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Economic Scientist, Economic and Social Reformer

2019
Economic Scientist, Economic and Social Reformer: An overview of the career and contributions of Irving Fisher (1867–1947) of Yale, an outstanding scientific economist whose reputation within the discipline of economics has recovered from his varied efforts at social reform (prohibition of alcohol, a new world map projection, dietary reform, a new ...
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Social Reform and Economic Policy

Journal of Economic Issues, 1984
The Galbraithian System seeks to clarify the complex matter of social and economic reform in late capitalism. Much of the focus rests upon the social predicament of turning the vast influence of the mature corporation and its administered sector of the economy to the human, public purpose.
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Economic Science and Social Reform

2017
Contemporary Economics theory prescribes “perfect” knowledge and “absolute” freedom from constraint on its economic actors. This triumph of the subjunctive prescription over the indicative description precludes treating Economics as in any way an empirical discipline on the model of the flourishing empirical sciences. Here Economics’ practitioners have
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Economic Reforms and Social Welfare

2011
The avowed aim of any credible and legitimate government is to ensure continuous improvement in the overall welfare of the citizenry. The realization of this goal is often pursued through the design and implementation of policies geared toward effective mobilization and optimal allocation and purposeful management of national resources for meeting the ...
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Social Marketing Applied to Economic Reforms

Social Marketing Quarterly, 2005
As social marketers seek to broaden their purview to include upstream applications, they are handicapped by the lack of examples of such applications. This article represents a retrofit of social marketing approaches developed by Andreasen to a major international intervention in Bosnia Herzegovina to reduce the array of impediments to private sector ...
Alan R. Andreasen, Benjamin Herzberg
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The Social Base of Economic Reforms in the USSR

Sociological Research, 1992
Defining the nature of the social base is one of the central problems in analyzing economic reforms and changes in the economic and labor spheres.
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The Social Obstacles to Economic Reform in Hungary

Recherches économiques de Louvain, 1990
SummaryThe eastern European systems, Hungary included, need complete restructuring. Radical political reform needs take precedence over the economic reforms: no genuine economic reform is possible without a legitimate, democratically elected parliament and government.
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Social Aspects of Economic Reform in Russia

1995
In the great transformation taking place in Eastern Europe and specifically in Russia the limelight is on economic and political problems. The social aspects of this process receive much less attention. To the extent that they are studied the focus is on government expenditures for social welfare — viewed either neutrally or as a barrier to more rapid ...
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Economic Reform and Social Change in China

2012
Introduction Andrew Watson Interest group conflicts in a reforming economy Christopher Findlay and Jiang Shu Redefining workers' interests: reform and the trade unions Greg O'Leary Wealth but not security: attitudes towards private business in the 1980s Susan Young Intellectuals and reform Sylvia Chan The public/private dichotomy and the sexual ...
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Economic Reform of Socialism: The Soviet Record

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1990
For more than three decades, the Soviet Union has been engaged in an almost continuous process of reforming the centrally planned economy inherited from Stalin. The objective of the reform programs of all Soviet leaders from Khrushchev to Gorbachev has been to make the economy more efficient and responsive to consumer wants, while retaining its ...
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