Review of Social Economy articles from June 1990

Review of Social Economy archives from June 1990

Could Marshall or Veblen embrace Economic Justice For All? (Alfred Marshall, Thorstein Veblen, National Conference of Catholic Bishops' report, Economic Justice for All: Catholic Social Teaching and the US Economy)
June 22, 1990... Economic Justice for All, by the U.S. Catholic bishops, is firmly addressed to what they call the "unfinished business in the American experiment..." (#9, p. 5). (1) Having declared that they write "first of all to provide guidance for...

Impulse-filtering: a new model of freely willed economic choice.
June 22, 1990... It is rather easy to criticize the philosophical and psychological shortcomings of the "neoclassical" stable-preference approach to economic theory. Economic man, rational without thought, without morals, moral dilemmas, hesitation or...

Wages and employment: worker's rights and market forces.
June 22, 1990... The study of labor economics has gone through dramatic changes over the past fifty years. Theories have come and gone, each innovation, hopefully, improving on its predecessor. This paper looks at a particular example of this evolutionary...

McCloskey's modernism and Friedman's methodology: a case study with new evidence. (Don McCloskey, Milton Friedman)
June 22, 1990... By now all economists interested in methodology, and many who are not, certainly have some familiarity with Don McCloskey's "The Rhetoric of Economics." For in his Journal of Economic Literature article (1983) and book (1985) by that title...

J.S. Mill's a priori deductive methodology: a case study in post-modern philosophy of science. (John Stuart Mills)
June 22, 1990... I. Introduction This article will attempt to show that John Stuart Mill's philosophy of science provides supporting evidence for the interpretation of science held by contemporary or post-modern philosophy of science. In addition,...