International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 30 Issue 1/2

Buddhist economics and the environment: Material flow analysis and the moderation of society's metabolism

Peter L. Daniels

The reduction of the “metabolism” of the human economy has become one of the central themes of recent environmental and economic research and policy focused upon paths for…

Knowledge, values and ideas: rethinking the notion of a social science

Leslie Armour

The fragmentation of knowledge poses serious threats to a survival when scientific and technological know‐how constantly outrun understanding of societies and individuals. A…

Future employment promises as rent seeking in representative government

M. Troy Gibson

Researchers of legislative behavior have attempted to explain the decisions of legislators for some time. Public choice scholars have argued that legislators will “sell” political…

Norms for evaluating economic globalization

Giuseppe Gaburro, Edward J. O'Boyle

This article examines experience with global financial integration to identify norms for evaluating economic globalization. There are two perspectives regarding globalization…

Transfers targeting the global environment – benefits for whom?

Uffe Nielsen

Taking departure in the premise that donor and recipient priorities differ with regard to the marginal costs and benefits associated with attacking global environmental…

Evaluating a credit guarantee agency in a developing economy: a non‐parametric approach

Hway‐Boon Ong, Muzafar Shah Habibullah, Alias Radam, M. Azali

Banks are important sources of external credit but they are reluctant to lend to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to the high credit risk involved. Therefore, Credit…

Sustainable economic development and the environment

Thamir M. Salih

To maximize society's welfare, economists should be concerned with the efficient use of the stock of natural resources. The stock of natural resources is a gift of nature. The…

Why are Kalecki's rentiers so boom tired?

Nick Potts

To many economists, not to mention all central bankers, inflation is considered to be public enemy number one. This paper seeks to understand why inflation should be so despised…

The right to a living in the international economy

Donald G. Richards

Since the arrival of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 a number of side agreements have also been negotiated that seek further rationalization of the emerging global…

Theories and controversies in finance: a paradigmatic overview

Kavous Ardalan

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the paradigmatic context and structure of the current theories and controversies in mainstream academic finance. It…