Recently added articles from The American Journal of Economics and Sociology:
Private property and the law of nature in Locke's two treatises: the best advantage of life and convenience.(John Locke's First and Second Treatises)(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2009; ... A common account of the distinction between modern and classical regimes holds that classical regimes directly regulate human conduct, seeking to produce citizens consistent with a certain understanding of human virtue or excellence, whereas modern regimes use law only to keep people safe, ...
Business success through social networks? A comment on social networks and business success.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... I Introduction KRISTIANSEN (2004) FOCUSES ON the influence of social and cultural aspects on entrepreneurial success. He refers to the concepts of social network and social capital in order to elucidate the idea that those entrepreneurs who can activate more ...
Market uncertainty and socially embedded reputation.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... I Neoclassical Market, Information Asymmetry, and Reputation SCHOLARLY INTEREST IN REPUTATION has emerged as a by-product of an intellectual move away from the idealistic neoclassical model, which does not consider the identity or the reputation of the actors ...
With friends like these: endogenous labor market segregation with homogeneous, nonprejudiced agents.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... I Introduction IT HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN that wage inequality between workers from different demographic groups such as race and gender shows up in large part through occupational segregation (Bergmann 1986; Blau and Kahn 2000). A more recent literature in economics, ...
Economic crime as hiding behavior.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Introduction IN JANUARY 2008, the French bank Societe Generale announced that it had suffered a nearly 4.9 billion [euro] trading loss caused by the activities of a securities trader in its employ (see Societe Generale 2008). The losses posted, largest ever in banking history, ...