The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from December 1996

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from December 1996

Creating moral economies: reciprocity and welfare entitlements on the Yukon river mining frontier.
December 1, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION It is a commonplace of human social life that individuals derive much of their personal security from what may be termed "welfare entitlements"(1) resources which they can command on the basis of need, or the lack of certain...

Socio-economic elements in public choice research.
December 1, 1996... In The Moral Dimension, Amitai Etzioni describes Public Choice theory with: The neoclassical paradigm, we have seen, attempts to show not merely that there is an element of pleasure (or self-interest) in all seemingly altruistic behavior, but...

Confucian ethics and economic development: a study of the adaptation of Confucian values to modern Japanese economic ideology and institutions.
December 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION A fundamental problem in explaining the successful economic development of Japan over the past century is in evaluating the relative roles of cultural values versus economic and political policy factors.(1) Generally speaking,...

Occupational change and differing returns to migration by gender.
December 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION The internal migration of labor has long been recognized as not only an important means of redistributing labor to its most productive use but a means of increasing one's socioeconomic status. A key element in the linkage between...

The decision to quit smoking: theory and evidence.
December 1, 1996... In response to these well known health consequences of cigarette smoking, American consumers over time have reacted fairly predictably. As might be expected, with increased knowledge about the adverse health consequences of smoking, during the...

Missiles to plowshares: the switch from war to peace. (defense conversion)
December 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Under the rubric of "defense conversion," the business of beating of swords into plowshares began in earnest in the early 1990s as military budgets shrank sharply and military contractors sought to recover by turning to the...

Public policy analysis: the next generation of theory.
December 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION While not yet universally accepted by academics, telling criticisms have laid bare the practical poverty of both pluralism and micro-economics as a foundation for public policy analysis. Theoretical accounts of political and...

Critical analysis of contractual regulation mechanisms: an organizational approach.
December 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION In the wake of the reforms implemented in several European countries and in the United States, which modify the nature of the relations between regulated enterprises and governing authority, the contract now appears to be a...

Economic restructuring and institutional change: post-Communist management in the Czech Republic.
December 22, 1996... The conditions of rapid societal transformation in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union raise important questions about the ways in which forms of economic coordination and conduct, whether...

Economic structure and crime: the case of Japan.
December 22, 1996... One well-known theoretical approach in comparative criminology is the "Durkheimian-Modernization" perspective, which explains ". . . crime rates in terms of industrialization, urbanization, the division of the labor, social disorganization,...

Different kinds of work, different kinds of pay: an examination of the overjustification effect.
December 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Most books on work motivation stress that there is a big difference between activities that are externally motivated by rewards and activities that are intrinsically motivating, meaning that they are rewarding by themselves (Katz...