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THE JANUS-FACE OF RACE: REFLEC- TIONS ON ECONOMIC THEORY Patrick L. Mason and Rhonda Williams Many economists are willing to accept that race is a significant factor in US eco­ nomic and social affairs. Yet the professional literature displays a peculiar schizo­ phrenia when faced with the task of actually formulating what race means and how race works in our political economy. On the one hand, race matters when the dis­ cussion is focused on anti-social behavior, social choices, and undesired market outcomes. Inexplicably, African Americans are more likely to prefer welfare, lower labor force participation, and unemployment. On the other hand, race does not matter when the subject of discussion is economically productive or socially accept­ able activities and legal market choices (for example, wages and employment). This Janus-faced construction of race is maintained by economists' stubborn ad­ herence to the market power hypothesis. The market power hypothesis asserts that racial discrimination and market competition are inversely correlated. Discrimina­ tory behavior will persist only in those sectors of society where the competitive forces of the market are least operative. When applied to the labor market, the mar­ ket power hypothesis suggests that pre- and post-labor market decisions represent disjoint sets. On average, members of a disadvantaged social group may accumulate a lower amount of or a lower quality of productive attributes because of discrimina­ tion in marital, residential, or school choice, or because of substantial animosity in day-to-day interpersonal relations with members of a privileged group.

African American businesspeople --- Afro-Amerikaanse zakenlieden --- Hommes d'affaires afro-américains --- African American businesspeople. --- African Americans --- Crime --- Discrimination in employment --- Entrepreneurship --- Medical care --- Race relations --- Wages --- Economic conditions. --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects. --- Economic conditions --- United States --- Public finance. --- Microeconomics. --- Economic history. --- Public Economics. --- History of Economic Thought/Methodology. --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Price theory --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Public finances --- Currency question

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The volume at hand gives an exposition of the tradition of the Historical School of Economics and of the Geisteswissenschaften or human sciences, the latter in their development within the Historical School as well as in Neo-Kantianism and the sociology of knowledge. It continues the discussion started in the year 1994 on the Older Historical School of Economics and the 19th century German contribution to an ethical theory of economics with the Newer Historical School of the 20th century. Economists, social scientists, and philosophers examine the contribution of this tradition and its impact for present theory. The schools of thought and their approaches to economics as well as to the cultural and social sciences are examined here not as much for their historical interest as for their poten­ tial systematic contribution to the contemporary debates on economic ethics, economics, sociology, and philosophy. The volume at hand contains the proceedings of the Fourth Annual SEEP-Conference on Economic Ethics and Philosophy in 1996, "Economics and Ethics in the Historical School. Part B: Max Weber, Heinrich Rickert, Max Scheler, Werner Sombart, Arthur Spiethoff, John Commons, Alfred Marshall, and Others", held at Marienrode Monastery near Hannover, Germa­ ny, on March 27-30th, 1996, together with several additional invited papers.

Methodology of economics --- Economic schools --- Ecole historique (Economie) --- Historical school of economics --- Historische school voor economie --- Economics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Economics. --- Management science. --- Ethics. --- Economic history. --- Economics, general. --- History of Economic Thought/Methodology. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Quantitative business analysis --- Management --- Problem solving --- Operations research --- Statistical decision --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Historical school of economics. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Schools of economics --- History

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Comparative Economic Theory: Occidental and Islamic Perspectives seeks first to elucidate the nature and methodology of Islamic political economy as a process-oriented social economy guided by its cardinal epistemology of Oneness of God (Divine Unity). From this premise is then derived the episteme of unification of knowledge upon which is developed the methodological content of an extremely interactive, integrative and revolutionary world-view of political economy and a meta-theory of the socio-scientific order. Secondly, while laying out the building blocks of Islamic political economy and its much wider methodological implication for the socio-scientific order, this book offers a comparative study of occidental thought in the same areas. Thirdly, topics of microeconomics and macroeconomic theory are covered. This book concludes with chapters on methodology and an analytical postscript to show how the interactive, integrative and evolutionary world-view of knowledge-induced systems described by the Islamic political economy presents new visions of scientific thinking.

