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2009, Volume 43, Issue 2
- 353-360 Myrdal's Institutional Theory of the State: From Welfare to Predation - and Back?
by Sebastian Berger - 361-370 On the Income Gap Between Nations: Was Veblen the First Development Economist?
by James Cypher - 371-380 Toward an Evolutionary-Institutionalist Concept of State Capture: The Relevance of Kaleckian Analysis of Non-Equilibrium Dynamics
by Anna Klimina - 381-388 The Institutional Foundation of Development Ethics
by John Marangos & Nikos Astroulakis - 389-402 Financial Reform, Property Income Growth and the Potential Impacts on Inequality in China
by Yan Liang - 403-412 Health Care, the Price System and the Conflict Between Access to Care and Cost-Containment
by Stephen Paschall - 413-422 Corporate Profits and Personal Misery: Credit, Gender, and the Distribution of Income
by John Watkins - 423-432 Who are the Debt Poor?
by Steven Pressman & Robert Scott - 433-440 Going Concerns, Futurity and Reasonable Value
by Glen Atkinson - 441-448 Did Commons Have Few Followers? Continuing my Conversation with Yngve Ramstad
by Malcolm Rutherford - 449-456 An Institutional Economist Goes to City Hall: A Sociological Study of the Legislative Process
by Thomas Kemp - 457-466 Packaging Recycling Index (PRI)
by Rula Qalyoubi-Kemp - 467-476 Fact Based Economic Education
by Timothy Wunder & Thomas Kemp & Scott England - 477-486 Ayresian Technology, Schumpeterian Innovation, and the Bayh-Dole Act
by Christopher Brown - 487-494 Issues Concerning a Sustainable Regulatory Body for GMOs in Brazil
by Victor Pelaez & Letícia da Silva - 495-502 Bringing Down Territorial Inequalities in the Digital Economy: An Evolutionary Institutional Approach
by Olivier Brette & Bruno Moriset - 503-512 Role of Macroeconomic Policy in Reinforcing Gender Inequality - A Case Study of Poland in the European Union
by Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz - 513-522 Cultural Foundation of Distribution of Income: The Dutch Case
by Piet Keizer & Antoon Spithoven - 523-530 A Human Capital Approach to Inequalities: The Case of the East Asian Miracle and India
by Giuseppe Fontana & Abhinav Srivastava - 531-548 Editor's Feature
by Killian McCarthy & Wilfred Dolfsma - 549-566 Book Reviews
by The Editors
2009, Volume 43, Issue 1
- 1-28 The Evolution of Tax Morale in Modern Spain
by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez & Benno Torgler - 29-42 Labor Standards and WTO Rules: Survey of the Issues with Reference to Child Labor in South Asia
by Kishor Sharma - 43-68 An Institutional and Economic Complexity Approach to the Development of Agricultural Interest Groups in Australia
by John Marangos - 69-88 An Evolutionary Perspective on the Economics of Energy Consumption: The Crucial Role of Habits
by Kevin Maréchal - 89-114 Household Saving, Class Identity, and Conspicuous Consumption
by Jon Wisman - 115-142 The Role of Biology and Culture in Veblenian Consumption Dynamics
by Christian Cordes - 143-166 On the Institutional Foundations of Law: The Insufficiency of Custom and Private Ordering
by Geoffrey Hodgson - 167-188 Weber and Veblen on the Rationalization Process
by Cyril Hedoin - 189-214 Elements of a Neo-Veblenian Theory of the Individual
by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath - 215-238 Misinterpreting the Coase Theorem
by Robin Hahnel & Kristen Sheeran - 239-258 Varieties of Firm: Complementarity and Bounded Diversity
by Geoffrey Wood & Richard Croucher & Chris Brewster & David Collings & Michael Brookes - 259-265 Notes and Communications:
by Vincent Barnett - 266-276 Mainstream Amnesia:
by Timothy Wunder - 277-290 Book Reviews
by The Editors - 291-292 Instructions for Authors
by The Editors
December 2008, Volume 42, Issue 4
- 885-912 Beware Those Offering “Gold Standards”: Evidence-Based Medicine and the Potential for Institutional Change in Clinical-Medical Provision
