The Journal of Socio-Economics articles from May 1999

The Journal of Socio-Economics archives from May 1999

Exit, voice and loyalty in the course of corporate governance and counsel's changing role.
May 1, 1999... Peter C. Kostant [*] Abstract Striking changes in the norms and practices of corporate governance have occurred since the 1980s. Corporate directors have become more independent and diligent and institutional investors have become more...

Comments on Peter C. Kostant's "Exit, voice, and loyalty in the course of corporate governance and counsel's changing role".(in this issue, p. 203)
May 1, 1999... Harvey Rishikof[*] Roger Williams University School of Law, 10 Metacom Ave., Bristol RI 02809-5171, USA Peter C. Kostant should be commended for his article that brings the insights of social science and economic theory to the world of...

Response to Peter C. Kostant's "Exit, voice and loyalty in the course of corporate governance and counsel's changing role".(in this issue, p. 203)
May 1, 1999... Lynn A. Stout [*] Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20001, USA Received February 11, 1999; received in revised form October 5, 1999 Peter Kostant's Exit, Voice and Loyalty in the Course...

A brief comment on legal and economic theories of corporate governance: a reply to Kostant's "Exit, voice and loyalty in the course of corporate governance and counsel's changing role".(in this issue, p. 203)
May 1, 1999... Mary A. Burke [*] Department of Economics, 274 Bellamy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2180 USA In this original and provocative article, Kostant dares to challenge the conventional wisdom on corporate governance....

Comment on Kostant: Tune in to hear stories of corporate governance, the adventures of the go-between and more exciting tales of corporate law.(in this issue, p. 203)
May 1, 1999... Mae Kuykendall [*] Michigan State University-Detroit College of Law, 453 Law College Bldg., East Lansing, MI 48824-1300 USA Peter Kostant's creative linking of Albert O. Hirschman's writing about exit and voice to the path-breaking...

Divided self models of the socioeconomic person: the metaeconomics approach.
May 1, 1999... Department of Agricultural Economics, 103B Filley Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0922, USA Received 8 October 1998; received in revised form 1 April 1999; accepted 1 April 1999 Abstract Microeconomics envisions a...

Estimating earnings in an information-poor market: the case of crack cocaine.
May 1, 1999... Li Way Lee [*] Department of Economics, FAB 2131, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 USA Abstract From a procedure that uses information on price and transaction behavior at the retail level, the paper estimates that the...

Inside the firm: Socioeconomic versus agency perspectives on firm competitiveness.
May 1, 1999... Peter Wright [a,*] Ananda Mukherji [b] [a] Department of Management, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, The University of Memphis, 475 River Ridge Cove, Memphis, TN 38152 USA [b] Department of Management, College of...

A socio-economic approach to market transactions.
May 1, 1999... Milan Zafirovski [*] Behavioral sciences, Athens State University, 300 North Beaty Street, Athens, AL 35611, USA Received October 1998; received in revised form November 1998; accepted December 1998 Abstract The task of this...

Participation in the next generation of agriculture conservation programs: the role of environmental attitudes.
May 1, 1999... E. Jane Luzar [*] Assistant dean and former Graduate Research Assistant, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-0270 Abstract This research provides a behavioral analysis of...

Gender inequality in wage earnings and female self-employment selection.
May 1, 1999... Department of Marketing, College of Business Administration, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606-3390 USA Abstract Female self-employment has risen strongly over the last few decades and has become an important labor market...

Correction for "The Decision to Cover a Procedure at HMOs: Who Makes the Call?".
May 1, 1999... Kevin D. Frick [*] Assistant Professor, John Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Rm 606, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore MD 21205-1901, USA In "The Decision to Cover a Procedure at HMOs: Who Makes the Call?" Frick and...

Theories of Distributive Justice; John E. Roemer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996 (323 pages).(Review)
May 1, 1999... The level of inequality in the United States, and in the world, has increased manifold in recent years; graphically expressed by the statistic that the combined income of 23 billionaire's equals that of 2.3 billion people. Economic theories of...

To Joy My Freedom Tera Hunter. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1997 (311 pages).(Review)
May 1, 1999... Tera Hunter compels us to reconsider the received wisdom regarding the extent to which black workers, particularly women, struggled to redefine their employment conditions. Her book rightly asks that these questions be placed back on the...

Human Agency and Material Welfare: Revisions in Microeconomics and Their Implications for Public Policy By Morris Altman. Boston, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1996 (128 pages plus index).(Review)
May 1, 1999... This book represents an excellent example of socioeconomic analysis and presents a very important public policy message. The book takes common microeconomic models, changes one behavioral assumption, and then deduces conclusions that challenge...

Contemporary Capitalism. The Embeddedness of Institutions J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer, eds. New York, Cambridge University Press; 1997 (493 pages).
May 1, 1999... This weighty volume amounts to a status report on what we know about the forms of economic coordination. As a bonus the editors give us informed speculation about the possible future forms of economic organization. The four main topics are: ...