contract partner,
 we argue that labor and social security law discriminates against these
 workers whose status is in fact very close to employees. We find that they
 are not low-qualified workers, but young, highly educated professionals.
 At the same time these contracts seem not to be a port of entry into the
 labor market nor do we find that they are a vehicle to more stable jobs.
 However, they are a possibility for women to work part-time. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 201-228 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: self-employment, dependency, outsourcing, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701875215 
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Author-Name: Killian McCarthy 
Author-X-Name-First: Killian 
Author-X-Name-Last: McCarthy 
Title: The Transnational Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 229-232 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802245862 
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Author-Name: Lorenzo Garbo 
Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Garbo 
Title: AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 237-240 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802245367 
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Author-Name: Benjamin Jewell 
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jewell 
Title: Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections of the New Economy 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 240-244 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802245102 
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Author-Name: Ingrid Rima 
Author-X-Name-First: Ingrid 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rima 
Title: Joan Robinson's Economics: A Centennial Celebration 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 244-248 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802245094 
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Author-Name: Ali Alharbi 
Author-X-Name-First: Ali 
Author-X-Name-Last: Alharbi 
Title: Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 248-251 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802245110 
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Author-Name: Brad Andrew 
Author-X-Name-First: Brad 
Author-X-Name-Last: Andrew 
Title: Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 252-254 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802621609 
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Author-Name: Jonathan Wight 
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wight 
Title: Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law, Ethics, and Culture 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 254-258 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802621625 
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Author-Name: J. Harlan Johnstone 
Author-X-Name-First: J. Harlan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnstone 
Title: Taxation, Wage Bargaining, and Unemployment 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 258-262 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802621617 
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Author-Name: John Davis 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Davis 
Title: Peter Danner, 1921-2008 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 263-264 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902812066 
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Author-Name: Ismael Hossein-zadeh 
Author-X-Name-First: Ismael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hossein-zadeh 
Title: Social vs. Military Spending: How the Escalating Pentagon Budget Crowds out Public Infrastructure and Aggravates Natural Disasters&#x2014;the Case of Hurricane Katrina 
Abstract:
  This paper puts forth (and documents) an argument that the escalating US
 military spending at the expense of non-military public spending is
 steadily undermining the critical national objective of public-capital
 formation (both physical and human) and that, if not stopped, the
 resulting trend will stint long term productivitiy and economic growth, as
 it erodes both physical and soft/social infrastructure. An equally high
 opportunity cost of the colossal Pentagon budget in terms of forgone or
 neglected public infrastructure is vulnerability in the face of natural
 disasters, as evidenced, for example, by Hurricane Katrina's devastation
 of the City of New Orleans. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 149-173 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: the military-industrial complex, permanent war economy, new deal, income/resource distribution, Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, redistributive militarism, public capital, poverty and inequality, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801932718 
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Author-Name: Steven Pressman 
Author-X-Name-First: Steven 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pressman 
Author-Name: Robert Scott 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott 
Title: Consumer Debt and the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality in the US* 
Abstract:
  This paper argues that interest on consumer debt must be taken into
 account when measuring poverty and inequality. These interest payments
 cannot be used to support household living standards. This makes middle-
 and low-income households worse off. Recent increases in consumer debt
 means that this deterioration in living standards is not captured by
 conventional government statistics. Using the Survey of Consumer Finances,
 we make estimates of poverty and inequality that take into account rising
 interest payments on consumer debt and discuss some of the implications of
 these estimates. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 127-148 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: consumer debt, income inequality, interest payments, poverty, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802578890 
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Author-Name: Douglas Grote 
Author-X-Name-First: Douglas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Grote 
Title: Recombinant Slave Equilibria and Their Cure: Living Wage Full Employment 
Abstract:
  Scapegoating and slavery are effects of ordinary necessitous
 interpersonal relations that are naturally selected, extant in all
 familial and societal hierarchal equilibria, and evolved from primordial
 parasitism through our primate cousins in order to manage uncertainty. As
 such, slavery predates and survives all legal strictures. Although social
 equilibria have progressed equitably in the developed world, it is
 suggested that slavery's modern cure will only be found by precluding the
 genetic proclivity to exclude with an actual living-wage, full-employment
 economy. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 175-200 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: psychology, evolution, slavery, Adam Smith, J.M. Keynes, F.D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr, NAIRU, living-wage full employment, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802245086 
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Author-Name: Udaya Wagle 
Author-X-Name-First: Udaya 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wagle 
Title: Inclusive Democracy and Economic Inequality in South Asia: Any Discernible Link? 
Abstract:
  Studies of the relationship between political democracy and economic
 inequality have produced diverse findings. This study attempts to mitigate
 some conceptual and methodological problems inherent in such studies by
 using multi-indicator concepts of inclusive democracy and economic
 inequality. Data from the five major historically and culturally
 homogeneous South Asian countries covering 1980-2003 suggest some
 bidirectional, positive relationship between inclusive democracy and
 economic inequality indicating that democracy and equality may not be
 fully compatible in this region. The paper offers contextual explanations
 and some mechanisms that may have led to these findings for the region,
 somewhat deviating from the conventional arguments. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 329-357 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: inclusive democracy, political and civil liberties, democratic institutions, economic inequality, panel data, South Asia, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902908617 
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Author-Name: Andrew Farrant 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Farrant 
Title: Symposium on Socialism after Hayek, by Theodore A. Burczak Introduction 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 359-359 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802014805 
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Author-Name: Robert Garnett 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Garnett 
Title: The Postmodern Road to Socialism, After Hayek 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 361-366 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903089805 
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Author-Name: Antonio Callari 
Author-X-Name-First: Antonio 
Author-X-Name-Last: Callari 
Title: A Methodological Reflection on the &#x201c;Thick Socialism&#x201d; of Socialism after Hayek 
Abstract:
  This article discusses the valuable contribution that Ted Burczak's
 Socialism After Hayek makes to the Marxist theory of socialism by drawing
 on the Hayekian appreciation of markets as processes of discovery. But the
 article also critiques the book's acceptance of Hayek's exclusive reliance
 on markets as a mode of economic organisation. The article reflects on the
 methodological conditions that might have led the book down a path of
 market essentialism. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 367-373 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: efficiency, essentialism, markets, overdetermination, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802014813 
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Author-Name: Fadhel Kaboub 
Author-X-Name-First: Fadhel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaboub 
Title: Socialism after Hayek: A Post Keynesian Contribution to Burczak's Theory of Social Justice 
Abstract:
  The paper presents a brief overview of the basic premise of the Burczak's
 Socialism after Hayek, and shows that Burczak's &#x201c;applied
 epistemological postmodernism&#x201d; presents a unique unifying ground
 for heterodox economics, breaking down traditional barriers between right
 and left. This new approach allows us to revisit the Marx-Keynes-Hayek
 debates in a more constructive way for a unified theory of social justice.
 However, we argue that Burczak's system does not automatically guarantee
 full employment, so it cannot be considered an ideal theory of social
 justice. A Post Keynesian contribution is presented in the form of the
 Employer of Last Resort (ELR) program which we argue is compatible and
 complementary to Burczak's theory of social justice. Finally, we argue
 that an adequate system design of the magnitude proposed here must be
 infomed by the principles of institutional adjustment as outlined by J.
 Fagg Foster. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 375-381 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: Post Keynesian economics, full employment, employer of last resort, institutional adjustment, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802014821 
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Author-Name: Andrew Farrant 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Farrant 
Title: &#x201c;Knowledge and Incentives: Socialism after Hayek?&#x201d; 
Abstract:
  Is Socialism a possibility after Hayek? Ted Burczak&#x2014;drawing upon a
 variety of heterodox traditions&#x2014;provides a provocative answer. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 383-388 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: mixed economy, Hayek, Marx, Ellerman, contested-exchange theory, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802014797 
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Author-Name: Theodore Burczak 
Author-X-Name-First: Theodore 
Author-X-Name-Last: Burczak 
Title: &#x201c;Hayekian Socialism, Post Critics&#x201d; 
Abstract:
  An economic system with labor cooperatives, private ownership, and a
 basic capital grant or universal basic income is a form of market
 socialism that can withstand Hayek's critique. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 389-394 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: market socialism, Hayek, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802014789 
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Author-Name: Jack Reardon 
Author-X-Name-First: Jack 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reardon 
Title: The Soulful Science: What Economists Really do and Why it Matters 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 395-398 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802216756 
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Author-Name: Ian Strachan 
Author-X-Name-First: Ian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Strachan 
Title: Empirical Post Keynesian Economics: Looking at the Real World 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 398-402 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802245128 
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Author-Name: Andre van Hoorn 
Author-X-Name-First: Andre 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Hoorn 
Title: Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 402-406 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802245136 
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Author-Name: Luigino Bruni 
Author-X-Name-First: Luigino 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bruni 
Author-Name: Alessandra Smerilli 
Author-X-Name-First: Alessandra 
Author-X-Name-Last: Smerilli 
Title: The Value of Vocation. The Crucial Role of Intrinsically Motivated People in Values-based Organizations 
Abstract:
  The aim of the paper is to analyze the dynamics that arise in
 Values-based Organizations when ideal quality deteriorates. On the basis
 of Hirschman's &#x201c;exit and voice&#x201d; model, we analyze the
 mechanism that encourage the best subjects, the ones intrinsically
 motivated who care most about the mission and ideal quality of the
 organization, to leave the organization if their voice is ignored. By
 combining Hirschman's and a &#x201c;critical mass&#x201d; model, we show
 the possible cumulative effects caused by the &#x201c;exit&#x201d; of the
 intrinsically motivated members, which can bring the organization into a
 deterioration process. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 271-288 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: intrinsic motivation, exit and voice, critical mass, values-based organization, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802621633 
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Author-Name: Silvia Sacchetti 
Author-X-Name-First: Silvia 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sacchetti 
Author-Name: Roger Sugden 
Author-X-Name-First: Roger 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sugden 
Title: The Organization of Production and its Publics: Mental Proximity, Market and Hierarchies 
Abstract:
  The paper introduces mental proximity as an ideal-type criterion for
 assessing the organization of production, and positions it as a benchmark
 alongside markets and hierarchies in a three-dimensional space. Following
 a Deweyan approach, the criterion is focused on democratic deliberation
 espoused by necessary values: the rejection of controlling influences,
 positive freedom, inclusion on equal terms, informed participation, the
 desire to reach a consensus, sympathy, mutual respect, reciprocity, and
 continuous learning. We also identify a community network as a complex of
 people who seek to relate to each other in accord with mental proximity,
 and discuss influences on their search. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 289-311 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: proximity, markets, hierarchies, public interests, democratic deliberation, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802621906 
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Author-Name: Huascar Pessali 
Author-X-Name-First: Huascar 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pessali 
Title: Metaphors of Transaction Cost Economics 
Abstract:
  Metaphors are part of our daily lives as they help us understand the
 world. Economics, as with other areas of knowledge, cannot go without
 metaphors. Transaction Cost Economics (TCE)&#x2014;a prominent theoretical
 framework on economic organisation&#x2014;is no different: it has been
 built on a set of metaphors. This article gathers and discusses three of
 the key metaphors of TCE&#x2014;transaction costs as frictions, human
 beings as &#x201c;contractual men,&#x201d; and economic selection between
 mechanisms of governance. How they fit together and help the construction
 of TCE are the issues at hand. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 313-328 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: transaction cost economics, metaphors, Oliver Williamson, theory of the firm, institutions, institutional economics, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760801933393 
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Author-Name: David Harvie 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Harvie 
Author-Name: Gary Slater 
Author-X-Name-First: Gary 
Author-X-Name-Last: Slater 
Author-Name: Bruce Philp 
Author-X-Name-First: Bruce 
Author-X-Name-Last: Philp 
Author-Name: Dan Wheatley 
Author-X-Name-First: Dan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wheatley 
Title: Economic Well-being and British Regions: The Problem with GDP Per Capita 
Abstract:
  Economists and policy-makers often present per capita gross domestic
 product (GDP) as by far the most significant indicator of economic
 well-being. Such measures are frequently adopted in making international
 comparisons, constructing time-series for particular countries and in
 studies of regional inequality. In this paper we challenge this view using
 a regional analysis of 2001 data focusing upon differences between London
 and the south-eastern regions, in comparison to the rest of Great Britain
 (GB). Initially GDP per capita is decomposed into the demographic and
 labour-market factors which generate it. Thereafter we broaden the notion
 of work-time used in productivity measures to include other necessary
 work-related activity, namely commuting. This leads to us to construct a
 new indicator which we call social productivity. Our conclusion is that
 our decomposition and notion of social productivity are both relevant in
 comparisons of regional well-being; in addition such methods may be used
 fruitfully in international and historical contexts. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 483-505 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: welfare, GDP, commuting, productivity, regional analysis, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802245383 
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Author-Name: Roderick Macdonald 
Author-X-Name-First: Roderick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Macdonald 
Title: On Capitalism 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 507-510 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902908658 
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Author-Name: Roderick Macdonald 
Author-X-Name-First: Roderick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Macdonald 
Title: Human Goods, Economic Evils: A Moral Approach to the Dismal Science 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 510-513 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902908674 
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Author-Name: Kyu Sang Lee 
Author-X-Name-First: Kyu Sang 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee 
Title: Complexity and the Economy: Implications for Economic Policy 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 513-517 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902908641 
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Author-Name: Tarek Selim 
Author-X-Name-First: Tarek 
Author-X-Name-Last: Selim 
Title: Moral Capitalism and the Essential Economy 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 517-520 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902908633 
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Author-Name: Bronwen Rees 
Author-X-Name-First: Bronwen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rees 
Title: Mindful Economics: How the US Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could be Different 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 520-524 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902908666 
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Author-Name: Stefano Solari 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefano 
Author-X-Name-Last: Solari 
Title: Complexity and Co-Evolution: Continuity and Change in Socio-Economic Systems 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 524-528 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902971821 
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Author-Name: Rajinder Chaudhary 
Author-X-Name-First: Rajinder 
Author-X-Name-Last: Chaudhary 
Title: Welfare, Right, and the State&#x2014;A Framework for Thinking 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 528-530 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902909375 
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Author-Name: John Davis 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Davis 
Title: The Capabilities Conception of the Individual 
Abstract:
  This paper advances a capabilities conception of the individual, and
 considers some of the problems involved in developing such a conception.
 It also makes claims about the nature of the capability space as a whole,
 frames personal development in terms of the idea of moving though the
 capability space, and argues that people are alike in being increasingly
 heterogeneous. A key problem for a capabilities conception of the
 individual is that some capabilities, such as belonging to social groups
 and having social identities, can undermine individuality. The paper
 discusses an example in which people can have social identities but can
 nonetheless be relatively independent when seen as self-organizing. Brief
 comments on one goal of social economic policy as being identity-promoting
 conclude the paper. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 413-429 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: individual conception, capabilities, social identity, self-organization, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903254250 
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Author-Name: Abdallah Zouache 
Author-X-Name-First: Abdallah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zouache 
Title: Socialism, Liberalism and Inequality: The Colonial Economics of the Saint-Simonians in 19th-Century Algeria 
Abstract:
  This article examines the foundations of the colonial economics of the
 Saint-Simonians that were developed in Algeria after the French invasion
 in 1830. Saint-Simonian colonial economics may be seen as a leading
 contributor to the development of French orientalism. This article
 illustrates the ambiguous position of Saint-Simonian economics in the
 colonial project, especially in relation to the role of equality.
 According to the Saint-Simonians, collective socialism was the best
 economic system for Algeria. This article notes, however, the
 contradiction inherent in the Saint-Simonians' project with regard to the
 racial argument they used to justify their position. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 431-456 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: colonialism, socialism, liberalism, Saint-Simonism, Algeria, 
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Author-Name: Ali Ahmed 
Author-X-Name-First: Ali 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmed 
Author-Name: Osvaldo Salas 
Author-X-Name-First: Osvaldo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Salas 
Title: The Relationship between Behavioral and Attitudinal Trust: A Cross-cultural Study 
Abstract:
  We study the relationship between trust in an experiment and trust
 measured by means of popular survey items in different countries. Students
 from Chile, Colombia, India, Mexico and Sweden participate in a public
 goods game experiment and answer a set of standard attitudinal survey
 questions about trust. We find that behavioral trust and attitudinal trust
 significantly differ among countries. Behavioral trust is highest in
 Sweden, followed by Latin America, and lowest in India. Attitudinal trust
 is highest in Chile and Sweden, followed by India and Mexico, and lowest
 in Colombia. Further, the predictive power of survey items also differs
 among countries. Trust measured by survey items is significantly related
 to behavioral trust in some but not in all societies. No single survey
 item predicts actual trust across all countries. Plausible explanations of
 the inconsistent relationship between behavioral and attitudinal trust
 across countries are discussed. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 457-482 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 67 
Year: 2009 
Keywords: trust, public goods, social capital, surveys, experiments, 
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Author-Name: Alexei Izyumov 
Author-X-Name-First: Alexei 
Author-X-Name-Last: Izyumov 
Title: Human Costs of Post-communist Transition: Public Policies and Private Response 
Abstract:
  The transition to capitalism in former communist countries of Eastern
 Europe and the USSR was achieved at a very high human cost, leading to
 unprecedented increases in poverty, inequality, and other forms of
 deprivation. This paper surveys the literature and data on human costs of
 post-communist transition and discusses differences in responses to
 poverty among countries of the region. It argues that human costs of
 transition to the market were strongly influenced by policy choices made
 by the governments and were least severe in countries of central eastern
 Europe, where public response dominated the anti-poverty efforts. In most
 of the countries of the former USSR and south-eastern Europe, state-run
 poverty abatement programs were largely inadequate, putting the brunt of
 the struggle with poverty onto the shoulders of families and individuals. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 93-125 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: poverty, social deprivation, government policies, welfare, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968421 
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Author-Name: Irene van Staveren 
Author-X-Name-First: Irene 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Staveren 
Title: Book Reviews 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 127-131 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968397 
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Author-Name: Emil Berendt 
Author-X-Name-First: Emil 
Author-X-Name-Last: Berendt 
Title: Less Than Two Dollars a Day: A Christian View of World Poverty and the Free Market 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 131-134 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802621641 
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Author-Name: Joanne Flavel 
Author-X-Name-First: Joanne 
Author-X-Name-Last: Flavel 
Title: Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 134-137 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902971839 
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Author-Name: Rudi Verburg 
Author-X-Name-First: Rudi 
Author-X-Name-Last: Verburg 
Title: A History of Scottish Economic Thought 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 137-140 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968439 
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Author-Name: Christian Weller 
Author-X-Name-First: Christian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Weller 
Title: Have Differences in Credit Access Diminished in an Era of Financial Market Deregulation? 
Abstract:
  Over the past few decades, financial markets became increasingly
 deregulated and household debt expanded, sometimes rapidly. It is thus
 possible that greater deregulation led to improved credit access and lower
 cost of credit for typically underserved groups, such as minorities and
 low-income families, relative to their counterparts. Credit access is
 measured here by loan denials, discouraged applications. The cost of
 credit is measured by debt payments relative to debt. Differences in
 credit access and the cost of credit should have diminished over time,
 particularly after 2000, after large-scale deregulation had taken place.
 Differences by demographic groups over time are tested using multivariate
 tests based on data from the Federal Reserve's Survey Consumer Finances
 from 1989 to 2004. While some minority groups found increasing credit
 access after 2000, credit became increasingly more expensive relative to
 whites due to a less advantageous composition of debt or higher interest
 rate differentials. Importantly, growing differences in debt composition
 and interest rates contradict the expectation of credit market
 equalization after deregulation. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-34 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: financial market deregulation, household credit, financial constraints, cost of credit, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902908690 
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Author-Name: Jon Wisman 
Author-X-Name-First: Jon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wisman 
Title: The Moral Imperative and Social Rationality of Government-Guaranteed Employment and Reskilling 
Abstract:
  Unemployment exacts a high cost to its victims, not only in lost income,
 but also in terms of quality of life (insecurity, depression, abandoned
 families, divorce, suicide and poorer health). It also exacts a high cost
 to society in terms of lost output, foregone tax revenue, depreciating
 human capital, and increased costs of welfare, crime and health care. Yet
 modern wealthy societies have, principally for the sake of price stability
 and to avoid the budget costs of a full remedy, chosen to tolerate a
 substantial level of permanent unemployment. This article explores the
 moral conditions of this social choice and its rationality in terms of
 social welfare. It makes and develops support for two claims: society's
 tolerance of involuntary unemployment is morally wrong, and it is socially
 and economically irrational. It concludes that government should guarantee
 employment by serving as employer of last resort and where appropriate
 provide for retraining. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 35-67 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: unemployment, employer of last resort, social morality, social rationality, happiness, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968405 
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Author-Name: Tsjalle van der Burg 
Author-X-Name-First: Tsjalle 
Author-X-Name-Last: van der Burg 
Author-Name: Aloys Prinz 
Author-X-Name-First: Aloys 
Author-X-Name-Last: Prinz 
Title: Empowering Firm Owners by Separating Voting from Buying and Selling Shares 
Abstract:
  This paper discusses a new system of firm governance. In the system, the
 responsibility for voting the shares of a firm (&#x201c;voice&#x201d;) is
 given to the people who ultimately provided the money, who, however, have
 to delegate it to proxy voting institutions. The system helps overcome
 collective action problems and conflicts of interest within firms, and it
 reduces the private benefits of control. The disadvantages for firm
 governance may be relatively modest. However, since the new system of
 voice is a conceptual innovation, the analysis of its effects is rather
 tentative. Further research and experimentations are required for firmer
 conclusions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 69-91 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: corporate governance, collective action, shareholder democracy, &#x201c;voice&#x201d;, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902908708 
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Author-Name: Ismael Hossein-Zadeh 
Author-X-Name-First: Ismael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hossein-Zadeh 
Title: &#x201c;Social vs. Military Spending&#x201d;&#x2014;A Rejoinder 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 221-225 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346761003637154 
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Author-Name: Hans Jensen 
Author-X-Name-First: Hans 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen 
Author-Name: Betsy Jane Clary 
Author-X-Name-First: Betsy Jane 
Author-X-Name-Last: Clary 
Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Title: Sen on Public Policy: Private Incentives, Public Virtues? 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 227-236 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903540807 
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Author-Name: William Zanardi 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zanardi 
Title: Healing and Creativity in Economic Ethics: The Contribution of Bernard Lonergan's Economic Thought to Catholic Social Teaching 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 251-254 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968413 
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Author-Name: Edward Kane 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kane 
Title: The Importance of Monitoring and Mitigating the Safety-Net Consequences of Regulation-Induced Innovation 
Abstract:
  To be effective, programs of regulatory reform must address the incentive
 conflicts that intensify financial risk-taking and undermine government
 insolvency detection and crisis management. Subsidies to risk-taking that
 large institutions extract from the financial safety-net encourage
 managers to make their firms riskier, harder to supervise, and politically
 and administratively more difficult to fail and unwind. Except in the very
 short run, repealing the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act or breaking up so-called
 too-big-to-fail institutions will do little to arrest subsidy-induced
 activities. Rebuilding Glass-Steagall barriers between banking,
 securities, and insurance firms would instead make implicit taxpayer
 support of large institutions less transparent and serve foreign interests
 by encouraging conglomerate firms to operate affected businesses through
 foreign subsidiaries. To discourage financial institutions from abusing
 safety-net support, government supervisors must be made specifically
 accountable for delivering and pricing safety-net benefits fairly and
 efficiently. If it wants to make the system more stable, Congress should
 focus on: rewriting top officials' oaths of office; changing the ways top
 officials are recruited, trained, and compensated; reworking the ways they
 measure and report regulatory performance; and changing the kinds of
 securities that large institutions have to issue. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 145-161 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: financial crisis, financial reform, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Glass-Steagall Act, financial safety-net, accountability, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346761003728565 
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Author-Name: Joseph Daniels 
Author-X-Name-First: Joseph 
Author-X-Name-Last: Daniels 
Author-Name: Marc von der Ruhr 
Author-X-Name-First: Marc 
Author-X-Name-Last: von der Ruhr 
Title: Trust in Others: Does Religion Matter? 
Abstract:
  Though the recent literature offers intuitively appealing bases for, and
 evidence of, a linkage among religious beliefs, religious participation
 and economic outcomes, evidence on a relationship between religion and
 trust is mixed. By allowing for an attendance effect, disaggregating
 Protestant denominations, and using a more extensive data set, probit
 models of the General Social Survey (GSS), 1975 through 2000, show that
 black Protestants, Pentecostals, fundamentalist Protestants, and
 Catholics, trust others less than individuals who do not claim a
 preference for a particular denomination. For conservative denominations
 the effect of religion is through affiliation, not attendance. In
 contrast, liberal Protestants trust others more and this effect is
 reinforced by attendance. The impact of religion on moderate Protestants
 is only through attendance, as frequency of attendance increases trust of
 others while the denomination effect is insignificant. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 163-186 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: religion, social trust, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968447 
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Author-Name: Marianne Johnson 
Author-X-Name-First: Marianne 
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson 
Title: Wicksell's Social Philosophy and his Unanimity Rule 
Abstract:
  Wicksell saw economics as a way to effect social change. In addition to
 academic writings, he produced a steady stream of pamphlets, newspaper
 editorials, and public lectures that brought theoretical economics to bear
 on social policy. In this paper, consideration is given to this wider
 variety of Wicksell's writings, and his unanimity rule for public goods
 decision making is examined within the context of his social philosophy.
 We argue that the unanimity rule, rather than being narrowly focused on
 efficiency concerns, operated as a practical mechanism to achieve
 Wicksell's larger goal of social justice. This stands in contrast to the
 interpretation of Wicksell commonly presented in the public choice
 literature. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 187-204 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: Wicksell, unanimity, poverty, justice, public finance, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802714859 
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Author-Name: Edward O'Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Boyle 
Title: &#x201c;Social vs. Military Spending&#x201d;: A Different Perspective 
Abstract:
  There are three problems with Ismael Hossein-zadeh's &#x201c;Social vs.
 Military Spending&#x201d; in the June 2009 Review of Social Economy in
 which he sets out to demonstrate the consequences of &#x201c;escalating US
 military spending at the expense of non-military public spending.&#x201d;
 First, there is abundant evidence indicating that non-military public
 spending has not been sacrificed to satisfy the demands of the military
 establishment. Second, the very same tax cuts for the rich that increased
 income equality are associated with huge increases in taxes collected from
 the rich. Third, Hurricane Katrina provides little support for his
 hypothesis that military spending led to infrastructure neglect. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 205-219 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: military spending, public infrastructure, supply-side economics, tax cuts for the rich, Katrina, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480921 
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Author-Name: M. G. Hayes 
Author-X-Name-First: M. G. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hayes 
Title: Mutual Enmity: Deposit Insurance and Economic Democracy 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 365-370 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903545277 
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Author-Name: Grazia Ietto-Gillies 
Author-X-Name-First: Grazia 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ietto-Gillies 
Title: Clinton and Blair: The Political Economy of the Third Way 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 371-374 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968454 
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Author-Name: David George 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: George 
Title: Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 374-377 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968462 
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Author-Name: John Tiemstra 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tiemstra 
Title: The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 377-380 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968470 
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Author-Name: Grant Reeves 
Author-X-Name-First: Grant 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reeves 
Title: Caught in the Middle 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 380-384 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968496 
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Author-Name: Susana Graca 
Author-X-Name-First: Susana 
Author-X-Name-Last: Graca 
Title: Real World Economics: A Post-autistic Economics Reader 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 384-386 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968504 
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Author-Name: John Core 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Core 
Author-Name: Thomas Donaldson 
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Donaldson 
Title: An Economic and Ethical Approach to Charity and to Charity Endowments 
Abstract:
  We examine how and why donors divide gifts between people in the present
 (across distance) and between the present and future (across time). US
 donors tend to give less to charities that benefit the poor and more to
 charities that benefit the non-poor (such as museums, universities, and
 arts organizations). Many of these wealthier charities have created
 endowments that benefit not only present persons, but also future persons.
 We develop a shorthand framework for linking time to distance in
 charitable allocations that incorporates a &#x201c;proximity
 preference,&#x201d; i.e., charity that prefers those who are nearer to us
 whether by reason of physical distance, psychic-identity, or temporal
 distance. Even though ethical considerations suggest that recipients'
 level of need should be the dominant factor in allocating gifts, donors
 also express preferences, ceteris paribus, for benefits arriving sooner
 rather than later, and for recipients who are ''closer'' rather than
 farther away. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 261-284 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: charity, endowments, time preference, proximity preference, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480517 
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Author-Name: Frederique Six 
Author-X-Name-First: Frederique 
Author-X-Name-Last: Six 
Author-Name: Bart Nooteboom 
Author-X-Name-First: Bart 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nooteboom 
Author-Name: Adriaan Hoogendoorn 
Author-X-Name-First: Adriaan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoogendoorn 
Title: Actions that Build Interpersonal Trust: A Relational Signalling Perspective 
Abstract:
  A priority in trust research is to deepen our understanding of trust
 processes: how does trust develop and break down? This requires further
 understanding of what actions have what effects on trust in interpersonal
 interactions. The literature offers a range of actions that have effects
 on trust, but gives little explanation of why they do so, and how the
 actions &#x201c;hang together&#x201d; in their effects on trust. The
 question is what different classes of trust building actions there may be.
 Using a &#x201c;relational signalling&#x201d; perspective, we propose
 hypotheses for classes of action that trigger the attribution of mental
 frames (by the trustor to the trustee), and trigger the adoption of those
 frames by the trustor. A survey-based empirical test of trust building
 actions among 449 managers in 14 European countries confirms the
 hypotheses. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 285-315 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: framing, relational signalling, trust building actions, trust processes, 
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Author-Name: Richard White 
Author-X-Name-First: Richard 
Author-X-Name-Last: White 
Author-Name: Colin Williams 
Author-X-Name-First: Colin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams 
Title: Re-thinking Monetary Exchange: Some Lessons from England 
Abstract:
  This paper critically evaluates the recent shift away from a
 &#x201c;thin&#x201d; reading of monetary exchange, which views money
 transactions as universally market-like and profit-motivated, towards
 &#x201c;thicker&#x201d; readings of exchange, which identify the
 permeation of wider economic relations and not-for-profit logics. To do
 this, an empirical study is reported of what happens when money penetrates
 informal exchanges between family, friends and neighbours. The research
 findings lead to a more nuanced reading of monetary exchange being brought
 to light. The main finding is that the imagery and perception of paid
 informal transactions may be constructed and interpreted in
 &#x201c;thin&#x201d; terms by participants, even if the core motives and
 personal relations involved in paid mutual aid remain
 &#x201c;thick.&#x201d; Significantly, while such a finding does not
 constitute a change in behaviour towards &#x201c;thin&#x201d; marker
 readings of economic exchange, it may explain why some people are
 dissuaded from undertaking paid mutual aid. In this way, while the paper
 does not reject the social and cultural embeddedness of economic exchange,
 it does serve to problematize the move towards thicker descriptions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 317-338 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: informal economy, community self-help, mutual aid, gift-giving, Leicester, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968488 
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Author-Name: Stephen Nash 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nash 
Author-Name: Liza Rybak 
Author-X-Name-First: Liza 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rybak 
Title: On Logical Difficulties, Philosophy, and the T.C.E. Explanation of the Firm 
Abstract:
  By exploring the implications of the linkage between Knight and
 Pragmatism, some non-trivial implications can be argued to exist.
 Specifically, section 2 outlines the T.C.E. literature, and how it exists
 in an atmosphere mixed with Marshallian competition and Knightian
 uncertainty. Section 3 then considers the disparate philosophical
 positions behind the work of Knight and Marshall. Knight's critique of
 Marshall is seminal, not because of any trivial technical innovations that
 Knight may have inspired within economic theory, but because Knight
 grounds his work on a philosophical viewpoint that effectively devastated
 Hegelian philosophy: American Pragmatism. Section 4 then links together
 the previous two sections by considering how the T.C.E. literature
 exhibits a dependency on both Pragmatism and Hegelian philosophy. The
 non-trivial implications of understanding the T.C.E. literature as a
 branch of Marshallian economics, which recognises Knightian uncertainty,
 are developed in section 5. Possible conclusions and a summary of the
 argument are provided in section 6. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 339-363 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: uncertainty, Knight, the theory of the firm, Pragmatic philosophy, Hegelian philosophy, Transaction Cost Economics, 
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Author-Name: Ann Owen 
Author-X-Name-First: Ann 
Author-X-Name-Last: Owen 
Author-Name: Julio Videras 
Author-X-Name-First: Julio 
Author-X-Name-Last: Videras 
Author-Name: Stephen Wu 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu 
Title: Identity and Environmentalism: The Influence of Community Characteristics 
Abstract:
  This paper examines the influence of community characteristics on
 self-proclaimed environmentalism. We find that the composition of a
 community affects the likelihood that a person claims to be a strong
 environmentalist even after controlling for individual political leaning,
 socio-economic characteristics, and pro-environment behaviors. Individuals
 are more likely to claim to be strong environmentalists if they live in
 areas where a larger share of the population has post-graduate degrees, if
 they live in heavily Democratic areas, or if they live in heavily
 Republican areas. These community effects occur only when individuals are
 predisposed to take on an environmental identity. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 465-486 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: identity, environmentalism, community, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480533 
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Author-Name: Stefano Solari 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefano 
Author-X-Name-Last: Solari 
Title: Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 487-490 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802621674 
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Author-Name: Bhaskar Mandal 
Author-X-Name-First: Bhaskar 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mandal 
Title: Economic Representations: Academic and Everyday 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 490-493 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903481184 
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Author-Name: Benhua Yang 
Author-X-Name-First: Benhua 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yang 
Title: Wired for Survival: the Rational (and Irrational) Choices We Make, from the Gas Pump to Terrorism 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 493-496 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480939 
File-URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346760903480939 
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Author-Name: Nazmi Sari 
Author-X-Name-First: Nazmi 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sari 
Title: The Fattening of America: How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What to Do About It 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 496-498 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480657 
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Author-Name: Ryan van Lamoen 
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Lamoen 
Title: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 499-502 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802621666 
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Author-Name: Lukasz Mamica 
Author-X-Name-First: Lukasz 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mamica 
Title: Culture and Economics: On Values, Economics and International Business 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 502-506 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480624 
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Author-Name: Morris Altman 
Author-X-Name-First: Morris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Altman 
Title: Freedom to Choose and Choice X-inefficiencies: Human and Consumer Rights, and Positive and Normative Implications of Choice Behavior 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 395-411 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.517631 
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Author-Name: Matthieu Clement 
Author-X-Name-First: Matthieu 
Author-X-Name-Last: Clement 
Author-Name: Andre Meunie 
Author-X-Name-First: Andre 
Author-X-Name-Last: Meunie 
Title: Is Inequality Harmful for the Environment? An Empirical Analysis Applied to Developing and Transition Countries 
Abstract:
  The object of this article is to examine the relation between social
 inequalities and pollution. First of all we provide a survey demonstrating
 that, from a theoretical point of view, a decrease in inequality has an
 uncertain impact on the environment. Second, on the basis of these
 conceptual considerations, we propose an econometric analysis based on
 panel data (fixed-effects and dynamic panel data models) concerning
 developing and transition countries for the 1988-2003 period. We examine
 specifically the effect of inequality on the extent of local pollution
 (sulphur dioxide emissions and organic water pollution) by integrating the
 Gini index into the formulation of the environmental Kuznets' curve. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 413-445 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: pollution, inequality, environmental Kuznets' curve, panel data, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480590 
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Author-Name: Miki Malul 
Author-X-Name-First: Miki 
Author-X-Name-Last: Malul 
Author-Name: Mosi Rosenboim 
Author-X-Name-First: Mosi 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenboim 
Author-Name: Tal Shavit 
Author-X-Name-First: Tal 
Author-X-Name-Last: Shavit 
Title: Costs of Mistrust between Ethnic Majority and Minorities: Evidence from Israel 
Abstract:
  Trust and ethnic diversity are important variables that may impact and
 explain different economic decisions. This paper presents theoretical
 models accompanied by a survey that deals with the relation between
 mistrust and risky economic activity (e.g., the postponement of receiving
 and paying for a risky asset). Using the theoretical models and surveys as
 a basis, we suggest that subjective discount rates and bids for a lottery
 can be used to measure levels of mistrust. The surveys are used to measure
 the level of mistrust between the Israeli majority (Jews) and minority
 groups (Israeli Arabs, Bedouins, and Palestinians), and between Israeli
 Jews from different districts. Based on the survey results we demonstrate
 the theoretical implications of the effect of mistrust (MT) on economic
 growth and resource allocation between the majority and minorities. We
 conclude that MT leads to inefficient resource allocation, which
 subsequently leads to low economic growth rates. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 447-464 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 68 
Year: 2010 
Keywords: risk attitude, trust, cross-cultural, minority, resource allocation, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480541 
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Author-Name: Wen-Chun Chang 
Author-X-Name-First: Wen-Chun 
Author-X-Name-Last: Chang 
Title: Identity, Gender, and Subjective Well-Being 
Abstract:
  Using the self-reported level of happiness as a measure of subjective
 well-being, this study examines the relationship between gender identity
 and subjective well-being with data from Taiwan. The findings suggest that
 an individual's perceptions about the ideals of women's gender roles in
 the labor market, the family, and politics are strongly related to his or
 her assigned social category, the prescriptions and characteristics
 associated with the social category, and the actions taken to match the
 ideals of gender identity. Consistent with Akerlof and Kranton's (2000)
 identity model, it is also found that an individual's gains or losses in
 gender identity lead to increases or decreases in the level of happiness. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 97-121 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Keywords: identity, gender, well-being, happiness, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902756495 
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Author-Name: R. Shashi Kumar 
Author-X-Name-First: R. Shashi 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar 
Title: Economics Confronts the Economy 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 123-127 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802246316 
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Author-Name: Emil Berendt 
Author-X-Name-First: Emil 
Author-X-Name-Last: Berendt 
Title: Future Directions for Heterodox Economics 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 127-130 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802621658 
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Author-Name: Roderick Macdonald 
Author-X-Name-First: Roderick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Macdonald 
Title: The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 130-133 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902971813 
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Author-Name: Benhua Yang 
Author-X-Name-First: Benhua 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yang 
Title: Intangible Capital: Its Contribution to Economic Growth, Well-being and Rationality 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 134-137 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902971854 
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Author-Name: Aurelie Charles 
Author-X-Name-First: Aurelie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Charles 
Title: Fairness and Wages in Mexico's Maquiladora Industry: An Empirical Analysis of Labor Demand and the Gender Wage Gap 
Abstract:
  In 2001, China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the US
 recession put pressure on maquiladora workers' wages. The result was an
 increase in the gender wage gap. At the firm level, this increase is not
 discriminatory, in the sense that the lower income entitlement for women
 is socially accepted at the household level. This paper uses Akerlof and
 Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis to explain the gender wage gap
 as a matter of &#x201c;fair-wage constraints&#x201d; that differ across
 genders, which are, in turn, due to evolving social norms of fairness in
 reservation wages for men and women within households. Empirical evidence
 for changes in gender wages gaps across industries between 1997 and 2006
 is found to be consistent with this argument. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-28 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Keywords: fairness, wages, gender, maquiladora industry, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480558 
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Author-Name: Joseph Eisenhauer 
Author-X-Name-First: Joseph 
Author-X-Name-Last: Eisenhauer 
Author-Name: Doris Geide-Stevenson 
Author-X-Name-First: Doris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Geide-Stevenson 
Author-Name: David Ferro 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferro 
Title: Experimental Estimates of Taxpayer Ethics 
Abstract:
  This paper extends the existing literature on taxpayer ethics in three
 ways. First, we construct a two-stage model of decision making, which
 allows us to disentangle risk preferences from ethical motivations for
 income tax compliance. Second, we develop a new experimental data set,
 which permits us to estimate the magnitudes of the relevant personality
 traits, risk aversion and morality, at the individual level. Third, we
 combine the experimental data with participant surveys so that ethical
 preferences are not only measured but also linked to demographic
 characteristics. We find that ethical preferences are correlated with risk
 aversion, age, gender, and marital status, among other characteristics. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 29-53 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Keywords: tax evasion, ethical preferences, shadow price of morality, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802714867 
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Author-Name: Kenneth Reinert 
Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reinert 
Title: No Small Hope: The Basic Goods Imperative 
Abstract:
  This paper argues in favor of a basic goods approach to outcomes
 assessment in development policy analysis. It contrasts the basic goods
 approach with the utility-of-consumption and capabilities approaches and
 argues, on a number of grounds, that it is a more relevant and appropriate
 framework. The dimensions of the basic goods approach analyzed include a
 common, minimalist character, sense of justice, subjectivist-objectivist
 considerations, the human condition, relationship to policy space, and the
 theoretical and empirical role of basic needs. Taken as a whole, these
 perspectives suggest that the basic goods approach offers key advantages
 not found in the two relevant alternatives. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 55-76 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Keywords: basic goods, capabilities, ethics, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802714875 
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Author-Name: Oren Levin-Waldman 
Author-X-Name-First: Oren 
Author-X-Name-Last: Levin-Waldman 
Title: From a Narrowly Defined Minimum Wageto Broader Wage Policy 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 77-96 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Keywords: minimum wage, institutionalism, wage contour, neoclassicalism, democracy, 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480525 
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Author-Name: Betsy Jane Clary 
Author-X-Name-First: Betsy Jane 
Author-X-Name-Last: Clary 
Title: The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Society Stronger 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 239-243 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.512523 
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Author-Name: D. Marshall Meador 
Author-X-Name-First: D. Marshall 
Author-X-Name-Last: Meador 
Title: Inequality, Consumer Credit and the Saving Puzzle 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 243-246 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480574 
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Author-Name: Halcyon Louis 
Author-X-Name-First: Halcyon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Louis 
Title: Ethical Dimensions of the Economy: Making Use of Hegel and the Concepts of Public and Merit Goods 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 247-249 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480632 
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Author-Name: Sunita Reddy 
Author-X-Name-First: Sunita 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reddy 
Title: Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 250-253 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760902968512 
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Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Title: Knowledge Sharing among Scientists&#x2014;Why Reputation Matters for R&D in Multinational Firms 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 254-256 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
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Author-Name: Feisal Khan 
Author-X-Name-First: Feisal 
Author-X-Name-Last: Khan 
Title: The Development Economics Reader 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 256-261 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480608 
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Author-Name: Tim MacNeill 
Author-X-Name-First: Tim 
Author-X-Name-Last: MacNeill 
Title: New Frontiers of Social Policy: Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities New Frontiers of Social Policy: Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy New Frontiers of Social Policy: Institutional Paths to Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps 
Abstract:
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 261-270 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480640 
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Author-Name: Philippe Batifoulier 
Author-X-Name-First: Philippe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Batifoulier 
Author-Name: Jean-Paul Domin 
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Domin 
Author-Name: Maryse Gadreau 
Author-X-Name-First: Maryse 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gadreau 
Title: Market Empowerment of the Patient: The French Experience 
Abstract:
  Through analysis of the French experience, this article explores the way
 economic policy has sought to encourage active, well-informed patients by
 giving them market power. The new status of the patient as consumer is
 based on two foundations: the endeavour to build a healthcare market and
 the activation of demand-based policies. The keystone of this new system
 is a conception of the market as a process constructed by economic policy.
