Edward J O’Boyle

Biographic Data

ID5111583
NAMEEdward J O’Boyle
GIVEN NAMESEdward J
FAMILY NAMEO’Boyle
SIGNATUREO’BOYLE E J
AFFILIATIONSLouisiana Tech University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX3

  • Does Culture Matter in Economic Behavior

    Open AccessEdward J O’BoyleARTICLESocial and Education History2016References: 5

    In this article we address the following question: does culture play a role in economic behavior? We conclude that culture influences economic behavior in all three areas of economic activity: work, consumption, and leisure. Our proof lies not so much in replicating certain experimental results, but in documenting in real-world circumstances how culture influences economic behavior. Attention to the role of culture in economic affairs acknowledge…

  • Medical altruism in mainstream health economics

    Edward J O’Boyle, Meade P O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy2016References: 3

    In this article, which was published in the September 2014 issue of the Review , Batifoulier and Da Silva examine the role of medical altruism in health economics. They argue that abandoning homo economicus and the mainstream practice of incorporating patient well-being in the doctor’s utility function in order to explain the clinical behavior of doctors and switching from profit maximization to medical altruism both lead to a dead end. We agree …

  • Tracing the Origins of Personalist Economics to Aristotle and Aquinas

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’Boyle et al.ARTICLEForum for Social Economics2015References: 2

    Personalist Economics has identified a central problem in Neoclassical Economics that originates in its representation of the economic agent as homo economicus and its grounding in individualism. Both flaws are directly addressed by Personalist Economics that has a different perspective on human nature as set forth in Personalism. Our remarks are presented in three sections. In the first section we address why individualism is an unsatisfactory p…

  • Origins of the Association for Social Economics

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEForum for Social Economics2014

    In the November 2013 issue of the Forum for Social Economics, Robert Auerbach stated that he had been told that Abram Harris who died in 1963 was a founder of the Association for Social Economics (

  • Social vs. Military Spending”

    Edward J O’Boyle, Edward O'BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy2010References: 1

    There are three problems with Ismael Hossein-zadeh's “Social vs. Military Spending” in the June 2009 Review of Social Economy in which he sets out to demonstrate the consequences of “escalating US military spending at the expense of non-military public spending.” First, there is abundant evidence indicating that non-military public spending has not been sacrificed to satisfy the demands of the military establishment. Second, the very same tax cut…

  • Introduction

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy2005

  • Homo Socio-Economicus

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy2005Cited by: 4References: 3

    In his introduction to The Social Economics of Human Material Need, John Davis directs attention to a paradox that only a few in mainstream economic thought are willing to admit: The concept of nee

  • Principles of economic justice

    Edward J O’Boyle, Edward O'BoyleARTICLEForum for Social Economics2004

    Mainstream economics argues that ethical standards are essentially relative, that they differ from one person to the next, and are entirely outside the limits of legitimate inquiry for economic science. Our view is that there are certain objective ethical standards to be applied that parallel the three modes of human interaction in economic affairs: person to person, superior to subordinate, and member to group. Those standards are given by the p…

  • Norms for evaluating economic globalization

    Open AccessGiuseppe Gaburro, Edward J O'Boyle et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2003

    This article examines experience with global financial integration to identify norms for evaluating economic globalization. There are two perspectives regarding globalization: mainstream economics and personalist economics. The first perspective regards itself as value‐free even though its premises originate in individualism and utilitarianism. The second perspective originates in personalism and finds no fault with being value‐laden because ther…

  • Income gap between poor families and others

    Edward J O’Boyle, Edward O'BoyleARTICLEForum for Social Economics2003

    In 2001 the mean income deficit for poor families was $7,231. The mean income surplus for nonpoor families was $57,841. The sum of those two estimates—$65,072—represents what we call the family income gap. Between 1993 and 2000—the period marking the longest expansion in U.S. economic history—the real family income gap grew on average by $1,143 every year

  • Contributions of German and American jesuits to economics

    Edward J O’Boyle, Edward O'BoyleARTICLEForum for Social Economics2002References: 2

    This article focuses on the contributions of six economists schooled in the Jesuit tradition. Four are Jesuit priests: Heinrich Pesch and Oswald von Nell-Breuning who are German, and Bernard Dempsey and Joseph Becker who are American. Two others, Goetz Briefs and William Waters, are lay persons who are referred to as “Jesuits without collars.” Five have direct ties to one another. Von Nell Breuning was a student of Pesch, as was Briefs. Waters wa…

  • Personalist Economics

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy2001References: 8

    There are two reasons why personalist economics lies outside the mainstream. Personalist economics (1) rejects the premises of mainstream economics, and (2) takes exception to certain dominant values of today's culture whereas the mainstream is much more at ease with contemporary Western culture. This paper addresses both reasons and is organized accordingly. In it the author argues that the individualism and the autonomous individual of mainstre…

  • Personalist Economics

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy2000References: 5

    We will know more later--Anonymous Personalist Economics: Moral Convictions, Economic Realities, and Social Action evolved over my entire lifetime originating with my parents' teaching and modeling of certain fundamental moral convictions well before the start of my formal schooling. In that sense Personalist Economics is akin to a journal in which I have recorded what I have seen on my journey as a student through the discipline of economics and…

  • Distribution Sensitive Measures Of Poverty In The United States

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1999Cited by: 2

    This paper by John Bishop, John Formby, and Buhong Zheng begins with the postulate that there are serious flaws in the way in which poverty is officially defined and measured and, therefore, in the estimates of poverty which are published by U.S. Bureau of the Census. I agree. Four areas are troublesome for the authors and their paper addresses each in turn. First, the official definition of poverty raises fundamental questions as to how physical…

  • Toward an Improved Definition of Poverty

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1999Cited by: 4References: 1

    This essay attempts to show that there is a satisfactory resolution to the long-standing controversy as to the whether poverty is measured strictly in terms of a minimal-living (or absolute) standard or an income-distribution (or relative) standard, a resolution which is based on the duality of human nature. Indeed such a two-dimensional definition of poverty already is in place in Ireland—the first place (it seems) to actually sort out this cont…

  • Minutes of the Executive Council Meeting Association for Social Economics July 24,1998

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1999

  • Ninth World Congress of Social Economics

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1998

  • Minutes of the Special Executive Council Meeting Association for Social Economics August 1, 1996

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1997

  • Minutes of the General Membership Meeting Association for Social Economics

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1997

  • Minutes of the Spring Executive Council Meeting Association for Social Economics

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1996

  • Minutes of the General Membership Meeting Association for Social Economics January 6,1995

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1995

  • Homo Socio-Economicus

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1994Cited by: 3References: 3

  • On The Person And The Work Of The Entrepreneur

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1994Cited by: 2

  • Reply to Arnold McKee

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1992

    more adequately from the very beginning. However, because all of us humans are more or less imperfect beings, a second-effort such as this frequently is necessary if we are to make any headway at all against our own ignorance. My remarks will be brief and are confined to the issues of meaning and role. My implicit intention in the article was to unravel the meaning of justice in the narrow sense, and, for that reason, I referred to it generally a…

  • Minutes of the General Membership Meeting Association for Social Economics December 28, 1990

    Edward J O'Boyle, Edward J O’BoyleARTICLEReview of Social Economy1991