William A Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 173331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William A Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | William A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5194-7307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Ethics of Price Variation
Orthodox price theory turns on flexible prices that move frequently to maintain market-clearing equilibrium. Fixed prices are a source of market imperfections and failures. In the traditional ethics of pricing, by contrast, prices should be set at a just norm and stay there, with only rare amendments. The current paper examines these attitudes to price variation and finds them inadequate: orthodox economics is too supportive of continual price ch…
L’economia contro la letteratura
L’articolo esamina i rapporti, da sempre difficili, tra economia e letteratura. Sebbene i primi economisti, come Adam Smith, abbiano adottato un approccio letterario, ben presto si è imposto l’obiettivo di conseguire uno status scientifico ed evitare il confronto con le discipline umanistiche. La tendenza antiletteraria dell’economia ne ha ristretto la prospettiva, quando invece un maggiore input letterario che la riavvicini alle discipline umani…
Distributive Justice With and Without Culture
Academic treatments of distributive justice normally adopt a static approach centred on resource allocation among a set of individual agents. The resulting models, expressed in mathematical language, make no allowance for culture, as they never engage with the society’s way of life or the moulding of individuals within society. This paper compares the static approach to distributive justice with a cultural one, arguing that a case for redistribut…
Retirement Policies and the Life Cycle: Current Trends and Future Prospects
During the 20th century, pensions in developed countries were generally payable from a statutory retirement age which provided a norm for retirement behaviour and a threshold dividing older from younger age groups. Governments, by setting fixed starting dates for work and retirement, created a standardised life cycle with clearly delineated and uniform boundaries between education, work and retirement stages. Over the last 30 years or so, retirem…
Capabilities, Culture and Social Structure
Sen's capability approach has a culturally specific side, with capabilities influenced by social structures and institutions. Although Sen acknowledges this, he expresses his theory in individualistic terms and makes little allowance for culture or social structure. The present paper draws from recent social theory to discuss how the capability approach could be developed to give an explicit treatment of cultural and structural matters. Capabilit…
Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World
Journal Article Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World Get access Edited by (Nancy) Birdsall, (Allen C.) Kelley and (Steven W.) Sinding. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi+440. £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 924407 3.) William A. Jackson William A. Jackson University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 113, Issu…
Briefly Noted: Recent Indian Publications on Music
Population Economics
Journal Article Population Economics Get access Population Economics. By Razin(Assaf) and Sadka(Efraim). (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 275. £25-5° hardback. ISBN 0 262 18160 6.) William A. Jackson William A. Jackson University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 439, 1 November 1996, Pages 1812–1813, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235235 Publi…
Cultural Materialism and Institutional Economics
Economics and culture have usually been kept apart in academic discussion. The resulting division is damaging to economics, since important cultural questions such as the formation of preferences, the influence of ideology and the relation between the individual and society are systematically neglected. Outside economics, however, anthropologists and literary theorists have formulated a 'cultural materialism' that seeks to reintegrate culture wit…
Population, Food, and Rural Development
Journal Article Population, Food, and Rural Development. Get access Population, Food, and Rural Development. Edited by LEE (RONALD E.), (W. BRIAN) Arthur, KELLEY (ALLEN C.) et al. (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. vi + 215. £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0 19 828391 1.) William A. Jackson William A. Jackson University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 427…
Culture, society and economic theory
Ever since the beginnings of classical economic theory in the early nineteenth century, economics has faced culturally based criticism from a long line of literay authors. None of their arguments made much impression on economic theorists, and mainstream economic theroy remains individualistic, timeless, and lacking in institutional content. Culture has now been incorporated into the noneconomic social sciences, especially sociology and social an…
Fertility Transition: The Social Dynamics of Population Change
Journal Article Fertility Transition: The Social Dynamics of Population Change Get access Fertility Transition: The Social Dynamics of Population Change. By DONALDSON (LORAINE). (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Pp. vi + 227. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 55786 090 4.) William A. Jackson William A. Jackson University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Iss…