 Recent measures such as the standardization of care and the introduction
 of incentives to respect a treatment pathway then constitute effective
 levers to establish a free-market rationale. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 143-162 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Keywords: institutional change, health demand, marketization, active patient, French health system, 
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Author-Name: Vittorio Pelligra 
Author-X-Name-First: Vittorio 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pelligra 
Title: Intentions, Trust and Frames: A Note on Sociality and the Theory of Games 
Abstract:
  Psychological Game Theory (PGT) expands classical game theory allowing
 for the formal analysis of belief-dependent sentiments and emotions such
 as resentment, pride, shame, gratefulness and the like. PGT incorporates
 these factors by relating agents' subjective expected utility to players'
 strategies, to their beliefs about others' strategies, and also to their
 beliefs about others' beliefs about their strategies, and so on. This
 paper argues that, thanks to the epistemic implications of this hierarchy
 of beliefs, PGT is well-endowed to address, and to some extent solve,
 three of the most challenging problems recently emerged in classical game
 theory related respectively to the role of players' intentionality, to the
 self-fulfilling nature of trust and finally to the so-called social
 framing effects. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 163-188 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Keywords: psychological games, intentions, trust, decision frames, 
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Author-Name: Edward James McKenna 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward James 
Author-X-Name-Last: McKenna 
Author-Name: Diane Catherine Zannoni 
Author-X-Name-First: Diane Catherine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zannoni 
Title: Economics and the Supreme Court: The Case of the Minimum Wage 
Abstract:
  In the United States, laissez-faire has been the policy advocated in good
 times, while social legislation has been called for during crises. One
 instance of this dichotomy concerns the transformation of the American
 understanding of minimum wage laws during the early 20th century. During
 this time, the view of minimum wage laws changed from one that viewed such
 laws as theft, to one that saw such laws as being required for
 distributional justness. We examine the legal-historical debate concerning
 whether the Supreme Court renounced its policy of laissez-faire
 individualism in its 1937 ruling finding the minimum wage law
 constitutional, arguing that it did not. We investigate the free market
 standard that the Court used to find minimum wage laws unconstitutional in
 1923. We demonstrate how the economic conditions of the Depression,
 coupled with the development of economic theory, explain how the Court
 eventually found the minimum wage law constitutional. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 189-210 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Keywords: minimum wage, contribution, standard, 
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Author-Name: Colin Williams 
Author-X-Name-First: Colin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams 
Title: A Critical Evaluation of Competing Conceptualizations of Informal Employment: Some Lessons from England 
Abstract:
  This paper evaluates critically the validity of the competing
 conceptualizations of informal employment that variously read such work as
 a leftover of a previous mode of production, a by-product of, alternative
 or complement to formal employment. Until now, the common tendency has
 been for commentators to universally privilege one conceptualization over
 the others. Reporting data collected through 861 face-to-face interviews
 in 11 deprived and affluent urban and rural English localities, the
 finding is that each conceptualization is a valid portrayal of particular
 types of informal employment, and that only by combining and using them
 all is it possible to achieve a finer-grained and comprehensive
 understanding of the complex and diverse nature of informal employment as
 a whole. The paper concludes by discussing the implications for both the
 way in which informal employment is conceptualized as well as how it is
 tackled by governments. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 211-237 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Keywords: shadow sector, cash-in-hand work, monetary exchange, underground economy, England, 
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Author-Name: Adel Daoud 
Author-X-Name-First: Adel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Daoud 
Title: The <italic>Modus Vivendi</italic> of Material Simplicity: Counteracting Scarcity via the Deflation of Wants 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> This paper studies how voluntary material
 simplicity may countervail the causal effect of relative scarcity
 generated by the environment of a consumer society. Analyses of both
 interviews and texts were performed. It is shown that voluntary material
 simplifiers manage, though with difficulty, to neutralize the causal
 effect of consumer society. This is achieved by mediating the cultural
 properties of the economic ethic of material simplicity, which promotes
 the deflation of human wants. These simplifiers consequently manage,
 though with difficulty due to causal interference, to deflate their
 material wants and maintain them below their material means. Consequently,
 they actualize the <italic>modus vivendi</italic> of material simplicity;
 namely, a practical state of relative abundance. One major implication of
 this study is that the scarcity postulate of mainstream economics is
 problematically formulated. Hence, the development of a new model of
 relative scarcity and abundance encourages an explanation rather than an
 assumption of scarcity. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 275-305 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 9 
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Author-Name: Quentin Duroy 
Author-X-Name-First: Quentin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Duroy 
Title: North African Identity and Racial Discrimination in France: A Social Economic Analysis of Capability Deprivation 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> The interaction between ethnocentric republican
 ideology and post-colonial racist legacy has led to the creation of a
 North African social identity which is characterized by dichotomous and
 negative representations in the hegemonic discourse in France. These
 misrepresentations are the source of racial discrimination, particularly
 on the labor market, which result in capability deprivation for
 individuals of North African heritage. Recent French anti-discrimination
 policies are examined using a social economic capability approach based on
 a relational notion of society. It is argued that because these policies
 have been developed within the confines of the republican model, they fail
 to directly address limits to social-structural and individual capacities
 to act faced by individuals of Maghrebi origin. As long as the
 ethnocentric interpretation of the republican model in hegemonic discourse
 is not questioned, anti-racial discrimination policies will most likely be
 unsuccessful in eliminating capability deprivation associated with North
 African social identity in France. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 307-332 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502834 
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Author-Name: Fran&#xE7;ois-Xavier Devetter 
Author-X-Name-First: Fran&#xE7;ois-Xavier 
Author-X-Name-Last: Devetter 
Author-Name: Sandrine Rousseau 
Author-X-Name-First: Sandrine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rousseau 
Title: Working Hours and Sustainable Development 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> Many works on sustainable development stress the
 part played by reduced working hours in the promotion of a model for
 alternative development. The direct link between working hours and the
 environment, however, still deserves to be supported. This is the issue we
 would like to discuss through an analysis of the relationships between
 consumption and working hours. We use surveys on French household expenses
 to highlight the environmental consequences of long hours: they encourage
 goods and energy-intensive consumptions and favour conspicuous expenditure
 and non-sustainable lifestyles. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 333-355 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.563507 
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Author-Name: Geoffrey M. Hodgson 
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey M. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodgson 
Title: Sickonomics: Diagnoses and Remedies 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> In their recent analysis of the alleged decay in
 modern economics, Ben Fine and Dimitris Milonakis claim to find its source
 and origin in the &#x201C;marginal revolution&#x201D; of the 1870s. They
 argue that this development led to &#x201C;methodological
 individualism&#x201D; and the detachment of economics from society and
 history. I contest their account of the marginal revolution and of the
 role of Alfred Marshall among others. They also fail to provide an
 adequate definition of methodological individualism. I suggest that
 neoclassical economics adopted a denuded concept of the social rather than
 removing these factors entirely. No such removal is possible in principle.
 It is also mistaken to depict neoclassical economics as the science of
 prices and the market. In truth, neoclassical economics fails to capture
 the true nature of markets. I consider some sketch an alternative
 explanation of the sickness of modern economics, which focuses on
 institutional developments since World War II. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 357-376 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 9 
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Author-X-Name-First: Gar 
Author-X-Name-Last: Alperovitz 
Title: The Emerging Paradoxical Possibility of a Democratic Economy 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> This paper considers what happens in advanced
 industrial economies like that of the US, where traditional redistributive
 economic policies and programs have fallen out of favor, yet forces of
 crisis, which radicals once predicted would usher in a new, more
 egalitarian and democratic era, are well attenuated. It is argued that,
 paradoxically, as the growth potential of corporate capitalism declines
 and traditional redistributive mechanisms weaken, new spaces are opening
 up in which new, democratized forms of ownership and control of wealth are
 slowly emerging. After describing these developments, the paper explores
 the long-run possibilities and prospects their evolution may entail. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 377-391 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592127 
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Author-X-Name-First: Susana 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gra&#xE7;a 
Title: The Elgar Companion to Social Economics 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 393-395 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346761003624111 
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Author-X-Name-First: Mitja 
Author-X-Name-Last: Stefancic 
Title: Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 395-399 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502836 
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Author-Name: Benhua Yang 
Author-X-Name-First: Benhua 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yang 
Title: Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival: Korean Greengrocers in New York City 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 399-402 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502831 
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Author-Name: Tom Walker 
Author-X-Name-First: Tom 
Author-X-Name-Last: Walker 
Title: Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy: The Social Effort Bargain 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 402-406 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760903480616 
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Author-Name: Yan Li 
Author-X-Name-First: Yan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Li 
Title: Money, Uncertainty and Time 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 406-409 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502830 
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Author-Name: Xinyue Ye 
Author-X-Name-First: Xinyue 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ye 
Title: Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 409-411 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502833 
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Author-Name: Betsy   Jane Clary 
Author-X-Name-First: Betsy   Jane 
Author-X-Name-Last: Clary 
Title: Institutional Usury and the Banks 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> Although usury is no longer widely discussed in
 economic discourse, the concept of usury is useful in explaining financial
 upheavals such as the recent and on-going crisis. The Scholastics began
 the study of interest with their teachings on usury, and Keynes brought
 the usury debate back into the discussions during the period around the
 Great Depression. Bernard Dempsey, a Jesuit economist, wrote a definitive
 assessment of scholastic theory in the early 1940s under the direction of
 Schumpeter. Dempsey developed his own theory of financial crises which he
 attributed to the presence of what he termed &#x201C;institutional
 usury.&#x201D; The recently implemented policy by the Federal Reserve of
 paying banks interest on reserves is examined in light of Dempsey's
 concept of institutional usury. The scholastic concept of the just price
 is used to analyze market power wielded by large financial institutions in
 the modern economy. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 419-438 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.622906 
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Author-Name: Ortrud Le&#xDF;mann 
Author-X-Name-First: Ortrud 
Author-X-Name-Last: Le&#xDF;mann 
Title: Freedom of Choice and Poverty Alleviation 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> The Capability Approach (henceforth CA) views
 poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon that is not only characterised by
 lows levels of achievement in the various dimensions but also by a
 restricted opportunity to choose among different ways of life. The CA thus
 puts a lot of emphasis on (limited) freedom of choice as a crucial aspect
 of poverty. If poverty is seen in this way there are two ways to improve
 the situation of the poor: by broadening the set of opportunities open to
 them or by strengthening their ability to choose. The paper concentrates
 on the latter. Although the CA discusses several possibilities for
 strengthening the ability to choose it does not explicitly consider the
 role of enhancing the capability of choosing as a means of poverty
 alleviation. The paper summarizes which circumstances are seen in the CA
 as suitable for strengthening freedom of choice. Namely, the paper
 discusses the market as an institution that trains the ability to choose,
 democracy as a political institution that is based on freedom of choice
 and participatory methods as an attempt to build explicitly on freedom of
 choice of the participants. Two shortcomings in the theoretical
 conceptualization of freedom of choice in the CA are identified by
 discussing these institutions and circumstances: first, the interplay
 between social structures and individual agency is not modelled in much
 detail within the CA. Second, the CA does not provide an explicitly
 temporal model of agency. The paper takes a closer look at these
 shortcomings from a sociological perspective since the questions they
 raise are core questions of sociology. The problems are intertwined. In
 order to tackle the problem of social embedding in the CA one needs to
 introduce time and processes as well. Sociological approaches show how
 social structures evolve from the interaction of individuals. The paper
 gives an example of how sociological concepts of this interaction can be
 used for drawing a model of social work for strengthening the agency of
 the poor. The paper proceeds as follows: first the view of poverty as
 capability deprivation is presented. The second section gives an overview
 of the areas in which the CA discusses the strengthening of individual
 choice: the market, democracy and participatory projects. The third
 section elaborates on the shortcomings of the CA identified in the
 preceding section from a sociological perspective and introduces a concept
 of social work developed in a similar theoretical context. The conclusion
 summarizes the lessons and outlines further lines of research. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 439-463 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.577349 
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Author-Name: Tiago   Neves Sequeira 
Author-X-Name-First: Tiago   Neves 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sequeira 
Author-Name: Alexandra Ferreira-Lopes 
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreira-Lopes 
Title: An Endogenous Growth Model with Human and Social Capital Interactions 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> Social capital has recently been introduced in
 the economic literature as a source of economic growth. In this paper we
 study the interactions between social and human capital, and their
 contributions to economic growth in an endogenous growth model. The model
 indicates an increase in the relative importance of human capital when
 compared to social capital throughout the development process of the
 economy, as also described in some of the empirical literature on the
 topic. We derive theoretical and policy implications from our endogenous
 growth model, concluding that a subsidy for human capital has important
 implications for economic growth and allocation redistribution. A subsidy
 to social capital is not relevant for economic growth. Its only effect
 would be the increase in the social to human capital ratio of the economy. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 465-493 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592330 
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Author-Name: Atle Blomgren 
Author-X-Name-First: Atle 
Author-X-Name-Last: Blomgren 
Title: Is the CSR Craze Good for Society? The Welfare Economic Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> Welfare economic analysis of Corporate Social
 Responsibility (CSR) equates CSR with the provision of private goods
 bundled with provision of public goods (or, in the symmetrical case,
 bundled with the curtailment of public bads). Two common examples are
 cause-related marketing and &#x201C;green goods&#x201D; where private
 goods are sold at premiums that are then used to pay for provision of
 public goods and/or curtailment of public bads. This paper expands upon
 the model of Besley and Ghatak (2007) for the case of imperfect government
 to develop a complete typology for analyzing whether the
 provision/curtailment of public goods/bads will be best served by
 companies (through CSR), by imperfect governments or by non-profit
 organizations. Finally the paper discusses the main differences between
 the welfare economic approach to CSR and the general multi-disciplinary
 CSR literature. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 495-515 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592329 
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Author-Name: Matthias Olthaar 
Author-X-Name-First: Matthias 
Author-X-Name-Last: Olthaar 
Title: Less Pretension, More Ambition: Development Policy in Times of Globalization 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 521-524 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.578655 
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Author-Name: Stefano Solari 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefano 
Author-X-Name-Last: Solari 
Title: Flexicurity and Beyond: Finding a New Agenda for the European Social Model 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 524-528 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502835 
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Author-Name: Torsten Heinrich 
Author-X-Name-First: Torsten 
Author-X-Name-Last: Heinrich 
Title: The Foundations of Non-equilibrium Economics 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 528-531 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502838 
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Author-Name: M.G. Hayes 
Author-X-Name-First: M.G. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hayes 
Title: The &#x201C;Uncertain&#x201D; Foundations of Post Keynesian Economics: Essays in Exploration 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 531-534 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502840 
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Author-Name: Amitrajeet A. Batabyal 
Author-X-Name-First: Amitrajeet A. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Batabyal 
Title: The Economics of Hate 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 534-537 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 69 
Year: 2011 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.512525 
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Author-Name: Aloys Wijngaards 
Author-X-Name-First: Aloys 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wijngaards 
Author-Name: Esther-Mirjam Sent 
Author-X-Name-First: Esther-Mirjam 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sent 
Title: Meaning of Life: Exploring the Relation between Economics and Religion 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> This paper starts from the perspective that
 giving meaning to life is a key function of religion: through its
 narratives, rituals, creeds, and practices, religion clothes life in a
 meaningful frame. Interestingly, though, meaning of life has not yet
 appeared in studies on the relation between religion and economic
 behavior. As meaning of life may prove to be a crucial factor in
 understanding this relation, this paper seeks to develop a new approach to
 understanding the link between religion and economic behavior from the
 viewpoint of meaning of life. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 109-130 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012  
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592277 
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Author-Name: Jean-Philippe Berrou 
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Philippe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Berrou 
Author-Name: Fran&#xE7;ois Combarnous 
Author-X-Name-First: Fran&#xE7;ois 
Author-X-Name-Last: Combarnous 
Title: The Personal Networks of Entrepreneurs in an Informal African Urban Economy: Does the &#x2018;Strength of Ties&#x2019; Matter? 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> This paper investigates Granovetter's
 &#x201C;strength of weak ties&#x201D; hypothesis in an informal African
 urban economy. It outlines an approach articulated around the reticular
 embeddedness conceptual framework associated with the notion of
 &#x201C;ego-centred network.&#x201D; The content of ties in an
 entrepreneur's network is described by three salient dimensions: strength,
 social role and exchanged resources. We use an original dataset collected
 in the informal economy of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) to evaluate how
 the content and strength of ties influence entrepreneurs' economic
 outcomes. The instrument of multiple name generators provides a vast
 amount of information that can be used to compute quantitative measures of
 the composition of networks. We show that both strength of ties and
 proportion of business ties have a significant positive impact on economic
 outcomes. It reveals the importance for small urban informal entrepreneurs
 to draw on both embedded social relations and more autonomous ones. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-30 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012  
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.577347 
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Author-Name: D.   Marshall Meador 
Author-X-Name-First: D.   Marshall 
Author-X-Name-Last: Meador 
Title: America's Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 131-134 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012  
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502843 
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Author-Name: Roderick J. Macdonald 
Author-X-Name-First: Roderick J. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Macdonald 
Title: On the Role of Paradigms in Finance; From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and Other Social Sciences; Economics Versus Human Rights 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 134-141 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012  
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.512524 
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Author-Name: Nancy E. Bertaux 
Author-X-Name-First: Nancy E. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bertaux 
Title: Boosting Paychecks: The Politics of Supporting America&#x2019;s Working Poor 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 141-145 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012  
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.512526 
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Author-Name: Susan B. Carter 
Author-X-Name-First: Susan B. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Carter 
Title: The &#x201C;Woman Question&#x201D; and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 145-149 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012  
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502842 
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Author-Name: Eiji Yamamura 
Author-X-Name-First: Eiji 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yamamura 
Title: Government Size and Trust 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> This paper uses individual level data from the
 Japanese General Social Survey to examine how government size influences
 generalized trust. After controlling for the endogeneity of government
 size using instrumental variables, I found: (1) using all samples,
 government size is not associated with generalized trust, and (2) after
 splitting the sample into workers and non-workers, government size does
 not influence generalized trust for non-workers, whereas it significantly
 reduces generalized trust for workers. This suggests that workers, through
 their work experience, might have to face greater bureaucratic red tape
 coming from &#x201C;larger government,&#x201D; leading to negative
 externality effects on relationships of trust in the labor market. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 31-56 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012  
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592334 
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Author-Name: Pavlina R. Tcherneva 
Author-X-Name-First: Pavlina R. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tcherneva 
Title: Permanent On-The-Spot Job Creation&#x2014;The Missing Keynes Plan for Full Employment and Economic Transformation 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> The paper rejects the conventional view that
 Keynes had an aggregate demand approach to full employment. Instead, it
 proposes that he advocated a very specific labor demand targeting approach
 that would be implemented both in recessions and expansions. Modern
 policies, which aim to &#x201C;close the demand gap&#x201D; between
 current and potential output are inconsistent with Keynes's work on
 theoretical and methodological grounds. There is considerable evidence to
 suggest that a permanent program for direct or (in his words)
 &#x201C;on-the-spot&#x201D; job creation is the missing Keynes Plan for
 full employment and economic transformation. The current crisis presents
 the social economist with a unique opportunity to set fiscal policy
 straight along the original Keynesian lines. The paper suggests what
 specific form such a policy might take. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 57-80 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012  
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.577348 
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Author-Name: Helena Lopes 
Author-X-Name-First: Helena 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes 
Author-Name: Teresa Calapez 
Author-X-Name-First: Teresa 
Author-X-Name-Last: Calapez 
Title: The Relational Dimension of Identity&#x2014;Theoretical and Empirical Exploration 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> Identity has been recently introduced as a
 &#x201C;legitimate&#x201D; subject matter in economics. Whereas the social
 nature of identity is consensually acknowledged, its relational and moral
 dimensions are overlooked. We begin by clarifying the role of
 interpersonal relations in identity formation. Following Honneth (1995) we
 argue that the development of a positive identity, defined as a person's
 relation-to-self, depends on the processes of mutual recognition in which
 a person takes part throughout her/his life. We then frame Honneth's
 recognition processes in terms of the access to relational and moral
 goods. An empirical study is presented that illustrates the association
 between relational and moral goods and &#x201C;relation-to-self.&#x201D;
 Based on European Social Survey (ESS) data, we show that high levels of
 relational goods (e.g. experiencing intense and positive social relations)
 and moral goods (e.g. perceiving to be treated with justice and respect)
 are associated with a positive relation-to-self. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 81-107 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012  
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592279 
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Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Author-Name: Deborah Figart 
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Figart 
Author-Name: Robert McMaster 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: McMaster 
Author-Name: Martha Starr 
Author-X-Name-First: Martha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Starr 
Title: Promoting Research on Intersections of Economics, Ethics, and Social Values: Editorial 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 155-163 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.664748 
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Author-Name: Steven Soderlind 
Author-X-Name-First: Steven 
Author-X-Name-Last: Soderlind 
Title: Particularly Polar Programs: Social Economics and Divergent Settlement Policies in Postwar Scandinavia 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> For two decades following World War II, Sweden
 and Norway diverged markedly concerning domestic migration and
 urbanization. While the Swedes encouraged migration from economically weak
 rural districts to more prosperous urban areas, Norway worked to deter
 migration from its weakest region and retard the growth of its largest
 cities, including Oslo. This paper highlights economic foundations for
 those divergent policies, focusing on historical circumstances,
 conventional thought, and eminent economists. The discussion applies today
 as nations ponder the possibility of less centralized urban networks. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 164-180 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592328 
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Author-Name: Andrea Schneider 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schneider 
Author-Name: Klaus W. Zimmermann 
Author-X-Name-First: Klaus W. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zimmermann 
Title: Fairness and its Price 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> We discuss the economic aspects of fairness
 defined here in the benchmark case as equality of producer and consumer
 rents. We show that there are significant differences considering private
 and public goods, especially with regard to a potential self-damaging of
 the initially disadvantaged, resulting from the implementation of the
 equality-rule. Furthermore, the potential welfare loss to society will be
 substantially larger in the field of public rather than of private goods. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 181-199 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.632325 
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Author-Name: Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay 
Author-X-Name-First: Diane-Gabrielle 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tremblay 
Title: Work--Family Balance: Is the Social Economy Sector More Supportive&#xA0;&#x2026;&#xA0;and is this because of its More Democratic Management? 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> This research compares perceived organizational
 support to work--family balance measures and policies in various work
 environments to determine whether the organizational context can be a
 mediating variable or whether the social economy sector, with its mission
 and management approach (participatory decision-making) might have an
 influence on organizational support to work--family balance. We studied
 the social economy sector and compared findings with three other sectors
 in the public service that have a public service mission but not the same
 democratic or participatory management mode: a metropolitan police
 service, social work, and nursing, all in the same city. Our research
 identifies many significant differences between the four sectors,
 essentially owing to the characteristics of the social economy sector. In
 addition to our quantitative research, we conducted interviews (36) in the
 sector and results indicate that the specificity of the social economy
 sector, i.e. mission and management mode, explain the overriding concern
 for work--life balance in the social economy sector. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 200-232 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.632324 
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Author-Name: Scott L. Newbert 
Author-X-Name-First: Scott L. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Newbert 
Author-Name: Michael D. Stouder 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael D. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Stouder 
Title: Achieving Moral Capitalism through Entrepreneurial Justice 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> Adam Smith argued that capitalism was best
 achieved when individuals temper their economic self-interests with
 ethically grounded motivations. Unfortunately, Smith stopped short of
 articulating precisely how individuals might manage these seemingly
 competing interests in a way that is practical for actors in modern day
 organizations. We believe that a set of effective principles of justice
 can be found in the writings of political philosopher John Rawls. We argue
 that due to the empirical realities of entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurial
 context is aligned with Rawls' original position. We consider how Rawls'
 principles might inform founders of new organizations with regard to their
 interaction with organizational stakeholders. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 233-251 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.632322 
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Author-Name: Mitja Stefancic 
Author-X-Name-First: Mitja 
Author-X-Name-Last: Stefancic 
Title: The Keynes Solution: The Path To Global Economic Prosperity 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 252-255 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502841 
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Author-Name: Roderick Hill 
Author-X-Name-First: Roderick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hill 
Title: Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 256-259 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.512527 
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Author-Name: Robert H. Scott 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert H. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott 
Title: Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crises 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 259-262 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.577350 
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Author-Name: Johnston Birchall 
Author-X-Name-First: Johnston 
Author-X-Name-Last: Birchall 
Title: The Comparative Advantages of Member-owned Businesses 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> This article provides a systematic descriptive
 and analytical framework for understanding the comparative advantages of
 member-owned businesses (MOBs) such as cooperatives, mutuals, and economic
 associations. First, it provides a short description of two main ownership
 types&#x2014;consumer and producer&#x2014;then it provides a taxonomy of
 all the main sub-types. An overview of the literature on comparative
 advantage follows. The three elements of ownership, control, and benefit
 are identified, and then advantages arising from these elements are
 identified and discussed with historical examples and empirical evidence
 derived mainly from the author's previous work. There is a brief
 discussion of the wider advantages to society in general from the presence
 of an MOB sector. A section on disadvantages identifies problems such as
 difficulty in raising capital, and governance failure due to lack of
 member participation. The final section considers the comparative nature
 of advantage, comparing MOBs with other ownership types, and making a
 distinction between comparative advantage and competitive advantage under
 particular market conditions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 263-294 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.632326 
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Author-Name: Virgil   Henry Storr 
Author-X-Name-First: Virgil   Henry 
Author-X-Name-Last: Storr 
Author-Name: Stefanie Haeffele-Balch 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefanie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Haeffele-Balch 
Title: Post-disaster Community Recovery in Heterogeneous, Loosely Connected Communities 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on 29 August
 2005, leaving a great deal of destruction, pain, and uncertainty in its
 wake. Post-disaster community rebound is a collective action problem where
 every individual's decision to rebuild is impacted by the likelihood that
 others in the community will rebuild. The literature on post-disaster
 recovery suggests that homogenous, tight-knit communities will have an
 advantage over more diverse, less-connected communities in solving this
 collective action problem and bringing about community rebound and
 redevelopment. Consequently, these studies have tended to underappreciate
 the capacity of loosely knit, heterogeneous communities to overcome the
 challenges associated with community recovery after a disaster. This
 article hopes to fill this gap in the literature by examining how loosely
 knit, heterogeneous communities can facilitate post-disaster community
 recovery and redevelopment. To examine this, we highlight the importance
 of community-based organizations and focus on the recovery efforts of
 Broadmoor after Hurricane Katrina. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 295-314 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.662786 
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Author-Name: Giovanni Russo 
Author-X-Name-First: Giovanni 
Author-X-Name-Last: Russo 
Title: Job and Life Satisfaction Among Part-time and Full-time Workers: The &#x201C;Identity&#x201D; Approach 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> This paper maintains that part-time workers are a
 heterogeneous group: some choose their number of hours so as to comply
 with the prescription of the identity to which they adhere; others choose
 to work part-time because they are unable to integrate the competing and
 incoherent claims made by the different identities (or roles) to which
 they adhere. By using information on people's life goals and on the
 importance of having a job to achieve those goals, I derive measures of
 the importance of labor-market activities for the identity to which
 individuals adhere. Self-reported measure of the perceived time crunch
 generated by competing work and non-work activities is used to gauge the
 lack of smooth integration between the different identities (or roles) to
 which an individual adheres. The empirical analysis based on this data set
 supports the initial claim. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 315-343 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.632323 
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Author-Name: Andre Hofmeyr 
Author-X-Name-First: Andre 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hofmeyr 
Author-Name: Justine Burns 
Author-X-Name-First: Justine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Burns 
Title: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Re-examining Nepotism and Discrimination in a Segmented Society 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> We report the results from a series of trust
 games designed to distinguish racial discrimination from racial nepotism,
 played with a sample of high school students in Cape Town, South Africa.
 In contrast to the original work in this regard by Fershtman <italic>et
 al</italic>. (2005), we find considerably greater heterogeneity in the way
 that proposers respond to the revealed racial identity of their partner,
 with nepotism being a dominant behavior. However, while some proposers
 exhibit a nepotistic bias in their offers that favors in-group members on
 average, others exhibit a nepotistic strategy that favors out-group
 members. A consequence of this nepotism is that both efficiency and equity
 are reduced on average. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 344-374 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.632321 
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Author-X-Name-First: Amitrajeet A. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Batabyal 
Title: Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare: Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 375-378 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592331 
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Author-Name: Amitrajeet A. Batabyal 
Author-X-Name-First: Amitrajeet A. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Batabyal 
Title: Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 378-381 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592335 
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Author-Name: Yan Li 
Author-X-Name-First: Yan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Li 
Title: The Political Economy of Consumer Behavior: Contesting Consumption 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 381-385 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.577351 
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Author-X-Name-First: Stefano 
Author-X-Name-Last: Solari 
Title: Seleted Works of Michael Wallerstein: The Political Economy of Inequality, Unions, and Social Democracy 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 385-388 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592338 
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Author-Name: Mitja Stefancic 
Author-X-Name-First: Mitja 
Author-X-Name-Last: Stefancic 
Title: Creating an Opportunity Society 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 388-391 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2010.502837 
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Author-Name: Lorenzo Garbo 
Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Garbo 
Title: Economic Persuasions 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 392-395 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592332 
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Author-Name: Amin Mohseni 
Author-X-Name-First: Amin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mohseni 
Title: Christian Theology and Market Economics 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 395-399 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592336 
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Author-Name: Zohreh Emami 
Author-X-Name-First: Zohreh 
Author-X-Name-Last: Emami 
Title: Social Economics and Evolutionary Learning 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> The major premise of this paper is that social
 and individual well-being depends significantly on people's capacity to
 learn and unlearn in communication with each other. This paper builds on
 social economic traditions that see communication and conversation as
 evolutionary generative and adaptive mechanisms through which individual
 and social learning occurs. Drawing on educational psychology and
 organizational behavior scholarship, five dynamic processes of
 conversational learning are introduced with the contention that they can
 help social economists understand at a micro level more deeply and more
 concretely how learning happens in the give-and-take of conversation. The
 paper explores the role of the state, organizations, and communities in
 fostering individual freedom and dignity, human rights, and economic
 democracy and concludes that the investment of value in people and their
 capability for purposeful action as social economic stakeholders can be
 enhanced through conversation as learning. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 401-420 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.722006 
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Author-Name: Richard V. Adkisson 
Author-X-Name-First: Richard V. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Adkisson 
Author-Name: Mikidadu Mohammed 
Author-X-Name-First: Mikidadu 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mohammed 
Title: Pragmatism to Dogmatism: The Laissez Faire Myth and the Disabling of the American Fisc 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> &#x2003;The authors argue that the recent upsurge
 in anti-tax sentiment has its roots evolving social conditions and
 adherence to the laissez faire myth. Content analysis reveals that
 political anti-tax rhetoric increased in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a
 time of social distress in the US. This increased political attention
 provided a rhetorical punctuation whereby a substantial portion of
 Americans moved toward a much more dogmatic adherence to the laissez faire
 myth. The result has been to convert the laissez faire myth into a
 disabling myth that severely limits open discussion of fiscal issues and
 reduces the options in public finance decisions. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 421-450 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12  
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.690606 
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Author-Name: Robert Vergeer 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Vergeer 
Author-Name: Alfred Kleinknecht 
Author-X-Name-First: Alfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kleinknecht 
Title: Do Flexible Labor Markets Indeed Reduce Unemployment? A Robustness Check 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> Nickell <italic>et al</italic>. (2005) have
 frequently been cited as empirical evidence that labor market rigidities
 cause high unemployment. We find that their model is
 <underline>not</underline> robust. Leaving their database unchanged and
 changing three details in their estimation procedure, it turns out that
 several policy-relevant coefficients change sign or significance. We
 conclude that their claim from Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of
 Unemployment (NAIRU) theory that labor market rigidities cause
 unemployment is rather shaky. There is a remarkable discrepancy between
 weak empirical results and sweeping conclusions by policy practitioners
 with respect to the call for deregulation of labor markets. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 451-467 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12  
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.681113 
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Author-Name: Clemens Lutz 
Author-X-Name-First: Clemens 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lutz 
Title: Opportunities for Smallholders from Developing Countries in Global Value Chains 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> The current policy debate on opportunities for
 African smallholders in agricultural markets focuses on the need for
 proper institutions at the market level or governance in the global value
 chain (GVC). Both discussions neglect insights from strategic management.
 We argue that successful inclusion of smallholders in GVCs requires the
 deployment of strategic resources and capabilities in the farming systems.
 The consequence of this argument is that the &#x2018;inclusion&#x2019; of
 smallholders in GVCs only makes sense if they have the opportunity to
 create strategic resources. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 468-476 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12  
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.690607 
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Author-Name: Dimitris Milonakis 
Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Milonakis 
Author-Name: Ben Fine 
Author-X-Name-First: Ben 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fine 
Title: Interrogating Sickonomics, from Diagnosis to Cure: A Response to Hodgson 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> Hodgson's review of our books argues against us
 that marginalism neither adopted methodological individualism nor excluded
 the social from economics. Thus, he finds a partial solution to
 sickonomics in abandoning the term methodological individualism and using
 both structures and individuals as analytical starting point(s),
 revisiting Marshallian marginalism dressed up in socio-institutional
 clothing. He also denies any relationship between the current malaise in
 economics and the marginal revolution, as we claim, focusing exclusively
 on institutional developments since the Second World War. We show Hodgson
 is either partial or wrong on all of these counts. Firstly, his
 alternative to methodological individualism is untenable. Secondly,
 institutions, although implicitly present in Marshallian and Walrasian
 economics, play no substantive analytical role and as such are
 superfluous. Finally, although institutional factors help explain the
 sickness of modern economics (in addition to socioeconomic, ideological,
 political, and intellectual factors), the intellectual roots of this decay
 lie in the conceptual framework established around the marginal
 revolution. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 477-491 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12  
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.662788 
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Author-Name: Geoffrey M. Hodgson 
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey M. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodgson 
Title: From Social Theory to Explaining Sickonomics: A Response to Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> This response shows that, in their reply to my
 critique of their work, Ben Fine and Dimitris Milonakis generally maintain
 the impression that there is a single, widely accepted definition of
 methodological individualism, but they do not identify it. They assert
 that social structures (undefined but seemingly specified to exclude law
 and institutions) have &#x2018;analytical priority&#x2019; and logically
 (but tacitly) imply that individuals should have no part in the analysis
 of social or economic phenomena. They mischaracterise Hodgson's (2011)
 position on Marshall by quoting just one part-sentence out of context.
 Fine, Milonakis and Hodgson agree that the intellectual roots of the
 predominance of technique over substance in modern economics can partly be
 traced to the 1870--1900 period, but disagree on what they are. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 492-507 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12  
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.690608 
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Author-Name: James A. Buss 
Author-X-Name-First: James A. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Buss 
Title: Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 508-513 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12  
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592339 
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Author-X-Name-First: Michael F. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Watts 
Title:  <italic>Sustainable Development: Capabilities, Needs, and Well-being</italic>. Edited by Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann and Johannes Fr&#xFC;hmann. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 513-516 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12  
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592278 
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Author-X-Name-First: Stephen P. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Barrows1 
Title: Relationship Economics: The Social Capital Paradigm and Its Application to Business, Politics, and Other Transaction 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 516-519 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592282 
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Author-X-Name-First: Marvin T. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Brown 
Title: Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 520-523 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12  
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592661 
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Author-X-Name-First: Rita   Yi Man 
Author-X-Name-Last: Li 
Title: The Economics of Social Responsibility: The World of Social Enterprises 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 524-527 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12  
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592281 
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Author-Name: Xinyue Ye 
Author-X-Name-First: Xinyue 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ye 
Title: Education and Inequality Across Europe 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 527-531 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 70 
Year: 2012 
Month: 12  
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592340 
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Author-Name: Dennis C. Mueller 
Author-X-Name-First: Dennis C. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mueller 
Title: The State and Religion 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> &#x2002;The proposition that the State should be
 separated from the Church is well accepted by students of democracy in the
 West. Huntington ((1996) <italic>The Clash of Civilizations and the
 Remaking of World Order</italic>, New York: Simon & Schuster) went so far
 as to claim that the separation of Church and State was a salient feature
 of Western Civilization, which explains why Western countries tend to be
 democracies, while democracy in other cultures is rare. Huntington's claim
 obviously presumes that the State is separated from the Church in Western
 democracies. A closer look at the relationships between State and Church
 in these countries, however, reveals considerable financial and
 institutional linkages between the two institutions. Democratic states in
 the West subsidize religious organizations and religious schools, allow or
 even sometimes compel religious instruction in public, supposedly secular
 schools, and enact laws, which advance religious agendas. This article
 documents and discusses these state--church relationships. It goes on to
 recommend the implementation of a complete separation of Church and State. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-19 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.681115 
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Author-Name: Ayman Reda 
Author-X-Name-First: Ayman 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reda 
Title: Islam and Markets 
Abstract:
  The field of Islamic Economics has traditionally focused on two main
 areas of inquiry, banking and the public sector. The objective of this
 paper is an attempt to fill an important gap in the Islamic Economics
 literature that has been surprisingly overlooked by most scholars in the
 field. This gap concerns the nature and role of markets in an Islamic
 economic system. The primary concern is to investigate the nature and
 structure of an Islamic formulation of markets. The paper engages in a
 detailed analysis of Islamic scripture, the Qur'an and Hadith, pertaining
 to the issues of contracts, exchange, markets, prices, regulation, usury,
 and competition. The paper identifies an active and comprehensive
 treatment of markets in Islamic scripture that questions many of the
 misconceptions surrounding the relationship between Islam and markets. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 20-43 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.761752 
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Author-Name: Michael D. Carr 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael D. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Carr 
Title: Local Area Inequality and Worker Well-Being 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> This paper uses General Social Survey data linked
 to Census data to investigate the effect of local area income and income
 inequality on worker well-being. Others have found a robust negative
 correlation between reference group income and self-reported well-being.
 However, in many cases the reference group is defined as a large
 geographic area. This paper adds to the literature in two ways. First, it
 considers multiple nested geographic reference groups with US data.
 Second, it explicitly considers income inequality in addition to the level
 of income. It is found that both income and income inequality are
 positively associated with well-being at the census tract level, but
 negatively associated at the county level. Further, the effect of
 inequality on well-being decreases as income increases at the census tract
 and county level, while it increases at the state level. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 44-64 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.707399 
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Author-Name: Christopher Jeffords 
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jeffords 
Author-Name: Farhed Shah 
Author-X-Name-First: Farhed 
Author-X-Name-Last: Shah 
Title: On the Natural and Economic Difficulties to Fulfilling the Human Right to Water Within a Neoclassical Economics Framework 
Abstract:
  We present a neoclassical economic model of the human right to water
 using a nonrenewable resource model inclusive of a backstop technology.
 The right is interpreted as a minimum consumption requirement the
 government is obligated to fulfill in the event that any one household
 cannot do so independently. Differing by income levels, households
 maximize utility by purchasing a composite consumption good and water from
 two distinct, government-owned sources. Facing physical and financial
 constraints, the government uses fiscal policy to address potential human
 rights violations. Reducing the analysis to two periods, we develop a
 novel approach to compare total welfare levels from a joint human rights
 and neoclassical economics perspective. We define a human rights welfare
 standard and discuss cases in which traditional social welfare measures
 would exceed, violate, or meet this standard. We thus offer a unique way
 to merge economic analysis with human rights research. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 65-92 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.761753 
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Author-Name: Ricardo F. Crespo 
Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo F. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Crespo 
Title: The Increasing Role of Practical Reason in the <italic>Human Development Reports</italic>  
Abstract:
  This paper will argue for the need to reinsert practical reason into
 economics. It will first define, classify, and characterize practical
 reason. Second, it will show how it applies to Economics (Section 3).
 Then, it will note the presence of this use of reason in the construction
 of the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) Human Development Index
 (Section 4). Finally, the paper will maintain that the UNDP is
 increasingly making use of this form of reason (Section 5). 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 93-107 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.761756 
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Author-X-Name-First: Mita 
Author-X-Name-Last: Marra 
Title: Poverty and Social Welfare in Japan. Edited by Masami Iwata and Akihiko Nishizawa. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2008. 323 pp., ISBN 978-1-876843-87-8 $34.95 (paper). 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 108-111 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.592333 
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Author-X-Name-First: Tonia 
Author-X-Name-Last: Warnecke 
Title: Trading Stories: Experiences with Gender and Trade 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 112-114 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.632327 
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Author-Name: Stephen P. Barrows 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen P. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Barrows 
Title: Market Complicity and Christian Ethics. By Albino Barrera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, xii + 312 pp., ISBN 978-1-107-00315-6, $88.00 (hardcover). 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 115-118 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.632328 
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Author-X-Name-First: Ayman 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reda 
Title: The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 118-123 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2011.632329 
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Author-X-Name-First: Christine   D. Miller 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hesed 
Title: The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 123-126 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.662787 
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Author-X-Name-First: Zdravka 
Author-X-Name-Last: Todorova 
Title: The Price of Truth: Gift, Money, and Philosophy 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 127-130 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.681116 
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Author-X-Name-First: Bret 
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson 
Title: Inequality, Development, and Growth 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 131-133 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.681117 
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Author-X-Name-First: Boudewijn 
Author-X-Name-Last: de Bruin 
Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Title: Oaths and Codes in Economics and Business&#x2014;Introducing the Special Issue 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 135-139 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.801177 
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Author-Name: John R. Boatright 
Author-X-Name-First: John R. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Boatright 
Title: Swearing to be Virtuous: The Prospects of a Banker's Oath 
Abstract:
	      In an effort to restore trust in the banking sector, the
 Advisory Committee on the Future of Banks in the Netherlands made a
 recommendation, which has since been adopted, that bank executives be
 required to swear an oath akin to the physician's Hippocratic Oath. This
 examination of the prospects of the Dutch banker's oath addresses two
 broad issues. One issue is the efficacy of oaths themselves as instruments
 for achieving the desired end. A second issue concerns the extent to which
 this particular oath is a useful guide to ethical banking practice. One
 conclusion of this study is that it would be difficult for any oath in
 banking to serve a role that is analogous to the Hippocratic Oath in
 medicine because of the many dissimilarities involved, most notably the
 lack in banking of a singular focus on service. Second, the Dutch oath,
 while admirable in its lofty exhortations, fails to provide a reliable
 guide through the many difficult judgments that must be made in banking.   
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 140-165 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.800305 
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Author-Name: George DeMartino 
Author-X-Name-First: George 
Author-X-Name-Last: DeMartino 
Title: Epistemic Aspects of Economic Practice and the Need for Professional Economic Ethics 
Abstract:
	      This paper explores ethical burdens facing the economics
 profession which are associated with epistemic features of economic
 practice. Economists exert power over those they purport to serve by
 virtue of epistemic asymmetry between themselves and others, i.e., the
 intellectual monopoly they enjoy over a vitally important body of
 knowledge. But they also face the problem of epistemic insufficiency,
 which implies that they may do substantial harm as they try to do good.
