... at: wilfredukpere@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Capitalist systems Economists Globalization Power Poverty Socialism In a world of 6.7 billion people, 80 percent live on less than $10 per day. About 5 percent of global income is generated by the poorest 40 percent...

...Thomas O. Nitsch In a seeming attempt to legitimate or otherwise dignify social economics (Économie sociale, etc.), “named” economists (Adam Smith, Karl Marx et al.) have been dubbed social economists and/or regarded as having made significant but unrecognised contributions thereto. Conspicuously...

... recommended by Keynes have helped the West escape severe social consequences in the aftermath of the Great Depression. Goes on to show how economists after Keynes carried his work forward and upward in the 1940s and 1950s. Closes by stating there is a further, third revolution in economic thinking on the rise...

... ending this discussion let me say some positive things about Brown′s Discourse. Vivienne   Brown . Adam Smith′s Discourse . London : Routledge   1994 . ix + 243 pp , ISBN: 0‐415‐08160‐2 , hbk © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Adam Smith Economics Economists The status...

...Richard A. Kleer Salim   Rashid . The Myth of Adam Smith . Elgar : Cheltenham   1998 . pp. xii 227 + , ISBN: 1‐85898‐532‐3 © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Adam Smith Economics Economists History With the possible exception of the fourth, most Smith scholars...

... . Keynes and the Quest for a Moral Science: A Study of Economics and Alchemy . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar   1997 . , ISBN: 1858983738 © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Economics Economists John Maynard Keynes Keynes and the Quest for a Moral Science will attract both intellectuals who...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Adam Smith Economics Economists Moral responsibility In light of the number of new and recent books on Adam Smith, one would have to say that interest in the Scottish political economist and philosopher has never been higher. (For the sake of full...

... aspect of the Reading. Michael   Shapiro . Reading “Adam Smith” . Newbury Park : Sage Publications   1993 . xxxvi + 140pp , ISBN: 0‐8039‐4584‐1 , hbk, ISBN: 0‐8039‐4585‐X , pbk © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Adam Smith Economists Shapiro’s Reading...

... . The Political Economy of Gunnar Myrdal: An Institutional Basis for the Transformation Problem . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar   1997 . 187pp © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Economic theory Economists Gunnar Myrdal Angresano’s book is something of a paean of praise to Gunnar Myrdal, who died...

...Edward J. O’Boyle This article explores what is meant by social economics in a set of ten specific commentaries or interpretations which appear to be widely accepted by social economists. In brief those commentaries are organized and presented in the following manner. Social economics is: heterodox...

...Thomas O. Nitsch The author in this essay surrounds John Paul II with professional economists from the past and the present, such as Taussig, Keynes, Richard and Peggy Musgrave, and Stiglitz, all of whom have very similar reservations concerning the social beneficence of the “free market...

... methodology. Discusses the suitability of Le Play’s ideas for the present time. In the nineteenth century we can already find antecedents of the social economists, such as Sismondi ‐ one of the first critics of the classical theory ‐ and the German historical economists (Soule, 1985). The first maintained...

... 1998 Capitalism Economists In recent years Adam Smith has come to be regarded as something of a prophet of commercial[ 1 ] society, or what has come to be called capitalism. In support of such a view, three claims can be made: that commercial society is inevitable; that it is permanent...

... Debt Economists Finance In 1979 the European Community decided on the introduction of a European Monetary System (EMS). This was an arrangement to establish stable exchange rates between the different currencies of the European countries. It preceded the Maastricht Treaty, and required...

... the life of an economist can be and the importance of international social contacts for academic development. Because of the extent of his travels, descriptions and analysis of most of his journeys are brief. Consequently, a longer story still remains untold. Many believe that the life of an economist...

... theory Economists It is mentioned in the Arthasastra that the farmers would be provided limited help by the King for medical treatment and maintaining good health (Shamasastry, 1915b, p. 58). It was thought that such favour of the King would ultimately raise the efficiency...

... of the major works of the most illustrious exponents of both factions. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Developing countries Economic systems Economic theory Economists Free trade Industry Smith’s second argument is rooted in incentives. He claims that: To give the monopoly of the home‐market...

...Tibor R. Machan Examines how the different concepts of rationality have been used(and confused) by economists who have followed modern philosophers′understanding of human reason. Offers a philosophical discussion as a means to understanding rationality and its incumbent problems of interpretation...

... freedom, and the acceptance of necessity is as much an ingredient of good life as the attainment of freedom. Furthermore,private goods and public goods are as complementary as they are competitive. Thus, compared with the main‐ stream neoclassical economist, the social economist has a more complete...

... of orthodox economists are accurate to the extent that the theoretical market is the dominant institution of society, but both Veblen and Minsky firmly reject the suggestion that the orthodox market model accurately represents the institutional milieu of American society. Minsky contends that orthodox...