International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 31 Issue 4

Gender, human capabilities and culture within the household economy: Different paths to socio‐economic well‐being?

Morris Altman, Louise Lamontagne

An 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. Salih

The 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 Amini

Economic 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. Wellington

The 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 Armour

The 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‐Adjaye

Examines 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. Thangavelu

The 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…

The Political Economy of the Environment

David I. Stern

Microeconomic Change in Central and East Europe: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995

Herman W. Hoen