International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 28 Issue 9

The role of employee‐generated externalities in explaining relative earnings for health‐service workers

Michael White, Ciaran O’Neill

Asymmetric information between producer and consumer of health care gives rise to a principal‐agent relationship between these two parties. If the consumer of care can credibly…

A Veblenian‐inspired critique of the “quasi‐markets” concept

Robert McMaster

“Quasi‐markets” is the term predominantly employed as a means of conceptualising and describing the market‐oriented reforms primarily, but not exclusively, to the welfare state in…

Lean production and disability

A.H.G.M. Spithoven

Since the early 1980s, Dutch productivity rates have been driven by a shift from traditional mass production firms to lean production. It slightly counteracted the generally…

The social costs of media feeding frenzies

Daniel Sutter

Concern over the cost of excessive media coverage has increased in recent years. This paper offers an explanation of excessive coverage as an application of the tragedy of the…

Towards a theory of the entrepreneurial state

Tony Fu‐Lai Yu

This paper attempts to develop a model of the “entrepreneurial state” based on Schutz’s theory of human action. It aims to improve the understanding of the nature of state action…

Reform of State‐owned Enterprises in China: Autonomy, Incentive and Competition

Clem Tisdell