by Robert McMaster - 913-938 Universal Health Care and the Economics of Responsibility
by Dell P. Champlin & Janet T. Knoedler - 939-958 The Invisible Hands behind the Student Evaluation of Teaching: The Rise of the New Managerial Elite in the Governance of Higher Education
by Calin Valsan & Robert Sproule - 959-979 The Feminist Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society: An Investigation of Gender Inequality and Economic Growth
by Elissa Braunstein - 981-1004 Women as Wives, Mothers or Workers: How Welfare Eligibility Requirements Influence Women’s Labor Force Participation – A Case Study of Spain –
by Tonia L. Warnecke - 1005-1030 Innovation and Economic Activity: An Institutional Analysis of the Role of Clusters in Industrializing Economies
by Saeed Parto - 1031-1054 Structure, Agency and the Role of Values in Processes of Institutional Change
by Wilfred Dolfsma & Rudi Verburg - 1055-1081 The Borrower of Last Resort: International Adjustment and Liquidity in a Historical Perspective
by Ramaa Vasudevan - 1083-1099 Currency Crises in Transition Economies: Some Further Evidence
by Panagiotis Liargovas & Dimitrios Dapontas - 1101-1122 Endogenous Institutions and the Politics of Property: Comparing and Contrasting Douglass North and Karl Polanyi in the Case of Finance
by Ann Davis - 1123-1144 Trade Agreements and Labor Problems: The Current Bearing of a Commons Proposal
by J. Dennis Chasse - 1145-1158 Do You Prefer Having More or More than Others? Survey Evidence on Positional Concerns in France
by Gilles Grolleau & Sandra Saïd - 1159-1163 Globalization and Capitalism
by Richard Westra - 1163-1165 Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance
by Ikee Gardner - 1165-1167 Escape from Empire: The Developing World’s Journey through Heaven and Hell
by James Webb - 1167-1169 Reintroducing Macroeconomics: A Critical Approach
by Tsung-wu Ho - 1169-1170 What Do We Know About Globalization?: Issues of Poverty and Income Distribution
by Mark Curtis - 1171-1173 Real World Economics: A Post-Autistic Economics Reader
by Mayo C. Toruño - 1173-1174 Institutions and Norms in Economic Development
by Ferudun Yilmaz - 1175-1176 Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics
by David Dequech - 1177-1179 The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace
by Charles M. A. Clark - 1179-1180 The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment
by Clifford S. Russell - 1180-1182 The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
by Michael G. Ellis - 1183-1184 The Feminist Economics of Trade
by Ramya M. Vijaya - 1184-1188 Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson - 1189-1195 Index Volume XUI – 2008
by The Editors
September 2008, Volume 42, Issue 3
- 583-606 Do Economists Need to Rethink their Approaches to Modeling Intimate Partner Violence?
by Linda DeRiviere - 607-632 From Boom to Bust: Did the Financial Fragility of Homeowners Increase in an Era of Greater Financial Deregulation?
by Christian E. Weller & Kate Sabatini - 633-647 The Chilean Pension System at 25 Years: The Evolution of a Revolution
by Gregory J. Buchholz & Alberto Coustasse & Patricio Silva & Peter Hilsenrath - 649-672 Surfing the Baby Boom Wave in the Netherlands
by Antoon Spithoven - 673-693 An Introduction to the Economics of Fake Degrees
by Gilles Grolleau & Tarik Lakhal & Naoufel Mzoughi - 695-707 Voluntary Ceding of Control: Why Do People Join?
by William H. Redmond - 709-726 The Economic Behavior of Human Beings: The Institutional/Post-Keynesian Model
by Eduardo Fernández-Huerga - 727-743 How Do Rulers Choose? Dual Domains of Discretion in Political Decision Making
by Christopher J. Coyne & Peter T. Leeson - 745-761 The Economics of Nonprofit Organization: In Search of an Integrative Theory
by Vladislav Valentinov - 763-785 Trade Openness and Growth: Is There Any Link?