 The paper explores the ethical entailments of the epistemic features of
 economics, and argues that managing the ethical challenges requires a new
 field of inquiry, the field of professional economic ethics, and not just
 a code of conduct.	     
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 166-186 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.799967 
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Author-Name: Vincent Blok 
Author-X-Name-First: Vincent 
Author-X-Name-Last: Blok 
Title: The Power of Speech Acts: Reflections on a Performative Concept of Ethical Oaths in Economics and Business 
Abstract:
	      Ethical oaths for bankers, economists and managers are
 increasingly seen as successful instruments to ensure more responsible
 behaviour. In this article, we reflect on the nature of ethical oaths.
 Based on John Austin's speech act theory and the work of Emmanuel Levinas,
 we introduce a performative concept of ethical oaths that is characterised
 by (1) the existential self-performative of the one I want to be, which is
 (2) demanded by the public context. Because ethical oaths are (3)
 structurally threatened by the possibility of infelicity or failure, we
 stress (4) the behavioural aspect of ethical oaths in economics and
 business. We conclude that a performative concept of ethical oaths can
 contribute to more ethical behaviour in economics and business, because
 the performative involves action and behaviour. At the same time, it
 becomes clear that a radical new perspective on the nature, function and
 limitation of oaths is needed. 	 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 187-208 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.799965 
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Author-Name: Bastiaan van der Linden 
Author-X-Name-First: Bastiaan 
Author-X-Name-Last: van der Linden 
Title: Principles as &#x201C;Rules Of Thumb&#x201D;: A Particularist Approach to Codes of Ethics and an Analysis of the Dutch Banking Code 
Abstract:
	      The rise of ethical codes suggests that such codes may
 enhance ethical behavior. However, research on ethical codes is far from
 univocally positive about this. Recently, in practical philosophy,
 particularists have argued against the idea that principles are important
 for ethics because principles express reasons for or against an action,
 whereas what is a reason for a certain action in one situation can be a
 reason against, or no reason at all, in another one. Nevertheless,
 according to particularists, the case for principles&#x2014;and thus
 ethical codes&#x2014;is not hopeless. Even if principles cannot capture
 the full complexity of reasons for action, they can help as &#x201C;rules
 of thumb&#x201D; to remember possibly important reasons. This paper
 develops a particularist approach to codes of ethics, and presents some
 conclusions about the conditions under which codes of ethics may enhance
 ethical behavior. An analysis of the Dutch banking code shows the
 usefulness of a particularist approach.	  
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 209-227 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.799966 
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Author-Name: Thaddeus Metz 
Author-X-Name-First: Thaddeus 
Author-X-Name-Last: Metz 
Title: The Ethics of Swearing: The Implications of Moral Theories for Oath-Breaking in Economic Contexts 
Abstract:
	      Many readers will share the judgement that, having made an
 oath, there is something morally worse about consequently performing the
 immoral action, such as embezzling, that one swore not to do. Why would it
 be worse? To answer this question, I consider three moral-theoretic
 accounts of why it is &#x2018;extra&#x2019; wrong to violate oaths not to
 perform wrong actions, with special attention paid to those made in
 economic contexts. Specifically, I address what the moral theories of
 utilitarianism, Kantianism and a new communitarian-relational principle
 entail for the wrongness of oath-breaking. I argue that the former two do
 not adequately capture why it is extra wrong to perform an immoral action
 that one swore not to do, but that the latter appeal to a morality of
 communal relationship offers a promising account.	    
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 228-248 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.799968 
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Author-Name: Mark R. Rutgers 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark R. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rutgers 
Title: Will the Phoenix Fly Again? 
Abstract:
	      What kind of phenomenon is a banker's oath? The oath is a
 warranty added to a promise, and has a complex nature and history that is
 discussed. Recent research on promising is presented that indicates that
 there may be a desired effect on both oath taker and on the audience, even
 if an oath is performed reluctantly or insincerely. Based on a comparison
 with the oath of office, it is argued that a banker's oath is not just a
 professional oath sworn to peers, but rather a political oath whereby one
 swears to the nation. Furthermore, the oath's long history indicates
 possible strengths and problems with the introduction of a banker's oath.
 It is concluded that the moral nature of an oath has to be taken into
 consideration, and that it is not just a tool to try and create trust.     
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 249-276 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.800306 
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Author-X-Name-First: Rodica 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ianole 
Title: <italic>The Economist's Oath: On the Need for and Content of Professional Economic Ethics</italic>. 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 277-280 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 6 
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Author-Name: Shoba Arun 
Author-X-Name-First: Shoba 
Author-X-Name-Last: Arun 
Author-Name: Samuel Kobina Annim 
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel Kobina 
Author-X-Name-Last: Annim 
Author-Name: Thankom Arun 
Author-X-Name-First: Thankom 
Author-X-Name-Last: Arun 
Title: Overcoming Household Shocks: Do Asset-Accumulation Strategies Matter? 
Abstract:
	      This paper is motivated by the observation that the type and
 the combination of assets are associated with the likelihood of poor
 households' experience of shock. Focusing on the case of
 <italic>adivasi</italic> households in the south Indian state of Kerala,
 we find that the type, number and combinations of <italic>specific
 assets</italic> (primarily social and physical capital) yield varied
 magnitudes of association with households' experience of shock, which is a
 measure of vulnerability. Thus, going beyond mere welfare considerations,
 social policies that prioritise and sequence the type and combination of
 asset building based on contextual factors help minimise the incidence of
 shocks and improve livelihood choices. 	 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 281-305 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.761754 
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Author-Name: Christine Lagoutte 
Author-X-Name-First: Christine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lagoutte 
Author-Name: Anne Reimat 
Author-X-Name-First: Anne 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reimat 
Title: Public or Private Orientation of Pension Systems in the Light of the Recent Financial Crisis 
Abstract:
	      This paper studies the appropriateness of a public or private
 orientation of pension systems in the light of the recent financial
 crisis, which has underscored the difficulties and contradictions
 associated with each system. The different institutional arrangements, in
 which public or private pension systems are embedded, are key components
 when assessing their responses to the crisis. Particularly, private
 pension systems are intertwined with financial markets, while social
 insurance-based pension systems are linked to the labour market
 mechanisms. This paper compares the British and French pension systems, as
 "archetypes" of private-oriented and public-oriented systems,
 respectively, the first relying on the market and private pension schemes,
 and the second on mandatory social insurance. This paper shows that the
 crisis has upheld the founding principles of the public (French) and
 private (British) pension systems to maintain the existing institutional
 configurations. At the same time, both systems have strengthened the role
 played by means-tested benefits and minimum pensions for low-income groups
 to offset the weaknesses of one or the other system, as emphasised by the
 crisis.	  
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 306-338 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.761755 
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Author-Name: Irene van Staveren 
Author-X-Name-First: Irene 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Staveren 
Title: To Measure is to Know? A Comparative Analysis of Gender Indices 
Abstract:
	      In this paper, I present
 a comparative analysis of five cross-country composite gender indices.
 Although there is a relatively high correlation between the indices, the
 overlap of underlying indicators is low. Country rankings both at the top
 and at the bottom have parallels but are quite distinct. The differences
 are explained in two ways: methodologically and theoretically. The
 methodological differences concern in particular weights, capping, and
 aggregation. The Capability Approach helps to explain the different focus
 of each index by distinguishing between four stages of human development,
 which include distinct types of indicators. The substantial differences
 that exist between the gender indices require a cautious selection between
 these for research and policy analysis. This is shown in a few examples
 with policy variables. Finally, I present a set of three decision trees,
 which enables an informed choice between the indices.		
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 339-372 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.707398 
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Author-X-Name-First: Ben 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fine 
Title: Economics: Unfit for Purpose* 
Abstract:
	      This paper is a shortened and revised version of the Closing
 Plenary given to the World Congress of the Association of Social
 Economics, and Cairncross Lecture, University of Glasgow, June 2012.
 Mainstream economics is seen as unfit for purpose because of deficiencies
 that have long been criticised by a marginalised heterodoxy. These include
 the taking out of the historical and social even if bringing them back in
 on the basis of a technical apparatus and architecture that is sorely
 inappropriate. These observations are illustrated in passing reference to
 social capital but are particularly appropriate for understanding the
 weakness of ethics within mainstream economics. An alternative is offered
 through taking various "entanglements" (such as facts and values) as
 critical point of departure, leading to the suggestion that ethical
 systems are subject to the 10 Cs-Constructed, Construed, Conforming,
 Commodified, Contextual, Contradictory, Closed, Contested, Collective and
 Chaotic.	   
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 373-389 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.799969 
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Author-X-Name-First: M.G. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hayes 
Title: The Vatican and the International Monetary System 
Abstract:
	      This paper considers the Note issued by the Pontifical
 Council for Justice and Peace in 2011 calling for reform of the
 international financial and monetary systems. Three main themes are
 identified: (a) the inequality of global economic growth over the last
 century, (b) the failings of economic liberalism as a guide for the
 conduct of policy and (c) the need for a degree of transfer of sovereignty
 from individual states to the global level. This paper articulates the
 meaning of these themes in economic terms and illustrates the nature of
 the changes in thought and practice that the Note considers necessary in
 the interests of the common good.	    
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 390-398 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 9  
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.761759 
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Author-Name: Halcyon Louis 
Author-X-Name-First: Halcyon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Louis 
Title: Approaches to the Social Economics of Well-Being: A Book Review Essay 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 399-405 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.761762 
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Author-X-Name-First: Daphne T. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Greenwood 
Title: Measuring America: How Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late-Twentieth Century 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 405-408 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.761761 
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Author-Name: Donald G. Richards 
Author-X-Name-First: Donald G. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Richards 
Title: Economics, Ethics and Thanatology: Lessons from the Ancients 
Abstract:
 The normative presuppositions motivating rational choice decision-making
 based on optimizing objectives amount to a thin account of ethical
 economic behavior. Ancient thought offers insights that can provide a
 firmer basis both for personal, individual choice as well as for public
 policy. After a brief review of Epicurean and Stoic ethical principles, a
 comparison is made of modern economic and Hellenistic conceptions of
 rationality and rational behavior. These competing conceptions are then
 applied to an examination of a contemporary public policy problem, namely
 health care, particularly as this applies to "end-of-life" issues. The
 argument concludes that decision-making based on a eudaimonic conception
 of the good has the potential to provide us with a more efficient health
 care system as well as one that more satisfactorily addresses the needs of
 the chronically ill and dying patients who account for a highly
 disproportionate share of health care expenditures.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 409-426 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.761757 
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Author-Name: Franklin Obeng-Odoom 
Author-X-Name-First: Franklin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Obeng-Odoom 
Title: The Mystery of Capital or the Mystification of Capital? 
Abstract:
 In contemporary political economic analyses of development processes,
 Hernando De Soto's <italic>The Mystery of Capital,</italic> has been one
 of the most discussed, albeit controversial, books. Although well received
 by global development agencies such as the World Bank, a key exponent of
 De Soto's work, positing that the creation and institutionalisation of
 individual property in housing and land revives "dead capital" and creates
 the conditions that will enable the poor to emerge from abject poverty,
 has been widely criticised. These criticisms show that (1) the thesis is
 flawed, (2) the flaw is due to implementational problems and (3) the
 practical implications arising from the thesis are largely neutral and
 will neither improve nor worsen poverty. Although agreeing with the first
 criticism, this paper argues that the second critique must be nuanced, and
 the third is entirely mistaken. Utilising insights from Joseph Schumpeter,
 Karl Polanyi and Henry George, it makes the case that applying De Soto's
 ideas through policy would be ineffective in curbing urban poverty, and
 actually serve to simultaneously entrench and augment it. Moreover, while
 finding that De Soto's assumption that the poor possess some economic
 agency is sound and may, indeed, secure socially beneficial outcomes
 through pursuing innovative and entrepreneurial endeavours, De Soto's
 conception of such processes remains largely emasculated from broader
 political economic considerations.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 427-442 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
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Author-Name: Naranchimeg Mijid 
Author-X-Name-First: Naranchimeg 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mijid 
Author-Name: Alexandra Bernasek 
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bernasek 
Title: Decomposing Racial and Ethnic Differences in Small Business Lending: Evidence of Discrimination 
Abstract:
 In this paper, we use the Blinder-Oaxaca method for nonlinear models to
 decompose observed differences in credit rationing of small businesses
 between white- and minority-owned firms in the USA. We utilize a
 representative dataset of small businesses from the Survey of Small
 Business Finances between 1987 and 2003. Our results show that minority
 owners, on average, have about a 24 percentage points higher loan denial
 rate than white-owned firms and about three quarters of the difference is
 attributed to discrimination in bank lending. Although the difference in
 the probability of getting a smaller loan than requested is only 5
 percentage points, this difference is almost entirely attributed to
 discrimination.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 443-473 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.761751 
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Author-Name: Dimitris Pavlopoulos 
Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pavlopoulos 
Title: Starting Your Career With a Fixed-Term Job: Stepping-Stone or "Dead End"? 
Abstract:
 This paper uses panel data from the UK and Germany to investigate the
 difference in the learning effect between workers who enter the labour
 market with a fixed term and a permanent job. Our results verify the
 existence of a wage penalty for entering the labour market with a
 fixed-term contract for the British males (7.1%) and especially for the
 British females (21.2%). British females also have a very strong learning
 effect that is especially large for temporary starters. In Germany, the
 initial wage penalty for temporary starters is smaller than in the UK-4.5%
 for the males and 3% for the females-and is persistent only for the males.
 Although initial wage differences are mitigated through the accumulation
 of skills on the job, this process differs between temporary and permanent
 starters. This suggests that the type of the starting contract may be a
 feature of labour market segmentation.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 474-501 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.799970 
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Author-Name: Ivan Boldyrev 
Author-X-Name-First: Ivan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Boldyrev 
Author-Name: Carsten Herrmann-Pillath 
Author-X-Name-First: Carsten 
Author-X-Name-Last: Herrmann-Pillath 
Title: Moral Sentiments, Institutions, and Civil Society: What Can Hegel Contribute to Sen's Theory of Justice? 
Abstract:
 In his <italic>Idea of Justice</italic>, Amartya Sen compares the two
 basic approaches to evaluating institutions, <italic>transcendental
 institutionalism</italic> and <italic>realization-focused
 comparisons</italic>. Referring to Adam Smith's <italic>Impartial
 Spectator</italic>, he argues in favor of the latter and proposes the
 principle of open impartiality. However, this cannot solve the tension
 between universalism and contextualization of values that Sen has
 inherited from Smith. Based on recent Hegel scholarship, we argue that
 some of the difficulties can be resolved, considering the role Smith
 played in the development of Hegel's thinking. Hegel's concept of
 recognition plays an essential role in establishing the possibility of
 impartiality both on the level of consciousness and on the level of
 institutional intersubjectivity. Hegel's critique of Kant's formalist
 ethics (also considered as transcendental institutionalism by Sen) and his
 analysis of the civil society in the <italic>Philosophy of Right</italic>,
 especially his focus on associations and Estates, can serve as a model for
 making Sen's focus on public discourse theoretically more concise and
 pragmatically feasible. Hegel shows that universalistic attitudes can only
 emerge in specific institutional contexts.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 502-525 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.799971 
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Author-Name: Mark D. White 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark D. 
Author-X-Name-Last: White 
Title: Can We-and Should We-Measure Well-Being? 
Abstract:
 In this article, I argue that recent criticisms of happiness research in
 economics can be extended to any conception of well-being used for
 scientific or policymaking purposes. These criticisms are both practical
 and ethical: well-being is not only impossible to define, measure, or
 implement, but its use also offends human dignity through unjust
 distribution of harm and value substitution. On this basis, I recommend
 the abandonment of welfare economics and urge social economists to propose
 new approaches to addressing social problems that are more focused and
 respect the dignity of persons.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 526-533 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.840432 
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Author-Name: Mark D. White 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark D. 
Author-X-Name-Last: White 
Title: The Pursuit of a Measure of Happiness 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 534-539 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.761760 
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Author-Name: Stefano Solari 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefano 
Author-X-Name-Last: Solari 
Title: Kantian Ethics and Economics: Autonomy, Dignity, and Character 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 540-543 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2012.707453 
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Author-Name: B�atrice Boulu-Reshef 
Author-X-Name-First: B�atrice 
Author-X-Name-Last: Boulu-Reshef 
Title: Individuals and Identity in Economics 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 543-546 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.846104 
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Author-Name: Alexander Ebner 
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ebner 
Title: Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 546-550 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 71 
Year: 2013 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.846103 
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Author-Name: Ramzi Mabsout 
Author-X-Name-First: Ramzi 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mabsout 
Title: Bringing Ethics Back to Welfare Economics 
Abstract:
 Economists do not agree on the nature of welfare economics: is it
 normative or positive analysis? To overcome this disagreement and bridge
 the gap between the two views, the argument developed here takes two
 steps. The first identifies the metaethical positions of those for and
 those against the moral normativity of welfare economics. Metaethical
 positions differ on the ontology and ultimate legitimacy of morality. What
 appears in ethical terms as confusion can, in metaethical terms, be an
 attempt to arrive at an intellectually consistent position. A more
 constructive and less polarizing discussion on the aims and scope of
 welfare economics is expected once metaethical differences are accounted
 for. In the second step, ethical realism is introduced as a metaethical
 stance that views morality not in terms of subjective desires or
 preferences but as truth-apt claims. It is suggested that understanding
 the moral normativity of welfare economics in terms of ethical realism
 presents an opportunity to break the deadlock that halted its progress.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-27 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.806109 
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Author-Name: Samuel Cameron 
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cameron 
Title: Killing for Money and the Economic Theory of Crime 
Abstract:
 There is a large literature on the economics of crime and punishment, yet
 surprisingly little attention is paid to the receipt of money for crime.
 "Contract killing" is surprisingly neglected not only by economists but
 also by social scientists in general. In this paper, I look at the case
 not of professional gangster "hitmen" but of individuals who have found
 themselves in a position where they wish to have a killing carried out.
 This discussion does not condone the practice any more than an economic
 analysis of suicide is an inducement to individuals to kill themselves. To
 the lay reader, the cases where an individual feels the need to pay for
 killing may seem to be such that rationality is not a likely form of
 behaviour. However, the economics of crime has adopted the use of the
 rationality postulate as a heuristic for all types of crime.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 28-41 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.845336 
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Author-Name: Killian J. McCarthy 
Author-X-Name-First: Killian J. 
Author-X-Name-Last: McCarthy 
Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Title: Neutral Media? Evidence of Media Bias and its Economic Impact 
Abstract:
 Three major surveys of professional journalists, in 1976, 1986, and 1996,
 suggest that the vast majority consider themselves to be neutral,
 objective, and balanced observers, whose role is merely to provide
 information. But how neutral is the media, in terms of its orientation and
 effects on the behavior of the markets? In this paper, we unite a number
 of literatures to suggest that by choosing what event to report, how much
 and how frequent to report an event, and by choosing what descriptive tone
 to adopt in their coverage, the media has a non-neutral impact on the
 economy. We report evidence to suggest that: (1) the media helps set the
 public agenda, by promoting certain events and causes, for better or for
 worse; (2) the media influence the public's perception of risk, by
 disproportionately sensationalizing risk and by emphasizing probable
 negative consequences over probably positive ones; (3) the media
 influences elections and their outcomes; (4) the media influences the
 public's perception of the manager, the reputation of the firm, and the
 goods that the firm produces; (5) the media shapes consumer sentiment and
 the consumers' willingness to spend; and (6) the media shapes business
 sentiment and influences both firm- and market-level behavior. In doing
 so, we demonstrate conclusively that the media is not neutral: the media
 alters the public's perception of reality. In other words, we suggest not
 only that the media reports the news, but also shapes the world in which
 we live.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 42-54 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.806110 
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Author-Name: Luigino Bruni 
Author-X-Name-First: Luigino 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bruni 
Author-Name: Fabrizio Panebianco 
Author-X-Name-First: Fabrizio 
Author-X-Name-Last: Panebianco 
Author-Name: Alessandra Smerilli 
Author-X-Name-First: Alessandra 
Author-X-Name-Last: Smerilli 
Title: Beyond Carrots and Sticks: How Cooperation and Its Rewards Evolve Together 
Abstract:
 This paper is based on the intuition of Dragonetti, an old Neapolitan
 economist, which argues that a society experiences economic and civic
 development if agents promote values and virtues, more than solely rely on
 punishments stated by law. We thus study the evolution of cooperative
 behaviors using a mechanism of endogenous social rewards for cooperation
 (SRC). These additional (material) rewards depend on the recognition that
 the society-each agent in the society-gives to cooperative strategies. We
 formalize it with a cultural evolution model in which the payoff matrix
 and the population shares coevolve. We find that this endogenous mechanism
 can produce a large variety of long-run situations (victory of
 cooperators, of non-cooperators or, finally, their coexistence) depending
 on the social features. Moreover, we analyze the differences between SRC
 and exogenous punishment, changes in cooperation costs or changes in
 repetition of interactions and we disentangle their respective
 contributions.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 55-82 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.884388 
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Author-Name: Petrik Runst 
Author-X-Name-First: Petrik 
Author-X-Name-Last: Runst 
Title: Popular Attitudes Toward Market Economic Principles and Institutional Reform in Transition Economies 
Abstract:
 Transition countries display generally low levels of public support for
 market economic principles during the 1990s-but more successful countries
 display more support than less successful countries. The attitude
 difference is not just the result of transition speed or success. Rather,
 the data suggest that the varying levels of public support toward market
 economic principles existed initially and are a cause of the distinct
 transition trajectories. Different historical legacies affected popular
 attitudes long before the watershed moment of 1990.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 83-115 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.845337 
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Author-Name: Ron Nahser 
Author-X-Name-First: Ron 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nahser 
Title: Social Economic Perspectives: An Interdisciplinary Review 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 116-127 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.845339 
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Author-Name: Steven McMullen 
Author-X-Name-First: Steven 
Author-X-Name-Last: McMullen 
Title: Examining the Place of Ethics in Economics: A Review 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 127-135 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.845338 
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Author-Name: Chiara Calabrese 
Author-X-Name-First: Chiara 
Author-X-Name-Last: Calabrese 
Author-Name: Stefan Mann 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mann 
Author-Name: Michel Dumondel 
Author-X-Name-First: Michel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dumondel 
Title: Alpine Farming in Switzerland: Discerning a Lifestyle-Driven Labor Supply 
Abstract:
 This paper deals with the labor supply for alpine farming-a sector in
 which employees obtain at best seasonal employment and work extremely long
 hours for very little pay, but nevertheless often return year after year.
 Based on data obtained from 120 interviews carried out in 2011, we
 implemented a logistic regression model to discover which factors
 influence an employee's decision to return to an alpine summer pasture.
 Results are presented quantitatively, and their interpretation is also
 supported by a qualitative approach. Our findings indicate that
 occupational choice in this region is mainly driven by motivational values
 and quality of infrastructure, with pecuniary benefits playing a marginal
 role.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 137-156 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.845334 
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Author-X-Name-First: Peter-Wim 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zuidhof 
Title: Thinking Like an Economist: The Neoliberal Politics of the Economics Textbook 
Abstract:
 This article surveys 10 introductory economics textbooks to examine
 whether and how economics contributed to the rise of neoliberalism. It
 defines neoliberalism as a political rationality characterized by market
 constructivism. In contrast with conventional liberal approaches that view
 limited government as legitimized by the failure of naturalist markets,
 neoliberalism constructs the market as norm and means of government.
 Economics textbooks overall have a liberal outlook, as exemplified by
 Samuelson's classic, however, with three liberal subgenres: the imperfect
 market view, the free market view, and an institutionalist view. While the
 introductory textbook cannot be construed as an instruction manual for
 neoliberalism, the article nevertheless identifies two important
 neoliberal moments: the discussion of market-based forms of government and
 the rise of a new genre of principles textbook that urges students to
 "think like an economist." The article concludes with novel insights on
 how economics may have contributed to the spread of neoliberalism.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 157-185 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.872952 
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Author-Name: John H. Beck 
Author-X-Name-First: John H. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Beck 
Author-Name: Donald D. Hackney 
Author-X-Name-First: Donald D. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hackney 
Author-Name: John Hackney 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hackney 
Author-Name: Matthew Q. McPherson 
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew Q. 
Author-X-Name-Last: McPherson 
Title: Regional Differences in Chapter 13 Filings: Southern Legal Culture or Religion? 
Abstract:
 Chapter 7 is designed for debtors who do not have the ability to pay their
 existing debts and many times leads to a legal release of most debt.
 Chapter 13 is designed for debtors who have the ability to pay all or part
 of their debts in installments over a period of time. Bankruptcy research
 finds that the southern region of the USA has a significantly higher
 portion of Chapter 13 filings than the rest of the country, unexplainable
 by quantifiable demographic, legal, or economic differences. Our results
 suggest that religion is the driving force behind the abnormally high
 Chapter 13 filings in the southern USA.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 186-208 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.861644 
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Author-Name: Andrew Samuel 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Samuel 
Author-Name: Fred W. Derrick 
Author-X-Name-First: Fred W. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Derrick 
Author-Name: Charles Scott 
Author-X-Name-First: Charles 
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott 
Title: "Fair Trade," Market Failures, and (the Absence of) Institutions 
Abstract:
 This paper presents an analysis of Fair Trade using a general equilibrium
 model of an economy where externalities are present and where the
 institutional or legal framework needed to regulate these externalities
 may be weak. Weak institutions and externalities are common in the
 developing world, where Fair Trade is targeted, making perfect competition
 models inappropriate measures of the value of Fair Trade. Members of Fair
 Trade cooperatives are required to adopt sustainable production methods,
 and not employ other socially harmful practices such as child-labor. Thus,
 Fair Trade organizations can serve as a complement to the existing weak
 institutions in the economy, creating incentives for entrepreneurs to move
 from the informal to the formal sector. Specifically, the analysis
 confirms that in many cases an increase in the Fair Trade premium can
 reduce the overall level of harmful activities, even from those producers
 who are not Fair Trade certified, and thereby raise welfare.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 209-232 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.882705 
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Author-Name: Wesley Widmaier 
Author-X-Name-First: Wesley 
Author-X-Name-Last: Widmaier 
Title: From Bretton Woods to the Global Financial Crisis: Popular Politics, Paradigmatic Debates, and the Construction of Crises 
Abstract:
 How do popular values shape constructions of crises and paradigmatic
 debates? In this paper, I offer a constructivist framework highlighting
 the popular bases of paradigmatic ideas and policy interests. In
 historical terms, I then trace the evolution of values, ideas, and
 polic]ies across three crises-the Bretton Woods-era inflation and currency
 crises of the 1960s, the South Korean and Long Term Capital Management
 crises of the 1990s, and the global financial crisis. In concluding, I
 stress implications for tensions not only between intellectuals and
 populists, but also among populists themselves-as in the affective divides
 between Tea Party and Occupy movements.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 233-252 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.912389 
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Author-Name: Stefano Solari 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefano 
Author-X-Name-Last: Solari 
Title: Exchange Entitlement Mapping: Theory and Evidence 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 253-256 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.799972 
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Author-Name: Valentin Cojanu 
Author-X-Name-First: Valentin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cojanu 
Title: International Economics: A Heterodox Approach 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 256-260 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2013.845340 
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Author-Name: Philippe Batifoulier 
Author-X-Name-First: Philippe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Batifoulier 
Author-Name: Nicolas Da Silva 
Author-X-Name-First: Nicolas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Da Silva 
Title: Medical Altruism in Mainstream Health Economics: Theoretical and Political Paradoxes 
Abstract:
 In the field of healthcare, ethical considerations are omnipresent. The
 problem is that it is not clear how to introduce professional ethics
 within the frontiers demarcated by economic rationality. In mainstream
 economics, medical altruism is defined as the inclusion of the patient's
 welfare in the doctor's utility function. This definition presents two
 serious problems that we develop in this paper. The first problem is that
 mainstream theory does not propose a model of authentic altruism because
 it reduces otherness to a source of utility like any other. The second
 problem is that ethical and altruistic (instrumental or otherwise)
 behaviour should not be conflated. By reducing ethics to altruism,
 mainstream theory prevents any genuine discussion of medical ethics. Then,
 the thesis of the paper is that the attempt to introduce altruism into the
 standard framework creates theoretical paradoxes that create policy
 dilemmas.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 261-279 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.927727 
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Author-Name: Michael H�bler 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: H�bler 
Title: Internalizing the Social Costs of a Small Number of Powerful, Overindebted Firms 
Abstract:
 Extraordinary debt-to-capital ratios (leverage) and the compression of
 markets to very few, large companies (concentration) are economic risk
 factors. They have contributed to vast social costs during the current
 economic crisis in the USA and in Europe. This theoretical study
 internalizes these social costs via two market-based policy instruments
 for the first time in a real-economy Dixit-Stiglitz framework: a tax on
 firms' debt capital use and a subsidy for market entrants. It helps
 understand the complex real-economic mechanisms that these policy
 instruments cause, it derives intuitive rules of thumb for setting the tax
 rate and the subsidy level so that they elevate welfare, and it suggests
 ways to practically implement the policies.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 280-310 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.912390 
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Author-Name: Fu-Min Tseng 
Author-X-Name-First: Fu-Min 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tseng 
Author-Name: Dennis James Petrie 
Author-X-Name-First: Dennis James 
Author-X-Name-Last: Petrie 
Title: The Implications for Health, Depression, and Life Satisfaction from a Permanent Increase in Income for the Disadvantaged Elderly: Evidence from Taiwan 
Abstract:
 This paper uses an exogenous increase in income for a specific subgroup to
 explore the extent to which higher income leads to higher levels of health
 and well-being. In 1995, the Taiwanese government implemented the Senior
 Farmer Welfare Benefit Interim Regulation (SFWBIR) that was a pure cash
 injection to senior farmers. A difference-in-differences (DiD) approach is
 used on survey data from the Taiwanese Health and Living Status of Elderly
 in 1989 and 1996 to evaluate the short-term effect of the SFWBIR on
 self-assessed health, depression, and life satisfaction (LS). Senior
 manufacturing workers are employed as a comparison group for senior
 farmers in the natural experiment. This paper provides evidence that the
 increase in income caused by this pension reform significantly improved
 the mental health of senior farmers by reducing 1.697 points of the
 depression scale in DiD and 2.178 points in the robust estimation;
 however, it had no significant short-term impact on self-assessed health
 or LS.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 311-336 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.927725 
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Author-Name: Mary V. Wrenn 
Author-X-Name-First: Mary V. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wrenn 
Title: The Social Ontology of Fear and Neoliberalism 
Abstract:
 Fear is a primal instinct; it is a survival mechanism the evolution of
 which allowed the early humans, indeed all species to adapt, evolve, and
 survive. When humans moved into settled communities with more advanced
 means of production, the nature of fear-much like the nature of social
 relationships-changed. Once the means of social reproduction were secured,
 fear became less necessary as a survival instinct and more useful as a
 heuristic device. Fear evolved. Fear cannot be characterized solely as a
 socially constructed phenomenon, nor as the instinctual response to
 personally felt traumas. The growth and nature of fear must be studied as
 a process that develops under its own inertia, feeding off its antecedent
 past, and as a phenomenon that is shaped by and in turn shapes its
 institutional setting. Fear should be understood as both structurally
 determined and socially transformative. This research seeks to examine the
 ontology of fear, specifically as it relates to neoliberalism.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 337-353 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.927726 
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Author-Name: Luca Andriani 
Author-X-Name-First: Luca 
Author-X-Name-Last: Andriani 
Title: Is Acting Prosocially Beneficial for the Credit Market? 
Abstract:
 This article argues that behaving prosocially reduces regional finance
 differentials in terms of interest and insolvency rates. This is because
 prosociality implies more transparent information and cooperation among
 the parties engaged in a financial contract. The context of study is
 Italy, well known for its regional economic and financial disparities. The
 analysis is developed through a cross-regional two period panel model
 during the years 1998 and 2003. Empirical evidence shows that regions with
 a higher proportion of prosocial individuals report lower interest and
 insolvency rates. When legal enforcement is included in the specified
 model, evidence suggests that more efficient third-party enforcement can
 transmit a stronger sense of legal abidance and facilitate the
 internalisation of social norms of cooperation.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 354-378 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.927724 
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Author-Name: Derek Messacar 
Author-X-Name-First: Derek 
Author-X-Name-Last: Messacar 
Title: Persistent Unemployment and the Generosity of Welfare States 
Abstract:
 Generous unemployment benefits are a conventional explanation of the high
 rates of unemployment in many OECD countries. However, this perception has
 been challenged on the basis that cross-national evidence comes only from
 regression analyses of unemployment on the OECD's gross replacement rate
 but that results are not robust to improved, multidimensional measures of
 generosity. In this article, I conduct a detailed empirical analysis of
 how social welfare programs affect unemployment in 17 OECD countries, from
 1975 to 2000, using a detailed concept of labor "decommodification" to
 make cross-national comparisons of generosity. The results show that
 unemployment benefits remain an important, robust determinant of
 unemployment even when the new measure is used.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 379-415 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.927723 
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Author-Name: Jonathan B. Wight 
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan B. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wight 
Title: Economics within a Pluralist Ethical Tradition 
Abstract:
 Ethical pluralism is the recognition that multiple ethical frameworks
 operate in social settings to solve problems of moral hazard. In
 particular, non-consequentialist considerations of duty and virtue operate
 to restrain self-interest and lower transaction costs in exchange, such as
 when asymmetric information exists. Positive economics has tended to rely
 exclusively on a behavioral model that assumes utility maximization, but
 this approach fails to give credit to the neglected foundations of duty
 and virtue. Consequences, duties, and virtues all play a role in
 sustaining businesses, for example, and in promoting the search for truth
 within the economic research community. Normative welfare economics can
 also benefit from understanding vertical and horizontal pluralism.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 417-435 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.960661 
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Author-Name: Marianne Johnson 
Author-X-Name-First: Marianne 
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson 
Author-Name: Denise Robson 
Author-X-Name-First: Denise 
Author-X-Name-Last: Robson 
Author-Name: Sarinda Taengnoi 
Author-X-Name-First: Sarinda 
Author-X-Name-Last: Taengnoi 
Title: A Meta-analysis of the Gender Gap in Performance in Collegiate Economics Courses 
Abstract:
 The conventional wisdom has been that men outperform otherwise equivalent
 women in collegiate economics courses. Recent work in science, technology,
 engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields documenting gains by women
 suggests that it is time to reevaluate the gender performance gap in
 economics. Surveying 68 studies containing 235 distinct regressions
 published since 1980, we find that 68.4% of regressions report men
 outperform women, though this is only statistically significant in 30.7%
 of regressions. Although the literature points to numerous reasons for
 this gap, our focus is on the effects of study design and the impact of
 broad socio-cultural changes over time. Using meta-regression analysis, we
 find that the likelihood of observing a statistically significant gap has
 declined noticeably, by almost 3% annually. Although the drop may not be
 as large as in some STEM fields, the result is highly robust to the
 specification of the time trend and the model.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 436-459 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.958902 
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Author-Name: Ai-Thu Dang 
Author-X-Name-First: Ai-Thu 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dang 
Title: Amartya Sen's Capability Approach: A Framework for Well-Being Evaluation and Policy Analysis? 
Abstract:
 The aim of this paper is twofold: first, we discuss the main conceptual
 and methodological issues related to the operationalization of Amartya
 Sen's capability approach. Second, we review quantitative applications of
 the capability approach in different domains to examine how methodological
 and empirical challenges are addressed. The use of the capability approach
 implies a broadening of the "informational basis of judgments" and thereby
 leads to conclusions that differ from those drawn using standard economic
 approaches.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 460-484 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.958903 
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Author-Name: Berhanu Nega 
Author-X-Name-First: Berhanu 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nega 
Author-Name: Geoffrey Schneider 
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schneider 
Title: NGOs, the State, and Development in Africa 
Abstract:
 This paper discusses the impact of the rise of non-governmental
 organizations (NGOs) and social entrepreneurs on economic development,
 with a special focus on how they have been used in Africa. The paper
 describes the decline of the state and the rise of NGOs as a force in
 economic development under neoliberalism. We then turn to two of the major
 problems with the roll-back of the state in Africa: the inherent
 weaknesses of nonstate actors in the development process, and the
 significant cost that is incurred by undermining the role of state. The
 paper concludes by suggesting the necessity of reinserting the state as
 the major vehicle for economic development, albeit in productive
 partnership with NGOs and social entrepreneurs.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 485-503 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.958901 
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Author-Name: Stefano Solari 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefano 
Author-X-Name-Last: Solari 
Author-Name: Francesca Gambarotto 
Author-X-Name-First: Francesca 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gambarotto 
Title: Territorial Rooting as an Element of Well-Being 
Abstract:
 The paper discusses the relevance of the idea of rooting as proposed by
 Simone Weil and builds a social economic framework to study its role in
 our life. Rooting is connected to the need of belonging and to have an
 identity. These elements are identified in some different areas of
 research-social psychology and social economy-to analyze how this need of
 the person is taken into account. Then, a theoretical framework to study
 rooting is presented developing the concept of plural utility and
 capabilities. The end is to discuss one of the neglected dimensions of
 human needs in the context of modern society. Finally, some conclusion
 concerning both individual choices related to rooting and well-being will
 be proposed.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 504-522 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.958899 
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Author-Name: Matthias Opfinger 
Author-X-Name-First: Matthias 
Author-X-Name-Last: Opfinger 
Title: Two Sides of a Medal: the Changing Relationship between Religious Diversity and Religiosity 
Abstract:
 Religious Market Theory assigns basic market principles to the market for
 religion. The derived supply-side model proposes that religiosity is
 higher on a competitive market, characterized by high religious diversity.
 Churches will provide higher quality goods compared to monopolistic
 churches. The demand-side model, originating from the Secularization
 Hypothesis, suggests that the establishment of new churches casts doubt on
 the existing religion, which reduces overall religiosity. I find a
 negative linear relationship between religious diversity and religiosity
 which supports the demand-side model. However, high levels of income and
 democracy mitigate this effect. For high levels of education and
 immigration, the relationship even turns to positive. The demand-side
 model seems to dominate in less-developed countries. This effect appears
 to vanish in the most industrialized countries.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 523-548 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 72 
Year: 2014 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.958900 
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Author-Name: B�atrice Boulu-Reshef 
Author-X-Name-First: B�atrice 
Author-X-Name-Last: Boulu-Reshef 
Title: Toward a Personal Identity Argument to Combine Potentially Conflicting Social Identities 
Abstract:
 Despite the boom in research on identity in economics, the question of how
 to depict personal identity in a fashion that combines potentially
 conflicting social identities has so far been largely ignored. This paper
 introduces a framework that relies on the structure of the social realm
 that is exogenous to the individual in order to depict investment
 decisions as per social identities. The structure of the environment is
 identified using organizational boundaries and identity production
 functions are used to combine social identities. The inclusion of the
 various social spaces that are relevant to personal identity strategies
 enables one to simultaneously study identification strategies and
 individuation strategies. It also allows the depiction of social
 identities that may be conflicting, due to different social commitments
 and/or norm valuations. This externalist conception of identity helps
 discuss the limitations of internalist conceptions of identity and
 accounts for the heterogeneity of identity strategies across individuals.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-18 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.990745 
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Author-Name: Giuseppina Autiero 
Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppina 
Author-X-Name-Last: Autiero 
Title: Social and Personal Identities: Their Influence on Scholastic Effort 
Abstract:
 When analysing the influence of identity on the motivations of scholastic
 effort, it is crucial to consider both social and personal identities. A
 child's social identity can be shaped by family background through the
 transmission of parental values vis-�-vis educational aspirations and
 achievements. As to personal identity, children may show a different locus
 of control over the successes and failures of their scholastic effort. In
 this paper, I develop an in-depth analysis of these aspects of social and
 personal identities and the nature of their interaction, and consider
 their influence on a child's effort in school through a theoretical model.
 Overall, the results from the model show that a (non-)pro-school social
 identity influenced by family background and locus of control along with
 their antagonistic or complementary interaction play a key role in
 determining children's scholastic effort by influencing their motivations.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 19-33 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.986968 
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Author-Name: David Cooper 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper 
Author-Name: W.D. McCausland 
Author-X-Name-First: W.D. 
Author-X-Name-Last: McCausland 
Author-Name: Ioannis Theodossiou 
Author-X-Name-First: Ioannis 
Author-X-Name-Last: Theodossiou 
Title: Is unemployment and low income harmful to health? Evidence from Britain 
Abstract:
 This study investigates how unemployment and income influence the length
 of time an individual remains in good health. This is a complex
 relationship since unemployment or low income deteriorates health but poor
 health can become a barrier to obtaining higher income or gaining
 re-employment. Data are from the British Household Panel Survey, using two
 measures of physical health: an index of mobility problems and a measure
 of self-assessed health. The results show that unemployment, low income
 and poor education adversely affect the time that people remain in good
 health. These results have important implications for public policy,
 particularly in an age of austerity when social protection mechanisms are
 under threat. In fact, the results suggest that to improve health and
 reduce health inequality, more investment needs to be directed at policies
 that enhance labour force participation, improve education and reduce
 income inequality.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 34-60 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.986969 
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Author-Name: Natalya Shelkova 
Author-X-Name-First: Natalya 
Author-X-Name-Last: Shelkova 
Title: Low-Wage Labor Markets and the Power of Suggestion 
Abstract:
 The paper argues that a non-binding minimum wage may serve as a focal
 point which facilities tacit collusion by low-wage employers, effectively
 pulling down wages of the lowest-paid workers. This can explain the puzzle
 as to why the minimum wage does not reduce employment, as predicted by the
 traditional economic theory. A simple game-theoretic argument explains
 when collusion emerges. The hypothesis is tested using the 1990-2002 CPS
 data on service occupation workers. The results suggest that during this
 period, on average 19.3%, and as much as 31% of service occupation
 workers, who earned minimum wage or less, could had been affected by
 collusive wage-setting.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 61-88 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.960662 
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Author-Name: Alexander Antony Dunlap 
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Antony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dunlap 
Title: The Expanding Techniques of Progress: Agricultural Biotechnology and UN-REDD+ 
Abstract:
 This paper provides a comparative analysis of agricultural biotechnology
 and the United Nations program for reduced emissions from deforestation
 and forest degradation (REDD). Despite the existing differences between
 the technical manipulation of biological systems and a conservation
 program aimed at reducing carbon and protecting forests, the two share
 commonalities in ideological origin, application, and values. Presented as
 positive developments, both seek to address large-scale issues such as
 global hunger and climate change, but while receiving national and
 international support they remain controversial issues. Both issues are
 critically assessed, beginning with a brief history, followed by the
 application of William Dugger's four invaluation processes: contamination,
 subordination, emulation, and mystification. This approach unravels the
 subtle social power of state and market forces that seek to control
 genetic material and forest frontiers as new outlets for growth and
 investment.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 89-112 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.988053 
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Author-Name: Jamie Morgan 
Author-X-Name-First: Jamie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Morgan 
Author-Name: Brendan Sheehan 
Author-X-Name-First: Brendan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sheehan 
Title: The Concept of Trust and the Political Economy of John Maynard Keynes, Illustrated Using Central Bank Forward Guidance and the Democratic Dilemma in Europe 
Abstract:
 Trust is an issue to which Keynesians and post-Keynesians have paid
 relatively little attention. However, properly understood it is an aspect
 of almost all activity, including key elements of socio-economic reality.
