International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 36 Issue 5

Globalization and culture: four paradigmatic views

Kavous Ardalan

The purpose of this paper is to show how different philosophical schools of thought view the relation between globalization and culture differently.

A model of dynamic balance among the three spheres of society – markets, governments, and communities: Applied to understanding the relative importance of social capital and social goods

Rick Wicks

This paper revisits old questions of the proper subject and bounds of economics: does economics study “provisioning”? or markets? or a method of reasoning, self‐interested…

Early retirement for mothers in Greece

Ioannis A. Kaskarelis, Kyriaki Tsilika

Greek social security system has a provision, under which women who have children are entitled to exit the labour force and claim pension benefits after completing 20 years of…

Union duopoly with heterogeneous labor: the effect of minimum wage regulation

Ana Paula Martins

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the labor market outcome when there are two unions in the industry, representing heterogeneous workers – substitutes or complements in…

Repayment behaviour in credit and savings cooperative societies: Empirical and theoretical evidence from rural Rwanda

Malimba Musafiri Papias, P. Ganesan

Like other developing countries, Rwandan rural credit market is repressed, shallow, segmented, inefficient and dual structured where both formal and informal financial systems…

Social economy and social responsibility: alternatives to global anarchy of neoliberalism?

Urša Golob, Klement Podnar, Marko Lah

This paper aims to point out a way to overcome the circumstances that arose out of the global neoliberal system. It is argued that this is possible when all relevant actors in…