Roger A Mccain

Biographic Data

ID515427
NAMERoger A Mccain
GIVEN NAMESRoger A
FAMILY NAMEMccain
SIGNATUREMCCAIN R A
AFFILIATIONSDrexel University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX3

  • Why Need is “A Word We Cannot Do Without” in Economics

    Roger A MccainARTICLEForum for Social Economics2012References: 5

    Economists in the neoclassical tradition do their best to avoid using the word “need.” Social economists have traditionally been more open to discussions of need. Philosophic discussions of need are also scarce but nevertheless helpful. This essay will argue that need is “a word we cannot do without” in economics, and not only in social economics. Need is objective, satiable, and absolute, by contrast with want or preference as it is defined in n…

  • An Equity-based Redefinition of Underemployment and Unemployment and Some Measurements

    Bijou Yang Lester, Roger A MccainARTICLEReview of Social Economy2001References: 9

    An attempt is made in this article to redefine underemployment and unemployment without making reference to an excess supply of labor or any causal mechanism of unemployment. Instead, underemployment and unemployment are defined in terms of equity which draws upon the individual's preferences. A specific proposal is that underemployment be defined by the presence of contribution inequity relative to at least half the persons employed in a field t…

  • The hierarchy of need and moral economics

    Roger A Mccain, Roger McCainARTICLEForum for Social Economics1993References: 4

  • Heuristic coordination games: Rational Action Equilibrium and Objective Social Constraints in a Linguistic Conception of Rationality

    Open AccessRoger A MccainARTICLESocial Science Information1992Cited by: 1References: 14

  • Deontology, Consequentialism, and Rationality

    Roger A MccainARTICLEReview of Social Economy1991Cited by: 1References: 29

    Do rationality and morality stand in opposition to one another? Can a person act rationally in a moral cause, and is it possible to act morally without doing just that? One's answer to these questions may vary with one's conception of morality, and also with one's conception of rationality. This paper argues that, while our conventional views of rationality are not very helpful in answering these questions, a different (and new) conception of rat…

  • A linguistic conception of rationality

    Open AccessRoger A MccainARTICLESocial Science Information1991Cited by: 2References: 27

  • Humanistic economics again

    Roger A Mccain, Roger McCainARTICLEForum for Social Economics1990Cited by: 3References: 2

  • Impulse-Filtering: A New Model of Freely Willed Economic Choice

    Roger A MccainARTICLEReview of Social Economy1990References: 19

    It is rather easy to criticize the philosophical and psychological shortcomings of the neoclassical stable-preference approach to economic theory. Economic man, rational without thought, without morals, moral dilemmas, hesitation or indecision, has rightly been the object of many lampoons. Neoclassical-bashing is good fun, but does not get us very far.1 The neoclassical theory is the theoretical basis of a literature of empirical economics and ap…

  • Humanistic economics: The new Challenge: A review essay

    Roger A Mccain, Roger McCainARTICLEForum for Social Economics1988

  • Reciprocity: Anthropological and economic theoretic perspectives

    Roger A Mccain, Roger McCainARTICLEForum for Social Economics1986References: 15

  • Cybernetics and the Economics of the Firm

    Roger A Mccain, Roger A McCain Roger A McCainARTICLEThought1983

  • A Rejoinder to Fischer's Note∗: Fordham University

    Roger A MccainARTICLEReview of Social Economy1982References: 1

  • Critical Reflections on Sociobiology

    Roger A MccainARTICLEReview of Social Economy1980Cited by: 4References: 15

    (1980). Critical Reflections on Sociobiology. Review of Social Economy: Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 123-139

  • Induced Bias in Technical Innovation Including Product Innovation in a Model of Economic Growth

    Roger A MccainARTICLEThe Economic Journal1974Cited by: 1References: 3

    Journal Article Induced Bias in Technical Innovation Including Product Innovation in a Model of Economic Growth Get access Roger A. McCain Roger A. McCain Western Washington State College. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 84, Issue 336, 1 December 1974, Pages 959–966, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230576 Published: 01 December 1974

  • Induced Technical Progress and the Price of Capital Goods

    Roger A MccainARTICLEThe Economic Journal1972Cited by: 6References: 3

    Journal Article Induced Technical Progress and the Price of Capital Goods Get access R. A. McCain R. A. McCain Western Washington State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 327, 1 September 1972, Pages 921–933, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230258 Published: 01 September 1972