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Gender, human capabilities and culture within the household economy: Different paths to socio‐economic well‐being?
Morris Altman, Louise LamontagneAn important hypothesis put forth by Amartya Sen is that a given level of per capita real income in a population can generate quite different levels of socio‐economic well‐being…
Will the Euro be passé or handmaiden to global growth and development?
Thamir M. SalihThe capacity to generate and how to avoid the dismantling of wealth is the premise upon which the European Union (EU) has been established. The road to EU as a nation will not be…
The distributional role of small business in development
Amin AminiEconomic growth, without distributional measures and policies, engenders inequality and concentration. National income may be distributed either through the establishment of a…
Economic theory as a human tool
Donald C. WellingtonThe essay is a short analysis of the place of economic theory in the general social order. There is nothing strange and peculiar about its place. It rather fits in perfectly and…
The influence of ideas and the problem of a social science
Leslie ArmourThe influence of ideas is a central but puzzling problem in the social sciences. Parsons insisted that ideas play a central role in social continuity as well as in social change…
International trade and sustainable development in Sub‐Saharan Africa
John Asafu‐AdjayeExamines the role of trade in promoting sustainable economic development in Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries. Opponents of trade liberalization argue that it results in…
Towards unitary economics: Valuation of environmental capital for environmental stewardship
Dodo J. Thampapillai, Shandre M. ThangaveluThe paper presents a simple method of valuation that can sit beside ideology of a unitary economics, which seeks a synergy between materialistic and non‐materialistic aspects of…
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