 Without trust, market exchange is at the very least problematic, if not
 impossible. Moreover, trust is intrinsic to a variety of issues with which
 Keynes, and subsequent Keynesianism have been concerned. In this paper we
 provide a general social theory conceptualisation of trust and then set
 out some of the areas where this concept resonates with the work of Keynes
 in terms of the role of conventions. Conventions quintessentially involve
 trust and that trust can be unstable, can be withdrawn and can require
 rebuilding. We illustrate this with reference to central bank policy and
 the Bank of England's introduction of Forward Guidance. Exploring the
 problem of trust in the context of banking also highlights a challenge for
 the continued relevance of Keynes' work. We now live in a neoliberal world
 and this provides a quite different context for state intervention than
 was previously the case. Keynes' work is now an argument for the
 alternative, and as such it requires more than a technical economic
 argument, it must also address the problem of trust in state
 policy-makers. We briefly illustrate the challenge this poses with
 reference to Europe.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 113-137 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2014.988054 
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Author-Name: Michael Carr 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Carr 
Author-Name: Aurelie Charles 
Author-X-Name-First: Aurelie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Charles 
Author-Name: Wilfred Dolfsma 
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dolfsma 
Author-Name: Robert McMaster 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: McMaster 
Author-Name: Tonia Warnecke 
Author-X-Name-First: Tonia 
Author-X-Name-Last: Warnecke 
Title: Effective Contributions to the <italic>Review of Social Economy</italic> and Social Economics&#x2014;Editorial 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 139-145 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1039342 
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Author-Name: Rojhat B. Avsar 
Author-X-Name-First: Rojhat B. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Avsar 
Title: A Rawlsian Defense of the Individual Mandate: The &#x201c;Collective Asset&#x201d; Approach 
Abstract:
 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires individuals to get
 coverage or pay a fine (or &#x201c;shared responsibility payment&#x201d;)
 starting in 2014. This mandate had been at the center of a contentious
 political and legal debate. Although the Mandate is key to ending
 discriminations based on pre-existing conditions in the individual
 insurance market, its constitutionality had been challenged. We argue that
 the Obama administration's legal argument for the constitutionality of the
 Mandate by invoking conventional economic categories such as
 &#x201c;negative externalities&#x201d; is inadequate in addressing the
 economic and moral significance of the Mandate. As an alternative, we
 suggest a Rawlsian approach. Specifically, we will borrow the Rawlsian
 notion of &#x201c;collective asset&#x201d; to articulate the moral appeal
 of the Mandate and its social insurance logic.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 146-153 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1035911 
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Author-Name: Karen Evelyn Hauge 
Author-X-Name-First: Karen Evelyn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hauge 
Title: Moral Opinions are Conditional on the Behavior of Others 
Abstract:
 In social dilemmas individual behavior creates external effects on others.
 In such situations, a person's opinions concerning right and wrong might
 influence his behavior. Understanding moral opinions therefore is
 important. This paper reports on an experiment which shows that moral
 opinions are conditional on the behavior of others. This is demonstrated
 by the finding that a large majority of subjects in a public good game
 experiment report personal normative beliefs that increase with the actual
 contributions made by group members. This finding is important for the
 design of policies attempting to sustain public good provisions.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 154-175 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1035910 
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Author-Name: Kazuhito Ogawa 
Author-X-Name-First: Kazuhito 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ogawa 
Author-Name: Takanori Ida 
Author-X-Name-First: Takanori 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ida 
Title: Investigating Donating Behavior Using Hypothetical Dictator Game Experiments 
Abstract:
 We conduct dictator game experiments to investigate donating behavior by
 simultaneously examining the time delay when the donee receives the
 donation and the individual characteristics of the donor. We show that
 donations decrease as the time delay rises and that gender, education
 level, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and utilitarianism
 affect donations independent of the time delay.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 176-195 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1035908 
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Author-Name: Diksha Arora 
Author-X-Name-First: Diksha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Arora 
Title: Gender Differences in Time-Poverty in Rural Mozambique 
Abstract:
 Based on time-use data from a 2013 primary household survey, this study
 examines the nature and extent of time-poverty experienced by men and
 women in peasant households in Mozambique. The main findings indicate that
 while women's labor allocation to economic activities is comparable to
 that of men, household chores and care work are almost entirely women's
 responsibility. The heavy burden of responsibilities leave women
 significantly time-poorer compared to men. Women's time-poverty worsens
 when the burden of simultaneous care work is taken into account. In
 addition, due to multitasking, the work tends to be more taxing. The
 examination of determinants of time-poverty shows that common measures of
 individual economic power, such as assets and education, do not
 necessarily affect the time-poverty faced by women.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 196-221 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1035909 
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Author-Name: Mark D. White 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark D. 
Author-X-Name-Last: White 
Title: Judgment: Balancing Principle and Policy 
Abstract:
 Judgment is an element of decision-making that is of critical importance
 to both ethics and economics but remains underappreciated in both. In this
 paper, I describe one conception of moral judgment, drawn from the moral
 philosophy of Immanuel Kant and the legal philosophy of Ronald Dworkin, in
 which an agent weighs and balances the various moral duties and principles
 relevant to a choice situation in a way that maintains the integrity of
 her moral character. After explaining the foundations and uses of judgment
 in ethics, I discuss its importance to two areas of economic modeling,
 individual choice and policy-making, both of which can be enhanced by
 incorporating judgment alongside more basic ethical motivations and
 concerns.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 223-241 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1044842 
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Author-Name: Bruce Pietrykowski 
Author-X-Name-First: Bruce 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pietrykowski 
Title: Participatory Economic Research: Benefits and Challenges of Incorporating Participatory Research into Social Economics 
Abstract:
 Participatory action research (PAR) and community-based participatory
 research (CBPR) involve traditional subjects of research in the
 co-creation of research design, data collection, and analysis. PAR has
 been used in the fields of public health, education, and geography. A case
 study of a local economy CBPR project will be discussed. The increasing
 use of field and behavioral experiments in economics together with recent
 critiques of the ethical commitments of economic policy raises important
 questions about the role of expert knowledge, indigenous knowledge, and
 the relationships of power and privilege involved in mainstream academic
 research. The applicability of the PAR method for economics will be
 investigated in light of the epistemological and ethical commitments of
 social economics.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 242-262 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1044841 
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Author-Name: Jason Potts 
Author-X-Name-First: Jason 
Author-X-Name-Last: Potts 
Author-Name: John Hartley 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hartley 
Title: How the Social Economy Produces Innovation 
Abstract:
 Social economics has long been concerned with the effects on human
 societies of market-coordinated processes of economic innovation. But the
 social economy also causes invention and innovation, an aspect that has
 received less attention. This article reviews three new approaches to the
 study of the growth of knowledge in economic systems as driven expressly
 by sociocultural mechanisms and dynamics. The first are so-called
 &#x201c;social network markets&#x201d; and &#x201c;novelty bundling
 markets&#x201d;. The second extends from &#x201c;knowledge commons&#x201d;
 to &#x201c;innovation commons&#x201d;. The third is a sociocultural
 semiotic process of group dynamics. These models represent different ways
 the social economy generates newness and produces innovation.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 263-282 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1067756 
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Author-Name: Derek Jones 
Author-X-Name-First: Derek 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jones 
Author-Name: Panu Kalmi 
Author-X-Name-First: Panu 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kalmi 
Title: Membership and Performance in Finnish Financial Cooperatives: A New View of Cooperatives? 
Abstract:
 Many economists adopt a critical stance on cooperatives. One example is
 the claim that larger membership in cooperative banks is detrimental to
 performance. We re-examine this earlier finding by drawing from a richer
 and broader conceptual framework than used previously and conclude that in
 recent years, the relationship between membership and performance may be
 positive. In our empirical analysis, we use new data for Finnish
 cooperative banks and, compared to earlier work, develop an alternative
 measure for membership and employ improved estimation methods. A positive
 relationship between membership and performance in financial cooperatives
 is consistently found. We discuss our findings in light of an emerging
 body of theoretical and empirical work on cooperatives, especially for
 financial cooperatives, and argue that a new view of cooperatives is
 warranted.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 283-309 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1067753 
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Author-Name: Philip Arestis 
Author-X-Name-First: Philip 
Author-X-Name-Last: Arestis 
Author-Name: Aurelie Charles 
Author-X-Name-First: Aurelie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Charles 
Author-Name: Giuseppe Fontana 
Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fontana 
Title: Introduction to the Special Issue on &#x201c;Ethics, Global Finance and the Great Recession&#x201d; 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 311-314 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1100848 
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Author-Name: George F. DeMartino 
Author-X-Name-First: George F. 
Author-X-Name-Last: DeMartino 
Title: Harming Irreparably: On Neoliberalism, Kaldor-Hicks, and the Paretian Guarantee 
Abstract:
 The global neoliberal project, which entailed <italic>inter alia</italic>
 financial liberalization that accelerated financialization of the world
 economy, was advocated by leading Austrian, Chicago School neoclassical,
 and New Keynesian economists, despite awareness that the project would
 harm many members of society even as it benefitted others. To the extent
 that they were efficacious in their advocacy, economists contributed to
 the imposition of serious harm. Often the harm befell the most vulnerable
 members of society. At least some of the harm was avoidable. This paper
 examines critically the Kaldor-Hicks compensation test, a primary
 criterion used in defense of the neoliberal project. The paper finds that
 the best existing defense of Kaldor-Hicks is Paretian rather than
 Benthamian in nature: it focuses on the long-run rather than on each
 individual policy innovation, and claims that all agents benefit by a
 series of Kaldor-Hicks consistent innovations even if some are harmed in
 each individual instance. The paper finds that the Paretian case is
 deficient on grounds other than those commonly invoked against
 Kaldor-Hicks. The critique focuses on the neoclassical consequentialist
 welfarism that grounds the Paretian case, and the related presumption that
 all harms are reparable and, indeed, compensable.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 315-340 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1089110 
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Author-Name: Cynthia Bansak 
Author-X-Name-First: Cynthia 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bansak 
Author-Name: Martha A. Starr 
Author-X-Name-First: Martha A. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Starr 
Title: Distributional Costs of Housing-price Bubbles: Who pays the Price when Bubbles Deflate? 
Abstract:
 In considering whether asset-price bubbles should be offset through
 policy, an important issue is who pays the price when the bubble bursts. A
 bust that reduces the wealth of well-off households only may have small
 welfare costs, but costs may be sizable if broad swaths of households are
 affected. This paper uses micro data on millions of households from the US
 American Community Survey to examine how the bursting of the 1998--2006
 housing bubble affected households&#x2019; employment, homeownership, home
 values, and housing costs. To separate dynamics of the housing bust from
 those of the aggregate downturn, we differentiate between metropolitan
 areas that did and did not experience bubbles. We find that, for most
 measures, deteriorations in well-being were more severe in bubble metros
 than elsewhere, and for several measures, differential effects on
 less-educated households were also more severe. This underscores the
 importance of leaning against broad-based housing bubbles via appropriate
 policies, as burdens of adjustment fall differentially on people not well
 prepared to bear them.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 341-369 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1089108 
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Author-Name: Philip Arestis 
Author-X-Name-First: Philip 
Author-X-Name-Last: Arestis 
Author-Name: Aurelie Charles 
Author-X-Name-First: Aurelie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Charles 
Author-Name: Giuseppe Fontana 
Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fontana 
Title: Power, Intergroup Conflicts and Social Stratification in the United States: What has the Global Crisis Taught us? 
Abstract:
 Drawing on early sociological analyses of how power and intergroup
 conflicts can affect the development of modern economies, this paper
 investigates how the recent Global Crisis (GC) has affected the
 stratification of the US society. The paper argues that the consumerist
 society has reinforced the historical stratification of social identities
 with white men in high-paid, high-social status managerial and financial
 occupations at the top, and black women in low-paid, low-status service
 occupations at the bottom. This paper calls for a deconstruction of the
 neoliberal individual into a unique combination of identities in a
 stratified capitalist society in order to reveal how social stratification
 has evolved during the GC. The paper finally concludes on the importance
 of heterogeneous identities in reflecting the diversity of societal and
 economic interests in order to address the issues of financial stability
 and sustainability at the corporate and societal levels.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 370-387 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1089109 
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Author-Name: Ilene Grabel 
Author-X-Name-First: Ilene 
Author-X-Name-Last: Grabel 
Title: Post-Crisis Experiments in Development Finance Architectures: A Hirschmanian Perspective On &#x2018;Productive Incoherence&#x2019; 
Abstract:
 The Asian and especially the global crisis of 2008 have catalyzed
 decentralization of the developing world&#x2019;s financial governance
 architecture. I understand this state of affairs via the concept of
 &#x201c;productive incoherence&#x201d; which is apparent in a denser,
 multilayered development financial architecture that is emerging as a
 consequence of heterogeneous practical adjustments to changing
 circumstances rather than as the embodiment of a coherent doctrine.
 Drawing on Albert Hirschman, I argue that the absence of an encompassing
 theoretical blueprint for a new economic system&#x2014;i.e. a new
 &#x201c;ism&#x201d; to replace neoliberalism&#x2014;is in fact a vitally
 important virtue. If we cannot live without a new &#x201c;ism,&#x201d; I
 propose &#x201c;Hirschmanian Possibilism&#x201d; as a new
 doctrine&#x2014;one that rejects an overarching theoretical framework from
 which to deduce the singly appropriate institutional structure of the
 economy. Hirschmanian Possibilism asserts instead the value of productive
 incoherence as a framework for pursuing democratic, ethically viable
 development institutions.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 388-414 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 73 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1089111 
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Author-Name: Altug Yalcintas 
Author-X-Name-First: Altug 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yalcintas 
Author-Name: James R. Wible 
Author-X-Name-First: James R. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wible 
Title: Scientific misconduct and research ethics in economics: an introduction 
Abstract:
 Since the screening of Inside Job in movie theatres around the world in
 2010, research integrity in economics has been questioned by scholars and
 public intellectuals. Prestigious economists and policy makers are accused
 of conflicts of interest while prominent economists are charged with
 plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Some of these economists replied to
 accusations about themselves while many others have preferred not to
 respond at all. These days, economists hear the following question more
 often than before: &#x201c;what is wrong with economics?&#x201d;
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 1-6 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1150731 
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Author-Name: James R. Wible 
Author-X-Name-First: James R. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wible 
Title: Scientific misconduct and the responsible conduct of research in science and economics 
Abstract:
 Considered here are matters relating to the responsible conduct of
 research in economics and science in the United States for the last forty
 years. In science there was a &#x201c;late 20th century wave&#x201d; of
 scientific misconduct and then a &#x201c;millennial wave&#x201d;. For
 economics in the former era, episodes of honest error and replication
 failure occurred. Recently plagiarism and data manipulation have been
 reported. Overall few economists seem to fabricate data, but falsification
 of data, replication failure, and plagiarism occur. Furthermore,
 replication failure is the one thing that scientific misconduct and honest
 error have in common. In economics and compared to the sciences, there
 have been no misconduct hearings, no economist has been charged with a
 crime, nor has anyone served time in prison for scientific misconduct.
 Science and economics seem to be sufficiently self-corrective so that
 systemic science failure does not utterly thwart scientific progress in
 the long run.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 7-32 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1135598 
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Author-Name: M. van Heerden 
Author-X-Name-First: M. 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Heerden 
Author-Name: R.G. Visagie 
Author-X-Name-First: R.G. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Visagie 
Author-Name: J.S. Wessels 
Author-X-Name-First: J.S. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wessels 
Title: A discipline-relevant conceptual framework for research ethics review in economic sciences 
Abstract:
 This article aims to contribute to the discourse on the growing
 frustration amongst researchers about compulsory institutional research
 ethics review. The question that directs this article is to what extent
 research in the economic sciences should be subjected to the widely used
 biomedical model of research ethics review. A subsequent question is
 whether a discipline-relevant model would not be more appropriate for such
 review. To this end, a case study of the 2012 volume of the journal
 <italic>Review of Social Economy</italic> was selected for a systematic
 content analysis of the articles reporting on economics research. The
 eligibility criteria most commonly used by research ethics committees have
 been applied in this analysis. The study has shown that although blanket
 exemption for research in the economic sciences might not be appropriate,
 a discipline-relevant risk assessment framework for research involving
 human subjects in economics research is necessary. This article argues for
 a reasonable and non-frustrating research ethics review process applicable
 to the level of the potential risk to harm human subjects.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 33-52 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1125632 
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Author-Name: Altug Yalcintas 
Author-X-Name-First: Altug 
Author-X-Name-Last: Yalcintas 
Author-Name: Isil Sirin Selcuk 
Author-X-Name-First: Isil Sirin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Selcuk 
Title: Research Ethics Education in Economics 
Abstract:
 In this paper, we report the findings from the data we collected from a
 survey in order to measure how common research ethics education in
 economics is. We have found out that (1) research ethics is taught in only
 a very few economics departments around the globe; (2) topics related to
 research ethics are not taught in courses on economics and ethics; and (3)
 the number of papers published in specialised peer-reviewed journals on
 economics education is only a tiny fraction of the number of papers
 published in these journals. There has been no evidence in economics
 showing that economics departments have taken strong initiative on
 teaching research ethics to undergraduate and graduate students.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 53-74 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1100847 
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Author-Name: Serdar Sayan 
Author-X-Name-First: Serdar 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sayan 
Title: Serving as a referee for your own paper: A dream come true or&#x2026;? 
Abstract:
 This note first describes the details of an interesting incident of
 plagiarism where the author of a previously published paper was sent a
 verbatim copy of that paper for his review for possible publication in
 another journal. It then offers a few insights into the possible reasons
 underlying such blatant plagiarism attempts, and provides caveats against
 them.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 75-82 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1067757 
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Author-Name: Stephen T. Ziliak 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen T. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ziliak 
Title: Statistical significance and scientific misconduct: improving the style of the published research paper 
Abstract:
 A science, business, or law that is basing its validity on the level of
 <italic>p</italic>-values, <italic>t</italic> statistics and other tests
 of statistical significance is looking less and less relevant and more and
 more unethical. Today&#x2019;s economist uses a lot of wit putting a
 clever index of opportunity cost into his models; but then, like the
 amnesiac, he fails to see opportunity cost in statistical estimates he
 makes of those same models. Medicine, psychology, pharmacology and other
 fields are similarly damaged by this fundamental error of science, keeping
 bad treatments on the market and good ones out. A few small changes to the
 style of the published research paper using statistical methods can bring
 large beneficial effects to more than academic research papers. It is
 suggested that misuse of statistical significance be added to the
 definition of scientific misconduct currently enforced by the NIH, NSF,
 Office of Research Integrity and others.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 83-97 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1150730 
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Author-Name: Sarah Necker 
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Necker 
Title: Why do scientists cheat? Insights from behavioral economics 
Abstract:
 Based on a review of the books by Wible (2014), Stephan (2012), and
 Lanteri and Vromen (2014), I discuss three different ways in which
 behavioral economics can enrich the understanding of scientific
 misbehavior. First, behavioral economics suggests that economic theories
 of scientific misbehavior, such as the one by Wible (2014), should
 consider moral costs of cheating, i.e. costs that arise from an
 individual&#x2019;s desire to do the &#x201c;right thing.&#x201d; Second,
 behavioral economics demonstrates several ways in which the features of
 the reward scheme in science,as described by Stephan (2012), can favor
 cheating. Her conclusion that shirking is rarely an issue in science seems
 optimistic. Third, behavioral economics indicates that individual
 characteristics matter for cheating. According to Lanteri and Vromen
 (2014), economists possess different characteristics than other
 researchers. Hence, the reaction to incentives may differ across
 disciplines. Considering these insights is important to assess how a goal
 such as the pursuit of truth can be achieved efficiently.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 98-108 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1135604 
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Author-Name: William McClain 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: McClain 
Title: A Pathway Forwards for the Social Capital Metaphor 
Abstract:
 A major topic in economics is the analysis of a broad class of phenomena
 associated with interpersonal relationships, a topic that originally grew
 from theories of &#x201c;social capital.&#x201d; While the concept has
 been instrumental in bringing increased attention to social effects on
 economic outcomes, it has increasingly been replaced with approaches that
 consider instead networks and discrete interactions rather than aggregate
 measures of social capital. This has been an analytical improvement, but a
 great deal of work remains to bring empirical validity and relevancy to
 social network analysis. This paper presents two important approaches for
 achieving this, statistical analysis and agent-based modeling, and
 discusses their benefits, limitations, and complementary nature. Rather
 than waiting for either approach to achieve an ambiguous quality of
 maturity, integrating statistical analysis with simulation models of
 networks must begin now to push the frontiers of social network analysis
 forward.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 109-128 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1089106 
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Author-Name: Thomas More Garrett 
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas More 
Author-X-Name-Last: Garrett 
Title: Business ethics and a faith-inspired solution to the problem of economism 
Abstract:
 This article examines the influence of economism on contemporary business
 practice. The first part surveys some of the recent scholarship from the
 business field regarding economism and particularly its accretion from
 business academia into the workplace. Part two identifies the central
 problem of economism in an implicit anthropology. Drawing from a variety
 of commentary and studies, this part illustrates that while reason
 identifies the deficiency in the economistic view of the human person, an
 authentic anthropology lies beyond reason&#x2019;s grasp. The last part
 aims to show how the encyclical letter Caritas in Veritate of Benedict XVI
 demonstrates that a reason open to faith points to a solution. The work of
 the now emeritus pope offers an anthropological vision capable of
 supplying a foundation to a business ethics that can support a commercial
 practice better designed to contribute to human development and the
 satisfaction of human needs.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 129-147 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1150728 
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Author-Name: Caroline Shenaz Hossein 
Author-X-Name-First: Caroline Shenaz 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hossein 
Title: &#x201c;Big Man&#x201d; politics in the social economy: a case study of microfinance in Kingston, Jamaica 
Abstract:
 Microfinance and its &#x201c;reinvention as bankers-for-the-poor&#x201d;
 to create financial inclusion has not been effective everywhere. The
 literature seems to suggest that the social economy and microfinance help
 marginalized business people; yet no one considers that political bias
 interferes with the social economy, making it hard for it to be just. The
 promise of micro-credit was to achieve a double bottom line: first, the
 financial sustainability of the lending institution itself, and second,
 the social benefit of providing loans to low-income business people. Yet,
 alternative pitches of a social economy to &#x201c;help people&#x201d;
 fail to analyze the embedded power dynamics within the social economy. In
 this case study in downtown Kingston, Jamaica, 233 small-business people
 who depend on development finance because of social exclusion now find
 that these targeted programs are intertwined in partisan, sometimes
 dangerous, politics. As a result, oppressed people opt out of
 micro-banking programs to resist &#x201c;Big Man&#x201d; politics -- the
 politicians or gangsters attempting to control them. In this study of 307
 interviews, I analyze the informal politics of Dons and politicians who
 misuse micro-credit for their own ends. I find that the coupling of class
 biases and clientelist practices in the social economy discourages
 eligible business people from taking micro-loans, and argue that the
 microfinance industry needs to pay close attention to this issue if it is
 to continue to help marginalized business people.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 148-171 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1067754 
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Author-Name: Charalampos Konstantinidis 
Author-X-Name-First: Charalampos 
Author-X-Name-Last: Konstantinidis 
Title: Assessing the socio-economic dimensions of the rise of organic farming in the European Union 
Abstract:
 Organic farming is considered one of the most important rural development
 tools in the European Union, often connected to the socio-economic
 objectives of small-farm support and employment generation. Using an EU-27
 regional panel data-set from 2000 to 2010, I show that the share of a
 region&#x2019;s agricultural area under organic methods is positively
 associated with average farm size. Furthermore, I show that the share of
 organic farming in a region is not associated with higher application of
 agricultural labor per hectare. Both results question the connection
 between organic farming and the aforementioned objectives, and point to
 the conventionalization of European organic farming.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 172-193 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1067755 
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Author-Name: Anders Fremstad 
Author-X-Name-First: Anders 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fremstad 
Title: Sticky Norms, Endogenous Preferences, and Shareable Goods 
Abstract:
 The Internet has reduced the cost of borrowing and lending
 &#x201c;shareable goods,&#x201d; including tools, gear, toys, lodging, and
 vehicles. Online platforms can better match people with underutilized
 goods, but it may take time for people to develop sticky norms and
 endogenous preferences that are conducive to greater peer-to-peer sharing.
 This study estimates the current and potential value of sharing items
 across households. Data from the General Social Survey, the website
 NeighborGoods, and a new survey show that peer-to-peer borrowing is
 already worth at least $179 a year for 30% of Americans. Spending on
 shareable goods provides an upper bound on the potential gains from
 sharing. The consumer expenditure survey reveals that the average
 household spends $9,090 each year on shareable goods. Private vehicles
 account for 80% of these expenses, which suggests that the largest
 opportunities may be in greater car-sharing and ride-sharing.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 194-214 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1089107 
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Author-Name: Edward J. O&#x2019;Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Edward J. 
Author-X-Name-Last: O&#x2019;Boyle 
Author-Name: Meade P. O&#x2019;Boyle 
Author-X-Name-First: Meade P. 
Author-X-Name-Last: O&#x2019;Boyle 
Title: &#x2018;Medical altruism in mainstream health economics: theoretical and political paradoxes&#x2019; comments 
Abstract:
 In this article, which was published in the September 2014 issue of the
 <italic>Review</italic>, Batifoulier and Da Silva examine the role of
 medical altruism in health economics. They argue that abandoning
 <italic>homo economicus</italic> and the mainstream practice of
 incorporating patient well-being in the doctor&#x2019;s utility function
 in order to explain the clinical behavior of doctors and switching from
 profit maximization to medical altruism both lead to a dead end. We agree
 but the authors leave us with no way out. We argue instead that the
 doctor&#x2019;s clinical behavior whether expressed in terms of utility or
 altruism is not a fit subject for economics. The way out is to restrict
 economics to health care issues with financial dimensions. In their
 article, Batifoulier and Da Silva bring their French experience to the
 table. We bring to the table our American experience with more than
 40&#xa0;years of hands-on care for patients along with the experiences of
 four other physicians in our extended family. The specialties include
 intensive care pediatrics, emergency medicine, intensive-care pulmonary
 medicine, dermatology, and otolaryngology. Our premise in responding to
 Batifoulier and Da Silva is that apart from payment for services rendered,
 there probably are no serious differences in the actual practice of
 medicine in France compared to the United States. And even if there are
 such differences, they are matters to be taken up by medicine not
 economics.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 215-221 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1150729 
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Author-Name: Philippe Batifoulier 
Author-X-Name-First: Philippe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Batifoulier 
Author-Name: Nicolas Da Silva 
Author-X-Name-First: Nicolas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Da Silva 
Title: Is physician behavior too serious a business to be left to economics? Reply to medical altruism in mainstream health economics: theoretical and political paradoxes 
Abstract:
 This short paper is a Reply to &#x2018;Medical altruism in mainstream
 health economics: theoretical and political paradoxes. COMMENTS&#x2019;.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 222-227 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1171386 
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Author-Name: Martha C. Nussbaum 
Author-X-Name-First: Martha C. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nussbaum 
Title: Economics still needs philosophy 
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 229-247 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2015.1044843 
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Author-Name: Catherine Pollak 
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pollak 
Author-Name: Nicolas Sirven 
Author-X-Name-First: Nicolas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sirven 
Title: Active ageing beyond the labour market: evidence on the role of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards at work 
Abstract:
 &#x2018;Active Ageing&#x2019; strategies aim to foster the participation
 of seniors in the society. Although economic literature has extensively
 studied the incentives for seniors to increase their labour supply, little
 is known about the motivations for older people to complement labour with
 other forms of social participation. This article provides empirical
 evidence of the role of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards received at work
 in the supply of formal and informal productive activities of 50- to
 65-year-old workers. The results show that workers with higher levels of
 intrinsic rewards received at work, such as skill development
 opportunities and decision latitude, are more likely to participate in
 social activities outside the labour market. Extrinsic rewards on the
 other hand, like advancement perspectives, job security and pay, appear
 independent from both formal and informal social participation.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 248-274 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1168032 
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Author-Name: Bana Bashour 
Author-X-Name-First: Bana 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bashour 
Author-Name: Ramzi Mabsout 
Author-X-Name-First: Ramzi 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mabsout 
Title: Reconciling economics with naturalist ethical theory 
Abstract:
 The exclusive use of evolutionary explanations and game theory to justify
 moral claims has led economists to an impasse. Our discussion of this
 problem is focused on arguments made by Kenneth Binmore and Herbert
 Gintis, two vocal and notable economists behind these efforts. We begin by
 pointing out the false dilemma they present between ethical theories
 involving dubious non-naturalist metaphysics and their versions of
 naturalized game-theoretic ethics. We do so by, first, discussing
 alternative naturalist accounts, namely, those of Peter Railton and
 Richard Boyd. Second, we argue that their descriptive and explanatory
 theories are in fact committed to substantive normative claims. Our
 hypothesis is that their attempts to avoid ethical arguments are
 responsible for their mistaken belief that theirs is a scientific
 disagreement, whereas it is in fact one about human nature. Binmore and
 Gintis&#x2019;s disagreement about ethical claims requires acknowledging
 and engaging with substantive normative arguments such as those of what is
 good and what ought to be done. The alternative would be a never-ending
 disagreement on the fundamental view of human nature. This path, we worry,
 may be a road to nowhere.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 275-297 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1168034 
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Author-Name: J&#xe9;r&#xf4;me Blanc 
Author-X-Name-First: J&#xe9;r&#xf4;me 
Author-X-Name-Last: Blanc 
Author-Name: Marie Fare 
Author-X-Name-First: Marie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fare 
Title: Turning values concrete: the role and ways of business selection in local currency schemes 
Abstract:
 Alternative consumption schemes require the selection of producers and
 traders according to criteria and through processes that should make
 alternative values concrete. The way values turn concrete is crucial for
 the effectiveness of such projects. This paper investigates the ways
 criteria and processes are defined and their real meanings and uses
 through the case of associative local currencies. Drawing on the framework
 of proximities, it analyses local currency schemes as combining
 proximities (geographical and non-geographical) and selection processes
 set up for providers wishing to join. Selection processes may be based on
 a charter, an approval committee and screening criteria. The objectives of
 the selection, its measures in principle, the way in which it is applied
 as well as the practical consequences are discussed. Even when charters
 and formal participatory schemes for selecting providers are established,
 proximities appear as the keystone of selection and trust.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 298-319 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1168035 
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Author-Name: Jakob Kapeller 
Author-X-Name-First: Jakob 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kapeller 
Author-Name: Bernhard Sch&#xfc;tz 
Author-X-Name-First: Bernhard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sch&#xfc;tz 
Author-Name: Dennis Tamesberger 
Author-X-Name-First: Dennis 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tamesberger 
Title: From free to civilized trade: a European perspective 
Abstract:
 In the context of unfettered international competition, free trade tends
 to undermine basic moral concepts such as justice, dignity, and fairness.
 Therefore, we suggest moving to a new understanding of markets in
 international trade, which we call &#x2018;civilized markets&#x2019;. A
 civilized market tries to ensure that free entrepreneurship and open
 markets are eventually compatible with those basic and universal values
 that also serve as moral cornerstones of the European project. In order to
 accomplish a civilized market, we propose to establish a new European
 institution with a mandate to set and enforce minimum standards for goods
 sold on the European market.
Journal: Review of Social Economy 
Pages: 320-328 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 74 
Year: 2016 
Month: 9 
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1168033 
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Author-Name: Jacob A. L. Vermeire
Author-X-Name-First: Jacob A. L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vermeire
Author-Name: Garry D. Bruton
Author-X-Name-First: Garry D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bruton
Author-Name: Li Cai
Author-X-Name-First: Li
Author-X-Name-Last: Cai
Title: Global value chains in Africa and development of opportunities by poor landholders
Abstract: 
 In an effort to help address severe levels of poverty, multinational firms are increasingly seeking to include African smallholders in their global value chains (GVCs). Despite efforts of multinationals to provide such opportunities, the number of successful inclusions remains limited. We draw from the entrepreneurship domain to approach this important issue from an opportunity perspective. At the heart of our effort to develop a greater theoretical understanding is the insight that opportunities can both be discovered and created by smallholders. The key implication of this insight is that multinationals will gain more from their efforts to include small landholders in their GVCs if they adapt their value chain systems in ways that also accommodate joint creation of opportunities with smallholders rather than expect that all smallholders adapt to the systems developed by the large global firms for their large suppliers.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 280-295
Issue: 3
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1238103
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Author-Name: Ruerd Ruben
Author-X-Name-First: Ruerd
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruben
Author-Name: Alemayehu Dekeba Bekele
Author-X-Name-First: Alemayehu
Author-X-Name-Last: Dekeba Bekele
Author-Name: Birhanu Megersa Lenjiso
Author-X-Name-First: Birhanu
Author-X-Name-Last: Megersa Lenjiso
Title: Quality upgrading in Ethiopian dairy value chains: dovetailing upstream and downstream perspectives
Abstract: 
 In this article, we analyze opportunities and constraints for upgrading product quality in the dairy value chain in Ethiopia. Our analysis is based on an integrated understanding of supply chain performance both from producer and from consumer perspectives. We outline as main drivers for quality upgrading: (a) factors that influence producers’ willingness to invest toward intensification by smallholder dairy farmers and cooperatives and (b) factors that induce consumer’s willingness to pay for healthy and nutritious dairy products delivered at specific retail outlets. Since there are large gaps between upstream producers incentives and downstream consumers motives, possibilities for dairy quality upgrading remain fairly limited. Given this market structure, decisive policy support is required for better tailoring producer’s investments with consumer preferences.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 296-317
Issue: 3
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1286032
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Author-Name: Anne van Lakerveld
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: van Lakerveld
Author-Name: Rob van Tulder
Author-X-Name-First: Rob
Author-X-Name-Last: van Tulder
Title: Managing the transition to sustainable supply chain management practices: Evidence from Dutch leader firms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Abstract: 
 Governance literature identifies so-called ‘leader firms’ as the directors of global value chains. But in what direction are they leading? Some leader firms actively try to make a transition towards sustainable supply chain practices, but how can this be assessed? Supply chain management literature provides fragmented insights into the antecedents of transition processes. They adopt a largely ‘top-down’, ‘inside-out’ perspective rather than (also) take a ‘bottom-up’ and ‘outside-in’ perspective in which the consequences for the business models of supplying firms at the bottom of the supply chain are rarely taken into account. This contribution develops a more integrated eclectic approach on sustainable supply business models. We conceptualise antecedents of change along consecutive stages of management that combines different supplier ‘upgrading’ approaches with different ways in which leader firms integrate suppliers in their purchasing strategies. We apply this model to the strategies of 10 leading Dutch companies active in Africa, but with different supply chain positions.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 255-279
Issue: 3
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1286033
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Author-Name: Alle Metzlar
Author-X-Name-First: Alle
Author-X-Name-Last: Metzlar
Title: Strategic intent and the strategic position of smallholders: a case study of a smallholders’ organization in the Ghanaian cocoa industry
Abstract: 
 Despite their clear relevance in western business society, many strategic management literature insights are neglected in the development debate regarding smallholders in third world countries. This article explores if strategic intent may be a useful tool in the smallholder debate, by conducting a case study of a smallholders’ organization in the Ghanaian cocoa industry. The case study shows that the strategic intent of the smallholders’ organization and the commitment of its members are inadequate. Group goals are lacking, farmers are participating in side-selling, and do not actively engage in the cooperative. These problems may be resolved by propositions provided by the strategic management literature, such as the introduction of an entrance fee to participate in the cooperative.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 371-387
Issue: 3
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1299202
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Author-Name: Clemens Lutz
Author-X-Name-First: Clemens
Author-X-Name-Last: Lutz
Author-Name: Getaw Tadesse
Author-X-Name-First: Getaw
Author-X-Name-Last: Tadesse
Title: African farmers’ market organizations and global value chains: competitiveness versus inclusiveness
Abstract: 
 This conceptual paper discusses the challenges smallholder producer cooperatives in developing countries face while trying to access agricultural global value chains. We assess the problem of competitiveness related to lack of commitment and improper selection. Prioritization of open membership over selection is generally taken for granted in the policy debate on farmers’ market organizations (FMOs). We argue that open membership may work in community-driven organizations, however, it becomes a major threat for entrepreneurial FMOs. Inclusion facilitates free riding, which forms a barrier for investments of members. This is one of the major reasons why so many of these organizations are so much resource constrained, i.e. are not able to compete in the market without external support. FMOs should take targeting and selection serious if entrepreneurial activities are intended. Otherwise, they miss the opportunity to create a committed member base willing to invest in a potentially competitive organization.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 318-338
Issue: 3
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1300317
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Author-Name: Matthias Olthaar
Author-X-Name-First: Matthias
Author-X-Name-Last: Olthaar
Author-Name: Florian Noseleit
Author-X-Name-First: Florian
Author-X-Name-Last: Noseleit
Title: Deploying strategic resources: comparing members of farmer cooperatives to non-members in sub-Saharan Africa
Abstract: 
 Primary producers in global value chains, like any other firm, aim for entrepreneurial success through deploying strategic resources, collective action, strategic intent, and a supportive institutional environment. In the current article, we analyze the extent to which members of farmer cooperatives in Ethiopia succeed in deploying strategic resources. We find that non-members utilize resources more efficiently and that the potential for collective action is not realized. The potential for collective action remains unrealized due to the institutional environment. We suggest pathways for further research.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 339-370
Issue: 3
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1306749
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Author-Name: Clemens Lutz
Author-X-Name-First: Clemens
Author-X-Name-Last: Lutz
Author-Name: Matthias Olthaar
Author-X-Name-First: Matthias
Author-X-Name-Last: Olthaar
Title: Global value chains and smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 251-254
Issue: 3
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1357321
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Author-Name: Edward B. Barbier
Author-X-Name-First: Edward B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Barbier
Title: Overcoming environmental scarcity, inequality and structural imbalance in the world economy
Abstract: 
 The world economy faces two major threats: increasing environmental degradation and a growing gap between rich and poor. The root cause is that natural resources—or natural capital—is underpriced, and hence overly exploited, whereas human capital—the skills embodied in the workforce—is insufficient to meet demand. This outcome has three important consequences. First, all sectors of an economy will use too much natural resources relative to skilled labor. Second, the skilled workers throughout the economy will have higher real incomes and thus will be better off. Third, wealth inequality will increase, as the income gap between skilled and unskilled workers widens. Addressing this structural imbalance requires correcting the two underlying distortions, which are the chronic under-pricing of natural capital and the under-investment in human capital. This must be accompanied by a new suite of policies to provide improved incentives for more balanced wealth creation.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 251-270
Issue: 3
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1602282
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Author-Name: Saeed Solaymani
Author-X-Name-First: Saeed
Author-X-Name-Last: Solaymani
Author-Name: Ebrahim Aghamohammadi
Author-X-Name-First: Ebrahim
Author-X-Name-Last: Aghamohammadi
Author-Name: Ali Falahati
Author-X-Name-First: Ali
Author-X-Name-Last: Falahati
Author-Name: Saeed Sharafi
Author-X-Name-First: Saeed
Author-X-Name-Last: Sharafi
Author-Name: Fatimah Kari
Author-X-Name-First: Fatimah
Author-X-Name-Last: Kari
Title: Food security and socio-economic aspects of agricultural input subsidies
Abstract: 
 This study is the first attempt at promoting agricultural input subsidy policies in a computable general equilibrium framework on two main dimensions of food security (i.e. food availability and access to food), poverty and income distribution in Malaysia for all ethnic groups. This study investigates the short-run impacts of two subsidy removal policy and one subsidy expansion policy using 2010 input–output table. Results show that both subsidy removal policies negatively influence agricultural sectors and economic growth of Malaysia while the expansion policy influence them positively. The removal policies also decrease food availability and access to food and, consequently, increase poverty at the national level and the poverty level of Malay household, while the expansion policy increases food availability and access to food and alleviate the poverty level of Malay household. The complete removal policy without paddy/rice subsidies increases rice production and raises food availability and access to food commodities (or food security) in the country resulting in a lesser increase in poverty compared to the complete removal policy.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 271-296
Issue: 3
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1596298
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Author-Name: Bartholomew Armah
Author-X-Name-First: Bartholomew
Author-X-Name-Last: Armah
Author-Name: Seung-Jin Baek
Author-X-Name-First: Seung-Jin
Author-X-Name-Last: Baek
Title: Prioritising interventions for sustainable structural transformation in Africa: a structural equation modelling approach
Abstract: 
 Development paradigms offer competing theories on the drivers of structural transformation. Most of the analysis has so far focused on the economic factors with little emphasis placed on either the social or environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Furthermore, there has been little theoretical or empirical analysis of how the three dimensions (e.g. economic, social, and environmental) interact to impact on structural transformation. This leaves an important gap in the literature since the three sectors are interlinked, not mutually exclusive, and hence cannot be analysed in isolation from one another. Using a panel data set for a group of 29 African countries spanning the period 1995–2011, this study employs a structural equation modelling approach to estimate the direct and indirect impacts of social, economic and environmental indicators on a composite index of structural transformation. We find that strategies that prioritise investments in social inclusion programmes have the greatest catalytic effect in advancing structural transformation in Africa.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 297-325
Issue: 3
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1602277
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Author-Name: Christian E. Weller
Author-X-Name-First: Christian E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Weller
Author-Name: Jeffrey B. Wenger
Author-X-Name-First: Jeffrey B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wenger
Title: Divergent fortunes: growing wealth inequality and widening entrepreneurship by age
Abstract: 
 Entrepreneurship can offer people control over their working lives. Yet, it has declined among households younger than 50 years and grown among older households. We examine the relationship between growing wealth inequality and this widening entrepreneurial age disparities by focusing on wealth as a source of income diversification. Our main hypothesis is that younger households have less capital income from wealth holdings leading to less diversification as compared to older households. Using descriptive statistics and multinomial logistic regressions based on data from the Federal Reserve’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), we conclude that the gap in households’ entrepreneurial responsiveness to income diversification has widened by age. We also find that households’ capital income receipt follows from wealth such that rising wealth inequality may have impeded income diversification and reduced entrepreneurship among households with less wealth, especially younger ones. We rule out three alternative explanations: increasing economic pressures from labor market instability, tightening of liquidity constraints, and in declines in nonpecuniary rewards – for the divergent entrepreneurship trends.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 326-360
Issue: 3
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1618481
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Author-Name: Maryam Dilmaghani
Author-X-Name-First: Maryam
Author-X-Name-Last: Dilmaghani
Title: The evolution of the gender religiosity gap among the Canadian-born
Abstract: 
 The higher religiosity of women in the Western Christian societies is one of the best documented findings in the religious scholarship. In spite of the recent vibrancy of secular movements in North America, the higher religiosity of women appears persistent. As a result, the gender ratio is greatly skewed in the secular groups in favour of males. For instance, for every atheist female in North America, there are at least three males. Using the Canadian General Social Surveys of 1985–2014, this paper examines how the gender religiosity gap has evolved among the Canadian-born. Throughout the period, Canadian-born women are found less likely to be unaffiliated and show a greater frequency of religious attendance. The religious attendance gap is found to be closing. The unaffiliation gap, on the other hand, seems to have widened in the 21st century. Limiting the analyses to the gainfully employed respondents only reduces the religious attendance gap. For the high earners, the attendance gap effectively disappears, while a large unaffiliation gap persists into the 2010s. This pattern is best explained by the recent literature asserting that men and women are differentially socially sanctioned for the adoption of a secularized identity. The alleged sexism of the new secular movements is also noted as a potential explanation. The examination of the recent Canadian data on perceived religious and gender discrimination produces evidence congruent with both of these potential explanations.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 361-392
Issue: 3
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1562198
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Author-Name: Emil B. Berendt
Author-X-Name-First: Emil B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Berendt
Title: The housing bubble: an application of the just price
Abstract: 
 The bursting of the U.S. housing bubble in 2006 was one of the precipitating factors in the Great Recession. It also led to renewed attention by economists to the identification of speculative bubbles. An underappreciated set of analytical tools that could be applied to bubbles is the Solidarist understanding of the just price. Employing the thought of Heinrich Pesch, Bernard Dempsey and Oswald von Nell-Breuning, this article develops an empirical approach to the problem of the just price and bubble identification in housing. It concludes that housing prices did violate the conditions for justness. Furthermore, the just price theory can be used by policymakers and analysts to better understand the complexities of modern markets and it addresses several gaps in economists’ current understanding of housing and other asset bubbles.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 393-416
Issue: 3
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1596295
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Correction
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: i-i
Issue: 3
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1646442
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Author-Name: Michael J. Roy
Author-X-Name-First: Michael J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Roy
Author-Name: Michelle T. Hackett
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hackett
Title: Polanyi’s ‘substantive approach’ to the economy in action? Conceptualising social enterprise as a public health ‘intervention’
Abstract: 
 For several decades now, critical public health researchers have highlighted the deleterious effects that pursuing neoliberal policies can have on the ‘causes of the causes’ of poor health and upon growing health inequalities. This paper argues that the conceptual tools of Karl Polanyi can help lend particular insight into this issue. The specific example that this paper focuses upon is the ‘social enterprise’: a form of organisation that combines both social and business objectives. The paper explores, conceptually, whether social enterprises may have the potential to act as one component of a neo-Polanyian countermovement: helping to re-embed the economy back into society, and offering greater recognition for a more comprehensive and socially imbued concept of health. Importantly, this potential is critically examined in the context of neoliberal hegemony, where challenges to the status quo have regularly been met with assimilation, co-option and/or repression.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 89-111
Issue: 2
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1171383
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Author-Name: Damiano Fiorillo
Author-X-Name-First: Damiano
Author-X-Name-Last: Fiorillo
Author-Name: Nunzia Nappo
Author-X-Name-First: Nunzia
Author-X-Name-Last: Nappo
Title: Formal volunteering and self-perceived health. Causal evidence from the UK-SILC
Abstract: 
 The paper assesses the causal relationship between formal volunteering and individual health. The econometric analysis employs data provided by the Income and Living Conditions Survey for the United Kingdom carried out by the European Union’s Statistics (UK-SILC) in 2006. Based on 2SLS, treatment effect and recursive bivariate probit models, and religious participation as instrument variable, and controlling for social and cultural capital, our results show a positive effect of formal volunteering on self-perceived health.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 112-138
Issue: 2
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1186822
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Author-Name: Tiago Neves Sequeira
Author-X-Name-First: Tiago Neves
Author-X-Name-Last: Sequeira
Author-Name: Ricardo Viegas
Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Viegas
Author-Name: Alexandra Ferreira-Lopes
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreira-Lopes
Title: Income and religion: a heterogeneous panel data analysis
Abstract: 
 A recent empirical literature has addressed the relationship between income and religion, but most of the studies are based on microdata. Macroeconomic analysis of the issue has largely ignored the potential heterogeneity between countries. Using retrospective data on church attendance rates for a panel of countries between 1925 and 1990, we apply heterogeneous panel data estimators and reveal that the effect of participation in religious activities on income per capita is mostly non-significant. This is consistent with some of the recent research that casts doubt onto the influence of religion on income, once causality is taken into account.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 139-158
Issue: 2
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1195640
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Author-Name: Michael E Martell
Author-X-Name-First: Michael E
Author-X-Name-Last: Martell
Author-Name: Mary Eschelbach Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Mary
Author-X-Name-Last: Eschelbach Hansen
Title: Sexual identity and the lesbian earnings differential in the U.S.