On the Treatment of Population Ageing in Economic Theory
Population ageing is often thought to have adverse economic consequences, and economics therefore has a responsibility for contributing to an understanding of ageing. This paper discusses the treatment of population ageing in economic theory and argues that mainstream economics is too narrow and restrictive to provide an adequate representation of ageing. An alternative to mainstream economic theory is a more pluralistic view of ageing, drawing f…
Generalized Rationing Theory
This paper extends the duality approach to rationing to cover general quantity constraints on consumption. In the generalized theory, the allocation of goods within a ration can be characterized as a choice of virtual prices by the consumer. A rationed method is relevant whenever consumers are influenced by external factors introduced as additional constraints into neoclassical consumer theory. Copyright 1991 by Scottish Economic Society
Utilitarian pension and retirement policies under population ageing
Ivan Fedorov's Primer of 1574
Oratio de hominis dignitate . Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , Elizabeth Livermore Forbes
J. R. Lowell and John Locke
The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library
Capabilities, Culture and Social Structure
Sen's capability approach has a culturally specific side, with capabilities influenced by social structures and institutions. Although Sen acknowledges this, he expresses his theory in individualistic terms and makes little allowance for culture or social structure. The present paper draws from recent social theory to discuss how the capability approach could be developed to give an explicit treatment of cultural and structural matters. Capabilit…
Cultural Materialism and Institutional Economics
Economics and culture have usually been kept apart in academic discussion. The resulting division is damaging to economics, since important cultural questions such as the formation of preferences, the influence of ideology and the relation between the individual and society are systematically neglected. Outside economics, however, anthropologists and literary theorists have formulated a 'cultural materialism' that seeks to reintegrate culture wit…
Culture, society and economic theory
Ever since the beginnings of classical economic theory in the early nineteenth century, economics has faced culturally based criticism from a long line of literay authors. None of their arguments made much impression on economic theorists, and mainstream economic theroy remains individualistic, timeless, and lacking in institutional content. Culture has now been incorporated into the noneconomic social sciences, especially sociology and social an…
Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World
Journal Article Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World Get access Edited by (Nancy) Birdsall, (Allen C.) Kelley and (Steven W.) Sinding. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi+440. £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 924407 3.) William A. Jackson William A. Jackson University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 113, Issu…
Generalized Rationing Theory
This paper extends the duality approach to rationing to cover general quantity constraints on consumption. In the generalized theory, the allocation of goods within a ration can be characterized as a choice of virtual prices by the consumer. A rationed method is relevant whenever consumers are influenced by external factors introduced as additional constraints into neoclassical consumer theory. Copyright 1991 by Scottish Economic Society
Distributive Justice With and Without Culture
Academic treatments of distributive justice normally adopt a static approach centred on resource allocation among a set of individual agents. The resulting models, expressed in mathematical language, make no allowance for culture, as they never engage with the society’s way of life or the moulding of individuals within society. This paper compares the static approach to distributive justice with a cultural one, arguing that a case for redistribut…
The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library
J. R. Lowell and John Locke
Oratio de hominis dignitate . Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , Elizabeth Livermore Forbes
Ivan Fedorov's Primer of 1574
Utilitarian pension and retirement policies under population ageing
On the Treatment of Population Ageing in Economic Theory
Population ageing is often thought to have adverse economic consequences, and economics therefore has a responsibility for contributing to an understanding of ageing. This paper discusses the treatment of population ageing in economic theory and argues that mainstream economics is too narrow and restrictive to provide an adequate representation of ageing. An alternative to mainstream economic theory is a more pluralistic view of ageing, drawing f…
Generalized Rationing Theory
This paper extends the duality approach to rationing to cover general quantity constraints on consumption. In the generalized theory, the allocation of goods within a ration can be characterized as a choice of virtual prices by the consumer. A rationed method is relevant whenever consumers are influenced by external factors introduced as additional constraints into neoclassical consumer theory. Copyright 1991 by Scottish Economic Society
