The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from June 1996

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from June 1996

Whose morality? Which community? What interests? Socio-economic and communitarian perspectives.
June 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION This paper assesses the relationship between socio-economics and communitarianism, both of which have emerged in recent years as notable alternatives to existing theoretical paradigms in the social sciences. Remarkably, despite...

A yardstick for justice and ethical evaluation of economic organizations.
June 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Parts of the business community have lost the public's confidence. It is not only the traditional used car sales people or the fly-by-night Acme mail order houses, but the public's mistrust is also found well into the...

Rural development from below: lessons learned from Grameen Bank experience in Bangladesh.
June 22, 1996... I. INTRODUCTION This innovative rural banking programme was started as a modest action research project in a village called Jobra near Chittagong University by Professor M. Yunus. Moved by the desperate situation of the rural poor,...

Bridging the conceptual gap between economics and sociology.
June 22, 1996... ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: RECALLING AND INHERENT COMPLEMENTARITY Economics and sociology are companion disciplines because each seeks to improve our understanding of the social world. Although most economists...

Optimal resource allocation strategies for reducing the incidence of contagious social problems.
June 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Recently, there has been a spate of research in sociology and other social sciences on contagious social problems. The idea that interpersonal influence can play an important role in the process through which people develop...