by Prabirjit Sarkar - 787-802 Positive Effects of a Decentralized Fiscal Expansion in the European Monetary Union
by Rosaria Rita Canale - 803-821 More Government or Less Government? Further Thoughts for Promoting the Government
by Brian Chi-ang Lin - 823-851 John R. Commons, the New Deal and the American Tradition of Empirical Collectivism
by Rick Tilman - 853-862 Galbraith’s Preference Mappings: Needs and Wants Evidence from the 2005 Consumer Budget Study
by Craig Medlen - 863-864 Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption
by Paul Ramskogler - 864-866 The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics
by C. Meghan Starbuck - 866-867 Europäischer Institutionalismus: Die Kernkonzepte Open System Approach (OSA) und Circular Cumulative Causation (CCC) und ihre Bedeutung für die moderne evolutorischinstitutionelle ökonomik (European Institutionalism: The Conceptualization of the Open System Approach and Circular Cumulative Causation and their Meanings in Modern Evolutionary-Institutional Economics)
by Helge Peukert - 867-869 The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters
by John F. Henry - 869-870 Behavioral Economics and Its Applications
by Wayne Edwards - 870-872 Delivering on Doha – Farm Trade and the Poor
by Tsung-wu Ho - 872-874 The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
by L. Randall Wray - 874-876 The Future of the Welfare State: European and Global Perspectives
by Mayo C. Toruño - 876-878 The Structure of Post Keynesian Economics: The Core Contributions of the Pioneers
by Felipe Carvalho de Rezende - 878-880 Empirical Post Keynesian Economics: Looking at the Real World
by John T. Harvey - 880-882 The Economic Geography of Innovation
by Pedro Marques - 882-884 Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development
by Winston H. Griffith
June 2008, Volume 42, Issue 2
- 287-287 The 2008 Veblen-Commons Award Recipient: Rick Tilman
by The Editors - 289-302 Institutional Economics as Social Criticism and Political Philosophy
by Rick Tilman - 303-316 Purpose and Measurement of National Income and Product
by Glen Atkinson - 317-325 Deducing Principles of Economics from Ontological Constraints on Information
by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath - 327-347 Elites and Structural Inertia in Latin America: An Introductory Note on the Political Economy of Development
by Mario Cimoli & Sebastián Rovira - 349-355 Continuity and Continuousness: The Chain of Ideas Linking Peirce’s Synechism to Veblen’s Cumulative Causation
by John Hall & Oliver Whybrow - 357-365 Circular Cumulative Causation (CCC) à la Myrdal and Kapp — Political Institutionalism for Minimizing Social Costs
by Sebastian Berger - 367-373 Nicholas Kaldor and Cumulative Causation: Public Policy Implications
by Steven Pressman & Richard P. F. Holt - 375-387 Principle of Circular and Cumulative Causation: Fusing Myrdalian and Kaldorian Growth and Development Dynamics
by Phillip Anthony O’Hara - 389-397 Circular and Cumulative Causation and the Social Fabric Matrix
by F. Gregory Hayden - 399-405 How Veblen Generalized Darwinism
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson - 407-413 Eat Grubs and Live: The Habit-Instinct Problem in Institutional Evolutionary Economics
by Clifford S. Poirot - 415-423 Darwinian Foundations for Evolutionary Economics
by J. W. Stoelhorst - 425-433 Globalization and the Nation-State: Dead or Alive
by Richard L. Brinkman & June E. Brinkman - 435-443 “Did Yunus Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize: Microfinance or Macrofarce?”
by John Adams & Frank Raymond - 445-452 Institutional and Ecological Economics: The Role of Technology and Institutions in Economic Development
by Daphne T. Greenwood & Richard P. F. Holt - 453-460 Unemployment Insurance Reform: Elements of a Social Provisioning Approach
by Janice Peterson - 461-468 John R. Commons’ Contributions to Health Care Reform in the 21st Century
by Stephen P. Paschall - 469-477 A Critical Assessment of Electricity and Natural Gas Deregulation
by Harry M. Trebing - 479-487 Economic Regulation - The Lights Are Still On: A View from the Inside
by Burl Haar - 489-498 Institutional Challenges in the Development of the World’s First Worker-Owned Free Trade Zone
by Paul Susman & Geoffrey Schneider - 499-508 The Role of Risk as an FDI Barrier to Entry during Transition: The Case of Bulgaria
by Aristidis Bitzenis & John Marangos - 509-516 Arguing for Policy Space to Promote Development: Prebisch, Myrdal, and Singer
by P. Sai-wing Ho - 517-526 “Silent Trade” and the Supposed Continuum between OIE and NIE
by Wilfred Dolfsma & Antoon Spithoven - 527-535 Logics of Justification and Logics of Action
by David Dequech - 537-544 Confronting Foster’s Wildest Claim: “Only the Instrumental Theory of Value Can Be Applied!”
