Most Recent Articles from American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The

• Private property and the law of nature in Locke's two treatises: the best advantage of life and convenience 

  The study of policy lies at the intersection of economics and ethics, dealing, to a great extent, with private property. Policy design therefore...

  07/01/09 by B. Jeffrey Reno · More from publication

• Business success through social networks? A comment on social networks and business success 

  In the literature on entrepreneurship in developing countries, the argument that social networks are an essential factor for entrepreneurial...

  07/01/09 by Henrik Egbert · More from publication

• Market uncertainty and socially embedded reputation 

  Both economists and sociologists generally recognize the importance of reputation in coordinating economic transactions. In a perfectly competitive...

  07/01/09 by Harris H. Kim · More from publication

• With friends like these: endogenous labor market segregation with homogeneous, nonprejudiced agents 

  In the economics literature, labor market segregation is typically assumed to arise either from prejudice (Becket 1971) or from group differences...

  07/01/09 by Tavis Barr · More from publication

• Economic crime as hiding behavior 

  The article introduces "hiding behavior" as a concept for understanding why people conceal economic problems and solve them by committing crimes....

  07/01/09 by Oskar Engdahl · More from publication

• The Western expansion as a common pool problem: the contrasting histories of the Brazilian and North American pioneers 

  Before the year 1600, Brazil and the United States were very similar regions in terms of geographic development and colonial status, and yet both...

  07/01/09 by Fernando Zanella; Christopher Westley · More from publication

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