Abstract: 
 Two decades of research on wage differentials by sexual orientation uses data-sets that do not ask respondents about their own sexual orientation, even though sexual identity is key to theories that explain why a wage differential might exist. We show that many women who claim a lesbian identity for themselves are not classified as lesbian by researchers using the behavioral proxies typically available in the data. Conversely, many women who describe themselves as heterosexual are classified as lesbian because they report sexual experiences with women. Misclassification may lead to erroneous conclusions about changes in labor market outcomes. The results highlight the need to develop robust methods for collecting data on sexual identity and for more research on the interrelationship between sexual identity and behavior, especially occupational choice.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 159-180
Issue: 2
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1219384
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Author-Name: Yawo Agbényégan Noglo
Author-X-Name-First: Yawo Agbényégan
Author-X-Name-Last: Noglo
Title: Non-monetary poverty in Togo: a multidimensional approach
Abstract: 
 The monetary approach is not sufficient to understand the multiple dimension of poverty. The purpose of this research is therefore to measure and analyze multidimensional poverty reduced to a single non-monetary dimension and according to the characteristics of household heads. Based on the non-monetary variables provided by the most recent country survey (QUIBB 2006), we use Multidimensional Correspondence Analysis techniques to construct a Composite Poverty Indicator. The results of the non-poverty index suggest that the poorest are large families and households in rural areas. The deprivation is also more serious in households whose heads are male, aged between 51 and 99 and less educated. The findings are the same for the monetary approach at the poverty line, leading to the conclusion that both types of poverty are quite strongly and positively correlated. Finally, we propose some recommendations for socioeconomic policies.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 181-211
Issue: 2
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1219385
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Author-Name: Giacomo Degli Antoni
Author-X-Name-First: Giacomo
Author-X-Name-Last: Degli Antoni
Author-Name: Fabio Sabatini
Author-X-Name-First: Fabio
Author-X-Name-Last: Sabatini
Title: Social cooperatives, social welfare associations and social networks
Abstract: 
 We use an original data-set to study how participation in two types of non-profit organizations – i.e. social welfare associations and social cooperatives – affects individual social capital, understood as a network of cooperative relationships. Participation in both the types of organization allows members to start new social relations. However, social welfare associations seem to play a significantly greater role in the development of volunteers’ social capital, favouring the creation of weak ties that are used to exchange information and advice, and offering the opportunity to establish stronger ties entailing concrete mutual support. Within social cooperatives, workers appear to develop their individual social capital to a greater extent than volunteers. Our results suggest that the composition of the workforce, the depth of members’ involvement in the organization’s activities and the human resources strategies adopted by the management influence the creation of cooperative relations through on-the-job interactions.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 212-230
Issue: 2
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1226510
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Author-Name: Robert H. Scott
Author-X-Name-First: Robert H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott
Author-Name: Steven Pressman
Author-X-Name-First: Steven
Author-X-Name-Last: Pressman
Title: House arrest: the effects of underwater and low-equity mortgages on small business failure and mobility
Abstract: 
 This paper studies the effects of the recent housing crash on small business survival and household geographic mobility. Although a number of other works have studied these issues, our analysis differs from these because we do not focus only on underwater mortgages (less than 0% home equity), but also those slightly above water (0-10% equity). Homeowners with little or no equity face considerable constraints regarding moving, starting a business or keeping a current business open. They are more like underwater homeowners, but they differ enough to deserve a separate categorization in comparative studies, rather than being conflated with all other homeowners that have positive equity. We use the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances panel data for 2007 and 2009, which allows us to track the exact same households during this critical time in the housing crisis.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 231-249
Issue: 2
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1226511
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Author-Name: Benjamin Ferguson
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferguson
Author-Name: Nicholas Vrousalis
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas
Author-X-Name-Last: Vrousalis
Title: Exploitation and the social economy
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 91-93
Issue: 2
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1630947
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Author-Name: Hillel Steiner
Author-X-Name-First: Hillel
Author-X-Name-Last: Steiner
Title: Asymmetric information, libertarianism, and fraud
Abstract: 
 This paper argues (a) that while a no-fraud legal requirement does not follow from libertarian first principles, it is not only permitted – but also mandated – by them under certain conditions, and (b) that the claim that some fraudulent exchanges are morally invalid need not appeal to a theory of moral permissibility that is external to those principles.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 94-107
Issue: 2
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1602280
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Author-Name: Mark R. Reiff
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: R. Reiff
Title: The just price, exploitation, and prescription drugs: why free marketeers should object to profiteering by the pharmaceutical industry
Abstract: 
 Many people have been enraged lately by the enormous increases in certain generic prescription drugs. But free marketeers defend these prices by arguing that they simply represent what the market will bear, and in a capitalist society there is accordingly nothing wrong with charging them. This paper argues that such a defense is actually contrary to the very principles that free marketeers claim to embrace. These prices are not only unjust and exploitative, but government interference with them would not render the market less free, at least if what it means for a market to be “free” is properly understood. Everyone, even free marketeers with a libertarian or neoliberal bent, should accordingly be against this kind of profiteering.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 108-142
Issue: 2
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1551561
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Author-Name: Gabriel Wollner
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel
Author-X-Name-Last: Wollner
Title: Anonymous exploitation: non-individual, non-agential and structural
Abstract: 
 On contemporary standard accounts exploitation is of man by man: One individual exploits another through a particular transaction. This paper offers a departure from the individualist transactional paradigm of exploitation by formulating an account of anonymous exploitation. The departure is threefold. Anonymous exploitation may occur as non-individual exploitation in cases where exploiter, exploited or both are not individuals but group agents, it may occur as non-agential exploitation in cases where exploiter, exploited or both are not agents but non-agential groups and it may occur as structural exploitation in cases where structures are exploitative. I shall argue that anonymous exploitation in its three variants is a real, independent and non-mysterious phenomenon. To miss its significance is to miss the ‘genius’ or even to remain blind to important instances of exploitation. My argument proceeds in seven steps. In section 1, I offer a brief analysis of the concept of exploitation and spell out the desiderata that a successful theory of exploitation would have to satisfy. In section 2, I explain what I mean by anonymous exploitation. Section 3 explores the idea of non-individual exploitation; section 4 presents an account of non-agential exploitation and section 5 proceeds likewise with the idea of structural exploitation. Section 6 puts the individual steps of my argument together and I conclude in section 7.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 143-162
Issue: 2
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1525758
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Author-Name: Laurens van Apeldoorn
Author-X-Name-First: Laurens
Author-X-Name-Last: van Apeldoorn
Title: Exploitation, international taxation, and global justice
Abstract: 
 I investigate the central principle that underlies the OECDs tax base erosion and profit shifting initiative. The principle claims that (corporate) profits should be taxed where economic activities deriving the profits are performed and where value is created. First, I argue that its plausibility depends on establishing that states have an entitlement to the productive factors in their territory, and therefore to a share of the value created by employing those factors. Second, I maintain that this cannot presently be established. If states fail to discharge duties requiring wealth redistribution, they do not have an unqualified right to the productive factors in their territory. Even if they are not subject to such duties, states can only legitimately claim a share in the fair value of the goods created. I show that given widespread exploitation in global value chains, the market prices of (intermediary) goods do not reflect their fair value.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 163-183
Issue: 2
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1525759
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Author-Name: Gilbert L. Skillman
Author-X-Name-First: Gilbert L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Skillman
Title: Redistribution and persistent exploitation in an accumulation economy with decreasing marginal impatience
Abstract: 
 A variant of John Roemer’s accumulation economy is studied in which agents have identical payoff functions characterized by decreasing marginal impatience (DMI), such that time discount rates are decreasing in individual wealth levels. The implications of DMI for the existence and persistence of positive rates of profit and exploitation in the presence of capital accumulation, as well as for the dynamic redistribution of wealth, are derived. It is demonstrated that with DMI, differential ownership of productive assets is sufficient to ensure ongoing capital scarcity, and thus persistently positive rates of return and exploitation, as well as eventual redistribution of productive assets to the wealthiest agents.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 184-207
Issue: 2
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1562199
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Author-Name: Jonathan F. Cogliano
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cogliano
Author-Name: Roberto Veneziani
Author-X-Name-First: Roberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Veneziani
Author-Name: Naoki Yoshihara
Author-X-Name-First: Naoki
Author-X-Name-Last: Yoshihara
Title: Exploitation, skills, and inequality
Abstract: 
 This paper uses a computational framework to analyse the equilibrium dynamics of exploitation and inequality in accumulation economies with heterogeneous labour. A novel index is presented which measures the intensity of exploitation at the individual level and the dynamics of the distribution of exploitation intensity is analysed. Various taxation schemes are analysed which may reduce exploitation or inequalities in income and wealth. It is shown that relatively small taxation rates may have significant cumulative effects on wealth and income inequalities. Further, taxation schemes that eliminate exploitation also reduce disparities in income and wealth but in the presence of heterogeneous skills, do not necessarily eliminate them. The inegalitarian effects of different abilities need to be tackled with a progressive education policy that compensates for unfavourable circumstances.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 208-249
Issue: 2
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1596296
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Author-Name: Georges Enderle
Author-X-Name-First: Georges
Author-X-Name-Last: Enderle
Title: Corporate responsibility for less income inequality
Abstract: 
 This article explores corporate responsibility for less income inequality within the boundaries of the organization and with regard to society at large. Instead of examining the entire range of income distribution, the focus is on the lower and upper ends. The &#x2018;floor&#x2019; is defined as a living wage, supported by strong economic and ethical arguments and proposed as a minimal income standard that can &#x2013; and thus should &#x2013; be implemented by companies. As for the ethically acceptable &#x2018;ceiling&#x2019; of executive compensation, its identification and justification are more complicated. However, strong economic and ethical arguments can be made in favor of a drastic reduction of executive pay. Corporate responsibility for less income inequality in society means, first, to &#x2018;walk the talk&#x2019; and set an example and, second, to being &#x2018;a good corporate citizen&#x2019; by supporting legislation for a living wage and an ethically acceptable ceiling of executive pay.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 399-421
Issue: 4
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1525761
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Author-Name: Reiko Gotoh
Author-X-Name-First: Reiko
Author-X-Name-Last: Gotoh
Author-Name: Naoki Yoshihara
Author-X-Name-First: Naoki
Author-X-Name-Last: Yoshihara
Title: Securing basic well-being for all
Abstract: 
 The purpose of this article is to examine the possibility of a social choice rule to implement a social policy for &#x201C;securing basic well-being for all.&#x201D; The article introduces a new scheme of social choice, called a social relation function (SRF), which associates a reflexive and transitive binary relation over a set of social policies to each profile of individual well-being appraisals and each profile of group evaluations. As part of the domains of SRFs, the available class of group evaluations is constrained by three conditions. Furthermore, the non-negative response (NR) and the weak Pareto condition (WP) are introduced. NR demands giving priority to group evaluation, while treating the groups as formally equal relative to each other. WP requires treating impartially the well-being appraisals of all individuals. In conclusion, this article shows that under some reasonable assumptions, there exists an SRF that satisfies NR and WP.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 422-452
Issue: 4
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1529331
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Author-Name: Pr Henri Atangana Ondoa
Author-X-Name-First: Pr Henri
Author-X-Name-Last: Atangana Ondoa
Title: The effects of heavily indebted poor countries initiative (HIPC) on millennium development goals (MDGs) for education
Abstract: 
 In this study, we employ the difference in difference approach to estimate the impact of heavily indebted poor countries initiative on Millennium Development Goals for education in Africa. Using the World Bank data for the period 1990&#x2013;2015, the studies further identifies other factors that contribute to the achievement of millennium development goals for education. For instance, because of HPIC, the level of the following education MDGs indicators increased: gross enrollment in primary school (21.69%), female-to-male ratio (8.68%) and primary completion rate (13.69). Our study also show that the probability to achieve the millennium development goals for education increases in: female primary education teachers; school enrollment in tertiary, private school enrollment; pupil&#x2013;teacher ratio; control of corruption and political stability and decreases with increase in the rural population. In this perspective, government of African countries should promote governance, subsidy private schools and recruit female teachers.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 453-479
Issue: 4
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1480794
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Author-Name: Marwa Samet
Author-X-Name-First: Marwa
Author-X-Name-Last: Samet
Author-Name: Khaireddine Mouakhar
Author-X-Name-First: Khaireddine
Author-X-Name-Last: Mouakhar
Author-Name: Anis Jarboui
Author-X-Name-First: Anis
Author-X-Name-Last: Jarboui
Title: Exploring the relationship between CSR performance and financial constraints: empirical evidence from European firms
Abstract: 
 This paper investigates the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and financial constraints. Our panel dataset consists of 397 European companies listed in the STOXX Europe 600 during 2009&#x2013;2014. The findings reveal that firms with higher CSR performance exhibit lower degree of financial constraints. In addition, the link between CSR performance and financial constraints is a fully mediated relationship. The negative effect of CSR performance on financial constraints follows the path through mitigating agency conflicts of free cash flow and information asymmetry. The findings suggest that one mechanism linking CSR performance and financial constraints is a reduction of capital-market imperfections.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 480-508
Issue: 4
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1480795
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Author-Name: Petter T&#xF6;rnberg
Author-X-Name-First: Petter
Author-X-Name-Last: T&#xF6;rnberg
Title: Complex realist economics: toward an ontology for an interested pluralism
Abstract: 
 Contemporary economic theory has entered into an era of unprecedented pluralism. Convincing arguments have been presented for the integration of this pluralism, the possibilities for which however rest on questions of ontology. This paper looks at two hubs of pluralist research, complexity economics and heterodox economics, to evaluate the possibilities for an integration. Complexity economics constitutes an ontological broadening of neoclassicism, but is based on an implicit and incomplete social ontology. Heterodox economics has been argued to be systematized by a critical realist ontology, but has been criticized for limits in the operationalization of this ontology. An ontological merge is sketched, resulting in Complex Realist economics, which is argued to be capable of resolving the &#x2018;confused state&#x2019; of complexity economics, providing the heterodox tradition with the necessary methodologies to study the phenomena that it theorizes, and constituting a consistent ontological foundation for an &#x2018;interested pluralism&#x2019;.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 509-534
Issue: 4
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1480796
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Author-Name: Aboozar Hadavand
Author-X-Name-First: Aboozar
Author-X-Name-Last: Hadavand
Title: Educational aid policy and inequality: the case for merit- and need-based aid
Abstract: 
 Using model in which the assignment of skills to tasks is determined by relative productivities and are endogenously determined by ability, access to higher education, and technology, I find the effect of different educational aid schemes (including need-based aid, merit-based aid, or a combination of the two) on the distribution of wages. I calibrate the model using NLSY97 data and find that in general, determining what policy minimizes inequality depends on the elasticities of demand for higher education of each ability/human capital group, the labor shares of each group, and the share of resources devoted to each group. Given the model parameters, both merit-based and need-based policies are preferred to a policy based on both merit and need. Moreover, under the model parameters, a need-based policy reduces wage inequality more than a merit-based policy.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 535-562
Issue: 4
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1525760
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Author-Name: Richard Bourke
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Bourke
Title: Material incentives and Kantian optimisation: John E. Roemer on ‘left-right’ economics
Abstract: 
 John Roemer has argued in favour of rehabilitating Kanitanism as an antidote to the kind of utilitarian incentivisation theories associated with neoliberal economics. This article asks whether the ethical thought of Kant is in fact fit for purpose. Placing Kant in dialogue with other contemporary enlightenment thinkers, it also questions whether ‘solidarist’ social theories solve the problems Roemer associates with their ‘selfish’ competitors, and indeed whether the two approaches can be so neatly distinguished.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 29-32
Issue: 1
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1463448
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Author-Name: Giacomo Corneo
Author-X-Name-First: Giacomo
Author-X-Name-Last: Corneo
Title: Some institutional design for shareholder socialism
Abstract: 
 In times of a declining labour share and an intense international tax competition, some form of market socialism may contribute to hold income inequality in check. However, the concept of market socialism involves three major pitfalls: cronyism, technological stagnation, and power concentration. These pitfalls could be avoided by an appropriate institutional design that includes the combination of public ownership with an extensive use of the stock market, an incentive-compatible mechanism for the takeover of private firms, and participatory democracy.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 33-55
Issue: 1
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1529332
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Author-Name: François Maniquet
Author-X-Name-First: François
Author-X-Name-Last: Maniquet
Title: Comments on John Roemer’s first welfare theorem of market socialism*
Abstract: 
 In this comment on John Roemer’s “theory of cooperation with an application to market socialism”, I extend Roemer’s first welfare theorem of market socialism in two directions. First, I prove a version of the theorem that deals with non-linear taxation. Second, I offer a connection between the theorem and welfare equality. I then argue that the models and questions that Roemer contribute to bring to welfare economics raise questions that go much beyond the research on socialist ethics. In particular, I introduce a positive model of moral behavior that yields different predictions from Roemer’s Kantian model. I conclude that individual morality should become a central concern of welfare economists.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 56-68
Issue: 1
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1551562
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Author-Name: John E. Roemer
Author-X-Name-First: John E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Roemer
Title: A theory of cooperation in games with an application to market socialism
Abstract: 
 Economic theory has focused almost exclusively on how humans compete with each other in their economic activity, culminating in general equilibrium (Walras–Arrow–Debreu) and game theory (Cournot–Nash). Cooperation in economic activity is, however, important, and is virtually ignored. Because our models influence our view of the world, this theoretical lacuna biases economists’ interpretation of economic behavior. Here, I propose models that provide micro-foundations for how cooperation is decentralized by economic agents. It is incorrect, in particular, to view competition as decentralized and cooperation as organized only by central diktat. My approach is not to alter preferences, which is the strategy behavioral economists have adopted to model cooperation, but rather to alter the way that agents optimize. Whereas Nash optimizers view other players in the game as part of the environment (parameters), Kantian optimizers view them as part of action. When formalized, this approach resolves the two major failures of Nash optimization from a welfare viewpoint – the Pareto inefficiency of equilibria in common-pool resource problems (the tragedy of the commons) and the inefficiency of equilibria in public-good games (the free rider problem). An application to market socialism shows that the problems of efficiency and distribution can be completely separated: the dead-weight loss of taxation disappears.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 1-28
Issue: 1
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1555647
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Author-Name: Antoni Bosch-Domènech
Author-X-Name-First: Antoni
Author-X-Name-Last: Bosch-Domènech
Author-Name: Joaquim Silvestre
Author-X-Name-First: Joaquim
Author-X-Name-Last: Silvestre
Title: Experiment-inspired comments on John Roemer’s theory of cooperation
Abstract: 
 We report on a nonsocial experiment where we find that all participants choose the dominant strategy in the experimental payoff, and compare it with the payoff-isomorphic, but social, Prisoner’s Dilemma treatment presented in a recent paper by Bosch-Domènech and Silvestre where 28% choose cooperation instead of the dominant strategy. The contrast reinforces Roemer’s emphasis on human cooperation. Next, we argue that Roemer’s Simple Kantian Equilibrium works well as a theory of cooperation under the assumption of monotonicity (positive or negative externalities), but not when efficient cooperation requires the division of labor by coordinating dissimilar tasks.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 69-89
Issue: 1
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1562200
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Author-Name: Tsiry Andrianampiarivo
Author-X-Name-First: Tsiry
Author-X-Name-Last: Andrianampiarivo
Title: Moderate prosperity, an adaptation of the middle class concept to a Malagasy rural area: the case of Itasy
Abstract: 
 In order to adapt the controversial sociological concept of ‘Middle Class’ to an African agriculture-based economy, exemplified by Madagascar, we propose the concept of Moderate Prosperity. As a case study, we use detailed data from 508 households in the 2008 Itasy Observatory. We stratify them using four distinguishing socio-economic factors: household income quintile, head of household’s education level, income structure and land tenure. We describe four Moderate Prosperity clusters that reflect the agro-economic diversity of the Itasy region: a vulnerable group of agriculturally diversified households in the third income quintile with locally issued land title; an emerging group of skilled, polyculture farmers belonging to both the lowest and highest quintiles; a traditional group of uneducated rice farmers in the fourth quintile with traditional land ownership; and an upper group of educated livestock farmers, non-agricultural independents and workers, belonging to the top income quintile with locally issued land title.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 26-48
Issue: 1
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1171384
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Author-Name: Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodgson
Title: Karl Polanyi on economy and society: a critical analysis of core concepts
Abstract: 
 The Review of Social Economy was founded to highlight the irreducible social aspects of economic activity. Yet, the nature of the ‘social’ and the ‘economic’ are both unresolved, and they are much more problematic than often assumed. This article probes Karl Polanyi’s depiction of the relationship between the ‘social’ and the ‘economic’ and subsequent discourse on ‘embeddedness’. In his Great Transformation (1944) Polanyi associated the ‘economic’ with motives of material gain, while ‘social’ referred to norms of reciprocity and redistribution: his distinction between the ‘social’ and the ‘economic’ then focused primarily on different kinds of motivation. But in a 1957 essay he brought in different kinds of institutions that engender different types of motivation. Polanyi (1944) argued that after 1800 Britain was transformed into a market-oriented ‘economic’ system, based on motives of greed and material gain. He also proposed that an effective market system had to be ‘self-adjusting’ and free of political interference, despite his important additional claim that the state was involved in its creation. Some of Polanyi’s core concepts and arguments are contradictory and problematic, and need to be reconsidered, especially if his enduring insights are to be salvaged.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 1-25
Issue: 1
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1171385
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Author-Name: Maryam Dilmaghani
Author-X-Name-First: Maryam
Author-X-Name-Last: Dilmaghani
Title: Religiosity and social trust: evidence from Canada
Abstract: 
 Using the latest wave of the Canadian Ethnic Diversity Survey, I investigate whether religious identity and religious intensity associate with the degree to which people trust others, controlling for a wide range of characteristics. The analysis shows that Canadian Roman Catholics are appreciably less trusting than mainline Protestants, and religious nones are situated in between these two groups. With regard to religious intensity, I find that higher commitment negatively correlates with trust in unknown others for Roman Catholics. The reverse is true for Protestants. Results also show stark cross-denominational variations within Protestantism, as two highly committed denominations of Mennonite and Pentecostal are found to be the most and the least trusting religious groups in Canada. No non-Christian religious minority is found statistically significantly less trusting than Canadian Roman Catholics. Considering particularized trust in one’s neighbours and co-workers yields comparable conclusions.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 49-75
Issue: 1
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1186820
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Author-Name: Stefan Mann
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan
Author-X-Name-Last: Mann
Author-Name: Benoit Freyens
Author-X-Name-First: Benoit
Author-X-Name-Last: Freyens
Author-Name: Huong Dinh
Author-X-Name-First: Huong
Author-X-Name-Last: Dinh
Title: Crises and structural change in Australian agriculture
Abstract: 
 We present a model of structural change in the farming sector in which natural and economic crises decrease farmers’ work satisfaction, farm profitability, and the decision to stay in farming. Using data from the Australian Regional Well-being survey, activity choice modeling, and a structural equation approach, we test the hypothesis that these crises-induced effects then cause structural change in Australian agriculture. We find that external shocks, such as drought or economic downturn, negatively affect farmers’ welfare, which in turn causes structural change through revised activity choices. Our empirical findings also indicate that specific adjustment strategies such as buying additional water titles or reducing input use are insufficient to mitigate adverse crises effects.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 76-87
Issue: 1
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1219383
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Author-Name: Marco Stimolo
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Stimolo
Title: An economic agent in my brain? A critical analysis of multiple-self models in neuroeconomics
Abstract: 
 Neuroeconomic multiple-self models describe individuals’ choices as the equilibrium of the interaction amongst neural sites modelled as economic agents. This approach aims at explaining some inter-temporal inconsistency problems and the rejection of unfair offers in ultimatum games. However, the experiments on these models do not provide replicable results. The standard view interprets this problem as due to inadequate econometric techniques. Conversely, this paper shows that the non-replicability problem arises from a conundrum of multiple-self models’ (MSMs) theory. It illustrates how the assumption of neuroeconomic agents is deduced from the revealed preferences theory applied to the neuro-level. Therefore, the paper shows how experiments on MSMs cannot test the assumption of neuroeconomic agents but only the empirical hypotheses that derive from it. This entails that the assumption of neuroeconomic agents is a tautology, which might generate hypotheses that do not robustly identify the neural correlates of behaviour.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 329-348
Issue: 4
Volume: 74
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1171380
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Author-Name: Helena Lopes
Author-X-Name-First: Helena
Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes
Title: Agency theory and social interactions at work
Abstract: 
 The main aim of this paper is to show that even when integrating the findings of behavioral economics, agency theory’s conception of interactions at work does not actually account for cooperative behavior. The paper draws on the distinction between the concepts of individual and person to critically examine this conception and show that, while work is mostly organized on the assumption that workers are self-interested individuals, management rhetoric addresses workers as persons in an attempt to prompt their cooperation and personal commitment. This managerial paradox may partly be due to the prevalent influence of agency theory’s prescriptions and has been contributing to a severe deterioration of the quality of working life. But it also indicates that agency theory has to confront serious theoretical and prescriptive dilemmas.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 349-368
Issue: 4
Volume: 74
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1171381
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Author-Name: Manuel Couret Branco
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Couret Branco
Title: Economics for substantive democracy
Abstract: 
 In this paper, I sustain that the discourse of economics has become one of the most substantial contributors to the erosion of the democratic ideal. The first argument used in this case against economics concerns its attempt to be considered a neo-naturalistic science; the second, the fact that economics considers democracy contradictory to the expression of its scientific rationality and; the third, the fact that economics crowds out people from decision-making processes by pushing them into the hands of experts. Because partisan political programmes have essentially become economic programmes, economics should contribute to substantive democracy. In order to do so, an alternative discourse to mainstream economics must be proposed. An economics favourable to substantive democracy should, thereby, be political rather than naturalistic, pluralist rather than monist and, instead of crowding out people from decisions processes, should aim at the co-production of economic knowledge with those concerned by the outcome of economic decisions.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 369-389
Issue: 4
Volume: 74
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1171382
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Author-Name: Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Author-X-Name-First: Franklin
Author-X-Name-Last: Obeng-Odoom
Title: Marketising the commons in Africa: the case of Ghana
Abstract: 
 The recent surge in the marketisation of the commons in Africa – especially of water bodies – warrants careful political economic analysis. Three questions remain intractable: (1) Were there markets in the beginning? If so, how have they transformed and if not, how did markets arise and transform over the years? (2) what are the outcomes of such markets for people, their livelihoods, and their environment? And (3) how to interpret the outcomes of water markets and whether water should be commodified at all. For new institutional economists, water markets have arisen because of the inferior nature of Indigenous or customary systems which are incapable of offering precisely what water markets offer Africa: economic and ecological fortunes. Using an institutional political economy approach and drawing on experiences in Ghana, the paper investigates the social history of marketisation of the commons and probes the effects of marketisation in terms of absolute, relative, and differential/congruent outcomes as well as the opportunity cost of the current water property rights regime. The empirical evidence shows that markets have been socially created through imposed and directed policies. Some jobs have been created through investment, but such employment is not unique to marketisation and private investment. Indeed, the private model of property rights has worsened the distribution of water resources not only within different property relations in Africa but also between diverse property relations. Water markets have been responsible for much displacement and trouble not only for communities but also nature. Overall, there is no necessary congruence between the promises made by new institutional economists and how communities experience water markets. Tighter regulations for the use of inland and transboundary water sources might temporarily halt the displacement of communities sparked by marketisation of the commons, but only one fundamental change can guarantee community well-being: to regard the access to and community control of water as constitutionally sanctioned human rights and as res communis.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 390-419
Issue: 4
Volume: 74
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1186819
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Author-Name: Tonia Warnecke
Author-X-Name-First: Tonia
Author-X-Name-Last: Warnecke
Title: Capabilities, human development, and design thinking: a framework for gender-sensitive entrepreneurship programs
Abstract: 
 This paper discusses the ways that capabilities and human development theory can guide the creation of entrepreneurship programs, utilizing a framework of human-centered design thinking. It is well known that a variety of institutional factors shape gender outcomes and gender inequality within entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to necessity versus opportunity entrepreneurship and informal versus formal sector entrepreneurship. Failure to understand the diversity of entrepreneurial activity among women, and the connection (or lack thereof) of such activity to human freedom, leads to biased entrepreneurship programs. This paper links social economic theory and practice by: (1) discussing the ways that capabilities and human development theory relate to entrepreneurship programs; (2) demonstrating that human-centered design thinking reflects the capabilities approach; and (3) showing how the design thinking framework would be used to create a gender-sensitive entrepreneurship program.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 420-430
Issue: 4
Volume: 74
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1201136
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Title: Editorial Board
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: (ebi)-(ebi)
Issue: 4
Volume: 74
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1232512
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Author-Name: Jean-Philippe Berrou
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Philippe
Author-X-Name-Last: Berrou
Author-Name: Claire Gondard-Delcroix
Author-X-Name-First: Claire
Author-X-Name-Last: Gondard-Delcroix
Title: Dynamics of social networks of urban informal entrepreneurs in an African economy
Abstract: 
 This paper carries out an analysis of the formation and transformation of social relations and networks of access to resources in the professional trajectory of micro-entrepreneurs operating in an urban informal African economy. The analysis of social networks is rooted in Granovetter’s structural embeddedness framework combined with the dynamic and discursive conception of social relations of Harisson White (embeddedness and decoupling). Life stories of micro and small entrepreneurs in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina-Faso) are analyzed by mixing qualitative and quantitative methods. Results suggest that the construction of social networks and interpersonal relations of access to resources is a long-term process. A co-construction of social networks and economic activity is observed; it challenges the argument that social capital is a substitute for a lack of personal resources. The growth of small and micro activities is linked to the professionalization and stabilization of a social network, and even to the institutionalization of access to resources.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 167-197
Issue: 2
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1349330
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Author-Name: Jan Kregel
Author-X-Name-First: Jan
Author-X-Name-Last: Kregel
Title: What we could have learned from the New Deal in dealing with the recent global recession*
Abstract: 
 Modern policy-makers have learned little from the Great Depression and the policy responses of the 1930s. Yet, there is a great deal to learn from the New Deal: quelling the fear and uncertainty of mass unemployment in the pragmatic, experimental process through which the tool for achieving this objective—directed government expenditure—was accepted, even though the New Deal’s public works policies and direct provision of paid employment, rather than being informed by a Keynesian theory of macroeconomic stabilization, were designed to support morale, provide relief from the suffering and uncertainty of unemployment, and serve as a bulwark against more interventionist alternatives. Countering the deep uncertainty in the real sector of the economy thus collided with Roosevelt’s commitment to rein in fiscal deficits, and the resolution of this internal conflict in favor of support for employment and incomes provides the essential, largely ignored lesson of the 1930s.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 147-166
Issue: 2
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1356655
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Author-Name: Stefano Fiori
Author-X-Name-First: Stefano
Author-X-Name-Last: Fiori
Title: Formal and informal norms: their relationships in society and in the economic sphere
Abstract: 
 The thesis put forward in this paper is that in social life in general, and in the economic sphere in particular, the relationships between formal norms and informal social norms can be interpreted in terms of either reciprocal complementarity or conflict. The concept of complementarity illustrates how the two kinds of norms cooperate with and reinforce each other, and describes under what circumstances formal norms can or cannot replace informal rules. Conversely, the notion of conflict between different kinds of norms distinguishes two forms of antagonism: prohibition (which occurs when one type of norm prohibits enforcement of the other), and mutual exclusiveness (which occurs when one type of norm crowds out the other, without this entailing prohibition).
