International Journal of Social Economics articles from February 1998

International Journal of Social Economics archives from February 1998

Publications, research projects and consultancies of Clem Tisdell: a brief review of why, how and what.
February 1, 1998... Introduction When John O'Brien suggested to me that I should write an overview of my activities mentioned in the title of this essay, I thought that it would be an easy task. However, it has involved much more research work and thought...

Socio-economic aspects of language policies: an Australian perspective.
February 1, 1998... What is language? The nature of language has been described in many ways ranging from personal and poetic to scientific and technical definitions. Language is the most important and versatile means which human beings have to express...

Abstraction in economics: incorporating the time dimension.
February 1, 1998... 1. Introduction The timeless homo economicus abstraction remains dominant in economics, despite a range of criticisms of its use over the years since Veblen (1898) launched his well-known attack. Many institutionalists, post-Keynesians,...

Social economics: where has it gone?
February 1, 1998... Introduction The term "social economics" brings to mind a wide range of topics which constitute the subject matter of courses going generically by the name of "Current Issues 101". Both micro and macro topics are represented in the...

Internalizing economics: sustainability between matter and meaning.
February 1, 1998... Revising the economic framework Sustainability has become fashionable. Everyone, from politicians to corporate executives to local development boards, is for sustainable economic development, the common context in which this term is used....

Environment and sustainable development in the hilly regions of North-East India: a study in Arunachal Pradesh.
February 1, 1998... Introduction The concept of economic development has been changing over a period of time. In the early 1980s a new concept of development had emerged as a reaction to the negative experiences of development, which is known as...

Ecology, economics and ethics: some key issues relevant to natural resource management in developing countries.
February 1, 1998... Introduction The rate at which natural resources are used up for the growth of world economy outstrips the rapid growth of population. While developed countries of the world use up a large chunk of the world's natural resources for...

Socio-economic and political aspects of biodiversity conservation in Nepal.
February 1, 1998... Introduction Nepal contains some of the most spectacular natural areas in the world in a remarkable physical setting. The altitude increases dramatically from less than 100m above sea level in the subtropical Tarai in the southern part...

New directions in community and farm reforestation.
February 1, 1998... Introduction Non-government forestry has undergone rapid change in many countries over the last decade, with implications for economic analysis and policy support. Forests have been a focus for action by environmental groups and areas of...

Agrarian change and social transformation among the Mizo (the tribal state in North-East India).
February 1, 1998... Perhaps no other community can afford a better example of cohesive social order than the Mizo community. They had a stable social system under the aristocratic government of the chiefs in the pre-colonial era. Colonialism did not introduce...

Chanakya: the pioneer economist of the world.
February 1, 1998... Introduction Kautilya's Arthasastra (Kautilya's economics) was written in sutra (prose poem) style. The work claims to date from the period 321-296BC and its archaic style is well in agreement with the claim (Fleet, 1914). Indian...

Agrochemical use and the environment in Australia: a resource economics perspective.
February 1, 1998... Introduction The accelerated use of agrochemicals in Australia during the last two decades has generated major adverse effects on the environment. Pollution of water courses and underground water aquifers by pesticides, weedicides and...

The economics of Aboriginal education.
February 1, 1998... Introduction To understand Aboriginal education in Australia today, it is necessary to examine the history of colonisation and its effects. This paper will consequently explore legislation in Aboriginal affairs and relate these to...

Coming out of their homesteads? Employment for rural women in shrimp aquaculture in coastal Bangladesh.
February 1, 1998... 1. Introduction The fisheries sub-sector plays a crucial role in the predominantly rural economy of Bangladesh. This sector contributes 4 per cent of GDP and 12 per cent of export earnings. About 1.2 million economically active people...

Information economics: research strategies.
February 1, 1998... Looking back over the contents of Information Economics and Policy during the last few years, rather little space has been devoted to the role of information. To a very considerable extent, the focus has been on telecommunications industries...

An information economics perspective on innovation.
February 1, 1998... Introduction This paper has three main objectives: to (1) introduce the information theoretic or economics of information approach; (2) show how this relates to innovation, i.e. how it improves our understanding of the...

Convict labor at the Sumitomo Besshi copper mine in Japan.
February 1, 1998... 1. Introduction Sumitomo has been one of the three biggest corporate groups (Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo) in modern Japan's economy (Hatakeyama, 1988). Before World War II, they were called zaibatsu, which means the richest family...

Jeremy Bentham and the New South Wales convicts.
February 1, 1998... Jeremy Bentham was intermittently obsessed with the penal colony of New South Wales, and he waged at least three campaigns to have the colony abandoned in the dozen years or so after 1791. The New South Wales settlement had been established...

Privatization in Russia: some micro-evidence based on housing markets.
February 1, 1998... 1. Introduction With the fall of Communism and the progress of capitalist institutions in the former Soviet Union as well as the Eastern European countries, there has been much interest in the privatization of the formerly state-owned...

Privatization of public enterprises and its problems in Japan.
February 1, 1998... 1. The background of privatization Organization of the public enterprise sector in postwar Japan Immediately after World War II, there was extensive nationalization in Europe, for example in the UK under the Labor Party and in France...

Values, co-operation and lifetime employment.
February 1, 1998... Introduction In present-day economies, organizations play a very important role in resource allocation. Yet, neo-classical economics hardly provides a realistic foundation for either descriptive or normative analysis of individual...

Economic development and institutional factors affecting income distribution: the case of Iran, 1967-1993.
February 1, 1998... Introduction The relationship between income equality and economic development has attracted the attention of a plethora of applied economists. The dilemma associated with economic development and income equality pertains to the...

Direct foreign investment and inter-regional economic disparity in China.
February 1, 1998... 1. Introduction During the reform era since 1979, the Chinese economy has been characterised by rapid growth and increasing inter-regional disparity. The economic growth in the eastern (coastal) region has been faster than that in the...

Eucken's instability thesis revisited - the case of China.(Walter Eucken)
February 1, 1998... 1. China's framework for socioeconomic invigoration The "second revolution", which transformed the value structure of the People's Republic, is primarily economic in nature: "to create a good economic and social environment for...

Evaluation of tourism and tourist resources in China: existing methods and their limitations.
February 1, 1998... Introduction China has become one of the world's most important tourist destinations as a result of the rapid growth in its tourism since 1978. It received 43.7 million inbound tourists in 1994 and earned an income of US$7.3 billion,...

Ageing labour force in a labour shortage economy: the case of Singapore.
February 1, 1998... Introduction Singapore is a small open economy with an economic structure dominated by the manufacturing and service sectors. Its remarkable transformation from a low productivity trade centre to high value added international business...