Book Review: Unveiling Inequality: A World-Historical Perspective and Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am

Book Review: Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am

Audacity, More Audacity 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am

Environmental Justice in Ohio 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am

This paper investigates the correlates of inequity in the distribution of exposure to air pollution in the state of Ohio. Although virtually all studies in the environmental justice literature analyze...

Bonus Wages: Beyond Piece Wages 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am

This paper argues that bonus wages, understood as lump sum payments contingent upon the achievement of a firm’s production goals, are superior to piece wages from the point of view of capital. While b...

Minsky in the Shadows: Securitization, Ponzi Finance, and the Crisis of Northern Rock 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am

One of the many lingering questions posed by the continuing meltdown of global finance concerns the role of securitization and the so-called shadow banking system in amplifying the scope of the crisis...

New Systemic Institutional Approach for Comparative Political and Economic Analysis 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am

The idea that modern economics is necessarily based on market capitalism continues to dominate in scientific-scholarly discourse. The objective of this article is to present institutional matrix theor...

Contact Zones: Development Theory and the "Cultural Turn" 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am

Development theory presupposes historical specificity, but has not appropriately dealt with historical change. This inadequacy became more evident in the 1970s when history and other social sciences e...

Power, Luck and Ideology - Technological and Institutional Parameters of the Agency Problem for CEOs 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am

We propose an explanation for the growth of executive pay since the 1980s. New information and communication technologies (ICTs) appear to favor winner-take-all markets and to accentuate firm-level vo...

The Failure of Market Fundamentalism: How Electricity Sector Restructuring is Threatening the Economic and Social Fabric 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am

This paper argues that neoliberalism’s global restructuring of electricity sectors has failed to deliver its proclaimed objectives and spawned threats to economic growth, financial market stability, e...