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 198-226
Issue: 2
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1423510
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Author-Name: Rosalia Castellano
Author-X-Name-First: Rosalia
Author-X-Name-Last: Castellano
Author-Name: Gennaro Punzo
Author-X-Name-First: Gennaro
Author-X-Name-Last: Punzo
Author-Name: Antonella Rocca
Author-X-Name-First: Antonella
Author-X-Name-Last: Rocca
Title: The generational perspective of gender gap in wages and education in southern Europe
Abstract: 
 This paper aims at investigating gender differentials in wages and education from an intergenerational perspective across four developed countries of southern Europe, considering the generational transmission of preferences and the gender equality systems and policies. Measures of gender inequality in wages and education permit exploring the different extent to which gender gaps depend on unobserved factors, such as discrimination. A first set of discrimination indexes is computed starting from the estimation of extended Mincerian log-earnings equations, whereas a second set is based on the estimation of ordered logistic regressions on a range of personal characteristics considered to be linked to education, controlling for family background. The main results show that family background affects the degree of gender inequality more than the gender equality policies do. Gender disparities in professional outcomes can be partly due to women’s preferences vs. lower-paid jobs because of the incomplete efficacy of national systems.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 227-258
Issue: 2
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1423512
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Author-Name: Alisha A. Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Alisha A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Author-Name: Jonas B. Bunte
Author-X-Name-First: Jonas B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bunte
Title: Demand for different types of public goods: evidence from Nigeria
Abstract: 
 Preferences of Nigerian households vary across different types of public goods. For example, some prefer roads while others favor education even after controlling for the existing supply of these goods. What explains this variation? We argue that the perceived distributional consequences of specific public goods differ conditional on the personal characteristics of households. In particular, households demand the type of public good that (a) increases the utility of assets they already own and (b) resonates with their past experiences involving the lack of particular public goods. We test our argument with data on 123,000 Nigerian households. We find strong evidence for our argument across six types of public goods.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 259-279
Issue: 2
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1424930
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Author-Name: Alexander William Salter
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander William
Author-X-Name-Last: Salter
Author-Name: Richard E. Wagner
Author-X-Name-First: Richard E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wagner
Title: Political entrepreneurship, emergent dynamics, and constitutional politics
Abstract: 
 Constitutional political economy mostly distinguishes between rules and actions, with rules selected prior to actions within those rules. While we accept the coherence of this distinction, we pursue it within an open rather than closed scheme of analysis. Doing this entails recognition that societies rarely exhibit universal agreement about constitutional provisions. Recognizing the incomplete character of constitutional agreement points to the existence of margins of contestation. Along those margins, political entrepreneurship will be active in promoting support for alternative constitutional interpretations. Within open systems of creative and entrepreneurial action, constitutional reinterpretation is continually injected into society. Acquiescence in the presence of power does not imply agreement about its use. Rather, acquiescence means the constitutional contestation becomes an element of ordinary politics and not an activity that is prior to ordinary politics. It also means that emergent dynamics supplements comparative statics as a method of analysis.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 281-301
Issue: 3
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1425897
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Author-Name: C. W. M. Naastepad
Author-X-Name-First: C. W. M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Naastepad
Author-Name: Jesse M. Mulder
Author-X-Name-First: Jesse M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mulder
Title: Robots and us: towards an economics of the ‘Good Life’
Abstract: 
 (Expected) adverse effects of the ‘ICT Revolution’ on work and opportunities for individuals to use and develop their capacities give a new impetus to the debate on the societal implications of technology and raise questions regarding the ‘responsibility’ of research and innovation (RRI) and the possibility of achieving ‘inclusive and sustainable society’. However, missing in this debate is an examination of a possible conflict between the quest for ‘inclusive and sustainable society’ and conventional economic principles guiding capital allocation (including the funding of research and innovation). We propose that such conflict can be resolved by re-examining the nature and purpose of capital, and by recognising mainstream economics’ utilitarian foundations as an unduly restrictive subset of a wider Aristotelian understanding of choice.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 302-334
Issue: 3
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1432884
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Author-Name: Carlos Ferreira
Author-X-Name-First: Carlos
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreira
Author-Name: Jennifer Ferreira
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreira
Title: Political markets? Politics and economics in the emergence of markets for biodiversity offsets
Abstract: 
 This paper analyses the relationship between politics and performativity of economics in the emergence of markets for biodiversity offsets. While the role of economics in constructing markets has been demonstrated by sociology and social studies of science, it has also become apparent that politics plays an important role in the material outcome of economic experiments. Two case studies of the creation of markets for biodiversity offsets are analysed, in the United States and England. The findings suggest that the creation of both markets is rooted in the language, concepts and models of economics. Politics, on the other hand, functions as a mediator of the material expression of those models. Through this mediation effect, similar economic models are performed differently, resulting in a variety of markets. This suggests that the material outcomes of processes of market creation are not defined at the outset, but can be influenced by political processes.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 335-351
Issue: 3
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1463445
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Author-Name: Katarzyna Cieslik
Author-X-Name-First: Katarzyna
Author-X-Name-Last: Cieslik
Title: The quandaries of social entrepreneurship studies – a discursive review of the discipline
Abstract: 
 The aim of this paper is to investigate the ways in which social entrepreneurship knowledge is both propelled and hindered by the socioeconomic circumstances. We examine the existing body of research and identify different conceptualizations and main schools of thought. We then demonstrate how the process of constructing academic representation is shaped by the prevalent public discourses. Our analysis leads to the differentiation between social entrepreneurship as mitigation and social entrepreneurship as transformation. We conclude that a better alignment of the two approaches – broadening research focus from outcome to process – would reveal their complementarity and contribute to the conceptual advancement of the discipline. We propose expanding the existing approaches with the politics of social entrepreneurship studies and stress the importance of increased reflexivity on the plight of the new discipline.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 352-376
Issue: 3
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1463446
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Author-Name: Andrew Mearman
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Author-X-Name-Last: Mearman
Author-Name: Danielle Guizzo
Author-X-Name-First: Danielle
Author-X-Name-Last: Guizzo
Author-Name: Sebastian Berger
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian
Author-X-Name-Last: Berger
Title: Is UK economics teaching changing? Evaluating the new subject benchmark statement
Abstract: 
 This paper evaluates the recent reform to the curricular governance framework for UK Economics teaching: the revised Subject Benchmark Statement document for Economics (SBSE). The crisis of confidence in economics which was amplified by the global financial crisis presented an opportunity for fundamental change in economics teaching. The paper asks whether the new SBSE represents change. We ask whether the new SBSE is pluralist with regard to economic theory and method; how it treats the economy and its wider socio-political dimension; what are its educational goals and approach; and overall, how much change has it brought? The paper concludes that the new SBSE does not constitute change: it still exhibits limited pluralism, ignores ethics, power and politics and ignores key educational goals.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 377-396
Issue: 3
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1463447
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Author-Name: Nathanael Ojong
Author-X-Name-First: Nathanael
Author-X-Name-Last: Ojong
Title: Trust, cultural norms and financial institutions in rural communities: the case of Cameroon
Abstract: 
 The success of the operations of formal and informal financial institutions (IFIs) hinges on a high degree of trust. The pivotal role of trust warrants careful analysis regarding its formation in these financial institutions. Using the case of Cameroon, the paper interrogates trust development between formal financial institutions and their clients, and between IFIs and their members. Trust formation occurs via certain cognitive trust-building processes: calculative, prediction, intentionality, capability, and transference processes. The paper argues that trust formation through these processes is predicated upon cultural values and beliefs. It is precisely because of cultural norms that traditional leaders play a role in ensuring that loans granted by formal financial institutions are repaid, thereby serving as principal actors in the functioning of financial capitalism in rural areas. The interplay between culture and financial institutions reconfigures the financial architecture in rural zones. Culture creates a social relational anthropology that is significant for how financial institutions operate.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 19-42
Issue: 1
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1300316
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Author-Name: Ellen Mutari
Author-X-Name-First: Ellen
Author-X-Name-Last: Mutari
Title: Metaphors, social practices, and economic life: ASE presidential address
Abstract: 
 Our lived experiences of the economy shape the metaphors that we use to describe the economy. Yet, any particular metaphor can only provide a partial perspective. There are two ways our conceptual frameworks have reflected partial perspectives. The first is historical: our conceptual frameworks tend to build upon ideas developed during the factory age. A machine metaphor, grounded in the industrial age, focuses on the transformation of resources into outputs, but it obscures other aspects of economic life. Second, economic concepts and metaphors are affected by our personal standpoints and our social identities. As social economists, we recognize that our economy is embedded in society, a society in which social identities such as class, gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality shape our standpoints. To fully understand the continuities and changes in how social provisioning is organized, we need to be attentive to these social identities and how they are constituted and transformed through social practices.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 1-18
Issue: 1
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1306750
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Author-Name: Norbert Hirschauer
Author-X-Name-First: Norbert
Author-X-Name-Last: Hirschauer
Author-Name: Antje Jantsch
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Author-X-Name-Last: Jantsch
Author-Name: Oliver Musshoff
Author-X-Name-First: Oliver
Author-X-Name-Last: Musshoff
Title: Developing business ethics theory and integrating economic analysis into business ethics teaching – a conceptualization based on externalities and diminishing marginal utility
Abstract: 
 Contrary to understandings that treat ethical considerations and economic thinking as separate if not antagonistic issues, we advocate a holistic view that links business ethics to consequentialist economic concepts and their concern about how scarce means should be used for the attainment of (given) ends. We believe that business ethics students will profit from a development of business ethics theory that facilitates an outcome-based evaluation of business strategies anchored in the economic concepts of externalities, game theory, equilibria, efficiency, transaction costs, and diminishing marginal utility. We outline how moral judgments about (socially irresponsible) business behaviors, which often lack theoretical grounding and self-critical examination, can be made both more consistent and transparent through a systematic application of these theoretical concepts. We furthermore point out that, in this evaluative exercise, business ethics analysts should make all assumptions explicit to meet their task of facilitating informed public debates and informed moral choices.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 43-72
Issue: 1
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1333132
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Author-Name: Gherardo Girardi
Author-X-Name-First: Gherardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Girardi
Author-Name: Luca Sandonà
Author-X-Name-First: Luca
Author-X-Name-Last: Sandonà
Title: Incorporating research findings in the economics syllabus: evidence on genuine sociality from Italy and the UK
Abstract: 
 Economics education is proving slow in incorporating into the syllabus the genuine advances made in economics research in the last few decades. As economics education relies primarily on the single approach of neoclassical economics, whilst recent advances in research have been marked by a wide variety of approaches, many of which are interdisciplinary, the methodological divide between education and research is growing wider. We attempt to measure how keen students are to incorporate research findings in the syllabus by developing a questionnaire which introduces undergraduate students in Italy and the U.K. to key findings in the research literature on genuine sociality, an area in which the methodological divide is very noticeable. Students display moderate support for being taught the material on genuine sociality. Students who wish to incorporate genuine sociality in the syllabus tend to be older, value virtue and have a religion.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 73-94
Issue: 1
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1349329
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Author-Name: Amy Farmer
Author-X-Name-First: Amy
Author-X-Name-Last: Farmer
Author-Name: Raja Kali
Author-X-Name-First: Raja
Author-X-Name-Last: Kali
Title: Friendship, not altruism: an economic theory with cross-cultural applications
Abstract: 
 Friendship is both ubiquitous and economically important, but neglected in the economic literature. We provide a definition of friendship supported by anthropology research that we believe is plausible, widely accepted, and distinct from altruism. This motivates a game-theoretic model of friendship that provides a characterization of how friendship in a bilateral relationship can explain cooperation in a finite-horizon setting without the aid of altruism or pro-social preferences. We highlight the difference between two key equilibria of our model: opportunistic friendship that is short-lived and driven by material support, and sustained friendship that is long-lived and is distinguished from opportunistic friendship by the provision of support without the expectation of return. Opportunistic friendship seems more likely in environments characterized by economic uncertainty such as in developing countries or immigrant communities. We provide cross-cultural examples of friendship that are consistent with the conditions underpinning opportunistic versus sustained friendship equilibria.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 119-145
Issue: 1
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1349331
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Author-Name: Pablo Paniagua
Author-X-Name-First: Pablo
Author-X-Name-Last: Paniagua
Title: Money and the emergence of knowledge in society
Abstract: 
 This paper deals with money’s epistemic relevance in society. Money presents theoretical difficulties for neoclassical economics, which treats it as a cost-reducing tool, leading to a socially neutral, aseptic view on money. Drawing from complexity and social theory I provide a socio-epistemic rationalization for money’s irreplaceable role. Building upon Ingham’s Money Is a Social Relation, I argue that money generates a new orderly system of complex social relations that in turn engenders knowledge as an emergent social and ontological phenomenon irreducible to the fragmented knowledge held by members of society. I show that ultimately money cannot be separated from economic knowledge and market rationality. This paper provides sociological and ontological accounts for the emergence of knowledge crucial to coordinate societies, thus extending recent explorations of the ontology of money.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 95-118
Issue: 1
Volume: 76
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1423511
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Author-Name: Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez
Author-X-Name-First: Juliette
Author-X-Name-Last: Alenda-Demoutiez
Author-Name: Bruno Boidin
Author-X-Name-First: Bruno
Author-X-Name-Last: Boidin
Title: Community-based mutual health organisations in Senegal: a specific form of social and solidarity economy?
Abstract: 
 Community-based mutual health organisations (MHOs) are today regarded as an essential element in the establishment of universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa. Nevertheless, their development has been impeded by numerous technical and institutional difficulties. While these obstacles are indeed important, our purpose in the present article is to investigate a paradox that has not yet been examined as such. In their underlying principles, community-based MHOs fall within the scope of the social and solidarity economy (SSE). However, these principles come up against a range of different values and representations within the organisations themselves. This phenomenon is illustrated by a case study of Senegal. A qualitative methodology is adopted in order to compare representations and practices with the criteria of the SSE. Our study shows that, although community-based MHOs are indeed part of the SSE, local constraints and specificities make it difficult to unify the mutualist movement in order to progress towards universal health coverage.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 417-441
Issue: 4
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1555646
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Author-Name: Céline Bonnefond
Author-X-Name-First: Céline
Author-X-Name-Last: Bonnefond
Author-Name: Fatma Mabrouk
Author-X-Name-First: Fatma
Author-X-Name-Last: Mabrouk
Title: Subjective well-being in China: direct and indirect effects of rural-to-urban migrant status
Abstract: 
 The purpose of this article is to provide a recent investigation on the determinants of subjective well-being among Chinese adults, with particular emphasis on internal migrants who hold a rural hukou and have settled in cities. Based on a sample of 7846 adults stemming from the 2011 wave of CHNS survey, we estimate different happiness functions using ordered probit regressions. We first confirm the influence of traditional demographic and socioeconomic characteristics (i.e. age, marital status, gender, illness/injury, income, and education). Second, our results emphasize the importance of taking into account regional differences, but also the positive impact of leisure time and social connections. Finally, our results highlight that being a rural-to-urban migrant is significantly associated with a decrease in the probability of reporting good or very good life satisfaction. We show that this relationship seems to be shaped by direct and indirect effects, and we identify the mediating role of regional patterns and social relations.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 442-468
Issue: 4
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1602278
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Author-Name: Kevin You
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: You
Author-Name: Gustavo Guzman
Author-X-Name-First: Gustavo
Author-X-Name-Last: Guzman
Title: Managing institutional complexity through strategy and structure: the experience of Sri Lanka’s peak business interest associations
Abstract: 
 This study seeks to better understand the way, in which business interest associations in a developing country address issues associated with the plurality of logics and interest among their members. The dilemma that business associations face, when it comes to representing the various interests of their constituents under a single banner, is adequately documented. But there is a gap in empirical literature on the way that associations successfully address this dilemma from the top down, especially in a developing country like Sri Lanka. We present a case study of the four most prominent peak national business associations in Sri Lanka – and their attempts at reconciling the diverse voices and interests of their members. We find that insights from contemporary institutional logics literature are particularly helpful in explaining the strategic and structural means, by which Sri Lankan business associations address the issue of presenting a united front for the very diverse groups of firms and industries that make up their membership. Specifically, our observation shows that Sri Lanka’s peak business associations respond to the diverse, and at times competing, interests of their members in ways that are consistent with Kraatz and Block’s characterisation of organisational responses to institutional complexity, namely through: elimination/marginalisation, mediation, compartmentalisation and detachment.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 469-492
Issue: 4
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1607893
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Author-Name: Thibaud Deguilhem
Author-X-Name-First: Thibaud
Author-X-Name-Last: Deguilhem
Author-Name: Jean-Philippe Berrou
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Philippe
Author-X-Name-Last: Berrou
Author-Name: François Combarnous
Author-X-Name-First: François
Author-X-Name-Last: Combarnous
Title: Using your ties to get a worse job? The differential effects of social networks on quality of employment in Colombia
Abstract: 
 This article examines the effect of social networks (SNW) by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using quantitative and qualitative data. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an original and multidimensional measure of job quality and a fruitful estimation of the effect of SNW on QoE that allows for dealing with complex inter-groups heterogeneity. Using the Great Integrated Household Survey and a sample on Bogota's workers in 2013, they provide empirical support that the use of ties is negatively correlated with the QoE for those who are vulnerable. Likewise, the use of social relations is not significant for protected workers. Complemented by focus groups interviews, these results raise questions about the difference prevailing in relational practices between necessity networks for precarious workers and opportunity networks for protected workers in the Colombian capital.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 493-522
Issue: 4
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1627573
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Author-Name: Gustavo Fondevila
Author-X-Name-First: Gustavo
Author-X-Name-Last: Fondevila
Author-Name: Miguel Quintana-Navarrete
Author-X-Name-First: Miguel
Author-X-Name-Last: Quintana-Navarrete
Title: Economic informality as a national project
Abstract: 
 Despite the numerous theoretical and empirical gains rendered by research that has attempted to ‘bring the State back in’ to the study of economic informality, this literature has focused on state regulation and law enforcement while for the most part neglecting the analysis of the state as both an ideological product and a producer of meanings and ideologies. In this paper, we analyze the Mexican state's conceptualizations of economic informality in a period spanning four federal administrations (1988–2012). We examine how Mexican presidents constructed a particular understanding of economic informality and, how they embedded these understandings in broader ‘state ideologies’. Despite some continuities, we find that each administration defined economic informality in relation to different ‘state ideologies’ that in turn legitimized the administration in turn. We also show that despite the relevance of academic theories to understand these phenomena, their focus on regulation and enforcement hampers their explanatory potential.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 523-554
Issue: 4
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1626476
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Author-Name: Jannett Highfill
Author-X-Name-First: Jannett
Author-X-Name-Last: Highfill
Author-Name: Kevin O’Brien
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Brien
Title: Religious heterogeneity and municipal spending in the United States
Abstract: 
 The goal of this paper is to examine the effect of religious heterogeneity on various important metro-area variables such as total expenditure, taxes, property taxes, debt, and employment as well as spending on the specific services of education, roads, police, health, and welfare. Two indices are used to measure religious heterogeneity, a fractionalization index and a polarization index. Polarization, designed to be a measure of social conflict, generally led to less spending and taxes, while fractionalization, the probability that two randomly chosen individuals belong to different religious groups, generally led to more spending and taxes.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 555-570
Issue: 4
Volume: 77
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1480797
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Author-Name: Kari Polanyi Levitt
Author-X-Name-First: Kari Polanyi
Author-X-Name-Last: Levitt
Title: Kari Polanyi Levitt on Karl Polanyi and the economy as a social construct
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 389-399
Issue: 4
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1231929
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Author-Name: M. G. Hayes
Author-X-Name-First: M. G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hayes
Title: Keynes’s liquidity preference and the usury doctrine: their connection and continuing policy relevance
Abstract: 
 The purpose of this paper is to support the spirit of the early medieval prohibition of payment for the use of money, with arguments based on the economics of Keynes. At the heart of the usury doctrine is the idea that a creditor cannot expect both the security of a claim on a fixed sum of money and to derive an income from it; security comes at a price, one way or another. The consequences of the unwillingness of modern society to accept this are illustrated by reference to two problems of the modern international financial and monetary system: bank bailouts and the lack of a supranational reserve currency.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 400-416
Issue: 4
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1269937
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Author-Name: Julian Waters-Lynch
Author-X-Name-First: Julian
Author-X-Name-Last: Waters-Lynch
Author-Name: Jason Potts
Author-X-Name-First: Jason
Author-X-Name-Last: Potts
Title: The social economy of coworking spaces: a focal point model of coordination
Abstract: 
 Coworking spaces are a rapid growing feature of modern cities, and increasingly popular with freelancers, knowledge workers, start-up communities, and others engaged in non-standard creative urban work. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in a large case study of coworking spaces in Australia, we develop an economic model of an important aspect of coworking spaces in which a coworking space is a Schelling point. This argues that the main margin of value a coworking space provides is not price competition with serviced offices, or a more pleasant environment than working at home, but as a focal (Schelling) point for finding people, ideas and other resources when you lack the information necessary for coordination. Drawing on ethnographic research, we test some specific predictions the model makes about the organizational and institutional form of successful coworking spaces.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 417-433
Issue: 4
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1269938
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Author-Name: Jon Reiersen
Author-X-Name-First: Jon
Author-X-Name-Last: Reiersen
Title: Trust as belief or behavior?
Abstract: 
 Despite its proposed importance for economic performance, there seems to be little agreement on what trust really is. In economics, trust is generally viewed as a belief regarding the action that is to be expected from others. This contrasts with the view that trust is a way of acting. In his influential book on the nature of explanation in the social sciences, Jon Elster argues that trusting is to act with few precautions. I argue that it is possible to reconcile these seemingly conflicting views about trust. I develop a simple model of trust where both beliefs and precautions play an important role – and where Elster’s understanding of trust can be viewed as a special case.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 434-453
Issue: 4
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1269939
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Author-Name: Nicolae Stef
Author-X-Name-First: Nicolae
Author-X-Name-Last: Stef
Title: Crime deterrence role of Romanian churches
Abstract: 
 We analyse the crime deterrence role of Romanian churches using a data sample of crime in all 42 Romanian counties from 2001 to 2013. We aim to determine whether the public funding of churches can be justified by the role Romanian churches play in deterring illegal behaviour. The decision to build a new church in a certain location can be endogenous; therefore, we use as an instrument the built-up area of counties’ cities in the 1990s. After controlling for the endogeneity of the number of churches, our estimations show that Romanian churches significantly diminish local crime rates. Adventist, Baptist, Catholic and Orthodox churches tend to play an active role in the deterrence of local crime. Hence, Romanian churches not only provide religious services, but also promote religious norms and strengthen the social ties between parishioners, help prevent crime.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 454-467
Issue: 4
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1269940
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Author-Name: Muhammad Shehryar Shahid
Author-X-Name-First: Muhammad Shehryar
Author-X-Name-Last: Shahid
Author-Name: Peter Rodgers
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Rodgers
Author-Name: Colin C. Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Colin C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Title: Evaluating the participation of an ethnic minority group in informal employment: a product of exit or exclusion?
Abstract: 
 This paper critically evaluates competing explanations for the participation of ethnic minority groups in informal employment. These interpret their participation either through a structuralist lens arising out of ‘exclusion’ from formal employment or through a neo-liberal and/or post-structuralist lens driven by voluntary ‘exit’ from formal institutions. To evaluate critically these competing explanations, this paper reports a survey of the experiences of Pakistani immigrants in informal employment in Sheffield, including fifty face-to-face interviews and two focus groups. The findings highlight informal employment amongst this Pakistani ethnic minority group is neither universally driven by exclusion nor exit. Instead, some participate mostly due to exclusion, others mostly for exit rationales and some for a combination of the two, with different mixtures across different groups and types of informal employment. The outcome is a call for greater appreciation of the multifarious character of undeclared work and a move beyond simplistic explanations and policy responses.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 468-488
Issue: 4
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1269941
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Author-Name: Maryam Dilmaghani
Author-X-Name-First: Maryam
Author-X-Name-Last: Dilmaghani
Title: Revisiting sacrifice and stigma: Why older churches become more liberal
Abstract: 
 This paper revisits the concept of ‘Sacrifice and Stigma’ first introduced in the seminal model of Iannaccone, published in 1992. Iannaccone provides an explanation for the rise of strict churches in face of the decline of liberal ones. He argues that costly and stigmatizing requirements, which make a church distinctive and strict, reduce free-riding in the group, conferring it a competitive edge. His model, however, does not address the question of why certain churches, generally older and larger, become more liberal and easygoing. I argue that for established groups, which rely on intergenerational transmission of religious preference, ‘sacrifice and stigma’ are no longer means of screening free-riders but determine the depreciation rate of the stock of religious capital of the group. Modeling the setting as a differential game, I show that in such circumstances, a reduction in the required ‘sacrifice and stigma’ increases the steady-state level of contribution to the church.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 489-509
Issue: 4
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1286030
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Author-Name: Emily Northrop
Author-X-Name-First: Emily
Author-X-Name-Last: Northrop
Title: A stable climate or economic growth?
Abstract: 
 The 2015 UN Paris Agreement reinforced and declared compatible the two goals of avoiding dire climate change and maintaining global economic growth, and it specified that technological innovation is ‘critical’ to this joint achievement. Unfortunately, any confidence that near-term global economic growth is consistent with a stabilized climate is severely undermined by empirical evidence. Despite the rapid increase of alternative energies in recent decades, global GDP growth continues to require burning greater quantities of climate-destabilizing fossil fuels. The dim outlook for sufficiently reducing CO2 while maintaining economic growth is underscored by global data and Germany specific data on the decoupling of GDP from CO2. This paper summarizes pertinent climate science, substantiates the dependence of economic growth on fossil fuels, and uses the Kaya identity to demonstrate the unfavorable prospects for reducing CO2 while maintaining GDP growth.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 510-522
Issue: 4
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1286031
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Author-Name: Maryam Dilmaghani
Author-X-Name-First: Maryam
Author-X-Name-Last: Dilmaghani
Title: Civic participation of secular groups in Canada
Abstract: 
 Using two recent nationally representative Canadian surveys, this paper investigates how secularization affects civic participation, inclusive of political engagement and philanthropy. Three mutually exclusive categories of secularized individuals are considered. The analysis suggests that Canadian secular groups are relatively less engaged with politics and volunteer fewer hours, compared with the actively religious. They are, however, found to contribute significantly more money to secular causes, controlling for a wide range of individual attributes. Various explanations are explored.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 523-543
Issue: 4
Volume: 75
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2017.1299203
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Author-Name: Amitava Krishna Dutt
Author-X-Name-First: Amitava Krishna
Author-X-Name-Last: Dutt
Author-Name: Roberto Veneziani
Author-X-Name-First: Roberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Veneziani
Title: Social coordination
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 1-3
Issue: 1
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1722346
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Author-Name: Duncan Foley
Author-X-Name-First: Duncan
Author-X-Name-Last: Foley
Title: Social coordination problems in classical and Marxian political economy
Abstract: 
 This paper explores the application of information theory and game theory to questions arising in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx's critical reformulation of Smith's analysis in Capital. After introducing the key theoretical concepts of entropy-constrained behavior and the social interaction model, the paper applies them to some central issues in Marxian and classical political economy: the long-period method analysis of commodity production, the social division of labor, commodity production and money, alienation, and the tendency for the rate of profit to fall.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 4-34
Issue: 1
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1605617
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Author-Name: Stephen A. Marglin
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Marglin
Title: History vs. equilibrium one more time: how Keynes’s General Theory foundered on the rocks of comparative statics
Abstract: 
 Keynes’s message, that full employment was an unlikely outcome for a capitalist economy, did not survive scrutiny in a comparative-statics framework. But this was the fault of the framework, not the message. The main criticisms leveled at the idea of an underemployment equilibrium were that, as the money wage rate fell, the Keynes effect would lead to an expansion of investment demand (Modigliani) and that the real-balance effect would lead to an expansion of consumption demand (Haberler and Pigou). Neither of these criticisms survives when real-time changes in the money wage replace static comparisons of equilibria with different money wages. The lesson is that dynamic adjustment is key to understanding the workings of a capitalist economy.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 35-52
Issue: 1
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1636289
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Author-Name: Simone Polillo
Author-X-Name-First: Simone
Author-X-Name-Last: Polillo
Title: Solving the paradox of mass investment: expertise, financial inclusion and inequality in the politics of credit
Abstract: 
 The Ownership Society of the late twentieth century was grounded on the promise that the opening of new investment opportunities would lead to financial expansion and inclusion. It resulted, instead, in mass dispossession. In this paper, I analyze the politics of credit in order to theorize the nexus between finance and inequality, and specifically to understand whether financial inclusion can create opportunities for what we might call ‘financial citizenship.’ Looking at processes, internal to the financial system itself, that may give rise to the paradox of mass investment and increased inequality, and proposing a general model of the modalities through which the financial system engages with its customers, are my two main goals.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 53-76
Issue: 1
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1669810
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Author-Name: Mark Setterfield
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Setterfield
Title: Managing the discontent of the losers
Abstract: 
 During the 1990s, social structure of accumulation (SSA) theorists identified the solidification of a neoliberal SSA that included a capital-citizen accord based on ‘managing the discontent of the losers’. This created social stability by reconciling working households to material hardships emanating from the neoliberal labour market by means of either coercion or non-economic distraction. This paper argues that there was, in fact, a material basis to the neoliberal capital-citizen accord, including the ability of households to accumulate debt in order to limit the growth of consumption inequality arising from burgeoning income inequality. The material basis of the capital-citizen accord broke down during the financial crisis of 2007–2009, destabilizing the accord itself. The result is that the neoliberal SSA is now threatened by rising populism. The outcomes of this process are highly uncertain – a key characteristic of the periods of inter regnum that separate successful SSAs.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 77-97
Issue: 1
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1623908
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Author-Name: Lance Taylor
Author-X-Name-First: Lance
Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor
Author-Name: Özlem Ömer
Author-X-Name-First: Özlem
Author-X-Name-Last: Ömer
Title: Where do profits and jobs come from? Employment and distribution in the US economy
Abstract: 
 ‘Meso’ level analysis of 16 producing sectors sheds light on broad forces shaping employment and profits. In a growth decomposition from 1990 through 2016, employment responds positively to output increases and negatively to rising productivity. The macro profit share responds positively to sectoral productivity and demand increases, and negatively to higher real wages. Jobs shifted toward sectors with high employment but slow productivity and real wage growth, contributing to an overall decrease in the wage share. Observed profit growth was robust in manufacturing, trade, finance and insurance, and information. The latter two (and wholesale trade) benefitted from favorable demand shifts. However, they generate less than a quarter of the total profits. Growth of remaining profits has been due to demand shifts and productivity growth which exceeded real wage increases. Market power matters in all sectors. The strongest effects may operate against employment and real wages in labor markets.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 98-117
Issue: 1
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1672883
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Author-Name: Marc Fleurbaey
Author-X-Name-First: Marc
Author-X-Name-Last: Fleurbaey
Author-Name: Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic
Author-X-Name-First: Marie-Laure
Author-X-Name-Last: Salles-Djelic
Title: Progress is back
Abstract: 
 This paper presents the International Panel on Social Progress and expounds key ideas from its first report, Rethinking Society for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2018). It emphasizes the importance of three dimensions of progress on which serious challenges need to be addressed: equity, freedom and sustainability. Addressing these challenges primarily requires reforming power and governance structures in the economy, society, and politics.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 119-127
Issue: 2
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1644663
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Author-Name: Lorraine Talbot
Author-X-Name-First: Lorraine
Author-X-Name-Last: Talbot
Title: Why corporations inhibit social progress: a brief review of corporations from chapter 6 ‘Markets, Finance and Corporations. Does Capitalism have a Future?’
Abstract: 
 A deficit of social progress is directly attributable to the corporation and its ability to operationalise inequality and to inhibit innovation. In ‘Markets, Finance and Corporations. Does Capitalism have a Future?’ we set out how and why the corporation creates barriers to social progress by perpetuating inequality and exploitation and in directing innovation to increase profit rather than meet the needs of society.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 128-138
Issue: 2
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1733060
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Author-Name: Liam Campling
Author-X-Name-First: Liam
Author-X-Name-Last: Campling
Title: Competitive accumulation, the geographical transfer of value, and global environmental change
Abstract: 
 This commentary on Chapter 6 on Markets, Finance, and Corporations of the International Panel for Social Progress (IPSP 2018) report makes four points. The first suggests that proposals for legal reform of the corporation require consideration of the underlying processes of capital accumulation. Second, thinking about the articulations of global value chains and the law could help better appreciate their combined role in the geographical transfer of value. The third notes the potential for the greater analytical integration of financial and corporate dynamics through the study of the financialisation of production. Finally, it argues that future work by the IPSP should examine the articulations of political economy and global environmental change, and the spaces for ‘social progress’ therein.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 139-145
Issue: 2
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1644664
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Author-Name: Adrian Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Adrian
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Title: International panel on social progress: chapter on ‘The future of work – good jobs for all’
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 146-150
Issue: 2
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1672884
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Author-Name: Gianluca Grimalda
Author-X-Name-First: Gianluca
Author-X-Name-Last: Grimalda
Author-Name: Alain Trannoy
Author-X-Name-First: Alain
Author-X-Name-Last: Trannoy
Author-Name: Fernando Filgueira
Author-X-Name-First: Fernando
Author-X-Name-Last: Filgueira
Author-Name: Karl Ove Moene
Author-X-Name-First: Karl Ove
Author-X-Name-Last: Moene
Title: Egalitarian redistribution in the era of hyper-globalization
Abstract: 
 Two traditional theorems of welfare economics posit a trade-off between a government redistribution targets and efficiency. We propose a third ‘claim’ of welfare economics, stating that in closed economies the actual efficiency costs associated with redistribution are small. We then examine the claim in the current phase of ‘hyper-globalization’. On the one hand, a race-to-the-bottom in taxation restricts the capacity to tax high-earners and the associated brain drain may affect a country’s long-run growth. On the other hand, demand for social insurance should be particularly high in an open economy, especially with advancing digitalization. Xenophobic sentiments may, however, offset this demand. We also discuss the impact of globalization on wage equalization and productive efficiency. We conclude against the idea that the welfare state is intrinsically unable to carry out its redistributive function in an era of globalization. However, its strategies and tools of intervention must be rethought.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 151-184
Issue: 2
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1714072
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Author-Name: Simon Reid-Henry
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Reid-Henry
Title: Inequality and Democracy: A response to the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) Report 2018
Abstract: 
 In this response I reflect on the contributions of the recently published report of the International Panel on Social Progress. I focus in particular on the Report’s treatment of the relationship between inequality and democracy: the proper subject of Chapter 14 in Part II of the report but also a central concern throughout the text. I begin by setting the Report's arguments more fully in the historical context of the past few decades, and specifically the post-1970s era. I then interrogate in more detail the relationship between liberalism and democracy before examining each of three key themes raised by the report: the domestic challenges posed by economic inequality to political pluralism; the relationship between the state and globalisation; and the extent to which current institutional arrangements of liberal democratic systems articulate and safeguard the basic values and moral principles of democracy. I conclude by looking forward.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 185-202
Issue: 2
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1710242
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Author-Name: Anupam Das
Author-X-Name-First: Anupam
Author-X-Name-Last: Das
Author-Name: Mara Fridell
Author-X-Name-First: Mara
Author-X-Name-Last: Fridell
Author-Name: Ian Hudson
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Hudson
Author-Name: Mark Hudson
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Hudson
Title: Do governments matter? Provincial policy and redistribution in two Canadian provinces, 1990–2010
Abstract: 
 One of the most important economic debates surrounding the feasibility of government efforts to redistribute income is the extent to which economic integration leads to policy convergence. The convergence hypothesis argues that when trade and finance flow freely between political jurisdictions, economic policies will tend to converge. This article uses two Canadian provinces, Manitoba and British Columbia, to conduct a comparative analysis of redistributive policy convergence. We do find observable differences in the redistributive policies of the two provinces. The extent to which this translated into measurable improvements in economic and social outcomes is less pronounced, but will be of interest to scholars of inequality.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 203-233
Issue: 2
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1602279
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Author-Name: Luan V. Bernardelli
Author-X-Name-First: Luan V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bernardelli
Author-Name: Michael A. Kortt
Author-X-Name-First: Michael A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kortt
Author-Name: Ednaldo Michellon
Author-X-Name-First: Ednaldo
Author-X-Name-Last: Michellon
Title: Religious affiliation and earnings: Evidence from Brazil
Abstract: 
 This article examines the relationship between wages and religious affiliation for Brazil using conventional human capital earnings functions. Data drawn from the 1991, 2000, and 2010 Brazilian Censuses were analysed for men and women. Our results indicate that Brazilian men (women) who identified as Traditional Protestants received a small wage premium 2.6% (1.4%) compared to those who identified as Catholic—the largest religious denomination in Brazil—even after controlling for a range of demographic and social characteristics. In contrast, Brazilian men (women) who identified as Pentecostal Protestants received a sizeable wage penalty of 4.3% (5.8%). In an effort to explain the wage gap between different religious affiliations in Brazil, we also conducted a conventional Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 234-255
Issue: 2
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1602281
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Author-Name: Larry Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Larry
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Title: Constraints on policymaking in high sovereign debt countries: case studies of Italy and Japan
Abstract: 
 While sovereign debt has become a major constraint in the policymaking of most developed countries, this article asks why the choices in fiscal and monetary policy were not uniform among the highest sovereign debt countries: Italy and Japan. While Japan has been fairly unconstrained in economic policymaking over the last 25 years since the onset of the ‘Lost Decades,’ Italy has been very strongly constrained even as debt levels are higher in the former than in the latter case. It is argued that Italy faced two important constraints to policymaking, which Japan does not face: (1) the higher exposure to foreign debt holding, which has made Italy more vulnerable to fluctuations in the interest rate, thus making the government more cautious about taking certain fiscal decisions; (2) the common currency and fiscal treaties to limit deficit and debt accumulation, which form a legal barrier to fiscal and monetary expansionism.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 256-279
Issue: 2
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1602283
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Author-Name: Roberto Frega
Author-X-Name-First: Roberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Frega
Author-Name: Lisa Herzog
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Herzog
Title: Preface to the Special Issue on Workplace Democracy
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 281-285
Issue: 3
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1778776
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Author-Name: Stanislas Richard
Author-X-Name-First: Stanislas
Author-X-Name-Last: Richard
Title: Democratic equilibria: Albert Hirschman and workplace democracy
Abstract: 
 This paper clarifies the usage of Albert Hirschman’s categories of market behaviour as of exit and voice in debates about workplace democracy by taking seriously his critique of the neoclassical analysis of competition. Pro-market liberals are generally hostile to the idea of workplace democracy and tend to favour top-down hierarchies as a way of organising labour. This hostility is generally inspired by the neoclassical analysis of exploitation and efficiency, which leads them to defend distributions achieved through exit-based competitive equilibria. Following Hirschman, I propose to consider a hypothetical alternative: a democratic equilibrium, reached through the use of voice. I show that it would present the same appealing characteristics than its competitive counterpart while also accounting for the non-ideal conditions in which markets operate. Support for free markets should entail support for workplace democracy minimally understood as a strengthening of voice.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 286-306
Issue: 3
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1685676
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Author-Name: Felix Gerlsbeck
Author-X-Name-First: Felix
Author-X-Name-Last: Gerlsbeck
Author-Name: Lisa Herzog
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Herzog
Title: The epistemic potentials of workplace democracy
Abstract: 
 Can the alleged conflict between efficiency and justice in the debate about workplace democracy be overcome? We argue that this might be possible by applying arguments from epistemic democratic theory to workplaces. To do so, we first define our notion of workplace democracy, and argue that the relevant decisions in companies concern the search for mutually beneficial solutions for workers, owners and society at large, or the fair management of conflicts between these groups. On this basis, we examine which epistemic advantages of democracy apply to decision-making within companies. We argue that the inherent reflexivity and adaptability of democratic systems can be a great advantage in the uncertain and changeable contexts in which companies operate. We reply to some objections, including the claim that feedback from markets provides sufficient information for companies, and conclude by calling for experiments with democratic practices in workplaces.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 307-330
Issue: 3
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1596299
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Author-Name: Christian Neuhäuser
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Neuhäuser
Author-Name: Andreas Oldenbourg
Author-X-Name-First: Andreas
Author-X-Name-Last: Oldenbourg
Title: Workplace democracy and corporate human rights responsibilities
Abstract: 
 In this article, we offer an argument for workplace democracy that focuses on human rights responsibilities of corporations. We argue that democratic corporations are better equipped to fulfill their human rights responsibilities along two dimensions. First, workplace democracy makes it more probable that corporations live up to their human rights responsibilities. This is due to the instrumental role of democracy for advancing basic justice. Second, corporations are more legitimate in carrying out their human rights responsibilities if they are democratically controlled. This claim builds on the procedural role of democracy in the face of pluralism over the implementation of human rights. Neither point is meant to replace other arguments for workplace democracy. However, they are a necessary supplement when states are either repressive or ineffective, as is often the case.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 331-350
Issue: 3
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1725832
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Author-Name: Chi Kwok
Author-X-Name-First: Chi
Author-X-Name-Last: Kwok
Title: Work autonomy and workplace democracy: the polarization of the goods of work autonomy in the two worlds of work
Abstract: 
 Political theorists have been framing the problems of unfreedom and domination at work as inconsistent with the requirements of political democracy, undermining the democratic potential of the workplace and inducing psychological and status harm. Although these are important insights, political theorists are often unwilling to frame the hierarchical workplace as an issue of distributive justice. This paper, by bringing in the empirical literature on work autonomy, offers a framework to explicate the relationship between freedom at work and the distribution of essential goods at paid work. Through such framework, the paper argues that procedural and substantive freedom at work are essential to the fair distribution of the goods of work. By examining the empirical literature, the paper further argues that there exists a polarization of the goods of work between high-skilled and low-skilled labor, and the polarization offers a pro-tanto justification of workplace democracy for the least advantaged workers.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 351-372
Issue: 3
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1690671
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Author-Name: Ermanno C. Tortia
Author-X-Name-First: Ermanno C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tortia
Author-Name: Silvia Sacchetti
Author-X-Name-First: Silvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Sacchetti
Author-Name: Vladislav Valentinov
Author-X-Name-First: Vladislav
Author-X-Name-Last: Valentinov
Title: The ‘protective function’ of social enterprises: understanding the renewal of multiple sets of motivations
Abstract: 
 We study the problem of the renewal of workers’ intrinsic and pro-social motivations in democratic work settings, as found in Italian social enterprises, organizations in the social economy that deliver social and welfare services. Building upon institutional, system, and management theory we hypothesize that social enterprises value and protect pro-social motivations as crucial resources. Specifically, hypothesis-testing examines the effect of the work relational context and of job satisfaction on the renewal of self-esteem intrinsic motivations and pro-social motivations. Our sample includes 320 social enterprises matched with 4134 paid workers. The results of categorical principal components analysis, OLS regression and structural equation modelling show that worker wellbeing (substantive and formal satisfaction) mediates the relation between the relational context (collaborative teamwork and fairness, both procedural and interactional) and the renewal of self-esteem and pro-social motivations.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 373-410
Issue: 3
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1744702
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Author-Name: Inigo Gonzalez-Ricoy
Author-X-Name-First: Inigo
Author-X-Name-Last: Gonzalez-Ricoy
Title: Ownership and control rights in democratic firms – a republican approach
Abstract: 
 Workplace democracy is often defined, and has recently been defended, as a form of intra-firm governance in which workers have control rights over management with no ownership requirement on their part. Using the normative tools of republican political theory, the paper examines bargaining power disparities and moral hazard problems resulting from the allocation of control rights and ownership to different groups within democratic firms, with a particular reference to the European codetermination system. With various qualifications related to potentially mitigating factors, such as workforce and shareholder composition or risk aversion and reallocation, the paper contends that forms of workplace democracy in which workers control and own the firm, such as cooperativism, are preferable to other forms, such as codetermination, in which ownership and control rights are formally separated.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 411-430
Issue: 3
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2018.1552792
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Author-Name: Maxime Quijoux
Author-X-Name-First: Maxime
Author-X-Name-Last: Quijoux
Title: The power of (the) union: trade-unionism and workplace democracy in a French recovered factory
Abstract: 
 What happens when a trade-union becomes the main actor of the workplace democracy? Underlining the strong bureaucratization of the trade union field, studies on trade unionism seem to predict low potentials. The case of a cooperative takeover of a French company by the CGT union in the early 2010s gives us the opportunity to verify it empirically. firstly, we will see that while trade union bureaucratization allows the takeover of the company – thanks to professionalized organizers – it also constitutes an obstacle when setting up the main cooperative schemes, as shown by the lack of participation in general meetings. In a second phase, however, by placing members from each sector on the board of directors – from the reception to the printing presses and the sales department – the union sets up a ‘sociological democratization’ and thus creates a continuum of interactions between grassroots and executive board which constitute ‘worker control’ over the new management.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 431-449
Issue: 3
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1775875
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Author-Name: Nancy Folbre
Author-X-Name-First: Nancy
Author-X-Name-Last: Folbre
Title: Manifold exploitations: toward an intersectional political economy
Abstract: 
 The distinction between oppression and exploitation is overstated in traditional Marxian theory. Defined in terms of economic advantages gained from unfair bargaining power, exploitation can take manifold forms, characterized by intersections, overlaps, and interactions within complex hierarchical systems in which actors often find themselves in somewhat contradictory positions.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 451-472
Issue: 4
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1798493
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Author-Name: Debra Satz
Author-X-Name-First: Debra
Author-X-Name-Last: Satz
Title: Unfair advantage and exploitation: comments on Folbre
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 473-478
Issue: 4
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1834121
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Author-Name: Sasha Breger Bush
Author-X-Name-First: Sasha
Author-X-Name-Last: Breger Bush
Author-Name: Matthew Kriese
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Kriese
Title: Rethinking drugs
Abstract: 
 Discussions of drugs in international political economy tend to focus on the relative advantages and disadvantages of particular regulatory regimes and governmental policy approaches. While the particular regulation(s) and social context(s) differ, the drug literature is in this sense repetitive and neglectful of significant features of the global drug economy. Drawing on social economics, we argue that the neglect of broad and holistic, synthetic, integrative and comparative drug research in IPE stems in part from a research program in which the state is “essentialized”, resulting in drug research that is too narrowly cast. Borrowing from social economics, poststructuralist Marxism, and new materialism, we develop an anti-essentialist approach for thinking about the global drug economy in an effort to reveal aspects of global drug production, distribution and consumption, and the power relations entailed therein, that are currently obscured.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 479-506
Issue: 4
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1605536
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Author-Name: Philip Nel
Author-X-Name-First: Philip
Author-X-Name-Last: Nel
Title: When bribery helps the poor
Abstract: 
 The debate about the effect of corruption on income distribution suffers from a number of problems. The main issues are the use of perception-based measures of corruption, which implicitly favours one side of the debate, and a too narrow conception of agency involved in corruption. By relying on direct and grained evidence of bribery in 106 industrialised and industrialising states, and by appreciating the role of agency on the part of bribers, this article finds support for an emerging view that the effect of corruption on inequality is conditional. Under poor institutional conditions, entrepreneurial-related bribery is associated with an increase in the relative income share of the poorest 40%, mitigating disposable income inequality. The results are robust to the use of different income-distribution measures and data sources, as well as different specifications. While wide-spread bribery and corruption in general may be detrimental to longer term socio-economic progress, it is important not to ignore the incentives and constraints that lead people to use bribery as a means of survival.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 507-531
Issue: 4
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1618482
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Author-Name: Andrew Phiri
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Phiri
Author-Name: Doreen Mukuku
Author-X-Name-First: Doreen
Author-X-Name-Last: Mukuku
Title: Does unemployment aggravate suicide rates in South Africa? Some empirical evidence
Abstract: 
 The purpose of our study is to investigate the cointegration relationship between suicides and unemployment in South Africa using annual data collected between 1996 and 2015. The study relies on the bounds approach to autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) cointegration model to establish long-run and short-run cointegration between unemployment and suicide rates. Furthermore, suicide data is further disintegrated into ‘sex’ and ‘age’ demographics to provide a more disaggregated analysis. Our empirical results indicate that unemployment is insignificantly related with suicide rates with the exception for citizens above 75 years. On the other hand, other control variables such as per capita GDP, inflation and divorce appear to be more significantly related with suicides. To the best of our knowledge, this study becomes the first to investigate the time series cointegration relationship between suicides and unemployment for South Africa data.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 532-560
Issue: 4
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1630667
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Author-Name: Francesco Reito
Author-X-Name-First: Francesco
Author-X-Name-Last: Reito
Title: Roscas without sanctions
Abstract: 
 This article shows that, under the assumption that members share the risk of negative income shocks, rotating savings and credit associations can be sustainable even with simple exponential discounting and without the presence of social norms and sanctioning systems.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 561-579
Issue: 4
Volume: 78
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1693054
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Author-Name: Peter Hans Matthews
Author-X-Name-First: Peter Hans
Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews
Title: The dialectics of differentiation: Marx's mathematical manuscripts and their relation to his economics
Abstract: 
 The notion that Marx neither understood nor advocated the use of mathematics is a persistent one. His interest in both commercial and abstract mathematics spanned more than two decades, however, and culminated in two ‘contributions’ to the foundations of the calculus: ‘On the Concept of the Derived Function’ (1881) and ‘On the Concept of the Differential’ (1881). A detailed examination of these and other technical notebooks suggests that Marx's economics both motivated and informed his studies in mathematics and that these, in turn, influenced his understanding of economic phenomena.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 25-50
Issue: 1
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1664758
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Author-Name: Katherine A. Moos
Author-X-Name-First: Katherine A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Moos
Title: The historical evolution of the cost of social reproduction in the United States, 1959–2012
Abstract: 
 Using data from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) – including a BEA satellite account that imputes monetary values for unwaged household production – this paper provides a feminist, class-based framework for estimating the annual cost of social reproduction in the United States from 1959 to 2012. The key finding is that for US working-class households, the cost of socially reproducing labor-power has risen relative to the cost of employing labor-power, implying that employers are paying for a decreasing proportion of the total societal cost of socially reproducing labor-power. These results are discussed in relationship to growing income inequality and the contradictory role of the state in the US neoliberal era.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 51-75
Issue: 1
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1703031
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Author-Name: Ramaa Vasudevan
Author-X-Name-First: Ramaa
Author-X-Name-Last: Vasudevan
Title: The network of empire and universal capitalism: imperialism and the laws of capitalist competition
Abstract: 
 Imperialism in the context of capitalism has been explained either in terms of the suspension of the laws of capitalist competition, or by focusing on the relationship of capitalism with pre-capitalist regions. This paper puts forward a theory of imperialism that is specific and internal to capitalism. The argument put forward in this paper is that the critical element of the empire of capital is the manner in which imperial power is exercised to bring the workers across the globe under the dominion of the network of capitalist relations. The distinctive logic of imperialism is understood to arise from the use of imperial power to expand the pool of available surplus value available for capital as a whole to exploit. It can be interpreted as the network externality of expanding the web of control of capital.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 76-102
Issue: 1
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1664759
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Author-Name: Vivek Chibber
Author-X-Name-First: Vivek
Author-X-Name-Last: Chibber
Title: Introduction to the special issue of ROSE
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 1-2
Issue: 1
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1896189
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Author-Name: Korkut Alp Ertürk
Author-X-Name-First: Korkut Alp
Author-X-Name-Last: Ertürk
Title: Induced technology hypothesis. Acemoglu and Marx on deskilling (skill replacing) innovations
Abstract: 
 The paper hypothesizes that the worldwide market-friendly political/institutional transformations of the early 1980s had an impact on the direction of technological change. Their crucial effect was to make an integrated global labor market politically feasible, which raised demand for what eventually became global value chains and production networks, requiring in turn the further development of IT to lower communication and information costs. IT investment and demand for high skills, driven up by the large set up costs of global networks, eventually stagnated once these networks were in place making the expansion of low-skill employment around the world less dependent on their services.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 3-24
Issue: 1
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1650291
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Author-Name: Nicholas Vrousalis
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas
Author-X-Name-Last: Vrousalis
Title: How exploiters dominate
Abstract: 
 This paper argues that exploitation is a form of domination, domination for self-enrichment. In a slogan, exploitation is a dividend of servitude—a benefit the powerful extract by converting the vulnerable into their servants. The paper argues that what makes exploitation wrong is that it constitutes domination-induced unilateral service to others; that this form of servitude is necessarily cashed out in terms of labour time or effort; that competing accounts of exploitation fail to do justice to the servitude dimension; and that what distinguishes capitalism historically is the way it reproduces a structural dilemma between dominated work and no work.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 103-130
Issue: 1
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1618483
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Author-Name: Ramesh Chandra Das
Author-X-Name-First: Ramesh Chandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Das
Author-Name: Chhanda Mandal
Author-X-Name-First: Chhanda
Author-X-Name-Last: Mandal
Author-Name: Arun Kumar Patra
Author-X-Name-First: Arun Kumar
Author-X-Name-Last: Patra
Title: Linkage between social sector’s spending and HDI: study on individual as well as panel data of Indian states
Abstract: 
 Spending upon different social sectors from the government’s exchequer has been one of the priority agendas of any country or province since it affects growth and human development. In this juncture, this study investigates the linkages between social sector’s spending and HDI in individual as well as panel of states in India for the period 1995–2016. Using cointegration, causality and error correction mechanism for the individual and panel of states, the study observes that there are long-run relations between the two for a small number of states but no one produces error correction results. Most of the states in the North Eastern Region produce bilateral causality between two. Further, the panel data results through VECM show that both the indicators have long-run associations but errors are not again corrected. However, all the past values of the two indicators make a cause to each other in the panel framework.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 357-379
Issue: 2
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1671605
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Poitras
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Poitras
Title: Phenomenology and heterodox economics
Abstract: 
 This paper proposes that the pluralistic tent of heterodox economics could be enhanced by accommodating phenomenological inquiry. After an overview of heterodox economics and why phenomenology could be relevant to this project, attention focuses on contributions to phenomenology by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. With this background, the historical evolution of hermeneutics is traced from the historicism of Wilhelm Dilthey to the search for universal truths in the human sciences by Hans-Georg Gadamer. Motivated by the hermeneutic phenomenology of Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur, the relationship of phenomenology to critical realism is critically examined. Substantive differences between phenomenological research methods and those used in orthodox economics are identified and used to illustrate how phenomenology could assist some heterodox economists in making substantive contributions that challenge the orthodoxy.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 333-356
Issue: 2
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1669811
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Author-Name: Roland Zullo
Author-X-Name-First: Roland
Author-X-Name-Last: Zullo
Title: Non-market institutions and crime in US counties: Hayek v. Polanyi
Abstract: 
 Karl Polanyi’s The great transformation emphasized the importance of non-market institutions for social equity and stability. In that same era, Friedrich Hayek postulated in The road to serfdom that superior economies were market-based and featured minimal government. I compare these worldviews in relation to property and violent crime. Using US county data, change in crime is modeled as a function of economic structure, economic conditions, and demographics. Consistent with Polanyi, the size of the public sector in the economy negatively associates with crime. Within the public sector, education is a critical crime-reducing function, more so than law enforcement. Industry diversity is positively associated with crime, contrary to Hayek. Manufacturing equates with lower crime and the size of the private non-profit sector is unrelated to crime. Overall the results favor Polanyi’s assertion that non-market institutions are necessary to counter the harsh outcomes arising from market economic systems.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 310-332
Issue: 2
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1663909
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Author-Name: Kanybek Nur-tegin
Author-X-Name-First: Kanybek
Author-X-Name-Last: Nur-tegin
Title: Social capital – a topsoil for democracy
Abstract: 
 Political theorists are familiar with the proposition that social capital in the form of trust, membership in voluntary organizations, and community engagement, is conducive to democracy. Corroborating empirical evidence exists but it is patchy and inconclusive because it is usually based on aggregate, often country-level data or isolated case studies, and the identified relationship is associative rather than causal. In this paper, I use some of the most recent large-scale micro-level datasets to establish that the relationship between social capital and democracy is indeed strong and causal as predicted by theory. I find that citizens who have more trust in others, attend community meetings, and belong to voluntary organizations tend to prefer democracy to any other kind of governance.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 166-190
Issue: 2
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1640385
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Author-Name: Eefje de Gelder
Author-X-Name-First: Eefje
Author-X-Name-Last: de Gelder
Author-Name: Albert de Vaal
Author-X-Name-First: Albert
Author-X-Name-Last: de Vaal
Author-Name: Paul H. Driessen
Author-X-Name-First: Paul H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Driessen
Author-Name: Esther-Mirjam Sent
Author-X-Name-First: Esther-Mirjam
Author-X-Name-Last: Sent
Author-Name: Josée Bloemer
Author-X-Name-First: Josée
Author-X-Name-Last: Bloemer
Title: Market competition and ethical standards: the case of fair trade mainstreaming
Abstract: 
 This paper analyzes whether ideology-driven firms doing business based on ethical principles such as those envisioned by fair trade can survive in the market when competition increases. By formally evaluating the development of fair trade over time, we show that such firms cannot continue to exist with full compliance with ethical standards about fairness. We conceptualize fairness as wealth transfers to small local producers in developing countries and apply a Hotelling-model of horizontal competition in fairness. Results show that increasing the scale and scope of fair trade products in the market implies that concessions on fairness are needed to survive intensified competition. Ideology-driven fair trade firms will survive only if they differentiate. In the end, paradoxically, wealth transfers by ideology-driven firms can be upheld only by focusing on other attributes than fairness to attract consumers. Only then can ideology-driven firms maintain ethical standards in a market environment, while alleviating pressure on total wealth transfers to local producers.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 191-221
Issue: 2
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1650292
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Author-Name: Philipp Heimberger
Author-X-Name-First: Philipp
Author-X-Name-Last: Heimberger
Title: What is structural about unemployment in OECD countries?
