The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from December 1995

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from December 1995

Schumpeter's vision of socioeconomics. (Joseph Schumpeter)
December 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION The last 10 to 15 years have witnessed a strong interest in broadening the field of economics and introducing a social perspective into it. A society exclusively devoted to "socioeconomics" has been created which holds yearly...

The socioculturalist agenda in economics: critical remarks of Thorstein Veblen's legacy.
December 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION At the end of More Heat Than Light, Philip Mirowski (1989, p. 401) states that his critique of the social physics of neoclassical economics is inspired by "a striving for the kind of social theory herein described by the school...

The relationship between work family benefits and earnings: a test of competing predictions.
December 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Traditionally, business viewed work and family as separate domains (Kanter, 1977). Although some employers offered such benefits as child care, flextime, and maternity leave, these work/family benefits were relatively rare....

The impact of legislator and constituency ideology on voting on the assault weapons ban.
December 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION One of the most important and widely researched topics of legislative behavior concerns the degree to which legislators vote in accordance with the views of their constituency as opposed to their own ideology (see, e.g., Goff &...

Communitarianism: a new paradigm of socioeconomic analysis.
December 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Until the 1960s, most scientists took a normative and positivist approach to the philosophy of science, prescribing the methodological rules of sound scientific analysis. In recent years, however, there has been a notable shift to...

The structure of rights in the context of private property.
December 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION There can hardly be any word more fraught with meaning than "property." The linguistic history of this term indicates that its current connotation developed rather recently, during the period of an ascendant mercantile and...