International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 27 Issue 4

The command economy cometh

Donald C. Wellington

The paper is a philosophical discourse on capitalism and its intellectual rationalization, economic theory. Both blithely ignore the most fundamental character of the human…

Codifying the principles of a welfare state: An analysis of “MacArthur’s Constitution” for Japan

Franklin G. Mixon, James B. Wilkinson

The present study provides a comparison of the Confederate Constitution of 1861 and the Japanese Constitution of 1946, with emphasis on the role of constitutional constraints on…

Beef taboo in Chinese society

Cheng‐chung Lai

Beef taboo was generally obeyed among Chinese but it is no longer significant in today’s Taiwan where large amounts of beef are imported from Australia and United States. So is…

Saint Mary of the Contra, Our Lady of Oliver North: Catholicism and the Nicaraguan State

Andy Thorpe, Elizabeth Bennett

This paper traces the evolution of (Catholic) church‐state relations from Nicaraguan independence through to 1998, showing how a symbiotic relationship has emerged whereby one…

The Economics of Gender (2nd edition)

Prue Hyman

Durable Inequality

Mike O’Brien