The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from March 1995

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from March 1995

Latin American debt, the IMF, and Adam Smith: a proposal for ethical reform. (International Monetary Fund)
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION So, by the wisdom of Nature, the happiness of every innocent man is, in the same manner, rendered holy, consecrated, and hedged round against the approach of every other man; not to be wantonly trod upon, not even to be, in any...

Market entry: an experimental investigation.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Part of the literature on market experiments has been devoted to the analysis of how likely collusive outcomes are to occur under the posted-offer trading institution(1) in oligopolistic situations. There is a general tendency of...

Institutional incentives to prevent unemployment: unemployment insurance and active labor market policy in a comparative perspective.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Unemployment is a social construct which solves the problem of uncertainty in the employment relationship. There are alternative solutions. A system of flexible prices, wages, and profits is one example. Others include...

Determinants of recycling behavior: a synthesis of research results.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION In the last two decades, recycling has become increasingly imperative; as resources decrease and wastes increase, recycling becomes necessary and viable. Americans spend nearly ten billion dollars annually to collect and dispose...

Embeddedness and capital markets: bank financing of businesses.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION The social and political struggle over self-regulating markets has intensified in the last two decades in the economies of both developed and underdeveloped countries. The United States has deregulated several key industries...

Economic liberalization and social values: Spain in the decade of the 1980s.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Within the last two decades, Spain has democratized its political system and substantially opened its economy. Spain's constitutional monarchy, after 16 years, represents the country's longest period of democracy. In 1985,...

What forms of rationality for sustainable development?
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Support for "sustainable development" and what this term initially signified(1) grew following the publication of the Brundtland Report (WCED, 1987). Nevertheless, there is considerable divergence as to the exact conceptual and...

Industrial/environmental crises and corporate social responsibility.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Modern technological progress has come at a price - a price that we are starting to pay now, in terms of large-scale environmental damage. A price that many generations will continue to pay well into the future. It is this heavy...

From nationalism to continentalism: twenty years of energy policy in Canada.
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION There is no question that the NAFTA area, with its huge reserves of energy resources, is among the few continental zones in which the concept of a "strategic reserve" is meaningful. All three countries of North America are major...

A Future for Socialism.
March 22, 1995... In the wake of the recent collapse of Soviet Communism and the dissolution of both the Warsaw Pact and the U.S.S.R. itself, a widespread consensus has developed that the book is rapidly being closed on the socialist experiment initiated by the...

Institutional Change: Theory and Empirical Findings.
March 22, 1995... This volume of 20 chapters contains a selection of outstanding papers that were presented at the 1991 SASE conference held in Stockholm, Sweden. The papers were selected on the basis of their relevance to the theme of institutional change and...