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Work and Idleness develops the view that redistributing employment is a `feasible capitalist' solution, not just to the unemployment which particular groups suffer, but also to the work that others have to contend with, including many women.

Can economists bring any interesting (and disinterested) contribution to the public policy debate? If so, what is the relation of their contribution to the fundamental values that inform social ethics and that are still guarded to a large extent by religious tradition?

Regulatory reform represents a major shift in the government's role toward price determination in the transportation and telecommunication industries.

Samuels Each book in this series explores the present status of its field in terms of where it is, how it got there, the existing tensions within the field, and something of how the field might develop in the future. This particular book, covering neoclassical economics, is the third of three in the field of the History of Economic Thought.

At the very heart of the conception of the present volume lies the conviction that social economics is a highly pluralistic discipline, inspired and enriched by several often radically different world views, Schumpeterian visions, and at times even quite antagonistic social doctrines.

While economic theory has played an important role in the shaping of regulatory policy in the past, it has an even greater potential role to play in the future as the regulatory community grapples with the many challenges of a changing economic environment.

Ira Horowitz Depending upon one's perspective, the need to choose among alternatives can be an unwelcome but unavoidable responsibility, an exciting and challenging opportunity, a run-of-the-mill activity that one performs seem ingly "without thinking very much about it," or perhaps something in between.

This book brings together the work of scholars who have written for it independent essays in their areas of particular expertise in the general field of income distribution.

A situation in economics that is little short of scandalous is the almost total neglect by mainstream economics of the importance of power in economic affairs. Power in this context means the ability to bend market forces in one's favor, influencing and shaping key economic variables such as prices, wages, and other income determinants.

The scholars invited to contribute the primary essays for this collection were given three mandates. There is enough material, however, to provide a reference base for the interested scholar who desires to follow particular ideas from period to period.

International Economics is unique despite the existence of numerous books of the same title. Therefore, rather than instructions to prepare "surveys" of subfields within international economics, the contributors to this book were informed as follows: Your essay should present an affirmative but constructively critical look at your subject.

This collection represents a modest attempt to chart a new course for the intellectual discipline known as economic history. A second audience should be established scholars who are now or have in the past done research in economic history and are interested in the perspectives of a relatively younger group of scholars.

It is often said that everyone understands precisely what is meant by the notion of probability-except those who have spent their lives studying the matter. Are random variables simply improperly measured deterministic variables, or inherently random? The same type of difficulty arises when attempting to produce a volume on microeconomic theory.

Reflections on the State of the Art in Labor Economics 3 William Darity, Jr. Woodbury A Comment on the Market in Labor Power 279 Paul Zarembka Author Index 285 Subject Index 289 Contributing Authors 295 I INTRODUCTION REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF THE ART IN LABOR ECONOMICS William Darity, Jr.

[7] Borrowing from Polanyi [8], it is claimed that in market sys tems the economic sphere is disembedded from (separate and not subordinate to) the political, social and cultural spheres, while in planned systems the economic sphere is embedded in the noneconomic spheres.

When approached by Warren Samuels, the series editor, about organizing a volume on natural resource economics, I was at a loss as to how one might possibly capture in "several major essays plus several shorter comments thereon" all of the diverse activities that fall within this exciting discipline.

We have undertaken this volume in the belief that there is now sufficient research completed on environmental risk to justify a retrospective assessment of what is known. IX The Social Response to Environmental Risk Policy Formulation in an Age of Uncertainty 1 ENTITLEMENTS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS Daniel W.

a specialist quarterly, the Journal of Economic Psychology, commenced publication in 1981, with 1985 seeing the first issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics as yet another addition to growing ranks of "psychology-friendly" journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Social Economics;

The scholars invited to contribute the primary essays for this collection were given three mandates. The first was to survey the contemporary research in their assigned fields and to provide a bibliography that would give any interested scholar an entree into the literature. The second was to develop their own interpretive perspective on the economic literature of their assigned period. The third, and perhaps the most difficult, was to be very brief and concise. In a project of this type it would be difficult to extrapolate themes or evolutionary sequences that run through the literature over the two thousand years spanned by this survey. To some degree, the invited commentators provide a fund of suggestions that will stimulate interested readers to pursue this line of synthesis for themselves. The editor of this collection did not even entertain the idea of trying to coordinate the presentations and commentaries of this intellectually erudite and diverse group of scholars into agreed upon lines of interpretation. There is enough material, however, to provide a reference base for the interested scholar who desires to follow particular ideas from period to period.

1 Stabilization programs - assumptions, background, implementation.- 2 Postsocialist economy and stabilization policy.- 3 Stabilization in Yugoslavia.- 4 Polish hyperinflation and stabilization 1989-1991.- 5 Stabilization in Viet Nam.- 6 Stabilization, transformation and growth. Comparative analysis.- Annexe Stabilization in Israel.- 1. Inflationary processes in Israel before 1985.- 2. Assumptions of the stabilization program.- 3. Initial results of the program.- 4. Evaluation of the first stage of the program.- 5. Sources of economic recession.- 6. Causes of the limited scale of inflation suppression.- 7. The costs of stabilization "anchored" on exchange rate.- 8. Attempt at program evaluation.- References.