International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 32 Issue 8

Code of ethics and employee governance

Patrick A. McNutt, Charlie A. Batho

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to add to the debate on governance and, second, to describe a value set theory of the firm.

Thomas Hobbes and the displacement of political philosophy

Thea Vinnicombe

This paper aims to demonstrate the pivotal role played by Thomas Hobbes in the displacement of political philosophy by economic science.

Social responsibility: the most important, and neglected, problem of all?

Ted Trainer

To draw attention to an important but neglected topic, and provide an analysis that will help others to go further into key elements of the theme of social responsibility.

Farmer strategies and forest conservation: a case study from south‐western Madagascar

Thorkil Casse, Uffe Nielsen, Socrate Ranaivoson, Jean Romuald Randrianamarivo

This paper seeks to evaluate different approaches to forest conservation in the areas outside the national parks of south‐western Madagascar.

A model of human behaviour for sustainability

Hans‐Ulrich Zabel

The paper aims to explicate the systematic creation of social and ecological scarcities within an absolutely monetised economy and derives the necessity to change the “rules of…