Journal of Economic Issues articles from June 2004

Journal of Economic Issues archives from June 2004

A Utilitarian Twist? Performance Measurement in the English National Health Service
June 1, 2004... The National Health Service (NHS) in England has been subject to ongoing structural change since the early 1990s. (1) Recently this has been accompanied by the increased recourse to performance management and evaluation systems, such as...

Health or Wealth Security? Public Policy Priorities in the New Millennium
June 1, 2004... In what would be one of the boldest proposals for reshaping the role of the federal government since the New Deal, President George W. Bush planned to unveil the administration's plan for an "ownership society" in his 2004 State of the Union...

Ceremonialism, Intellectual Property Rights, and Innovative Activity
June 1, 2004... One of the tenets of institutionalism is that innovation is of prime importance in driving social progress (Ayres [1944] 1978). To Clarence Ayres, innovation was the process of creating a "novel combination of existing devices and materials in...

Open Source Software, the Wrongs of Copyright, and the Rise of Technology
June 1, 2004... The popularity of computers, spread of the Internet, and changing attitudes of some technologically minded individuals are together challenging ceremonial business practices. This challenge comes in the form of open source software which,...

The Role of the Press in a Democracy: Heterodox Economics and the Propaganda Model
June 1, 2004... The central thesis of this paper is that there is need to reinstitute the public purpose requirement for broadcast licensing. On that path, this paper develops an instrumentalist concept of democracy and from there expands to evaluate the...

Network Consequences Due to Oligopolists and Oligopsonists in the Hog Industry, Pollution from Hog Production, and the Failure to Regulate Ecological Criteria
June 1, 2004... Humans have been in a symbiotic relationship with hogs since the time humans became a species. That relationship evolved into a set of transactional (as defined by instrumentalists) processes beginning with the hunter-gatherer tribes. The...

The Evolution of Environmental Legislation: A Strategic Transaction Approach
June 1, 2004... Environmental pollution is often a by-product of agricultural production. This by-product is different from other industrial pollution because (1) the cause and effect relationship between agricultural practice and environmental impact is...

Green Revolution Myth and Agricultural Reality?
June 1, 2004... A litany of mythical criticisms of the Green Revolution has so often been repeated and so widely disseminated that the critics' slogans have been accepted by many educated observers as unchallengeable fact. One of the slogans of critics of the...

Conflicting Views: Neoclassical, Porterian, and Evolutionary Approaches to the Analysis of the Environmental Regulation of Industrial Activity
June 1, 2004... The current European Union approach to environmental regulation aims to ensure that firms achieve continuous improvement in environmental performance and explicitly encourages firms to integrate environmental concerns into production technology....

The Human Mind, Institutions, and Economic Behavior
June 1, 2004... In this paper I explore the implications for institutional analysis of recent research on the role of the brain and the mind in human behavior in both neuroscience and neo-psychoanalytic theory. In particular, I cover findings of neuroscientist...