The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from January 1998

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from January 1998

Quality of life: efficiency, equity and freedom in the United States and Scandinavia.
January 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION To ask an individual if his needs are satisfied gives no picture of the real quality of life of the individual, except a picture of how efficient the social mechanisms are that surround the individual, when it comes to adjust his...

The five careers of the biological metaphor in economic theory.
January 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION When an economist appeals to a biological metaphor in order to sharpen his model, his audience usually assumes that the metaphor is about evolutionary biology. This assumption is even prevalent among the critics of neoclassical...

Dualism, dialogue and organizations: reflections on organizational transformation and labor-managed firms.
January 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Today we confront formidable environmental, social, and political challenges.(2) To meet these challenges, scholars in economics, business and related disciplines usually advocate the use of more or less government....

What do we know about employee absence behavior? An interdisciplinary interpretation.
January 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Hundreds upon hundreds of studies that address the individual motivation to take absence were documented in the management literature over most of the postwar period. But, beginning with the late 1970s, social...

Beyond Schumpeter: nonlinear economics and the evolution of the U.S. innovation system. (economist Joseph Schumpeter)
January 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Recent years have witnessed an extremely subtle, yet appreciable, shift in U.S. government policy toward industrial innovation. This shift is most evident in reduced reliance on military spending and in the funding...

Differential representations of taxes: analysis of free associations and judgments of five employment groups.
January 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION People widely agree that taxes should be reduced. Citizens say they would like to cut government spending to bring the public deficit under control but demand in the same breath that the government increases...

The concept of a "merit good": the ethical dimension in economic theory and the history of economic thought or the transformation of economics into socio-economics.
January 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM Forty two years ago, Musgrave introduced the concept of merit wants (1956, pp. 333-334). A decade ago, in a talk for an international conference on the problem of merit good, John Head complained that:...

Pop Internationalism.
January 1, 1998... Readers of Paul Krugman's 1996 collection Pop Internationalism could easily be forgiven for viewing it mainly as a study of personality disorder rather than economics. Its essays - gathered from the pages of Foreign Affairs,...

Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness.
January 1, 1998... Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness provides a thorough analysis of homelessness - one of the most important social problems facing us today. The overall purpose of the book is to explain the rise of homelessness during the...