by Baldwin Ranson - 545-552 Veblenian Concept of Habit and Its Relevance to the Analysis of Captured Transition
by Anna Klimina - 553-559 Organizational Learning: A Process between Equilibrium and Evolution
by David Cayla - 561-568 Galbraith’s Heterodox Teacher: Leo Rogin’s Historical Approach to the Meaning and Validity of Economic Theory
by Robert W. Dimand & Robert H. Koehn - 569-576 Formal Institutions in Historical Perspective
by William H. Redmond - 577-582 Veblen on Interpreting Veblen
by Matthew C. Wilson
March 2008, Volume 42, Issue 1
- 1-2 Introduction
by J. Ronald Stanfield & Richard V. Adkisson - 3-4 “Ken”
by Richard Parker - 5-11 Galbraith and Robinson’s Second Crisis of Economic Theory
by Mary Wrenn & James Ronald Stanfield & Michael Carroll - 13-24 John Kenneth Galbraith: Cultural Theorist of Consumption and Power
by William Waller - 25-35 Galbraith and the Problem of Uneven Development
by Jim Peach - 37-49 Economic Consequences of Armaments Production: Institutional Perspectives of J.K. Galbraith and T.B. Veblen
by James M. Cypher - 51-73 Socially Responsible Investment and Pro-Social Change
by Martha A. Starr - 75-96 Determinants of Housing Loan Patterns Toward Minority Borrowers in Mississippi
by Fidel Ezeala-Harrison & Glenda B. Glover - 97-114 What Accounts for Intra-Industry Wage Differentials? Results from a Survey of Establishments
by David Fairris & Erik Jonasson - 115-132 Rationality as a Social Construction: What Does Individual Behavior Have to Say about Development in an Amazon Community?
by Andrés Marroquín Gramajo - 133-151 American Prosperity and the “Race to the Bottom:” Why Won’t the Media Ask the Right Questions?
by Dell P. Champlin & Janet T. Knoedler - 153-173 Demand Constraints and Big Government
by Wray L. Randall - 175-194 Uncertainty and Exploitation in History
by Engelbert Stockhammer & Paul Ramskogler - 195-208 Institutionalism and New Trade Theory: Rethinking Comparative Advantage and Trade Policy
by Thomas I. Palley - 209-224 The Ideology of the Laissez Faire Program
by John F. Henry - 225-242 John R. Commons and John Maynard Keynes on Economic History and Policy: The 1920s and Today
by Charles J. Whalen - 243-247 The Free Lunch: Arbitrage Profits Associated with Credit Cards
by Austin H. Spencer - 249-253 A Minsky Moment: Reflections on Hyman P. Minsky (1919-1996)
by Charles J. Whalen - 255-268 Why Is This Cycle Different from All Other Cycles?
by Howard J. Sherman & Paul D. Sherman - 269-270 The Economics of Consumer Credit
by Robert H. Scott - 270-272 The Innocents at Cedro: A Memoir of Thorstein Veblen and Some Others
by Jairo J. Parada - 272-273 Adam’s Fattacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
by Janice Peterson - 274-274 Globalization and the Politics of Pay: Policy Choices in the American States
by Michael V. Idoni - 275-276 Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do about It
by Erik N. Dean - 276-277 Economics Confronts the Economy
by Frederic S. Lee - 278-279 Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
by Janet T. Knoedler - 279-281 The Economics of Non-Selfish Behavior: Decisions to Contribute Money to Public Goods
by Ronnie J. Phillips - 281-282 Governing Fortune: Casino Gambling in America
by William A. Taggart - 283-283 Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice
by Wayne Edwards - 284-285 Institutions and the Environment
by Jack Reardon
December 2007, Volume 41, Issue 4
- 903-925 Gender Norms as Asymmetric Institutions: A Case Study of Yoruba Women in Nigeria
by Irene van Staveren & Olasunbo Ode bode - 927-942 Intestate Succession and Heir Property: Implications for Future Research on the Persistence of Poverty in Central Appalachia
by B. James Deaton - 943-960 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005: How the Credit Card Industry’s Perseverance Paid Off
by Robert H. Scott - 961-980 The Importance of Legislated Employment Mark Harcourt, Protection for Worker Commitment in Geoffrey Wood Coordinated Market Economies
by Mark Harcourt & Geoffrey Wood & Ian Roper
September 2007, Volume 41, Issue 3
- 625-660 The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment, Financial Crises and Organizational Culture on Managers’ Views as to the Finance-Growth Nexus
by David Tennant & Claremont Kirton - 661-680 Effective Central Bank Communication under Uncertainty
by Kevin X.D. Huang - 681-699 The Impact of Workers’ Compensation Experience-Rating on Discriminatory Hiring Practices
by Mark Harcourt & Helen Lam & Sondra Harcourt - 701-714 Competition, Selection and Rock and Roll: The Economics of Payola and Authenticity
by Joeri M. Mol & Nachoem M. Wijnberg - 715-728 U.S. Decline in the Context of Formal Education and Learning
by Paul R. Auerbach - 729-746 Charter Schools in Arizona: Does Being a For-Profit Institution Make a Difference?
