.... Social economics Seventeenth century Witchcraft England Beliefs Pendle The application of rational choice theory to the study of religion has yielded considerable insight in recent decades. At the level of individuals, rational choice models of religious participation have provided...

...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...

...@uct.ac.za © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Poverty Nigeria Social economics Urban areas Rural areas Multidimensional poverty Deprivation Capability approach Missing dimensions Nsukka The measurement, assessment and analysis of poverty are traditionally linked to a single...

...@kennesaw.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Murder Democracy Income distribution Political economics Crime Social economics In his background paper to the 2011 World Bank Development Report Fearon (2011) notes, as others have earlier, that income inequality is a determinant...

... 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...

... the exogenous pressure is. Thus, we give the Assumption 3. Feng Dai can be contacted at: fengdai@126.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 United States of America Social economics Economic processes Stochastic processes There are a lot of remarkable achievements in the theory...

... puzzling over “need” to be as contemporary as ever. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Resource management Classification Personal health Health services Social economics Multiple, confusing conceptions about health need are currently in use. “Need” is a word heard in other...

... is Langrange multiplier. We get: Equation 6   Equation 7 We get k+1 equations with k+1 unknowns [1] . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Public finance Capital budgeting Social economics Government policy Allocating a public budget between many public goods is concerned...

... 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...

... way is, in this regard, a middle way between social democracy and capitalism, just as social democracy was a middle ground between socialism and capitalism. Taner Akan can be contacted at: taner_akan@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Social economics Democracy Islam...

... mainstream economic model. In this regard, we are indeed struck by findings in the wider international social economy literature that the more successful and sustainable social economic enterprises have in fact proven to be those ones “based in or close to areas of economic prosperity” (read: “local...

... 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...

... sense, reinvigorating a Burkean, consensual interpretation of socio‐economics. The value of this paper is to offer a critique of Putnam's interpretation of social capital. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Social capital Social economics Economic theory Social capital has...

... of the for‐profit sector. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Social economics Social responsibility Organizations Economic theory Privatization Free trade According to the symbolic interaction theory, people act (at an individual, group or social level) based on symbolic meanings...

... theory Social economics Natural resources For though you and your Ancestors got your property by murder and theft, and you keep it by the same power from us, that have an equal right to the Land with you, by the righteous Law of Creation, yet we shall have no occasion of quarrelling (as you do...