The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from March 1999

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from March 1999

Rosenstein-Rodan: from marginal utility to a pioneer in economic development and possibly socio-economics.
March 1, 1999... "There is much of the past that is in the present, so also there is much of the present that will be in the future." John Kenneth Galbraith 1. Introduction In his "Toward a Counter - Counterrevolution in Development Theory," Paul...

Reactance to taxation: employers' attitudes towards taxes.
March 1, 1999... 1. Introduction 1.1. Determinants of tax behavior Citizens' contributions to public revenues are certainly a matter of frequent dispute. Achieving a just distribution of burdens and the reasonable investment and use of common resources...

Public goods: an ideal concept.
March 1, 1999... 1. Introduction In this paper I want, first, to present a number of problems encountered with the concept of public good. Economists point to many characteristics for public goods. Some authors take this as an argument that the concept of...

Two kinds of order: thoughts on the theory of the firm.
March 1, 1999... 1. Introduction The paper asks whether the firm is simply a more intense form of cooperation which is witnessed among buyers and sellers in the market. The firm and the market share many similarities. The order of the firm and the order of...

An estimate of teenage abortion demand.
March 1, 1999... 1. Introduction In 1990, forty percent of the one million pregnancies among U.S. teenagers (15-19 years of age) ended in abortion. An estimated 85% of teenage pregnancies are unintended (i.e., occur sooner than desired or are not desired...

A visibility analysis of the scientific production of Ukrainian economists: 1969-94.
March 1, 1999... 1. Introduction Recent trends in American journals indicate a keen interest for evaluating the contributions of active researchers by measuring their output in number of articles, and sometimes even of adjusted pages, or their impact on...

Understanding Gender and Organizations.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Mats Alvesson and Yvonne Due Billing. London: Sage. 1997. 248 pp. Including References and Index. Understanding Gender and Organizations is a comprehensive synthesis of "gender and organizations studies" and a much needed meta-analysis...

The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Juliet B. Schor, Basic Books, 1998, 253 pp., $25. If production and consumption are the two sides of the economic coin, Juliet Schor can now be said to have pursued contemporary American elements of each side with a book-length study....