What is wrong with economics? And what will make it right?

Article Abstract:

The author asserts that the study of economics is no longer a social science, but rather a study of individual function and motivation outside of society, with focus on the individuals maximization of personal benefits. Social sciences take into consideration the construction of hierarchy and power, as well as the constraints institutions place on economic life; political processes regulate property and change the distribution of wealth and power in a given country, but labor economists who focus on individualism divert attention away from the constraints of social institutions and place inappropriate concern on individual decisions and choices; social reform is discredited when economic outcomes are attributed to individual choice rather than social contributions and this has a negative impact on social action.

Economic aspects, Economics, Labor economics, Social sciences, Motivation (Psychology), Personality, Personality and motivation, Individuation (Psychology), Social problems, Individuation

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The retirement of the baby boomers: will they get their ham and eggs?

Article Abstract:

This article discusses the concern among baby boomers for protecting social security by drawing a comparison with a pension movement in California during 1930s and 1940s known as the "Ham and Eggs" campaign. The author asserts that concerns among baby boomers may not focus on pension as it had in the 1930s and 1940s, but rather on access to health care and the elderly people's feelings of being cheated out of social security; another problem lies in the fact that in the future fewer workers must support more retirees.

Planning, Retirement planning, Social security, Baby boom generation

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Risk relations: the new uncertainties of work

Article Abstract:

This article discusses the changing work conditions of employees in New York's Internet industry, including the new norms of flexible work and emphasis on entrepreneurship at work which includes concepts of nonstandard work conditions and risk-taking, providing individualized solutions to industrial and organizational uncertainties. The author asserts that this ideological trend among professional workers supports economic inequalities and serves to symbolicly encourage flexibility at other workforce levels.

Management, Internet, Risk management, Social policy, Organizational change, Work, Work (Labor), Flexible work hours, Flexible hours, Entrepreneurship

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