Review of Social Economy articles from September 1996

Review of Social Economy archives from September 1996

Intra-Racial Income Inequality: An Examination of Metropolitan Areas, 1990
September 22, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION The persistence of economic inequalities between blacks and whites in the U.S. is striking: blacks experience unemployment rates that are over twice that of whites, black poverty rates have been two to three times the white rate,...

Unproductive Outlays and Capital Accumulation with Target-Return Pricing
September 22, 1996... It has been shown by Kaleckians that, under some conditions, unproductive activity could be positively related to effective demand and capital accumulation (Dutt 1992a, 1992b). When there are reserves of unused capacity, these conditions have been...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Reassessing Her Significance for Feminism and Social Economics
September 22, 1996... Margaret G. O'Donnell's article on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics is a timely reminder of Gilman's importance as an early social economist (O'Donnell 1994). Indeed, throughout her life, Gilman was concerned with the conditions that...

A Reply to "Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Reassessing Her Significance for Feminism and Social Economics." (Reply to Article by Falguni A. Sheth and Robert E. Prasch, in This Issue, P. 323)
September 22, 1996... The article "Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Reassessing Her Significance for Feminism and Social Economics," by Falguni Sheth and Robert Prasch adds a needed dimension to the study of Gilman's contribution to social economics. The authors point out...

Natural Images in Economics: A Review Essay
September 22, 1996... Economics began its course as a self-conscious discipline in the eighteenth century and its history, to some extent at least, reflects its origins. The discipline commenced with the perception of the (political) economy qua economy, as something...

The Danner Thesis and Public Choice Theory: A Review Essay
September 22, 1996... Peter Danner's Getting and Spending (1944) is intended as a textbook for courses in economics/ethics. However, in the process of providing instruction for undergraduates, Danner expounds a deep level, original thesis concerning the nature and...

Coevolutionary Economics: The Economy, Society and the Environment.
September 22, 1996... Professor Gowdy explores critical components of a possible coevolutionary economics. Coevolution is simply evolution where species themselves define each other's niche. In the conventional evolutionary explanation, a single species...

Getting and Spending: A Primer in Economic Morality.
September 22, 1996... Prior to reviewing this book I must confess two prejudices as a forewarning to my readers. First, for most of my intellectual career I have been an admirer of Dr. Danner and his work. Second, I am in complete agreement with most of the...

Dialectical Investigations.
September 22, 1996... This is not a book about obscure Marxian dogma, but an attempt to make use of dialectics in ways that will interest Marxists, institutionalists and other critical social scientists. Ollman is a political scientist and a good writer, so the book...

Pricing, Valuation and Systems: Essays in Neoinstitutional Economics.
September 22, 1996... Marc R. Tool is Professor Emeritus of Economics at California State University, Sacramento and former editor of the Journal of Economic Issues. So this anthology is the product of a mature scholar and leader of institutional economists. Four of...

The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era.
September 22, 1996... In this challenging and disturbing work the author who is very well informed about both economics and technology describes the new age of global markets and automated production. These trends have put us on the road to a near workerless...