Oeconomicus, Volume VII, 2004-2005

ISSN: 1546-2803

Table of Contents

Editorials

Editor's Note

By Fadhel Kaboub (UMKC)

Farewell to Dr. Bill Williams

By UMKC Students

Articles

Islamic Financing: Impacts on Development and Equality

By Andrew Barenberg (UMKC)

 

The Dominant Economic Discourse of Today’s Iran in Retrospect

By Mohammad Maljoo (University of Tehran)

 

The Influence of Firm Strategy on Business Cycles in Veblen’s Economic Theory

By Maximilien Nayaradou (Université Paris IX, Dauphine)

 

Neither Atomized nor Bi-lateralized: Market Actors Never Exchange Outside a Social-Structural Context - A Critical Analysis of the Economics of Transaction Costs

By Sébastien Plociniczak (Université Paris XIII)

 

Mathematical Formalism in Economics: Verdict of the Reality

By Ganna Pogrebna (UMKC)

Review Essay   

Reflections on the Empire of Capital

By Kevin Young (Carleton University)

Book Reviews

The State, the Market and the Euro: Chartalism versus Metallism in the Theory of Money (edited by Bell and Nell, 2003)

Reviewed by Zied Ben Hmida (University of Economics and Management of Tunis)

 

Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price Stability (L. Randall Wray, 1998)

Reviewed by Shawn J. Gebhardt (UMKC)

 

Commitment to Full Employment: The Economics and Social Policy of William S. Vickrey (edited by Warner, Forstater and Rosen, 2000)

Reviewed by Linda Hauner (UMKC)

 

The Open Economy and its Financial Constraints (Penelope Hawkins, 2003)

Reviewed by Tae-Hee Jo (UMKC)

 

The Crisis in Economics - The Post-Autistic Economics Movement: The First 600 days (edited by Edward Fullbrook, 2003)

Reviewed by Fadhel Kaboub (UMKC)

 

Reinventing Functional Finance: Transformational Growth and Full Employment (edited by Nell and Forstater, 2003)

Reviewed by Yan Liang (UMKC)

 

Growth, Distribution and Effective Demand: Alternatives to Economic Orthodoxy: Essays in Honor of Edward J. Nell (edited by Argyrous, Forstater and Mongiovi, 2004)

Reviewed by Gilberto Libanio (University of Notre Dame)

 

Trade, Balance of Payments and Exchange Rate Policy in Developing Countries (A.P. Thirlwall, 2003)

Reviewed by Corinne Pastoret (UMKC)

 

The Countries of the Former Soviet Union at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: The Baltic and European States in Transition (Ian Jeffries, 2004)

Reviewed by Ganna Pogrebna (UMKC)

 

Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes From Rich to Poor Countries (Jennifer Clapp, 2001)

Reviewed by Zdravka Todorova (UMKC)

 

Designing US Economic Policy: An Analytical Biography of Leon H. Keyserling (W. Robert Brazelton, 2001)

Reviewed by Jonathan Watkins (UMKC)

Books Received

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