International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 31 Issue 11/12

Interest groups and government growth in Spain during Franco's dictatorship (1939‐1975)

Jesus M. Zaratiegui

This paper presents and discusses the rent‐seeking process that occurred during Franco's regime in Spain (1939‐1975). Once the Civil War (1936‐1939) was over, those who won the…

Socioeconomic analysis of the determinants of TANF recipients in the USA and policy implications

Yu Hsing

The dramatic decline in the number of welfare recipients in the USA is examined. The unique features of this article include the use of time series data, the consideration of…

The Malthusian physiognomy of Nazi economics

Guido Giacomo Preparata

The Nazi economic recovery, achieved between 1933 and 1938, displayed striking features of brilliant economic overhauling of a capitalist machine that had been plagued by a…

The “new” economy: complexity, coordination and a hybrid governance approach

Wolfram Elsner

The paper starts from the increasing spatial and functional fragmentation of value‐added chains, global de‐regulation and dis‐embedding of “markets”, and interdependencies among…

Child income poverty and child deprivation: an essay on measurement

Amélia Bastos, Graça Leão Fernandes, José Passos

This paper is a study on child poverty from two perspectives: child income poverty (derived from family income) and child deprivation (evaluated by non‐monetary indicators). On…

Globalization and inequality according to Veblen

Donald C. Wellington, Sourushe Zandvakili

Thorstein Veblen's ideas regarding capitalism, particularly as expressed through his view of the American upper classes of the time, are examined. The work of Veblen himself, as…

On making human development more humane

Humayon A. Dar

It is widely recognised that the human development index (HDI) does not totally capture the rich content of the human development concept, necessitating a more adequate measure of…

Political implications of cultural evolution

Horst Feldmann

In the course of cultural evolution, certain institutions have emerged and become dominant in the Western world that have led to an unprecedented rise in prosperity and…

The formation of conventional expectations in Keynesian fundamental uncertainty

Theodore T. Koutsobinas

This article develops an analysis of the conventional formation of expectations by means of introducing an overlooked factor in the analysis: the role of inference. Individual…