Abstract: 
 While established estimates of ‘structural’ unemployment are regularly assumed to be a valid proxy for their unobservable theoretical postulate, this paper sets out to study their actual econometric determinants. Based on a data set for 23 OECD countries over the time period 1985–2013, the panel regression results suggest that standard institutional labor market indicators – such as employment protection legislation, trade union density, tax wedge, minimum wages – largely underperform in explaining measures of ‘structural’ unemployment, but macroeconomic factors – in particular capital accumulation, but also the long-term real interest rate – are essential determinants. The available macroeconometric evidence does not support the view that labor market institutions are at the heart of increased ‘structural’ unemployment in OECD economies. To understand the development of unemployment in OECD countries, researchers and policy-makers should primarily consider macroeconomic factors and focus on capital accumulation.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 380-412
Issue: 2
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1678067
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Author-Name: Steve Fleetwood
Author-X-Name-First: Steve
Author-X-Name-Last: Fleetwood
Title: A definition of habit for socio-economics
Abstract: 
 The paper argues that it is a mistake to define habit as behaviour or action; as a regular conjunction of actions; as a stock; as a form of automaticity (although habit is acquired and activated automatically); as a tendency, propensity or disposition (even though habit acts tendentially); as a mechanism; and as a process (even though habit is acquired and activated via several processes). A taxonomic definition is provided wherein habit is a cognitive representation of a cue-action response.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 131-165
Issue: 2
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1630668
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Author-Name: Rosalia Castellano
Author-X-Name-First: Rosalia
Author-X-Name-Last: Castellano
Author-Name: Gaetano Musella
Author-X-Name-First: Gaetano
Author-X-Name-Last: Musella
Author-Name: Gennaro Punzo
Author-X-Name-First: Gennaro
Author-X-Name-Last: Punzo
Title: Wage dynamics in light of the structural changes in the labour market across four more economically developed countries of Europe
Abstract: 
 This paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in four European countries during the economic crisis in light of important shifts in the occupational structure. Through recentered influence function regression for quantiles of European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions data, this analysis links research on the primary forces of both wage and wage inequality to the decomposition of their changes between 2005 and 2013 into the composition effect and the wage structure. France and Germany show decreasing wage inequality despite having opposite changes in wages, whereas the United Kingdom and Italy show increasing wage inequality while maintaining opposite changes in wages. The wage structure has a greater influence on generating variation in the real salary, and the composition effect mostly explains the change in wage inequality with varying intensity throughout the distribution. Italy is the only country whose wage structure significantly contributes to wage inequality.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 222-260
Issue: 2
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1655163
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Author-Name: Sergei Hoxha
Author-X-Name-First: Sergei
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoxha
Author-Name: Alfred Kleinknecht
Author-X-Name-First: Alfred
Author-X-Name-Last: Kleinknecht
Title: Do trustful labor–management relations enhance innovation? Evidence from German WSI data
Abstract: 
 Analyzing a sample of German firms, our Probit analysis shows that conflictual Anglo-Saxon type labor–management relationships are negatively related to the probability of performing R&D and to introduce innovations. We add to the Varieties of Capitalism literature a number of arguments of why cooperative Rhineland labor relations are superior in handling the ‘routine’ innovation model in knowledge-intensive industries. Notably if innovative competences are based on the stepwise accumulation over long periods of bits and pieces of knowledge for the continuous improvement of products, processes or systems, cooperative Rhineland labor relations appear to be superior to conflictual Anglo-Saxon labor relations.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 261-285
Issue: 2
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1662936
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Author-Name: Guido de Blasio
Author-X-Name-First: Guido
Author-X-Name-Last: de Blasio
Author-Name: Diego Scalise
Author-X-Name-First: Diego
Author-X-Name-Last: Scalise
Author-Name: Paolo Sestito
Author-X-Name-First: Paolo
Author-X-Name-Last: Sestito
Title: Universalism vs. particularism: a round trip from sociology to economics
Abstract: 
 Social scientists, in particular sociologists, claim that the distinction between universalistic and particularistic values is relevant to explaining the social behaviour of individuals (and societies). This paper provides preliminary empirical evidence that supports the claim. It first defines a number of proxies for the degree of particularism embedded into long-celebrated dimensions of social behaviour (trust, political awareness, and associational activities). Then, it shows that the particularistic measures are positively correlated to each other and negatively correlated to some established generalist measures for all dimensions of social behaviour considered, both across and within countries and regions. Moreover, the paper relates that the various proxies for particularism share the same set of covariates (such as low education and income), which are neatly distinguishable from the determinants of the generalist measures.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 286-309
Issue: 2
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1663908
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Book Reviews
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 241-273
Issue: 2
Volume: 66
Year: 2008
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760701821821
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Contributors
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 275-278
Issue: 2
Volume: 66
Year: 2008
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346760802264111
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Author-Name: Mirjam Müller
Author-X-Name-First: Mirjam
Author-X-Name-Last: Müller
Title: Who cares? Market socialism and social reproduction
Abstract: 
 This paper provides a feminist critique of market socialism. I argue that two important socialist values, equality and freedom, can only be realised by a form of socialism that adequately distributes and values tasks associated with social reproduction. My argument proceeds in five steps: first, I outline of the main characteristics of market socialism. Second, I provide an understanding of social reproduction and show that its current organisation raises a feminist concern. Third, I discuss the relation between markets under market socialism and social reproduction and draw implications from this for the market socialist project. Finally, I show that market socialism has the potential to bring about a more equal distribution of responsibility for social reproductive work.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 454-475
Issue: 3
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1830157
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Author-Name: Alan Thomas
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas
Title: Market socialism, labour market domination, and the state as employer of last resort
Abstract: 
 This paper assesses the claim that to avoid labour market domination we must be market socialists committed to an extensive sector of worker-owned firms. The labour republican tradition offers three perspectives on this argument: Ellerman argues that non-domination demands that all workplaces be worker owned. Hockett has argued that it demands a policy that the state function as the employer of last resort. Taylor argues that all that republicanism requires is a strengthened exit right for workers. This paper develops the claim that mandatory market socialism would be illiberal by thinning the market for labour and removing the fair value of exit rights. The most reasonable view, overall, accepts that the state must be the employer of last resort so as to eliminate labour market domination, but this is a macro-level commitment that does not place any meso-level restrictions on the nature of the firm.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 528-553
Issue: 3
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1869294
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Author-Name: Hannes Kuch
Author-X-Name-First: Hannes
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuch
Title: Justice, ethical dispositions, and liberal socialism
Abstract: 
 Social institutions that seek to realize justice must foster the moral disposition to act on the norms of justice. In order to spell out this claim, the paper turns to Hegel’s idea of Sittlichkeit (ethical life). In Hegel’s framework, the institutions of ethical life have the task of nurturing the ‘ethical disposition’, something akin to what Rawls calls the ‘sense of justice’. This task places particular constraints on institutions. The formation of ethical dispositions requires what I call an ‘internal’ transformation of the economic sphere, allowing individuals to develop their moral capacities. This stands in contrast to many theories of distributive justice, including Rawls’s, which treat the market as a ‘black box’, whose main virtue is seen in maximizing economic output. By reconstructing Hegel’s institutional suggestions systematically, it turns out that Hegel’s social philosophy offers convincing arguments for a liberal socialism.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 476-505
Issue: 3
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1836388
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Author-Name: Hannes Kuch
Author-X-Name-First: Hannes
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuch
Author-Name: Gottfried Schweiger
Author-X-Name-First: Gottfried
Author-X-Name-Last: Schweiger
Title: Introduction to the special issue on market socialism
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 413-418
Issue: 3
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1961012
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Author-Name: Tully Rector
Author-X-Name-First: Tully
Author-X-Name-Last: Rector
Title: Market socialism as a form of life
Abstract: 
 Capitalism is not only an economic order, but a form of life. Market socialism is proposed as an alternative, and should be assessed according to the standards of second-order coherence and social rationality that make a form of life habitable. I argue that it fails to meet those standards. Competitive market practices encode values that determine specific reasons for action and belief, reasons antithetical to those given by the principle of community. That principle, however, validates the politics under which common capital ownership is secured. The selfsame agents, in their fulfillment of essential and non-negotiable functional roles, are required to be equally responsive to incompatible reasons. This undermines the case for market socialism’s general stability.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 581-606
Issue: 3
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1886319
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Author-Name: Nicholas Vrousalis
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas
Author-X-Name-Last: Vrousalis
Title: Public ownership, worker control, and the labour epistocracy problem
Abstract: 
 This paper argues that influential contemporary models of market socialism fail to do justice to traditional socialist concerns about exploitation and, by implication, about workplace oppression. More precisely, neither pure public ownership models (such as Roemer's), nor hybrid models of public ownership plus worker control (such as Schweickart's) suffice individually to attenuate exploitation and workplace hierarchy. Quite independently of alienable capital, these theories fail to account for the labour epistocracy, a class of workers who, by dint of higher marketable epistemic credentials and talents, can subjugate the labour of those with lower epistemic credentials. An improved model of market socialism would, I argue, account for the labour epistocracy by combining universal worker control with a strongly predistributive form of public ownership.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 439-453
Issue: 3
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1840615
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Author-Name: Christian Neuhäuser
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Neuhäuser
Title: Property-owning democracy, market socialism and workplace democracy
Abstract: 
 The paper discusses why on the one hand William Edmundson thinks that market socialism is superior to property-owning democracy, while on the other hand Alan Thomas thinks that an egalitarian version of property-owning democracy is superior to market socialism. For the purpose of this discussion, the concepts of property-owning democracy and market socialism are systematized and it is argued that those concepts, as understood by Rawls, do not exhaust the list of possible alternatives to capitalism and state socialism. Economic democracy, understood as mandatory workplace democracy, will be introduced as a middle ground, somewhat closer to market socialism than property-owning democracy. Against this background, it is argued that questions of transition and stability are important for deciding between these regimes and the importance of two realistic constraints in making this choice, namely egoism of powerful agents and path-dependency in institutional design, is highlighted.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 554-580
Issue: 3
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1854333
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Author-Name: Helen McCabe
Author-X-Name-First: Helen
Author-X-Name-Last: McCabe
Title: John Stuart Mill: market socialist?
Abstract: 
 Compared to other elements of his political and economic thought, John Stuart Mill’s claim to be ‘under the general designation of Socialist’ has largely been ignored. Where it has been acknowledged, it has generally been denied. One exception to this rule has been to link Mill with ‘market socialism’, primarily because of his commitments to worker-cooperatives and competition. These are both elements of Mill's socialism, but when we examine his position on production, distribution and exchange more carefully, it becomes much less clear that Mill endorses anything like a ‘market’ in his socialism. This paper offers a critical assessment of Mill’s status as ‘market socialist’, considering, in particular, the ‘ethos’ he proposed for socialist organization of production and exchange, which is at odds with a profit-seeking motivation.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 506-527
Issue: 3
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1781923
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Author-Name: Man-kong Li
Author-X-Name-First: Man-kong
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Title: A socialist justification of the market
Abstract: 
 A wide use of markets is indispensable for a viable socialist economy. Yet, many considered market socialism a normatively compromised form of socialism. Some argue that the use of markets can only be justified by non-socialist values. This article argues that a wide use of markets in the spheres of commodities and finance can be justified by principled socialist reasons. It first recasts the central ideal of socialism as to promote people’s self-realization in productive work. Then it argues that people should freely produce for others’ genuine needs in order to satisfy this ideal. It is then shown that an egalitarian market economy, where citizens have relatively equal income and where extensive provision of public goods that contribute to developing people’s capability is available, better provides for people’s diverse and changing needs than a central-planning economy. Thus, it concludes, there is a socialist justification of the market.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 419-438
Issue: 3
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1887507
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Author-Name: Kimty Seng
Author-X-Name-First: Kimty
Author-X-Name-Last: Seng
Title: Inclusive legal justice for inclusive economic development: a consideration
Abstract: 
 Utilising cross-country data, this article analyses the implications of promoting inclusive legal justice for inclusive economic development. The analysis is carried out by quantifying the effects of inclusive legal justice in terms of inclusive criminal justice and in terms of inclusive civil justice on inclusive economic development. The results suggest that, accounting for the endogeneity of inclusive legal justice, both criminal and civil, countries with higher levels of inclusive legal justice are very likely to enjoy higher real GDP per capita, improved equal economic opportunity, lower socio-economic disparity and more inclusive economic development. These findings reveal that inclusive economic development is unlikely to be achieved without inclusive legal justice.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 749-783
Issue: 4
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1720792
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Author-Name: Ilker Kaya
Author-X-Name-First: Ilker
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaya
Author-Name: Volkan Yeniaras
Author-X-Name-First: Volkan
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeniaras
Author-Name: Ozgur Kaya
Author-X-Name-First: Ozgur
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaya
Title: Dimensions of religiosity, altruism and life satisfaction
Abstract: 
 This study utilizes data from 3008 adult individuals in Turkey and examines the direct and indirect relationships between the dimensions of (Islamic) religiosity and life satisfaction. We took a dual approach in examining the proposed web of relationships and treated (i) charitable giving and (ii) volunteering as mediators that account for the relation between dimensions of religiosity and life satisfaction. We provided empirical evidence that religious orientation determines the choice between charitable giving and volunteering. The results show that the adherents that use religion for social gains (inner peace and comfort) are more likely to volunteer (donate) but less likely to donate (volunteer). Further, our findings indicate that individuals that expect inner peace and comfort (social gains) from religion get more life satisfaction from donating (volunteering) whereas the life satisfaction of those adherents that use religion for social gains (inner peace and comfort) diminishes if they were to donate (volunteer).
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 717-748
Issue: 4
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1711151
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Author-Name: Steve Fleetwood
Author-X-Name-First: Steve
Author-X-Name-Last: Fleetwood
Title: Re-visiting rules and norms
Abstract: 
 Rules (i.e. formal rules) are injunctions, constituted by social phenomena. They are learned, mutually understood, located in artefacts and govern agents’ actions. When rules are broken, formal sanctions occur. They are cognised and followed consciously. When rules are followed directly, they govern agents’ actions. Rules always exist separately from the agents in a rule-circle. Whilst the term unofficial or informal rules is widely used, I consider this to be a mistake: informal rules are not real, the term reifies them. Norms are injunctions are constituted by socio-cognitive phenomena. They are learned, mutually understood and located as memories of past actions, in agents’ cognitive systems. They govern agents’ actions. Norms are cognised and followed with varying degrees of (un)consciousness. They are always internal to agents, located in their cognitive systems.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 607-635
Issue: 4
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1623909
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Author-Name: M. Burak Önemli
Author-X-Name-First: M. Burak
Author-X-Name-Last: Önemli
Author-Name: Joel Potter
Author-X-Name-First: Joel
Author-X-Name-Last: Potter
Title: Reference group inequality, positional goods, and their impact on subjective well-being: evidence from Turkey
Abstract: 
 Using the 2013 Turkish Life Satisfaction Survey, we investigate two hypotheses that are novel to the happiness literature. The first of these hypotheses is that income dispersion/inequality within an individual’s reference group has a negative effect on happiness, ceteris paribus; we find evidence to support this hypothesis. The second hypothesis is that housing is a positional good that has a negative positional externality; we find evidence to support this hypothesis as well. Additionally, we explore the notion that non-pecuniary factors (like social life satisfaction) carry more weight in explaining happiness than do standard pecuniary factors (such as an individual’s own income). Our findings suggest that in large part, the path to a happy life is through gaining access to a wealth of non-pecuniary characteristics. In a broad sense, our study explores the significance that comparison effects in the pecuniary domain can have on individual happiness.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 636-663
Issue: 4
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1690161
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Author-Name: Milan Zafirovski
Author-X-Name-First: Milan
Author-X-Name-Last: Zafirovski
Title: Economics in sociology? Original economic theories, concepts and approaches in classical sociologists
Abstract: 
 This paper explores the presence and consideration of economics in sociology, specifically its classical version. It identifies certain original and independent economic theories, concepts and approaches in classical sociological theory as central and its derivations, implications and extensions of economics as peripheral. The paper argues and demonstrates that classical sociology is far from being the science of noneconomic or irrational phenomena, as often sociologists conceive it and economists perceive it in counter-distinction from economics defined as the science of rational behavior, and indeed encompasses virtually all economic activities and processes, and thus prefigures New Economic Sociology adopting the same approach.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 664-716
Issue: 4
Volume: 79
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2019.1709985
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Author-Name: Lisa Herzog
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Herzog
Author-Name: Philipp Kellmeyer
Author-X-Name-First: Philipp
Author-X-Name-Last: Kellmeyer
Author-Name: Verina Wild
Author-X-Name-First: Verina
Author-X-Name-Last: Wild
Title: Digital behavioral technology, vulnerability and justice: towards an integrated approach
Abstract: 
 The paper introduces the notion of ‘digital behavioral technologies’ and discusses them from the perspectives of vulnerability and justice, thereby integrating perspectives from bioethics or public health ethics and political philosophy. Digital behavioral technologies have seen a massive uptake in recent years, but the market for them is hardly regulated. We argue that understanding the impact of digital behavioral technologies requires understanding individuals not as abstract, atomized agents, but rather to take their embeddedness into social structures into account. This also allows extending the focus to groups, relationships and whole societies, which are often structurally unjust. This perspective provides a corrective to an overly individualistic consideration of digital behavioral technologies, which may suggest itself because of their focus on individual bodies. We point out some implications of this integrated approach with regard to the regulation of digital behavioral technologies. We conclude by describing some implications both for those who work on digital behavioral technologies and for those who work on questions of vulnerability and justice.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 7-28
Issue: 1
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1943755
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Author-Name: Sebastian Schleidgen
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian
Author-X-Name-Last: Schleidgen
Author-Name: Orsolya Friedrich
Author-X-Name-First: Orsolya
Author-X-Name-Last: Friedrich
Author-Name: Andreas Wolkenstein
Author-X-Name-First: Andreas
Author-X-Name-Last: Wolkenstein
Title: How intelligent neurotechnology can be epistemically unjust. An exploration into the ethics of algorithms
Abstract: 
 Recently, the epistemic quality of algorithms and its normative implications have come under scrutiny. While general questions of justice have been addressed in this context, specific issues of epistemic (in)justice have so far been neglected. We aim to fill this gap by analyzing some potential implications of behavioral intelligent neurotechnology (B-INT). We claim that B-INT exhibits a number of epistemic features implying the potential for certain epistemic problems, which, in turn, are likely to result in instances of epistemic injustice. To support this claim, we will first introduce and specify the terminology and technology behind B-INT. Second, we will present four fictitious scenarios of using B-INT and highlight a number of epistemic issues that might arise. Third, we will discuss their relation to the concept of epistemic justice, as well as potential instances thereof. Thus, we will show some important and morally relevant implications of the epistemic properties of INT.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 106-126
Issue: 1
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1979241
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Author-Name: Michael Klenk
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Klenk
Title: (Online) manipulation: sometimes hidden, always careless
Abstract: 
 Ever-increasing numbers of human interactions with intelligent software agents, online and offline, and their increasing ability to influence humans have prompted a surge in attention toward the concept of (online) manipulation. Several scholars have argued that manipulative influence is always hidden. But manipulation is sometimes overt, and when this is acknowledged the distinction between manipulation and other forms of social influence becomes problematic. Therefore, we need a better conceptualisation of manipulation that allows it to be overt and yet clearly distinct from related concepts of social influence. I argue that manipulation is careless influence, show how this account helps to alleviate the shortcomings of the hidden influence view of manipulation, and derive implications for digital ethics.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 85-105
Issue: 1
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1894350
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Author-Name: Lisa Herzog
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Author-X-Name-Last: Herzog
Author-Name: Philipp Kellmeyer
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Author-X-Name-Last: Kellmeyer
Author-Name: Verina Wild
Author-X-Name-First: Verina
Author-X-Name-Last: Wild
Title: Introduction to the special issue ‘digital behavioral technologies, vulnerability, and justice’
Abstract: 
 This short introduction presents the theme of the special issue and provides a preview of the articles.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 1-6
Issue: 1
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2022.2032293
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Author-Name: Hauke Behrendt
Author-X-Name-First: Hauke
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Author-Name: Wulf Loh
Author-X-Name-First: Wulf
Author-X-Name-Last: Loh
Title: Informed consent and algorithmic discrimination – is giving away your data the new vulnerable?
Abstract: 
 This paper discusses various forms and sources of algorithmic discrimination. In particular, we explore the connection between – at first glance – ‘voluntary’ sharing or selling of one’s data on the one hand and potential risks of automated decision-making based on big data and artificial intelligence on the other. We argue that the implementation of algorithm-driven profiling or decision-making mechanisms will, in many cases, disproportionately disadvantage certain vulnerable groups that are already disadvantaged by many existing datafication practices. We call into question the voluntariness of these mechanisms, especially for certain vulnerable groups, and claim that members of such groups are oftentimes more likely to give away their data. If these existing datafication practices exacerbate prior disadvantages, they ‘compound historical injustices’ (Hellman, 2018) and thereby constitute forms of morally wrong discrimination. To make matters worse, they are even more prone to further algorithmic discriminations based on the additional data collected from them.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 58-84
Issue: 1
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2022.2027506
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Author-Name: Tereza Hendl
Author-X-Name-First: Tereza
Author-X-Name-Last: Hendl
Author-Name: Bianca Jansky
Author-X-Name-First: Bianca
Author-X-Name-Last: Jansky
Title: Tales of self-empowerment through digital health technologies: a closer look at ‘Femtech’
Abstract: 
 Femtech technologies, such as period and fertility trackers, promise their users empowerment through reliable knowledge about and control over their bodies and ownership of their procreative health. However, the notion of empowerment through period and fertility apps deserves scrutiny. Based on a thematic analysis of a range of ‘female health’ app promotion materials, we explore the kind of empowerment promised by app providers and point towards significant contradictions and tensions in the discursive tales of empowerment. Building on digital sociology and intersectional feminist scholarship, we observe that the discourse promoting many of the health apps is grounded in exclusionary ontologies, normative femininity, epistemic injustice and heterosexist notions of female sexuality, which undermines the liberational rhetoric of these digital health technologies.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 29-57
Issue: 1
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.2018027
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Author-Name: George F. DeMartino
Author-X-Name-First: George F.
Author-X-Name-Last: DeMartino
Title: The confounding problem of the counterfactual in economic explanation*
Abstract: 
 Economists who have emphasized uncertainty have tended to draw a sharp epistemic distinction between an ascertainable past and an unknowable future. But in one critical respect – in extracting causal relationships – the epistemic distinction is unsustainable. Many types of causal arguments in economics depend on counterfactual reasoning. Counterfactualizing entails the construction of fictions about what would have happened or would happen in the world absent an event that is taken to be causal. But that alternative world is foreclosed the moment the causal event occurs. Complicating matters, there is no dependable method for ascertaining the uniquely true counterfactual. Distinct research methods, and distinct economic paradigms, generate alternative plausible counterfactual accounts. This implies that causal claims in economics, too, are irreducibly fictitious – regardless of whether the subject matter concerns the past, or the future.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 127-137
Issue: 2
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1735649
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Author-Name: Samuel Knafo
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Knafo
Title: Rethinking neoliberalism after the Polanyian turn
Abstract: 
 The last two decades have seen an explosion of writings about neoliberalism insisting on the role of the state as a key architect of market dynamics. Drawing substantially from the work of Karl Polanyi, this literature has emphasised in various ways the socially constructed nature of neoliberalism. But as I argue, conceptual flaws in Polanyi’s conception of 19th liberal governance have helped perpetuate an ongoing reliance on the notion of the Market despite the recognition that there is no such thing as a self-regulated Market. Criticising the turn to Polanyi, I show how this has directed our gaze towards the rhetorical claims of neoliberal governance, at the expense of a reflection on its institutional features. The article then suggests avenues for reconfiguring the study of neoliberalism without recourse to the problematic notion of the Market.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 194-219
Issue: 2
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1733644
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Author-Name: Emmanuel Ayifah
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Ayifah
Author-Name: Aylit Tina Romm
Author-X-Name-First: Aylit Tina
Author-X-Name-Last: Romm
Author-Name: Umakrishnan Kollamparambil
Author-X-Name-First: Umakrishnan
Author-X-Name-Last: Kollamparambil
Author-Name: Stephen A. Vosti
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vosti
Title: Effect of religion on the risk behaviour of rural Ghanaian women: evidence from a controlled field experiment
Abstract: 
 Religious doctrines may guide individual attitudes and preferences, including risk behaviour among others. We estimate the effect of religion on the willingness to take risk amongst 1209 rural women in Ghana, and observe that, whereas religious affiliation influences the decision to engage in risk, it does not in any way influence the level of risk taking thereafter. Specifically, we find that relative to the non-religious, religious affiliation of a woman influences her willingness to engage in risk negatively; however, we find very little difference in such willingness to engage in risk between the different religious groups.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 138-171
Issue: 2
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1725831
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Author-Name: Muhammad Salman Khan
Author-X-Name-First: Muhammad Salman
Author-X-Name-Last: Khan
Title: Quality of governance, social capital and corruption: local governance and the Pakistan marketplace
Abstract: 
 Theoretical debate on the relationship between the quality of government, social capital and corruption remains underspecified in relation to the analysis of local governance. This paper asks how quality of government (QoG) impacts on the role of social capital (SC), and how SC connects with corruption in the local governance context. The paper develops a local governance approach in order to better understand this relationship through an in-depth qualitative case-study of the governance of Batkhela Bazaar in Malakand District of Pakistan. Three findings emerge: Firstly, the results demonstrate how QoG and socioeconomic inequalities shape the context for SC development and its role in corruption, which feeds into the poor QoG. Secondly, unlike the existing mainstream literature, the results show the fundamental importance of petty corruption to levels of trust within a society. Thirdly, reciprocity plays a crucial role in maintaining trusting ties in the context of ineffective formal institutions.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 220-249
Issue: 2
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1734228
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Author-Name: Emiliano Libman
Author-X-Name-First: Emiliano
Author-X-Name-Last: Libman
Title: A simple model of some possible long-run adverse effects of inflation targeting
Abstract: 
 In Latin America, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, have been using Inflation Targeting for at least two decades, and although there were significant improvements in social indicators, macroeconomic results have been mixed. In particular, the real exchange rate has been much more volatile and growth was significantly slower in Brazil and Mexico. In accordance with these facts, we sketch a simple New Consensus open economy model with hysteresis and we show that a policy that targets inflation disregarding the effects on the real exchange rate may have negative long-run effects.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 172-193
Issue: 2
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Claudio Detotto
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Author-Name: Marta Meleddu
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Author-X-Name-Last: Meleddu
Author-Name: Marco Vannini
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Vannini
Title: Choosing pictures at an exhibition: do identity values influence the willingness to pay for art?
Abstract: 
 This paper aims to analyse to what extent the willingness to pay of art gallery visitors for the preservation of cultural artefacts is affected by the identity traits of the objects. To this purpose, we designed a discrete choice experiment that took place during a major exhibition dedicated to the artist Costantino Nivola (1911–1988) in Sassari (Sardinia, Italy). His works are known worldwide and many of them were produced after he moved from Sardinia to the United States in 1939. As a result, both the American and the Sardinian culture show up in his works and, in particular, were clearly visible in the exhibition under study. The discrete choice experiments allowed us to elicit respondents’ preferences towards the identity features stemming from Nivola’s artefacts. The results confirm the importance of this component indicating that its presence almost doubles respondents’ willingness-to-pay for the acquisition of these artefacts to a permanent collection.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 250-267
Issue: 2
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Catherine Deri Armstrong
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine
Author-X-Name-Last: Deri Armstrong
Author-Name: Rose Anne Devlin
Author-X-Name-First: Rose Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Devlin
Author-Name: Forough Seifi
Author-X-Name-First: Forough
Author-X-Name-Last: Seifi
Title: Doing good, feeling good: causal evidence from volunteers
Abstract: 
 Volunteers are reputedly healthier and happier than their non-volunteering counterparts. But is this a causal link or are healthier, happy individuals simply more likely to volunteer? Some papers have attempted to identify the causal relationship using an instrumental variable methodology, mostly relying on measures of religiosity as instruments for volunteering – however, religiosity may also affect health thus calling into question the validity of this approach. We rely on a novel instrument, a measure physical proximity to volunteer opportunities, to help identify the causal link from volunteering to health and happiness using econometric regression techniques. We find that volunteering is a robustly significant predictor of health, and positively affects life satisfaction for all but those aged under 35.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 336-358
Issue: 3
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1761992
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Author-Name: Ariel Herbert Fambeu
Author-X-Name-First: Ariel Herbert
Author-X-Name-Last: Fambeu
Author-Name: Georges Dieudonné Mbondo
Author-X-Name-First: Georges Dieudonné
Author-X-Name-Last: Mbondo
Title: Endogenous peer effects and level of informality: some evidence from micro and small firms in Cameroon
Abstract: 
 Standard economic theory assumes that individuals’ preferences are independent of their social environment. However, this basic assumption seems partly unrealistic because individual utility can be affected by a variety of social interactions. This paper assesses the role of peer effects on the informality of Micro and Small firms. We use the instrumental variable approach with fixed effects on survey data in the informal sector in Cameroon. Our results show a positive impact of informal behavior of peers of the firm on its level of informality. Thus, we find a social multiplier of 9.43 and 4.65 according to the nature of the reference group. These results show that, in reality, a policy leading one firm to formalize will lead at least nine (or four depending on the reference group) others to do so due to peer effects.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 387-421
Issue: 3
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1769166
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Author-Name: Nabanita Mitra
Author-X-Name-First: Nabanita
Author-X-Name-Last: Mitra
Author-Name: Debarshi Das
Author-X-Name-First: Debarshi
Author-X-Name-Last: Das
Title: Determinants of rising profit rates in India’s rural industries
Abstract: 
 Existing studies on the rural non-agricultural sector in India have not examined profit rates to understand the growth of the sector. Most studies have examined the rapid increase in this sector’s workforce size, and some have probed the share of this sector in the rural National Domestic Product (NDP). This paper addresses this gap. It examines the profit rate and growth in output (net value added) of the rural organised manufacturing industries segment, in the period 1998–1999 to 2007–2008. For comparison, the same parameters have been examined for urban industries. It is found that the profit rate of rural industries grew faster than urban industries. Given the significance of the profit rate, the factors driving change in the profit rate have been identified in this paper. It is found that worsening wage share and improving output-capital ratio underpinned by the rising labour productivity were responsible for rising profit rates of rural industries.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 314-335
Issue: 3
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Luke Petach
Author-X-Name-First: Luke
Author-X-Name-Last: Petach
Title: Income stagnation and housing affordability in the United States
Abstract: 
 Between 1980 and 2016 the share of households in the bottom quintile of the income distribution that owned their own home declined by 10 percentage points. For the same households, the share of monthly income spent on rent increased from 28% in 1960 to over 42% in 2016. To asses the extent to which income stagnation is responsible for the decline in affordability, I use Census microdata to construct counterfactual simulations that capture the evolution of housing market trends under alternative assumptions about the distribution of income. Income stagnation explains nearly the entire decline in affordability for the bottom quintile. Housing market frictions that cause the price of housing to deviate from marginal cost matter more to households further up the income distribution. Using Atkinson-type welfare-based inequality measures, I find that the counterfactual distribution of income – with inequality held constant – results in greater welfare for nearly all possible levels of inequality aversion.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 359-386
Issue: 3
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Julie A. Nelson
Author-X-Name-First: Julie A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Nelson
Title: Economics for (and by) humans
Abstract: 
 This essay discusses the nature of, and challenges for, social economics. It begins by exploring how social economics differs from mainstream economics in its goals, definition, and models, and briefly examines the roots of Neoclassical orthodoxy. It then argues that social economists need to take more seriously the human and social nature of our created knowledge. An example from the empirical study of gender and risk preferences illustrates the effects of personal and cultural factors. The essay also argues that social economists have not yet sufficiently challenged the orthodox economics view of the economy as an ethics-free sphere. This view has contributed to increased inequality and a failure to act decisively in response to climate change. A better understanding of where orthodox economics models and methods come from opens up new ways of understanding our search for knowledge and emphasizes the importance of ethics in economic life.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 269-282
Issue: 3
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 07
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Author-Name: Yousef Daoud
Author-X-Name-First: Yousef
Author-X-Name-Last: Daoud
Author-Name: Nabil Khattab
Author-X-Name-First: Nabil
Author-X-Name-Last: Khattab
Title: Women, labour market outcomes and religion: evidence from the British labour market
Abstract: 
 We analyse a large-scale UK quarterly Labour Force Survey data covering a period of 16 years (2002–2017) to compare labour market outcomes for women of different religious and ethnic denominations. The paper contributes to the existing literature in analysing three labour outcomes: economic activity (participation), unemployment and occupational choice. While the religious penalties facing Muslim women in unemployment were notoriously high and persistent, the results suggest that their participation is significantly lower. Finally, the occupational distribution of Muslim women shows they are similar to white Christian women in higher occupations but have a much higher probability of belonging to lower occupations.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 283-313
Issue: 3
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz
Author-X-Name-First: Ivan
Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta-Muñoz
Author-Name: Codrina Rada
Author-X-Name-First: Codrina
Author-X-Name-Last: Rada
Author-Name: Márcio Santetti
Author-X-Name-First: Márcio
Author-X-Name-Last: Santetti
Author-Name: Rudiger von Arnim
Author-X-Name-First: Rudiger
Author-X-Name-Last: von Arnim
Title: The US labor share of income: what shocks matter?
