The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from March 1998

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from March 1998

Socio-economics and rational choice theory: specification of their relations.
March 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION The major question to be addressed in this paper is the following: Is socio-economics a distinctive social science discipline focusing on the societal setting of economic action and thus "a budding challenge" to the neoclassical...

Beyond transaction markets, toward relationship marketing in the human firm: a socio-economic model.
March 1, 1998... Users "are incredibly bonded to this product [Lotus Notes]," says James Moore, president of GeoPartners Research Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., management consulting firm. "It's a very robust community of allies, all tied together by this product with...

The expanding definition of framing and its particular impact on economic experimentation.
March 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION In both experimental economics and psychology, framing research has focused primarily on the reflection effect of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky's (1979) prospect theory. Recently, however, economic research on framing has...

Fairness and self-interest: an assessment.
March 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to present different notions of fairness that prevail in the economics literature, discuss their relationship to self-interest, and suggest their motivations. The tensions and complementarities between...

Consumer behavior and superstardom.
March 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION One of the most prevalent phenomena in modern society is that a relatively small number of people dominate the activities in which they are engaged and earn enormous amounts of income. This so-called superstar phenomenon is...

A model of human nature and personal development.
March 1, 1998... How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing...

Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy.
March 1, 1998... By Daniel M. Hausman and Michael S. McPherson. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1996. 249 pp. including appendix, glossary, references, and index. Reviewed by Diane L. Swanson, Kansas State University Hausman and McPherson have two aims...

Accounting for Tastes.
March 1, 1998... By Gary Becker. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, pp. 258 (hard-cover). Reviewed by: Elias L. Khalil Gary Becker's book is remarkable in one fundamental way. It answers the critics of the Homo economicus model without either...