...Feng Dai; Jianping Qi; Ling Liang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal some basic characteristics in social and economic process, and lay the analytic foundation for advance‐retreat course (ARC). Design/methodology/approach The paper presents the analytic model of stochastic ARC...

... of the law of value. Tom Jeannot can be contacted at: jeannot@calvin.gonzaga.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 “This too,” Kliman (2007, p. 79) continues, “can be explained very simply” as follows: Marxist economics Literature Economic processes Philosophical concepts...

... of the economic processes as a paradigm à la Kuhn of explanation in social economics. Design/methodology/approach This work provides a critical assessment of the entropic model's main conceptual pillars, namely the role of mathematical formalism and the natural imagery of irreversibility...

... Economic processes Social welfare Ethics An exchange‐based society is distinguished from other kinds of societies by the wide dispersion of its day‐to‐day decisions among its members and components. This dispersion of its societal decider sub‐system is accomplished through economic exchange...

..., 78 replied, a response rate of about 74 percent. Functionalists are individualists. That is, the properties of the aggregate are determined by the properties of its units. Finance Economic processes Business studies Doctorates Professional associations Globalization This paper...