The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from May 1998

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from May 1998

The Chilean economic miracle revisited.
May 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION This article provides a fresh look at the famed "Chilean Economic Miracle." The term is usually applied to the changes in economic structure and performance that took place in Chile between 1973 and 1995. Proponents of neo-liberal...

Beyond the machine model of the firm, toward a holistic human model.
May 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION If businesses are essentially machines, vehicles for transforming inputs into outputs, as economic theory suggests, it is hard to understand why a few companies achieve greatness, others fail miserably, and still others are...

Should ownership last forever?
May 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION In his seminal paper, "The Nature of the Firm," Coase (1937) stated: "A firm is likely therefore to emerge in those cases where a very short-term contract would be unsatisfactory." While Coase discussed the problems of uncertainty...

Race and relative income/price of time effects on U.S. fertility.
May 1, 1998... This paper builds on the work of (Macunovich, 1996a), which developed and tested an aggregate time series model combining the Chicago/Columbia "price of time" (Becker, 1960; Mincer 1963) and the Philadelphia "relative income" (Easterlin, 1966;...

"Who you know" earnings effects of formal and informal social network resources under late state socialism in Hungary, 1986-87.
May 1, 1998... Access to resources through "who you know" is a common-sense defining principle of social life. Many studies have demonstrated the effects of social network resources on such diverse outcomes as status attainment or social movement organizing in...

Willingness to pay or intention to pay: the attitude-behavior relationship in contingent valuation.
May 1, 1998... Increased awareness of factors influencing environmental quality suggests that it is now appropriate to assume that salient, measurable environmental attitudes exist and influence behavior (Ladd & Bowman, 1996; Arcury, et al., 1987)....

Binary economic modes for the privatization of public assets.
May 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION This article describes a practical approach to privatization, which incorporates the principles of binary economics. In the privatization of public assets binary economics argues that (1) it matters who owns the privatized...

Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised.
May 1, 1998... By Harvey Mitchell. Cambridge University Press; 1996. 290 pp. $54.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by Pamela A. Mason, John Carroll University Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) seems to be everywhere these days. Francis Fukuyama (1995) invokes his...

Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation.
May 1, 1998... By William C. Frederick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xviii, 313 pp., index (paperback). Reviewed by James Ronald Stanfield, Colorado State University Frederick's examination of conflicting value premises departs from the...