Economic order --- Comparative economics --- Economics [Comparative ] --- Economie [Vergelijkende ] --- Economie comparée --- Vergelijkende economie --- Economics --- Islamic countries --- Religious aspects --- Islam --- Economic history. --- Political science. --- Economic policy. --- Economics. --- History of Economic Thought/Methodology. --- Political Science. --- Political Economy/Economic Systems. --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- State, The --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Comparative economics. --- Islam. --- Comparative economic systems --- Economics, Comparative --- Economic policy --- Islam and economics

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Exciting the Industry of Mankind is the first comprehensive book about George Berkeley's revolutionary views on money and banking. Berkeley broke the conceptual link between money and metallic substance in The Querist, a work published between 1735 and 1737 in Dublin, consisting entirely of questions. Exciting the Industry of Mankind explains what economic and social forces caused Berkeley to write The Querist in response to a major economic crisis in Ireland. Exciting the Industry of Mankind falsifies the view that Berkeley has nothing to tell us about our present and future social and economic life. For the `idealism' Berkeley found in the money form is now becoming a fact of global economic life, when `xenomoney' and `virtual money' exchanges begin to dwarf commodity transactions, and the future becomes the dominant temporal dimension of economic activity. Philosophers, historians, cultural theorists, economists and lovers of Irish history will be interested in this volume.

Money --- Argent --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Berkeley, George, --- Views on money --- -Currency --- Monetary question --- Money, Primitive --- Specie --- Standard of value --- Exchange --- Finance --- Value --- Banks and banking --- Coinage --- Currency question --- Gold --- Silver --- Silver question --- Wealth --- Berkeley, George --- -Views on money --- 1 BERKELEY, GEORGE --- 336.74 --- #GBIB:Overlegcentrum Christelijke Ethiek --- Filosofie. Psychologie--BERKELEY, GEORGE --- Geld. Geldwezen. Monetaire sector. --- -Philosophy --- 336.74 Geld. Geldwezen. Monetaire sector. --- 1 BERKELEY, GEORGE Filosofie. Psychologie--BERKELEY, GEORGE --- Geld. Geldwezen. Monetaire sector --- Philosophy. --- Economic history. --- Philosophy, general. --- History of Economic Thought/Methodology. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- G. B. --- B., G. --- Berkley, George, --- Author of The minute philosopher, --- Minute philosopher, Author of the, --- Cloyne, --- Berkeley, --- Member of the established church, --- בערקלי, דזשארדזש, --- Author of Siris, --- Money - Philosophy --- Berkeley, George, - 1685-1753 --- Berkeley (george), 1685-1753 --- Critique et interpretation

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Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment whose thought was, in many respects, original and distinctive. This book is a study of his ideas and of the intellectual forces that shaped them. Though somewhat overlooked in the nineteenth century, Ferguson was rescued from obscurity in the first half of the twentieth century by scholars interested in the origins of sociology and early critiques of modernity. Ferguson’s interest in the mechanics of social life and especially social change led him to many groundbreaking insights. In fact, he is sometimes identified as the 'Father of Modern Sociology'. In addition to exploring whether or not he merits this title, this study examines the whole of Ferguson’s thought as a system and includes his moral and faculty psychology, historiography, theology, politics and social science. Ferguson is distinguished by his deep appreciation of the complexity of the human condition; his study of society is based on the belief that it is not only reason, but the unseen, unplanned, sub-rational and visceral forces that keep the human universe in motion. Ferguson’s appreciation of this fact, and his ability to make social science of it, is his major achievement.

Philosophy, Scottish --- Philosophie écossaise --- Ferguson, Adam, --- Sociology --- Philosophy. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Economics. --- History. --- Political science. --- Sociology. --- Philosophy --- Social Change --- Sociology & Social History --- Philosophy & Religion --- Social Sciences --- Social sciences. --- Political sociology. --- Enlightenment --- Scotland --- Intellectual life --- Philosophie écossaise --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVSOCIA SPRINGER-B --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Sociological aspects --- Gentleman in the country, --- Political philosophy. --- Economic history. --- Social Sciences. --- Sociological Theory. --- Sociology, general. --- History, general. --- Political Philosophy. --- Methodology/History of Economic Thought. --- Political Science. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Civilization --- History of Economic Thought/Methodology. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Political philosophy --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Social theory --- Sociology - Philosophy. --- Ferguson, Adam, - 1723-1816 - Criticism and interpretation --- Political science—Philosophy. --- Economics—History. --- History of Economic Thought and Methodology. --- Sciences sociales --- Sociologie politique --- Philosophie des lumieres --- Ecosse (grande-bretagne) --- 18e siecle --- Vie intellectuelle --- Ferguson, Adam, - 1723-1816