Fertility Transition: The Social Dynamics of Population Change
Journal Article Fertility Transition: The Social Dynamics of Population Change Get access Fertility Transition: The Social Dynamics of Population Change. By DONALDSON (LORAINE). (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Pp. vi + 227. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 55786 090 4.) William A. Jackson William A. Jackson University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Iss…
Culture, society and economic theory
Ever since the beginnings of classical economic theory in the early nineteenth century, economics has faced culturally based criticism from a long line of literay authors. None of their arguments made much impression on economic theorists, and mainstream economic theroy remains individualistic, timeless, and lacking in institutional content. Culture has now been incorporated into the noneconomic social sciences, especially sociology and social an…
Population, Food, and Rural Development
Journal Article Population, Food, and Rural Development. Get access Population, Food, and Rural Development. Edited by LEE (RONALD E.), (W. BRIAN) Arthur, KELLEY (ALLEN C.) et al. (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. vi + 215. £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0 19 828391 1.) William A. Jackson William A. Jackson University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 427…
Population Economics
Journal Article Population Economics Get access Population Economics. By Razin(Assaf) and Sadka(Efraim). (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 275. £25-5° hardback. ISBN 0 262 18160 6.) William A. Jackson William A. Jackson University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 439, 1 November 1996, Pages 1812–1813, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235235 Publi…
Cultural Materialism and Institutional Economics
Economics and culture have usually been kept apart in academic discussion. The resulting division is damaging to economics, since important cultural questions such as the formation of preferences, the influence of ideology and the relation between the individual and society are systematically neglected. Outside economics, however, anthropologists and literary theorists have formulated a 'cultural materialism' that seeks to reintegrate culture wit…
Briefly Noted: Recent Indian Publications on Music
Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World
Journal Article Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World Get access Edited by (Nancy) Birdsall, (Allen C.) Kelley and (Steven W.) Sinding. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi+440. £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 924407 3.) William A. Jackson William A. Jackson University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 113, Issu…
Capabilities, Culture and Social Structure
Sen's capability approach has a culturally specific side, with capabilities influenced by social structures and institutions. Although Sen acknowledges this, he expresses his theory in individualistic terms and makes little allowance for culture or social structure. The present paper draws from recent social theory to discuss how the capability approach could be developed to give an explicit treatment of cultural and structural matters. Capabilit…
Retirement Policies and the Life Cycle: Current Trends and Future Prospects
During the 20th century, pensions in developed countries were generally payable from a statutory retirement age which provided a norm for retirement behaviour and a threshold dividing older from younger age groups. Governments, by setting fixed starting dates for work and retirement, created a standardised life cycle with clearly delineated and uniform boundaries between education, work and retirement stages. Over the last 30 years or so, retirem…
Distributive Justice With and Without Culture
Academic treatments of distributive justice normally adopt a static approach centred on resource allocation among a set of individual agents. The resulting models, expressed in mathematical language, make no allowance for culture, as they never engage with the society’s way of life or the moulding of individuals within society. This paper compares the static approach to distributive justice with a cultural one, arguing that a case for redistribut…
L’economia contro la letteratura
L’articolo esamina i rapporti, da sempre difficili, tra economia e letteratura. Sebbene i primi economisti, come Adam Smith, abbiano adottato un approccio letterario, ben presto si è imposto l’obiettivo di conseguire uno status scientifico ed evitare il confronto con le discipline umanistiche. La tendenza antiletteraria dell’economia ne ha ristretto la prospettiva, quando invece un maggiore input letterario che la riavvicini alle discipline umani…
The Ethics of Price Variation
Orthodox price theory turns on flexible prices that move frequently to maintain market-clearing equilibrium. Fixed prices are a source of market imperfections and failures. In the traditional ethics of pricing, by contrast, prices should be set at a just norm and stay there, with only rare amendments. The current paper examines these attitudes to price variation and finds them inadequate: orthodox economics is too supportive of continual price ch…
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