The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from January 1999

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from January 1999

The end of triumphalism.
January 1, 1999... Nineteen ninety-eight will go down in history as the year in which the export of American capitalism failed, the year the Big Backlash against it gained momentum, and the year in which the quest for finding new ways to deal with globalism...

Consumer activism in the Czech Republic: the role of exit and voice in a changing economy.
January 1, 1999... This article reports on the effects of economic transformation in the Czech Republic as experienced by ultimate consumers, that is, those engaging in retail and service transactions. The purpose of the research was to examine actual changes and...

Do neighborhood conditions affect high school dropout and college graduation rates?
January 1, 1999... 1. Introduction Researchers in a number of different fields have long investigated the factors affecting young people's educational attainment. Initially, this research focused on the relationship between personal characteristics and...

Social capital and household income distributions in the United States: 1980, 1990.
January 1, 1999... 1. Introduction Income inequality has been on the rise in the U.S. since the 1970s. Evidence of income inequality is the percentage of total income earned by the highest income families and the percentage of total income earned by the...

Consequentialism, rights, and the new social welfare theory.
January 1, 1999... 1. Introduction Amitai Etzioni has argued that: The basic social virtues are a voluntary moral order and a strong measure of bounded individual and subgroup autonomy, held in careful equilibrium . . . . (Etzioni, 1996, p. 244) ...

Structural Adjustment Reconsidered: Economic Policy and Poverty in Africa.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By David E. Sahn, Paul A. Doresh, and Stephen D. Younger. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press; 1997 (xiiv + 304 pages, including index). It has become customary for much of the literature dealing with the political economy of...

Critical Economic Methodology: A Personal Odyssey.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By Lawrence A. Boland. Routledge: London and New York, 1997. Hb. xii + 308. ISBN 0-415-13607-5. Many books on methodology are a dry read. Boland's book is a laudable exception. This is partly due to the fact that while it represents a...