International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 30 Issue 8

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Social performance of free markets: issues, analysis and appraisal

Chenchuramaiah Bathala, Appa Rao Korukonda

The centralized, command models emphasized social welfare and equity, whereas in free market conditions, the market participants are primarily governed by the demand and supply…

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The rising number of uninsured Americans: how adequate is our health system?

Saundra H. Glover, Karl J. McCleary, Patrick A. Rivers, Raymond A. Waller

A primary reason for the increase in uninsured Americans is due to the rising costs of health care that has caused a decline of employment‐based coverage for individuals working…

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Measuring socioeconomic health inequalities: fiction or reality?

Joan Costa, Jaume Garcia

This paper empirically examines the inequalities related to social class and income using individual self‐reported health status data. Health inequalities are estimated by…

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Plans, commitments and practical norms of reason

Keiran Sharpe

This paper uses the “planning” or “narrative” approach to agency – which has recently been developed by philosophers Bratman, Gauthier, McClennen and Velleman – to do two things…

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Sustainable human resource strategy: The sustainable and unsustainable dilemmas of retrenchment

Sugumar Mariappanadar

Sustainable human resource (HR) strategies could help companies manage their human resources HRs to achieve “net optimality” of companies' objectives as well as a stable…

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Cover of International Journal of Social Economics

ISSN:

0306-8293

Online date, start – end:

1974

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Terence Garrett