International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 3 Issue 1

Some Notes on the Quantity Objective of the British Industrial Training Act

Nicholas Woodward

There were three principal objectives to the 1964 British Industrial Training Act. Firstly, it aimed to increase the quantity of training. Secondly, it aimed to improve the…

Urban Deprived Youth and Labour Force in Peru and Developing Countries

John P. Walter, William H. Leahy

One of the most significant lessons of the development effort in the last decade is the discovery that social progress and rising levels of employment do not automatically emerge…

Institutional versus On‐The‐Job Training: Some Canadian Evidence

Keith Newton

The heavy commitment by many countries to training programmes as an integral component of manpower policies has prompted a considerable amount of research into these activities…

Reciprocity Between Self‐Actualisation and Hard Work

David Macarov

Although scientific interest in work motivations dates back at least to Adam Smith who, in his Wealth of Nations, examined “The Causes of the Improvement in the Productive Powers…

The Current Inflation: Causation and Mechanics

D.G. Rhys, D. Barry

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that many of the attempts at explaining the generation of recent price increases reported in the contemporary literature are deficient in…

Socio‐Economic Organisations: I. International Institute for Empirical Social Economics (INIFES)

Editorial Note: It has been decided to commence a series of short but informative articles on the activities of non‐profit organisations pursuing social economic objectives…