... 09 2025 06 09 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social economics Seventeenth century Witchcraft England Beliefs Pendle The application of rational choice theory to the study of religion has yielded...

...Cong Doanh Duong; Dan Khanh Pham; Thi Viet Nga Ngo; Nhat Minh Tran; Van Thanh Dao Purpose This study aims to explore how the three dimensions of karma – karmic duty orientation, indifference to rewards and equanimity – influence empathy and moral obligation, with implications for social economics...

... of an expansion of the business school curriculum to incorporate behavioural economics. The paper will also contend that behavioural economics can be connected to social economics, as they are both heterodox in this study and analyse economic phenomenon outside of a neo-classical framework. The aim...

...Yavuz Yasar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an alternative, interdisciplinary teaching of health, health care and medical care based on three pillars: social economics, the social determinants of health (SDH) and ethics. Based on these three pillars, the global financial crisis...

... Kowalik’s view; criticism and postulates of social economics articulated by the quarterly magazine Nowy Obywatel (The New Citizen). The purpose of this paper is to construct a possibly cohesive picture of this type of criticism by indicating important similarities between the approaches...

...Luca Sandonà Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand why the neo‐Thomist natural law approach to social economics does not represent a trustworthy epistemological reference for the current social economists but, rather, definitively belongs to the past history of economics. Design...

..., available information or even the kind of decisions involved (Alkire, 2007, p. 91). John Ele‐Ojo Ataguba can be contacted at: John.Ataguba@uct.ac.za © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Poverty Nigeria Social economics Urban areas Rural areas Multidimensional poverty...

... by their disadvantaged positions in the socio‐economic structure (Hall and McLean, 2009, p. 315). Marcus Marktanner can be contacted at: mmarktan@kennesaw.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Murder Democracy Income distribution Political economics Crime Social economics In his...

... protection and society's welfare and therefore adopting green practices in their industry. Originality/value Most of such studies in the field of green marketing and social economics are done in developed countries and remain conspicuously missing in the context of fast developing Asian countries...

... for the USA are given. Feng Dai can be contacted at: fengdai@126.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 United States of America Social economics Economic processes Stochastic processes In order to establish the model of SARC to describe socio‐economic development process...

... at questions of the relation of economic inequality to social problems, citing recent studies. Findings The paper focuses on how well the world's economic systems address, or fail to address, human needs. Originality/value This paper is written by a philosopher and writer on social economics...

...: Equation 6   Equation 7 We get k+1 equations with k+1 unknowns [1] . Public finance Capital budgeting Social economics Government policy Allocating a public budget between many public goods is concerned with the efficiency aspects of any potential allocation. One method of doing...

... health Health services Social economics Multiple, confusing conceptions about health need are currently in use. “Need” is a word heard in other applications too, such as education, and services for vulnerable people (the aged, the unemployed, homeless, veterans, people with either congenital...

... this argument by means of specifically dealing with the welfare and labour policies in separate in‐depth research. Originality/value This paper is the first in its inquiry as stated above in the purpose and its comparative methodology to deal with this inquiry. Social economics Democracy Islam...

..., p. 195). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Social economics Farms Agriculture Conditions of employment Entrepreneurialism South Africa This paper constitutes part of an ongoing initiative by its authors to build a research agenda on the role of agencies and actors...

... presents a philosophical reconstruction of Caird's social economics that is based on a close reading of a very wide range of Caird's writings including his recently published lectures on social ethics and political economy. Findings Caird's theory of historical development underpinned his writings...

...Leslie Armour Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the “Radical economics” issue in International Journal of Social Economics. Design/methodology/approach “Radical economics” has two basic meanings. One employs the basic sense of “radical”, whatever goes to the roots...

... Social economics Economic theory Social capital has recently emerged as one of the most significant socio‐economic theories. Conceptual literature is vast and far ranging, and this exponential growth of interest in the social capital has provoked a vigorous debate on the legitimacy of the theory...

... responsibility as a competitive edge that needs to be changed into a universal standard. However, this has to happen in the way of evolution, rather than revolution. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Social economics Social responsibility Organizations Economic theory Privatization Free...

... of land adds to the Lockean thesis. So, even when taken altogether the three considerations fail to support the thesis. Darrel Moellendorf can be contacted at: dmoellen@mail.sdsu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Equal opportunities Economic theory Social economics Natural...