Recently added articles from The American Journal of Economics and Sociology:
An introduction to destructive coordination.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Introduction THE CONCEPT OF "mode of coordination" captures the way in which the economy is embedded in a society. An analysis in terms of the prevailing modes of coordination may shed light on the particular institutional arrangement through which human activities are ...
The career consequences of a mistaken research project: the case of polywater.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I Introduction EVEN THE MOST FAMOUS of scientists makes mistakes (see Koestler 1967: 212-213). Newton spent considerable time on alchemical experiments. Stigler (1982: 223-243, 1983: 536) gives several examples from within economics, including the kinked oligopoly ...
Determinants of intercountry Internet diffusion rates.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I Introduction EVER SINCE THE RELEASE of the first graphical web browser in 1993, the Internet has experienced exponential growth. Today, nearly 16 years later, the Internet has become an incredibly valuable informational resource, housing over 11 billion websites ....
Stereotypes, Asian Americans, and wages: an empirical strategy applied to computer use at work.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I Introduction ASIAN AMERICANS have long been labeled as a "model minority" who use high investment in education (Xie and Goyette 2003; Kao 1995; Barringer et al. 1990; Chiswick 1988), family solidarity (Kao 1995), and group connectedness (Oyserman and Sakamoto 1997) ...
Do higher real minimum wages lead to more high school dropouts? Evidence from Maryland across races, 1993-2004.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I Introduction THE EXTENDED PERIOD without increases in the federal minimum wage from September 1, 1997 to July 24, 2007 meant that the real purchasing power of the minimum wage had fallen by over one-fifth. During this time, many voters, policymakers, and academics ...
Home ownership and school outcomes of children: evidence from the PSID Child Development Supplement.(Panel Study of Income Dynamics)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I Introduction POLICYMAKERS and academic researchers have argued that owning a home has many social benefits. In the United States, most studies show that among other benefits, children of homeowners perform relatively better in school than children of renters ...
Art museum attendance, public funding, and the business cycle.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I Introduction VIRTUALLY ALL MUSEUMS in the United States, especially art museums, face major problems funding all of their many functions. (1) Many industrialized nations of the world provide high and growing levels of support for museums, but the United States has ...
Migration and the Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis revisited.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I Introduction ACCORDING TO TIEBOUT (1956: 418), "the consumer-voter may be viewed as picking that community which best satisfies his preferences for public goods ... the consumer-voter moves to that community whose local government best satisfies his set of ...
College football and student quality: an advertising effect or culture and tradition?(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I Introduction COLLEGE SPORTS HAVE ENTERED yet another round of the athletics arms race, and schools are again spending millions to upgrade their facilities. In just the past decade, the University of Texas has spent $150 million to remodel its football stadium, the ...
Seasonal homes and the local property tax: evidence from New York State.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I Introduction INCREASING INCOMES and wealth in the 1990s led to a dramatic increase in the number of seasonal (i.e., vacation or second) homes across the United States. This was particularly the case for rural areas near large urban centers, such as many areas of ...
Investigating smoker's profile: the role of psychosocial characteristics and the effectiveness of tobacco policy tools.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. This article investigates smoker's profile by addressing the determinants of cigarette demand and providing a circumstantial exposition of the psychosocial characteristics that differentiate smoking patterns. At the same time, the impact of tobacco control policies on smoking ...
Philosophy after Hiroshima from power politics to the ethics of nonviolence and co-responsibility.(Introduction)
Jan 01, 2009; ... PHILOSOPHERS from many different countries came to Hiroshima, Japan, in the summer of 2007 to discuss the problems of war and peace on the occasion of the Seventh World Congress of the International Society for Universal Dialogue (ISUD). The theme was After Hiroshima: Collective Memory, ...
1 Globalization and violence: the challenge to ethics.(Part I. Historical Consciousness and Co-Responsibility)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... DESPITE its many benefits, globalization has proven to harbor a good deal of violence. This is not only a matter of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction inaugurated by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, but includes many forms of indirect or "structural violence" resulting from ...
2 The democratic peace myth: from Hiroshima to Baghdad.(Part I. Historical Consciousness and Co-Responsibility)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... I Introduction IT HAS BEEN WIDELY HELD that as democracy spreads, there will be fewer wars and that the wars that are fought will be more just. Although this idea can be traced back to Kant, it has been developed in recent years by Doyle, Rawls, and others. (1) While ...
3 The Holocaust sublime: singularity, representation, and the violence of everyday life.(Part I. Historical Consciousness and Co-Responsibility)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The world of the concentration camps ... was not an exceptionally monstrous society. What we saw there was the image, and in a sense the quintessence, of the infernal society in which we are plunged every day. --Ionesco (1) I Between Realism and ...
5 The project of reconciliation and the road to redemption: Hegel's social philosophy and Nietzsche's critique.(Part I. Historical Consciousness and Co-Responsibility)(G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... I Introduction THE ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHER Immanuel Kant once said about the French Revolution (1789) that "such a phenomenon in the history of mankind can never be forgotten because it uncovered in human nature a talent and a capacity for improvement, such as no ...
7 Relevant Hellenic factors favoring effective dialogue and peaceful coexistence.(Part II. Stopping the Violence: Modes of Response)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... I Introduction LIVING THE EVERYDAY drama within our "global village" and in a dubious age, unable to handle the multicultural problems and to understand a global world, the aspirations of national and world citizens, their pains and calamities, their faith and fears, ...
Editor's introduction.
Nov 01, 2008 ... The first of our featured articles offers some insights about the development of medical technology, many of the great breakthroughs of our time include episodes where one chemical substance long heralded as a treatment for some disease suddenly is adopted by physicians as a treatment for ...
Do off-label drug practices argue against FDA efficacy requirements? A critical analysis of physicians' argumentation for initial efficacy requirements.(Featured Articles)(United States Food and Drug Administration)(Survey)
Nov 01, 2008; ... I Introduction THE FOOD, DRUG AND COSMETICS ACT of 1938 with amendments in 1962 forbids new drugs from being sold unless they have passed FDA-approved tests for safety and efficacy in a specified use, called the "on-label" use. Physicians are allowed, however, to ...
Intergenerational earnings mobility among daughters and sons: evidence from Sweden and a comparison with the United States.(Report)
Nov 01, 2008; ... I Introduction THE INHERITANCE OF INEQUALITY is a central cause of concern from many aspects, especially from the perspective of equality of opportunities amenable to public policies. Both economists and sociologists have long been interested in intergenerational ...