by Kerry A. King - 747-764 The Role of “Instincts” in the Development of Corporate Cultures
by Christian Cordes - 765-781 Policymaking and Learning Actors, or Is A ‘Double Movement’ In Cognition Possible?
by Paolo Ramazzotti - 783-808 Karl Polanyi and Return of the “Primitive” in Institutional Economics
by Eyüp Özveren - 809-825 Professor Lester and the Neoclassicals: The ‘Marginalist Controversy’ and the Postwar Academic Debate Over Minimum Wage Legislation: 1945-1950
by Robert E. Prasch - 827-839 Toward an Evolutionary Economics: The ‘Theory of the Individual’ in Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter
by Timothy A. Wunder - 841-862 Veblen and the Problem of Rationality
by Ferudun Yilmaz - 863-872 Do Conservative Governments Make a Difference in Fiscal Policy? Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K
by Panagiotis Liargovas & George Manolas - 873-875 The Economics of Microfinance
by Julie H. Gallaway - 875-877 Institutional Reforms: The Case of Colombia
by Christopher Michael Hannum - 877-879 Credit Markets for the Poor
by Robert H. Scott - 879-881 Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions
by Kurt Stephenson - 881-883 Alan Greenspan: The Oracle Behind the Curtain
by David A. Zalewski - 883-885 Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
by William M. Dugger - 886-887 A People’s History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and “Low Mechanicks,”
by William M. Dugger - 888-889 The Evolution of Creditary Structures and Controls
by Dirk J. Bezemer - 890-892 Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial
by Warren J. Samuels - 892-894 Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Utility: Happiness in Philosophical and Economic Thought
by Helge Peukert - 894-895 Poverty, Work, and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order
by Dell Champlin - 896-898 Vienna & Chicago: Friends or Foes? A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics
by Russell Pittman - 898-899 Marxian Reproduction Schema: Money and Aggregate Demand in a Capitalist Economy
by Christopher J. Niggle - 900-901 The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank and Their Borrowers
by Cecilia Ann Winters
June 2007, Volume 41, Issue 2
- 311-311 The 2007 Veblen-Commons Award Recipient: Richard R. Nelson
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson - 313-323 Institutions and Economic Growth: Sharpening the Research Agenda
by Richard R. Nelson - 324-340 The Revival of Veblenian Institutional Economics
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson - 341-350 Evolutionary Institutional Economics
by Jason Potts - 351-358 The Evolutionary Policy Maker
by John Croenewegen & Marianne van der Steen - 359-367 Using the Social Fabric Matrix to Analyze Institutional Rules Relative to Adequacy in Education Funding
by Jerry L. Hoffman & F. Gregory Hayden - 369-374 Institutionalist Perspectives on Immigration Policy
by Jim Peach - 375-382 The Employment Relationship and the Social Costs of Labor
by Janice Peterson - 383-390 Tied to the Past – Bound to the Future: Ceremonial Encapsulation in a Maine Woods Land Use Policy
by Stephanie A. Welcomer & Mark E. Haggerty - 391-398 The French Competitiveness Clusters: Toward a New Public Policy for Innovation and Research?
by Olivier Brette & Yves Chappoz - 399-408 China’s Technological Emergence and the Loss of Skilled Jobs in the United States: Missing Link Found?
by Yan Liang - 409-416 Reciprocal Transactions, Social Capital, and the Transformation of Bedouin Agriculture
by Rula Qalyoubi-Kemp & Thomas Kemp - 417-426 Sweden’s Economic Recovery and the Theory of Comparative Institutional Advantage
by Geoffrey E. Schneider - 427-434 Globalization and the Integration-Assisted Transition in Central and Eastern European Economies
by Aristidis Bitzenis & John Marangos - 435-442 Institutional Change in Post-Socialist Regimes: Public Policy and Beyond
by Christos Kalantaridis - 443-450 The Hospital Industry: The Consequences of the Reforms in Eastern Germany
by Irina Peaucelle - 451-458 Impact of Ideology on Institutional Solutions Addressing Women’s Role in the Labor Market in Poland
by Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz - 459-468 The Global Spread of AIDS and HIV
by Phillip Anthony O’Hara