International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 13 Issue 1/2

Corporate Management and Orthopraxis — Is Synergy Possible?

Joseph A. Grau

“Synergy” in the title of this article is used in the root generic sense of “work together”. I am not really looking for something greater than the parts to emerge from the…

The Ethics and Economics of Foreign Sales of US‐Made Military Weapons

William J. Weida, Franklin L. Gertcher

Foreign military sales agreements amounted to over 19.5 billion dollars in fiscal year 1982, while the US actually delivered $9 billion in weapons. The US and the Soviet Union are…

Nuclear Warfare: The Psychological Effects and Their Impact on Moral Reasoning

Robert Rizzo

Nuclear weapons confront us as the challenge of our times. To understand the special psychological and moral issues raised by nuclear arsenals and their use, we must first grasp…

The Dual Nature of the Nuclear Arms Quandary

George F. Rohrlich

As this article is being cast into final — or possibly just semi‐final form, there lies under my eyes The Brookings Review, Summer 1983, which displays on its front cover the…

Defence Policy: Objectives, Weapons and Ethics

Walt Schubert

This article is primarily concerned with nuclear armament and its relationship to the social economy. Nuclear armament is only a part, though clearly an important part, of the…

Crime Trends — East and West

Richard E. Peterson, K.K. Seo

London, Stockholm and Sydney 1840–1970 Ted Robert Gurr of Northeastern University studied the trend of common crime in England (London), Sweden (Stockholm) and Australia (Sydney…

Market Forces, Privatisation and Prisons: A Polar Case for Government Policy

Brian A. Roper

It has, until recently, been usual to argue that the small group of pure public goods is made up of defence and “law and order” and that these are inviolably the true province of…

Social Control of Pesticides — Some Health Effects

Emiel W. Owens

Proliferating pest problems, sharply rising pest control costs, increasing environmental pollution, rising rates of injury and death due to pesticide poisoning, and burgeoning…

Health Care Need, Economics and Social Justice

Sherman T. Folland

Need has persisted as a central concept in health policy debate. Despite confusion over its meaning and derivation it seems to summarise a belief by many policy makers that the…