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Remarks on what seems to be obvious

Ernest Raiklin (University of Northern Iowa, Ceder Falls, Iowa, USA)

International Journal of Social Economics

ISSN: 0306-8293

Article publication date: 1 January 1995

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Abstract

Questions the meanings of the economic concepts which are usually taken for granted by many economics textbooks. Discusses notions of “property” (including actual, legal, private and public property), “possession”, “market”, “capitalism”, “socialism”, “communism” and “planning”, all of which are customarily used in these textbooks as the given institutional framework within which each modern industrial economies operate.

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Raiklin, E. (1995), "Remarks on what seems to be obvious", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 41-55. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068299510075122

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MCB UP Ltd

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