Review of Social Economy articles from March 2006

Review of Social Economy archives from March 2006

Multiple Utilities and Weakness of Will: A Kantian Perspective
March 1, 2006... 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...

What Is the Relationship of Religion to Economics?
March 1, 2006... 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...

Critical Realism in Economics and Open-Systems Ontology: A Critique
March 1, 2006... 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...

Military Spending and the Black Market Premium in Developing Countries
March 1, 2006... 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...

Industrial Relations Systems, Economic Efficiency and Social Equity in the 1990s
March 1, 2006... 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...

Valuing Freedom: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Valuing Freedom: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction. By Sabina Alkire. Oxford University Press, 2002, vii + 340 pages, ISBN 0199245797. The three main characteristics of Amartya Sen's capability approach (CA) are pluralism,...

The Autocratically Flexible Workplace: A History of Overtime Regulation in the United States.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The Autocratically Flexible Workplace: A History of Overtime Regulation in the United States. By Marc Linder. Iowa City: Fanpihua Press Books, 2002, viii + 476 pages, ISBN 0-9673899-9-2 (paperback), $10. Mainstream economists have long...

On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations--A Philosophical Companion.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations--A Philosophical Companion. By Samuel Fleischacker. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 2004, xvii + 329 pages, ISBN 0-691-11502-8, $55.00. Adam Smith is generally known as the founder of the...

The Sharing Economy.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The Sharing Economy. By Lorna Gold. Burlington: Ashgate, 2004, 232 pages, ISBN 0 7546 3345 4, $84.95. If a person wanted to understand one of the most exciting economic movements embedded within a rich moral and spiritual vision, he or...

Review of Reflection without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Review of Reflection without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory. By D. Wade Hands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 480 pages, ISBN 0521797969, $34.99. This is a terrific book, evaluated by its...

One Percent for the Kids: New Policies, Brighter Futures for America's Children.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... One Percent for the Kids: New Policies, Brighter Futures for America's Children. By Isabel Sawhill (ed.), Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. 194 pages; includes acknowledgments, list of contributors, index, paperback, ISBN:...

Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices. By Daniel W. Bromley and Jouni Paavol (eds), Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, 286 pages, ISBN 0631229698. Central Wisconsin, just west of Madison, contains some of the only...