International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 30 Issue 3

The socio‐economics of niche market creation: A social ecology paradigm for the adoption of organic cultivation in Greece

Efthalia Dimara, Anastasia Petrou, Dimitris Skuras

Farmers’ decision to adopt organic cultivation and create niche markets is their response to the changing notions of quality and the gradual abandonment of the productivist logic…

Institutions interact with economic actors: plea for a general institutional economics

Martin J. Held, Hans G. Nutzinger

In contrast to traditional welfare economics, new institutional economics has made a major contribution to analyzing institutions as both preconditions and elements of economic…

Legal responsiveness: a contribution to a structural theory of economic crime

Joan Hoffman

Economic crime is too varied an activity to be explained by a single theory. Valuable insights are gained from theories that focus on individual characteristics and on the…

Natural‐resource institutions and property rights in inland African fisheries: The case of the Lake Chad Basin region

C. Béné, A. Neiland, T. Jolley, B. Ladu, S. Ovie, O. Sule, M. Baba, E. Belal, K. Mindjimba, F. Tiotsop, L. Dara, A. Zakara, J. Quensiere

Although there exists a rich literature on fisheries traditional management systems in North and South America, Caribbean, Asia and Pacific islands, much less information is…

Quality of life of the elderly in Singapore's multi‐racial society

Grace K.M. Wong

With Singapore having the fifth fastest aging population in the world, the implications associated with such as a phenomenon have finally placed the elderly on the Singapore…