International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 7 Issue 3

The Structure of Labour Markets, Minority Workers and Equal Employment Opportunity Legislation

H.C. Jain, P.J. Sloane

A central issue of public policy in relation to employment behaviour, particularly in the United States and Britain since the 1960s, has been the question of how to deal with…

The Sources of Economic Power

B. Burkitt

Economics can be defined as the study of economies, i.e., the ways in which people earn a living. On this definition economic activities occupy a large proportion of most…

Early Education, Ability and Earning Capacity

G. Psacharopoulos, P. Wiles

This paper draws attention to an extremely commonplace fact: we are educated because we are considered educable. One lesson leads to another: if you stay on in school tomorrow you…

Values and Modes of Rationality in Economic Science

J.D. Wisman

Virtually since its birth 200 years ago, modern economic thinking has been plagued by the question of what role to assign to values in economic theory and research. The dominant…

A Note on Some Socio‐Economic Perspectives on the Quality of Working Life

David Macarov

In arguing that the traditional mechanistic approach of economists to the production process, with its accompanying assumption of a maximising calculus, should make more room for…

Socio‐Economic Organisations: IV. New Economic Society (International School of Economic Synthesis)

The School of Economic Synthesis is not only a modern theoretical approach to economics, but it is also an active academic and social movement which aims at fostering a better…