International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 30 Issue 7

The welfare interpretation of consumer equivalence scales

Bruce Bradbury

Conventional consumer equivalence scales measure the cost of children (and other household living arrangements) but not their benefits. Since many people choose to have children…

Of biblical interest, brotherhood and charity

Andrew Schein

Historically restrictions on interest rates are one of the most common examples of intervention in the market. It has recently been suggested that the biblical prohibition of…

Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in analyzing institutions: Original and new institutional economics reexamined

Milan Zafirovski

The rediscovery and analytical reconstitution are present tendencies in much of social science, especially economics and sociology. The emergence and expansion of the so‐called…

Macroeconomic determinants of outward foreign direct investment

Dimitrios Kyrkilis, Pantelis Pantelidis

The aim of this paper is to test the hypothesis that the outward foreign direct investment (FDI) position of countries may be considered as a function of country specific…

A family of estimators of population mean using multiauxiliary information in presence of measurement errors

Jack Allen, Housila P. Singh, Florentin Smarandache

This paper proposes a family of estimators of population mean using information on several auxiliary variables and analyzes its properties in the presence of measurement errors.