Abstract: 
 We propose a novel methodological approach to disentangle the main structural shocks affecting the US labor share of income. We motivate an SVAR model to derive four structural shocks: aggregate demand, labor supply, shocks to wages, and productivity; and quantify the dynamic responses of the labor share to each structural shock. We find substantial differences between the immediate post-war era and the neoliberal period. In order of magnitude, the labor share responded mainly to productivity, aggregate demand, and shocks to wages during the immediate post-war era; whereas shocks to wages, productivity, and to aggregate demand mattered most during the neoliberal era. These effects are statistically significantly different across the two periods only for wage and productivity shocks. Increased (decreased) sensitivity to wage (productivity) shocks during the neoliberal period suggests that the decline in the labor share is mainly driven by the factors that govern wage setting.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 514-549
Issue: 4
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Ortrud Leßmann
Author-X-Name-First: Ortrud
Author-X-Name-Last: Leßmann
Title: Collectivity and the capability approach: survey and discussion
Abstract: 
 Sen's capability approach is often criticized for its alleged individualism; various approaches have been suggested to overcome this problem. The notion of ‘collective capabilities’ is best known while other suggestions haven't received as much attention or approval. This article surveys the manifold suggestions for how Sen's capability approach can accommodate collectives and introduces the literature. Five strands of literature are identified with a framework that classifies these suggestions according to (a) whether the groups are externally or internally defined and (b) whether the main aim of these groups is to improve the well-being or agency of their members. After discussing the main threads of the literature the article tags Sen's capability approach as an example of structural individualism, proposes the concept of collective functionings, and calls for models of interaction between individuals and collective agency that integrate collective intentions and explore the effects of Giddensian social structure.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 461-490
Issue: 4
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1774636
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Author-Name: Mark Joseph Stelzner
Author-X-Name-First: Mark Joseph
Author-X-Name-Last: Stelzner
Author-Name: Daniel Taekmin Nam
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Taekmin
Author-X-Name-Last: Nam
Title: The big cost of big medicine – calculating the rent in private healthcare
Abstract: 
 As a country, the United States spends significantly more on healthcare than other advanced industrialized countries, and Americans have comparably worse health outcomes. Both are developments of the last four decades. In this paper, we look at how change in antitrust and patent law and thus change in market power in the largest four subsectors of healthcare, hospitals, physician groups, prescription drugs, and net medical insurance, have contributed to the increasing cost of medical care in the United States. We show that the annual rent – the degree to which health care is overpriced as a result of market power – was between 2.47 and 4.30 percent of GDP in 2016 – truly a big cost for big medicine.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 491-513
Issue: 4
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1804607
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Author-Name: Tyler Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Tyler
Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen
Author-Name: Robert Pollin
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Pollin
Title: Economics and climate justice activism: assessing the financial impact of the fossil fuel divestment movement
Abstract: 
 Since 2011, climate activists have advanced divestment campaigns against private fossil fuel corporations that aim to inflict damage on fossil fuel corporations through two channels: stigmatizing them and undermining their financial operations. We focus in this paper on this second purpose, considering the extent to which divestment campaigns have succeeded in inflicting financial damage on fossil fuel corporations. We present descriptive data on the level of divested fossil fuel stocks and bonds as well as econometric analysis of the impact of divestment events on the stock market prices of fossil fuel companies. We find that divestment campaigns have not been successful in inflicting significant economic damage on fossil fuel corporations, even though the movement has been successful in mobilizing public opinion against the fossil fuel corporations.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 423-460
Issue: 4
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Ben Fine
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Author-Name: Pedro Mendes Loureiro
Author-X-Name-First: Pedro
Author-X-Name-Last: Mendes Loureiro
Title: A note on the relationship between additive separability and decomposability in measuring income inequality
Abstract: 
 This note introduces original technical results in the theoretical measurement of inequality by specifying the relationships between additive separability and homotheticity (of measures of welfare closely related to measures of inequality), and decomposability and homogeneity in measures of inequality. More specifically, an interrogation is made of the resonances and dissonances between the classic contributions of Atkinson and Shorrocks, which are key representatives, respectively, of the 'social welfare function' and the 'axiomatic' approaches to measuring inequality. In brief, in the presence of otherwise common assumptions, it is shown that additive separability and homotheticity of welfare are stronger combined conditions than decomposability and homogeneity (of degree zero) of income inequality. The gap between the two, however, can be closed by adding an extra term around total income to the measure of welfare, allowing for wider considerations of the relationship between social welfare, total income, and the distribution of individual incomes.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 550-565
Issue: 4
Volume: 80
Year: 2022
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Andrea Sangiovanni
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
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Author-Name: Juri Viehoff
Author-X-Name-First: Juri
Author-X-Name-Last: Viehoff
Title: Introduction to the special issue: Justice and solidarity in Europe
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 1-7
Issue: 1
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2023.2168037
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Author-Name: Richard Bellamy
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Bellamy
Author-Name: Sandra Kröger
Author-X-Name-First: Sandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Kröger
Title: Differentiated integration as a fair scheme of cooperation
Abstract: 
 Differentiated integration (DI), whereby some MS opt out or are excluded from certain common EU policies for sovereignty or capacity reasons, may be thought to undermine the EU’s functioning as what John Rawls called a fair scheme of cooperation, grounded in norms of impartiality and reciprocity. However, we argue that different forms of DI can be compatible with either fair cooperation between states on the model of Rawls’ Law of Peoples or cooperation among citizens on the model of Rawls’ two principles of domestic justice. Meanwhile, the EU has features of both, being an international Union of states and a supra- and trans-national Union of citizens. We defend the coherence of this combination and contend that DI can provide a justified mechanism for ensuring fairness between states remains compatible with fairness between citizens both within and across states. Indeed it offers a potential model for other forms of international cooperation.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 61-83
Issue: 1
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Peter Dietsch
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Dietsch
Title: Designing the fiscal-monetary nexus: policy options for the EU
Abstract: 
 In recent decades, and in particular since the shift towards independent central banks, there has been no explicit coordination of fiscal and monetary policy. In the Eurozone, this lack of coordination represents an important flaw, especially since the Eurozone is not an optimal currency area. Complementing monetary union with a transfer union represents one possible solution. This paper argues that the negative impact of post-2008 and post-Covid-19 unconventional monetary policy on income inequalities provides a second reason to coordinate fiscal and monetary policy. Among various institutional arrangements to implement such coordination, the paper defends the idea that the European Central Bank should be sensitive to distributive considerations when formulating its monetary policy. Such an arrangement would help both to contain the distributive side-effects of monetary policy and to at least partially remedy the flaw at the heart of the Eurozone as long as an outright transfer union remains unfeasible.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 154-171
Issue: 1
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Andreas Follesdal
Author-X-Name-First: Andreas
Author-X-Name-Last: Follesdal
Title: A just yet unequal European Union: a defense of moderate economic inequality*
Abstract: 
 What does justice require concerning socio-economic distribution among citizens of the European Union? The EU should reduce cross-national economic inequalities among inhabitants of different member states, but full economic distributive equality or a European ‘Difference Principle,' may not be required. Individuals' claim to more political influence over matters controlled by their own state in the quasi-federal EU may permit some economic inequality. Section 1 orients this contribution relative to arguments for a European universal income. Section 2 provides relevant features of the EU. Section 3 considers contractualist arguments against certain forms of economic inequality, while section 4 identifies a further argument in favour of equal shares of benefits of social cooperation, based on an interpretation of ‘social primary goods' consistent with Rawls' theory. Section 5 argues that these reasons for economic distributive equality must be weighed against more political influence over matters controlled by the individual’s sub-unit.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 8-36
Issue: 1
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Maurizio Ferrera
Author-X-Name-First: Maurizio
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferrera
Title: The European Union and cross-national solidarity: safeguarding ‘togetherness’ in hard times
Abstract: 
 The EU is a new form of political organisation which can be defined as an “experimental polity”. Its distinctiveness lies in a novel assemblage of the constituent elements of polity (boundaries, binding authority, and bonding ties), and in the constant testing of new combinations of such elelements when facing functional and political challenges. Experimentalism is not always successful and can occasionally trigger off dynamics of polity disruption. The paper illustrates two instances of ‘bad experiments’ along the bounding and binding dimensions, i.e. Brexit and the euro crisis. It then focuses on the Covid 19 crisis and shows that in this case EU leaders were able not only to launch an ambitious plan of response based on joint action, but also to re-establish an “ethos of togetherness” among the Member States, on which to build for securing both social solidarity and political stability.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 105-129
Issue: 1
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.2024872
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Author-Name: Helder De Schutter
Author-X-Name-First: Helder
Author-X-Name-Last: De Schutter
Title: Solidarity and autonomy in the European Union
Abstract: 
 To determine at which level a particular policy domain ought to be governed, we need normative principles of levelism. In this contribution, I articulate and defend two normative principles of levelism for distributive justice in the European Union. According to the Highest-Level Solidarity Principle, we should transfer distributive solidarity to the highest level of the multilevel polity. In the EU, this is the EU-wide level. According to the Policymaker Pays Principle, policymaking and funding should be located at the same level: the level that makes the policy should also be the level that funds the policy (assuming background justice conditions of justice apply). My conclusion is that, since the funding for core redistributive projects should be Europeanized, and since funding and policymaking should be allocated to the same level, we have a pro tanto reason to Europeanize both the funding and the policymaking over core redistributive powers.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 37-60
Issue: 1
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Stefano Merlo
Author-X-Name-First: Stefano
Author-X-Name-Last: Merlo
Title: Self-fulfilling crises in the Eurozone and the institutional preconditions of republican sovereignty
Abstract: 
 The normative vocabulary of republican political theory can be fruitfully applied to evaluate the phases of market turbulence in sovereign debt markets witnessed during the Eurozone crisis. A view of justice that requires the minimisation of dominating relationships between agents highlights how the institutional preconditions of undominated sovereignty were lacking in the Eurozone. The agreed-upon structure within which countries operated fuelled self-fulfilling market movements in sovereign bond markets, which bear the hallmark of unjust domination as weaker Member States formed a social relationship with investors over which they did not have meaningful control. In motivating the thesis, the paper touches upon the recent debates on the sources and site of domination and on the stance, republican scholars should take toward competitive markets. Given this diagnosis, Eurozone countries have an obligation to establish supranational institutions that increase private and public channels of risk-sharing.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 130-153
Issue: 1
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Waltraud Schelkle
Author-X-Name-First: Waltraud
Author-X-Name-Last: Schelkle
Title: Monetary solidarity in Europe: can divisive institutions become ‘moral opportunities’?
Abstract: 
 How does the inherent norm of integration, notably to share risks among its members in good faith, become a self-sustaining practice? I address this question generally and for a critical case of a divisive institution, i.e. the evolution of sovereign bailout funding in the Euro Area since 2010. Community building between states is a potential outcome of solidaristic practices, reinforced by positive feedback processes. Inspired by Deborah Stone’s [Stone, D. A. (1999). Beyond moral hazard: Insurance as moral opportunity. Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, 6(1), 12–46] work on insurance, I demonstrate that there are social mechanisms at play that favour the secular expansion of risk sharing between states.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 84-104
Issue: 1
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Mark Stelzner
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Stelzner
Author-Name: Mark Paul
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Paul
Title: Monopsony and collective action in an institutional context
Abstract: 
 Recent empirical research has documented a dramatic change in government’s role in regulating employer–employee relations, a collapse in workers’ collective action, and low wage growth contributing to rising inequality. To better understand the theoretical connections between these variables, we construct a monopsony-wage-model that integrates intertemporal strategic interaction between workers and employers in the wage setting process into an institutional context. We show that workers’ collective action reduces rents to firms. However, workers face multiple obstacles from engaging in collective action. In an environment that does not support workers, as is currently the case, it is maximizing for employees to engage in very little collective action, and, as a result, wage inequality is exacerbated.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 225-245
Issue: 2
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1829017
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Author-Name: Kirsten Madden
Author-X-Name-First: Kirsten
Author-X-Name-Last: Madden
Author-Name: Nicholas Armstrong
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas
Author-X-Name-Last: Armstrong
Title: Designing a virtuous political economy: an adaptation of Unto This Last emphasizing individual conscience and self determination
Abstract: 
 Flourishing life being the objective, John Ruskin’s Unto This Last (1866) posits that the implementation of virtue in political economy also reduces inequality and power-over structures of single individuals over multitudes, generates superior product quality and nurtures the ecological system. This essay re-introduces the primary directive of Unto This Last: to design an economics based in virtue. Adopting the virtues of higher order justice, affection, integrity, and ‘sense and firmness,’ this essay replaces Ruskin’s penchant for authoritarian paternalism with responsiveness to individual conscience and respect for self determination. Practical insight into a virtuous political economy includes explicit descriptions of virtuous economic behavior. This virtuous political economy makes explicit assumptions, adopts key definitions, expands on institutions, and reiterates implications.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 304-333
Issue: 2
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1878260
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Author-Name: Ana Carolina Cordilha
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Carolina
Author-X-Name-Last: Cordilha
Title: Public health systems in the age of financialization: lessons from the French case
Abstract: 
 Public Health Systems (PHS) are under continuous transformation in line with economic, political, and ideological changes in capitalist economies. The current stage of capitalism is underpinned by the process of financialization, meaning an increasing dominance of financial actors, markets, practices, measurements, and narratives over other agents, including the State. This article examines how financialization has been reshaping PHS, with an in-depth study of the French case. First, we suggest how to incorporate the concept of financialization into the research on PHS transformation. We then apply this concept to reassess the trajectory of the French system from the 1990s onwards. We show the increasing participation of financial capital for long-term, short-term, and infrastructure financing, occupying roles previously fulfilled by the public sector. We then discuss how the adoption of financialized strategies led to shifts in how public actors behave, and the potentially adverse effects for solidarity, stability, and democratic participation.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 246-273
Issue: 2
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1870710
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Author-Name: Yannick Rumpala
Author-X-Name-First: Yannick
Author-X-Name-Last: Rumpala
Title: The dynamics and conditions of material forms of ‘commons-based peer production’. Towards a reappropriation of living conditions?
Abstract: 
 This article focuses on ‘commons-based peer production’, in particular the way it operates and its potential for material contributions to human activities. The aim is to understand the practices and bases that make it possible, and to better understand which resources are made accessible. This type of production can be an alternative route to collective achievements and an innovative way to meet the needs of a community. From this perspective, two contrasting fields of experimentation are examined: one focused on digital manufacturing and the development of 3D printer projects (such as RepRap), and the other on small-scale food production (the Incredible Edible Network). The analysis begins by clarifying the conceptual framework. Then, the two types of experiments are studied with regard to their genesis, their mode of operation and their output. Finally, the scope of this model is discussed by linking these experiments to the conditions on which they depend.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 196-224
Issue: 2
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1828612
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Author-Name: Theodore Koutsobinas
Author-X-Name-First: Theodore
Author-X-Name-Last: Koutsobinas
Title: Attribute substitution, earlier-generation economic approaches and behavioural economics
Abstract: 
 The present paper examines attribute substitution in terms of both heuristics and attribution theory in social psychology. Alternative ‘old’ approaches in psychology were special because they considered choice in terms that were similar to attributional inference in social psychology and anticipated limitations of the static heuristics and biases approach. Attribute substitution plays an important role in reflective reasoning as an independent entity relative to rationality and produces good decisions, even those are sub-optimal and may be influenced by primitive processes such as intuition and habits. The attribute-substitution research enhances our understanding of intense shifts in economic expectations. It makes possible the conceptual incorporation of substantive theoretical constructions, which are inherent in psychological propensities of alternative, and mainly, heterodox approaches in economics such as Post Keynesian, Institutional and Austrian economics. This research agenda paves the way for possible forms of synthesis of those theories with behavioural economics.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 274-303
Issue: 2
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1874498
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Author-Name: Asimina Christoforou
Author-X-Name-First: Asimina
Author-X-Name-Last: Christoforou
Title: ‘Give me your watch and I will tell you the time’: crisis and austerity in the European Union from a Bourdieusian perspective
Abstract: 
 We investigate crisis and austerity in the context of the European Union (EU) by appealing to the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Evidence suggests that after the recent US and Eurozone economic crises, fiscal consolidation intensified the deterioration of socio-economic conditions in Europe. We turn to analyses versed in the Bourdieusian tradition to explain crises and austerity in relation to the domination of the financial field and the ascendancy of neoliberal policies, processes of symbolic violence and misrecognition, and struggles for symbolic power. We then apply this framework to assess the EU economic governance system and the rhetoric imposed on Member States and social partners to justify austerity. Finally, we discuss ways to confront these conditions by presenting Bourdieu’s conception of the ‘collective intellectual’, who collaborates with other social groups in order to uncover the power relations and inequalities generated by neoliberal policies and to promote alternative economic policies for social welfare.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 173-195
Issue: 2
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1787494
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Author-Name: Amitava Krishna Dutt
Author-X-Name-First: Amitava Krishna
Author-X-Name-Last: Dutt
Title: Uncertainty and economic futures in the public sphere: an introduction
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 335-341
Issue: 3
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2023.2240777
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Author-Name: Oscar Garza-Vázquez
Author-X-Name-First: Oscar
Author-X-Name-Last: Garza-Vázquez
Title: Why expanding capabilities does not necessarily imply reducing injustice: an assessment of Amartya Sen’s Idea of Justice in the context of Mexico’s Oportunidades/Prospera
Abstract: 
 The idea that discussions about justice ought to offer practical political guidance has gained force in recent years. In this context, Sen's Idea of Justice (2009) aims at fulfilling this role. I assess to what extent Sen's comparative approach to justice succeeds in providing a useful conceptual framework to reduce injustice in practice, as it claims. Using the context of poverty in Mexico, and the social programme Oportunidades/Prospera as illustration, I argue that Sen's approach remains insufficient to guide injustice-reduction actions effectively. First, I note that despite enhancing individual's capabilities, these social improvements have not translated into a more just social reality overall. Second, I associate these shortcomings to the failure of capability-enhancing policies in accounting for the relational reproduction of injustice. Therefore, I conclude that to reduce injustice, we need to broaden the scope of injustice-reduction policies to address the ways in which injustice is reproduced through social interactions.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 442-468
Issue: 3
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1881150
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Author-Name: Ewan MacDonald
Author-X-Name-First: Ewan
Author-X-Name-Last: MacDonald
Author-Name: Brendan K. O’Rourke
Author-X-Name-First: Brendan K.
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Rourke
Author-Name: John Hogan
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Hogan
Title: Imagining the future in Irish budgets 1970–2015: a mixed-methods discourse analysis
Abstract: 
 Annual budgets are key to constituting and governing imagined futures. This paper examines how the signifier ‘future’ is constructed within the Irish budget speeches delivered by finance ministers to parliament between 1970 and 2015. To investigate the discourses of these budget speeches, we employ post-structural discourse theory operationalised through two methods: close reading and corpus-linguistic analysis. Close reading is used to identify the discourses employed and how meanings of signifiers were partially fixed at different moments. This was further examined using corpus-linguistics, specifically a collocate analysis of the word ‘future’, allowing further close examination of such collocates in context. Thus, the paper offers a unique insight into the discursive structuring of ‘future’ in Irish budget speeches over 45 years, highlights the changing structure of the budgetary discourse, periodising these changes, and shows how economic imaginaries of the ‘future’ are produced and reproduced.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 363-386
Issue: 3
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1912381
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Author-Name: Ekaterina Svetlova
Author-X-Name-First: Ekaterina
Author-X-Name-Last: Svetlova
Title: Corporate risk reporting about Brexit as political communication
Abstract: 
 How can we account for differences in the extent of risk disclosure among companies? The paper expands the existing explanations by claiming that corporate risk reporting is not just financial but also political communication. The presented empirical analysis of how corporations disclose Brexit-related uncertainties suggests that risk reporting is a part of a company’s holistic conversation with multiple audiences in society (e.g. politicians, regulators, journalists and customers) and might have well-targeted but also unforeseen effects on each of them. The quantity and quality of risk disclosure can be explained – among other factors – by the extent to which companies want to participate in public discourse and wish their opinions on a particular political issue, such as Brexit, to be heard. In other words, risk reporting is a part of ‘the politics of expectations’ which should be investigated in its own right.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 417-441
Issue: 3
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1975807
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Author-Name: Ansel Schiavone
Author-X-Name-First: Ansel
Author-X-Name-Last: Schiavone
Title: Essentially unemployed: potential implications of the COVID-19 crisis and fiscal response on income inequality
Abstract: 
 I analyze the impact of the CARES Act unemployment subsidy on US income and inequality in the first month of the COVID-19 crisis using March-April Current Population Survey data. I then use monthly industry unemployment data to extend this panel to July. Next, I estimate the impact of the expiration of the CARES Act subsidy on average income and inequality. Finally, I extend the panel to November to simulate the effects of proposed HEALS and HEROES Acts. I find the CARES Act subsidy was effective at increasing average income above pre-crisis levels and reducing inequality. The expiration of the CARES Act subsidy caused a decrease in average income and increase in inequality relative to pre-crisis levels. I find the proposed HEALS legislation will return inequality to near pre-crisis levels, while the proposed HEROES Act will result in higher income and lower inequality than existed before the crisis.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 469-492
Issue: 3
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1890194
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Author-Name: Simone Polillo
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Author-X-Name-Last: Polillo
Title: Crisis, reputation, and the politics of expertise: fictional performativity at the Bank of Italy
Abstract: 
 Since the early twentieth century, scholarly interest in the intersection between knowledge and political rationality in advanced liberal democracies has drawn attention to two general and contradictory processes: first, the rise of technocracy, and of the institutions, and experts, who use technical knowledge as a lever of power; second, the democratization of expertise – the emergence of lay audiences as stake-holders and competent participants in technical and scientific decisions and debates. In this paper, I analyze the annual reports on the Italian economy written by the Bank of Italy between 1960 and 1984, and trace the debate they spurred in three national newspaper outlets. I detail the emergence of public expertise on the economy, as well as the emergence of crisis and reputation management as techniques for the Bank to bolster its authority. I argue that the Bank of Italy, by framing the present as an exception, achieved a form of performativity that I call fictional.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 342-362
Issue: 3
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2020.1857822
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Author-Name: Trond Løyning
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Author-X-Name-Last: Løyning
Title: Regulating for gender equality in business: the law on gender quotas and the network of interlocking directorates in Norway, 2008–2016
Abstract: 
 This article analyses effects of the law of gender quotas for company boards in Norway on the network of interlocking directorates in the period 2008–2016. It is argued that these networks are important regarding gender equality and diversity. Analysis of the regulated corporations (Public Limited Companies – PLCs) shows that female directors get and keep central positions in the networks during this period. Exploring possible impact on networks among non-regulated Private Limited Companies (Ltds) shows no similar effects. Thus, although the justification for the law is general, there are no notable spillover effects. However, women are central in the overall network (based on both PLCs and Ltds), since most of the network ties are among PLCs. Thus, the quota law seems effective in challenging the male-dominated networks in business, but several caveats to such a conclusion are discussed.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 493-519
Issue: 3
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1901139
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Author-Name: André Vereta-Nahoum
Author-X-Name-First: André
Author-X-Name-Last: Vereta-Nahoum
Title: Prescribing and avoiding remedies: how industrial associations advanced futures out of the Brazilian recession (2014–2016)
Abstract: 
 This article comparatively analyzes the participation of two industrial associations in the politics of signification of the recent Brazilian recession (2014–2016), highlighting the frames they use to define the relevant problem and advance necessary remedies, and the artifacts they deploy to make such frames plausible and elicit support for their claims. In this sense, it contributes to recent debates about the social construction of futures, offering a processual framework to analyze future making by organized business interests in times of a crisis. It emphasizes the peculiarity of (1) crises, as moments in which the present is uncertain and subject to a politics of signification, dependent on the ability of actors to develop framing narratives and deploy artifacts of persuasion to create resonance and public support (2) and of remedies, prescribed futures based on the definition of a problematic situation that may rely on simple takeaway objects.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 387-416
Issue: 3
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1943754
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Author-Name: Adam Walke
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Author-X-Name-Last: Walke
Title: De-unionization and the wages of essential workers
Abstract: 
 A definition of essential industries based on recent federal government guidelines is used to trace out the trajectory of wages for essential and nonessential sectors over time in the United States. This retrospective approach is justified by the fact that the included industries provide goods and services that are essential to health and safety whether or not emergency conditions exist. Union density has been consistently higher in essential industries, but the percentage of nonunionized workers has also increased more rapidly in those industries. The data show that real wages in essential industries have declined relative to nonessential industries since 1983 and that essential industries have consistently had lower levels of wage inequality than their nonessential counterparts. Regression analyses suggest that uneven de-unionization can explain part of the decline in relative wages. Furthermore, higher rates of union coverage in essential industries likely contribute to their comparatively low levels of wage inequality.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 644-671
Issue: 4
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1942181
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Author-Name: Carlos Alberto Duque Garcia
Author-X-Name-First: Carlos Alberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Duque Garcia
Title: Unpaid housework and super-exploitation of labor: a suggested model and empirical evidence from Mexico and Colombia
Abstract: 
 The objective of this paper is to suggest a mathematical model of unpaid housework and empirically test its main predictions using data from Mexico (2014) and Colombia (2017) time-use surveys. The model, based upon the Marxist-feminist approach, suggests that the magnitude of unpaid housework is determined by the super-exploitation of labor, i.e. the gap between wages and the value of labor-power. The outcome is an equation that relates positively the magnitude of unpaid housework with the super-exploitation of labor. The parametric and nonparametric regression estimates applied in both countries show preliminary empirical support for the theoretical model. The theoretical and empirical findings have several implications for Marxist-feminist literature as well as for empirical research on unpaid housework.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 549-573
Issue: 4
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1950820
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Author-Name: Malte F. Dold
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Author-X-Name-Last: Dold
Author-Name: Matías Petersen
Author-X-Name-First: Matías
Author-X-Name-Last: Petersen
Title: Stability of the liberal order, moral learning, and constitutional choice: an unresolved tension in James Buchanan’s political economy
Abstract: 
 Buchanan mentions at several points in his oeuvre the necessary role for a constitutional attitude. This attitude is both explanatory and evaluative; it explains why citizens value liberty but also highlights one of the necessary conditions for the stability of a free society. We argue that Buchanan’s idea of a ‘constitutional attitude’ is extremely relevant, though underdeveloped. Firstly, it remains an open question what exactly a constitutional attitude means in practice and it is unclear what kind of institutions would foster it. Secondly, we believe that the success of his constitutional political economy project depends on some account of moral learning. Although Buchanan stresses the individual aspect of the process of self-constitution, he doesn’t take sufficient account of how the institutional environment and our social relationships structure this process. We discuss to what extent a broadly neo-Aristotelian account of moral learning can provide a more robust foundation for Buchanan’s ideas.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 672-698
Issue: 4
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1957141
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Author-Name: Mathieu Juliot Mpabe Bodjongo
Author-X-Name-First: Mathieu Juliot
Author-X-Name-Last: Mpabe Bodjongo
Title: Internet access, beliefs about HIV transmission and HIV–AIDS testing among women in Cameroon
Abstract: 
 This study highlights the influence of Internet access and beliefs about HIV transmission on HIV–AIDS testing among women in Cameroon. The analysis covers a sample of 5958 women, from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS 5) of Cameroon (NIS [2015]. Enquête par grappes à indicateurs multiples (MICS5), 2014, Base de données). The econometric results reveal that the probability of having high access to the internet positively influences the likelihood of getting tested for HIV–AIDS. In addition, established beliefs about AIDS can encourage women to get tested for HIV–AIDS. Also, women who are poor are the most likely to be tested for HIV–AIDS.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 574-600
Issue: 4
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1985599
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Author-Name: Harvey S. James
Author-X-Name-First: Harvey S.
Author-X-Name-Last: James
Title: Is the Platinum Rule credible? An examination of other-regarding perceptions and attitudes toward unethical behavior
Abstract: 
 This paper uses data for 53 countries from the World Values Survey in a multilevel regression analysis that seeks to disentangle individual, institutional and other-regarding factors affecting ethical decision-making. The dependent variable is an index of how intolerant people are of unethical conduct. The explanatory variables indicate the perceived trustworthiness and fairness of others. Controls include variables for individual and institutional factors. Findings are that perceptions of trustworthiness in people unknown to them and perceptions of fairness in others correlate with a greater tolerance of unethical behavior, especially in countries with moderate levels of institutional quality. High institutional quality moderates the negative relationship between perceptions and ethical attitudes. The findings confirm the relevance of other-regarding factors and reinforce the importance of quality institutions in supporting ethical decision-making.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 601-621
Issue: 4
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1914342
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Author-Name: Tamgid Ahmed Chowdhury
Author-X-Name-First: Tamgid Ahmed
Author-X-Name-Last: Chowdhury
Title: Capability listing and functioning achievements of indigenous people of a developing country: testing the moderating effect of the use of ICT
Abstract: 
 There is a gap in the existing literature in exploring comprehensive capability needs and degree of functioning achievements of indigenous people living in developing nations. This study offers a nine-dimensional 43-item statistically valid, and reliable model that captures capability and functioning achievement indicators as perceived by the indigenous people of Bangladesh. Also, the paper investigates the extent to which the impacts of capability dimensions on functioning achievements change concerning the degree of use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) by the indigenous community. The methodology of the study is based on 1741 primary data collected by way of a survey and analyzed through Structural Equation Modeling. Results revealed that effects of seven out of eight capability dimensions on functioning achievements had improved significantly due to the higher use of ICT. The study also revealed that frequent use of ICT could reduce the degree of vulnerability among the indigenous poor.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 521-548
Issue: 4
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1939120
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Author-Name: Manuel Ahedo
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahedo
Author-Name: Joris Hoekstra
Author-X-Name-First: Joris
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoekstra
Author-Name: Aitziber Etxezarreta
Author-X-Name-First: Aitziber
Author-X-Name-Last: Etxezarreta
Title: Socially oriented cooperative housing as alternative to housing speculation. Public policies and societal dynamics in Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain
Abstract: 
 National housing systems increasingly combine three main types of housing: the private property sector (home ownership and private rental), social and public rental (public and non-profit sectors) and cooperative (social or civil economy). The dominant private type has facilitated housing speculation, which in many countries has become a critical source of economic inequality and instability. The cooperative housing type can be a viable alternative with a socio-spatial cohesion effect. This article compares the phenomena of socially oriented cooperative housing in three European countries (Denmark, The Netherlands and Spain). The analytical focus is on the public policies and regulations, and the societal and collective action factors that foster the development of housing cooperatives. The three cases present different institutional settings and ways to develop a socially oriented cooperative housing sector. The research findings contribute to mutual learning processes in searching alternatives to the commercial and very expensive private urban housing provision.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 622-643
Issue: 4
Volume: 81
Year: 2023
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Frank Crowley
Author-X-Name-First: Frank
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Author-Name: Edel Walsh
Author-X-Name-First: Edel
Author-X-Name-Last: Walsh
Title: Tolerance, social capital, and life satisfaction: a multilevel model from transition countries in the European Union
Abstract: 
 Tolerance of others on grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion and sexuality is an important component of social capital but has received scant attention in the social capital well-being literature. We examine the components of social capital and their relationship with life satisfaction using data from the Life in Transition Survey in European Union transition countries. A principal component factor analysis identifies three distinct and independent social capital components: tolerance, ties, and trust. Using a multilevel modelling approach, we estimate the relation between these components and life satisfaction, whilst controlling for individual and area effects. Tolerance, ties (networks) and trust are positively associated with life satisfaction.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 23-50
Issue: 1
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1957994
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Author-Name: Anselm Schneider
Author-X-Name-First: Anselm
Author-X-Name-Last: Schneider
Title: Aligning corporate behaviour with the public good: a commentary on Bennett and Claassen
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 176-180
Issue: 1
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2024.2310832
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Author-Name: Klaus Kraemer
Author-X-Name-First: Klaus
Author-X-Name-Last: Kraemer
Author-Name: Luka Jakelja
Author-X-Name-First: Luka
Author-X-Name-Last: Jakelja
Author-Name: Florian Brugger
Author-X-Name-First: Florian
Author-X-Name-Last: Brugger
Author-Name: Sebastian Nessel
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian
Author-X-Name-Last: Nessel
Title: The social ambiguity of money: empirical evidence on the multiple usability of money in social life
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 In regard to the purpose of money use, economic theory provides a functionalist answer, while a dominant sociological view focuses on culture. However, Simmel noted the paradoxical nature of money in this respect. Money brings together both quantity and quality; therefore, it simultaneously has different potentialities for its usage. We conducted an exploratory factor analysis by using a representative sample (n = 2000) of the population in Austria to explore the potentialities of money usage. We found seven factors: freedom, community, status, institutional control, conflict, work-related control and household control. A discussion of the factors reveals the simultaneous, ambiguous existence of the qualitative and quantitative potentialities of the usage of money. We conclude that the ambiguity of money can only be described in all its contradictoriness by distinguishing between the concrete earmarking money for specific social purposes (Zelizer) and the potentially unspecific, open usability for alternative concrete or fictional purposes (Simmel).
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 98-125
Issue: 1
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2022.2076150
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Author-Name: Michael Delucchi
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Delucchi
Author-Name: Richard B. Dadzie
Author-X-Name-First: Richard B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Dadzie
Author-Name: Erik Dean
Author-X-Name-First: Erik
Author-X-Name-Last: Dean
Author-Name: Xuan Pham
Author-X-Name-First: Xuan
Author-X-Name-Last: Pham
Title: What’s that smell? Bullshit jobs in higher education
Abstract: 
 This study examines the growth of administrative and non-academic staff positions in the United States higher education sector through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We first document the growth of these employments relative to increases in faculty positions and student enrollments, as well as common explanations therefor. Finding those explanations wanting, we proceed to synthesize the work of David Graeber, Benjamin Ginsberg, Roberto Michels, and Thorstein Veblen, developing an alternative explanation that focuses on the bureaucratic tendencies of large organizations and the business principles that have underwritten college and university management for more than a century. Next, using Graeber’s typology of bullshit jobs as applied to higher education we generate testable hypotheses related to our explanation. We then conduct our empirical analysis of the incidence of bullshit jobs in higher education. Finally, we summarize and discuss our findings and conclude with suggested topics for future research.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 1-22
Issue: 1
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1940255
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Author-Name: Carolina Dalla Chiesa
Author-X-Name-First: Carolina Dalla
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Author-Name: Erwin Dekker
Author-X-Name-First: Erwin
Author-X-Name-Last: Dekker
Title: Communicating identity: how the symbolic meaning of goods creates different market types
Abstract: 
 This paper argues that the different symbolic meanings of goods give rise to three institutionally different market types. We start from the realization that consumption has symbolic meaning, which individuals use to communicate and construct their identity to their social networks. We argue that firm behavior (including size, pricing and marketing strategies) must be congruent with the symbolic meaning of goods. We distinguish between two stylized meanings of goods, status and taste, which we derive from the socio-anthropological literature on consumption. We argue that these different meanings, articulated by consumers to communicate their identity, give rise to three ideal-typical market types. We present the institutional differences between these market types as well as the implications for firm behavior and demonstrate how firm behavior and marketing strategies differs significantly from markets in which the symbolic meaning of goods is relatively unimportant. We use the recent transformation of the beer market by the craft-beer producers, to illustrate our theory.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 76-97
Issue: 1
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.2019822
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Author-Name: Jennifer C. Olmsted
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer C.
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Title: Care labor, intergenerational equity, and (social) sustainability
Abstract: 
 Of the three sustainability (social, environmental and economic) pillars, the social one is the least developed. The 2020/2021 COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted why assuring social sustainability requires examining the central role care labor plays in intergenerational sustainability, with attention to the potentially conflicting rights of caregivers and care receivers, as well as to gender, geographic, age, class and other inequalities. A system that focuses on recognition, reduction, redistribution, reinforcement and reward (5 Rs) is needed to further gender equality and assure that care labor receives adequate policy support. Recognition or naming the problem, efforts to reduce drudgery, redistribution of care within the family and beyond, as well as two forms of support to care givers – reinforcement and reward make up the 5 Rs. Focusing on 5Rs can also help prioritize when social, environmental and economic goals conflict.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 51-75
Issue: 1
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
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Author-Name: Michael Bennett
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Bennett
Author-Name: Rutger Claassen
Author-X-Name-First: Rutger
Author-X-Name-Last: Claassen
Title: The corporate social assessment: making public purpose pay
Abstract: 
 Corporations can be powerful engines of economic prosperity, but also for the public good more broadly conceived. But they need to be properly incentivized to fulfil these missions. We propose an innovative plan called the Corporate Social Assessment (CSA). Every four years, a randomly selected Citizens’ Assembly will meet to decide a grading scheme for assessing companies’ conduct. At the end of the cycle, a professional assessment body will grade the companies and rank them. The ranking will be the basis for subsidies to higher-tier companies, to be paid out of a fund to which all companies will contribute, to create a race to the top which financially rewards corporations taking public concerns seriously. The CSA radicalizes the corporate license to operate. To retain legitimacy in the eyes of wider segments of society, the proposal aims to democratize the way we hold corporations accountable for the power they wield.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 147-175
Issue: 1
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2023.2285266
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Author-Name: Alan Shipman
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Author-Name: Ann Vogel
Author-X-Name-First: Ann
Author-X-Name-Last: Vogel
Title: Streaming the festival: what is lost when cultural events go online
Abstract: 
 Cultural events and collections, as curated assemblies of artists and artwork attended by live audiences, are recognised as a large and growing source of added value in contemporary accounts of ‘creative’, ‘enrichment’ and ‘experience’ economies. We analyse these, and empirical festival studies, to assess the impact on cultural production when the COVID-19 pandemic forces events to cancel or move online. Contrasting the relative optimism of ‘enrichment’ (Boltanski & Esquerre 2020) with pre-pandemic developments, we argue ‘festivalisation’ is best understood as a defensive reaction to mediated alternatives. These increasingly offer experientially comparable, lower-cost substitutes for the premium-priced immersive performance on which cultural workers have come to rely, for creative ideas, skills and career openings as well as income. Online channels weaken the eventisation defence and curatorial quests for ‘singularity’, while remote participation limits audiences’ size and mode of engagement, risking permanent damage to vital components of cultural production and valorisation.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 126-146
Issue: 1
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
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Author-Name: Leila Davis
Author-X-Name-First: Leila
Author-X-Name-Last: Davis
Title: Financialization and the social economy
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 181-183
Issue: 2
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 04
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Author-Name: Lenore M. Palladino
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Title: Establishing a public option for asset management in the United States
Abstract: 
 Asset managers – financial institutions like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard – manage trillions of dollars of US household financial assets, including public pension funds at the federal, state, and municipal level. The structural power of asset managers means they play a decisive role in corporate decision-making, while the conflicts of interest inherent in their business model and a short-term interpretation of their fiduciary duties means they do not serve the actual interests of their economic beneficiaries in a sustainable economy. I propose establishing a public asset manager in the United States to serve as the asset manager for public pension funds. This article situates this proposed institutional reform in the broader evolution of asset manager capitalism and explains how establishing a public asset manager is an institutional reform that would shift the financial system toward serving the actual interests of the people and social systems on which it depends.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 241-260
Issue: 2
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
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Author-Name: Melanie G. Long
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Author-X-Name-Last: Long
Author-Name: Steven Pressman
Author-X-Name-First: Steven
Author-X-Name-Last: Pressman
Title: Postal banking and US cash transfer programs: a solution to insufficient financial infrastructure?
Abstract: 
 Direct cash transfers to households during the COVID-19 pandemic, including relief checks and Child Tax Credit payments, were delayed by weeks for recipients without bank accounts and were not received by many non-filers who lacked the time or resources to complete necessary paperwork. A postal banking system has the potential to expand access to financial infrastructure and enable the rapid distribution of resources to households in need during economic downturns – often the same households that are currently excluded from the financial system. This paper examines the history of the US Postal Savings System and the feasibility of a return to postal banking using evidence on the socioeconomic and spatial patterns of financial exclusion. We find that postal banks would be well positioned to compete with both alternative and conventional financial institutions, address issues with physical branch access, and improve outreach to vulnerable populations.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 213-240
Issue: 2
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2023.2259362
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Author-Name: Sean H. Vanatta
Author-X-Name-First: Sean H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vanatta
Title: The financialization of US public pension funds, 1945–1974
Abstract: 
 This article examines the transformation of public employee pension investment in the United States, from investing public funds in public infrastructure before the 1950s, to investing public funds in private securities in the years after. Three factors drove this change. First, motivated financial professionals convinced states to adopt the “prudent man rule,” a legal investment standard that emphasized professional management and maximum financial returns. Second, declining bond yields during World War II led public pension managers to reconceptualize the political goals of pension investment, from balancing retiree returns against low-cost public infrastructure, to maximizing employee benefits by achieving maximum returns in financial markets. Third, public officials hired private asset managers to undertake new investment strategies. These professionals then used their influence to pursue further pension liberalization. Ultimately, US financialization was not a break, but a continuous process through which government officials intentionally used financial markets to enhance public social provision.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 261-293
Issue: 2
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 04
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Author-Name: Dania V. Francis
Author-X-Name-First: Dania V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Francis
Author-Name: Christian E. Weller
Author-X-Name-First: Christian E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Weller
Author-Name: Emek Karakilic
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Author-Name: Maryam Salihu
Author-X-Name-First: Maryam
Author-X-Name-Last: Salihu
Title: Racial differences in the relationship between the receipt of informal financial support and social insurance
Abstract: 
 In this paper, we examine the relationship between the reliance on informal financial support and social insurance programs such as unemployment insurance to meet financial hardships imposed during the economic downturn associated with COVID-19. We use the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to compare the likelihood of receiving informal financial support from family and friends for households that did or did not receive social insurance controlling for observable household characteristics. We pay special attention to differences by race/ethnicity and by homeownership – a proxy for wealth. Our results suggest that (1) some types of social insurance receipt are a weak substitute for informal financial support, (2) the substitution between informal financial support and social insurance receipt is stronger among White households than households of color, and (3) wealth is a more consistent buffer against financial hardship than social insurance receipt.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 184-212
Issue: 2
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2023.2241431
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Author-Name: Novice Patrick Bakehe
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Title: Indoor air pollution and gender difference in respiratory health and schooling for children in Cameroon
Abstract: 
 Indoor air pollution (IAP) resulting from firewood used as cooking fuel is related to the respiratory problems and can lead to the reduction in human capital formation. Using data from the fourth Cameroonian survey of households carried out in 2014, we analyse if exposure to indoor air pollution resulting from the use of firewood provokes respiratory infections and if they have consequences on the education of children according to gender. Our results show that the use of firewood as the main fuel for cooking increases the risk of respiratory infection among girls (but not among boys) and these infections have a negative impact on education.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 294-315
Issue: 2
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1986634
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Author-Name: Bianchi Michele
Author-X-Name-First: Bianchi
Author-X-Name-Last: Michele
Title: Italian Community Co-operatives: Structuration of Community Development Processes in Italy
Abstract: 
 Italy is famous worldwide for its co-operative sector, and this firm model has proven to be efficacious in redressing many social inequalities over the past two centuries. This paper aims to examine how local communities in diverse regions have adapted this traditional form to the contemporary trend of bottom-up community development processes. Furthermore, the paper compares the Italian initiatives with the international literature on community co-operatives and assesses to which extend similarities and differences are viewable. The qualitative analysis considers 7 co-operatives in various areas of Italy, and analyses result from 15 semi-structured interviews with managers. Findings show the intense work undertaken before the co-operatives’ registration, the negotiation of purposes and objectives with external partners, how founder groups have a key role in determining each firm’s approach to local development, and how further networks with external subjects are deeply influence the co-operatives’ work.
Journal: Review of Social Economy
Pages: 316-342
Issue: 2
Volume: 82
Year: 2024
Month: 04
X-DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.2006765
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