In recent years various aspects of tax evasion (the effects of tax rates, audit probability and equity) have been investigated using simulation techniques. This paper reports a series of experiments which have looked at the usefulness of this approach. The simulations have all been implemented...

The Lakatosian methodology of scientific research programmes (MSRP) is intended to circumvent the epistemological difficulties associated with various brands of falsificationist method, of which the most important is the Duhem-Quine problem. We reject the view that Lakatos’ MSRP needs to...

The concept of ‘freedom of contract’ developed by academic economists and the legal profession in the ninteenth century assumed an equality of circumstance between master and servant. The divergence between this concept and the experience was revealed in the dock and general...

The relevance and usefulness of mainstream or neoclassical economics has been questioned more in some fields of inquiry than in others. Against the background of an attempt to characterize environmental problems, the fruitfulness of conventional ideas of economic analysis, as carried out in...

The work of the late Michel Foucault had a considerable impact on philosophy and sociology but despite its importance for economic thought, it has gone almost unnoted by orthodox economists and historians of economics. This paper reviews Foucault’s Archaeological approach to knowledge and...

The potential of long wave theory is examined, as a possible basis for theoretising the history of industrial capitalist development. A brief review of the various forms of the long-wave account is given; recent versions are dealt with in 3categories—Neo-Schumpeterian, Marxist and...

Unemployment exists in all three worlds. In the First World capital-intensive industries have replaced labor-intensive activities in order to compete with price structures in the developing countries; in the Second World the problem is less pronounced, but the trend is unavoidable because of the...