Scholars have shown a consistent decline in class voting over time, arguing that social no longer structures political competition. Yet, the loss of explanatory power should be attributed to shift left-wing parties towards less friendly issue positions for their class-based electorate and not entirely demand-side explanations. This article focuses on factors underpinning voting, particular econ...

Aage Sørensen, in “Toward a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis,” argues that Marxists are correct in placing exploitation at the center of class analysis since an exploitation-centered concept of class has a much greater potential for explaining the structural foundations of social conflicts over inequality than does its principle rival, the material “life conditions” conception of class. But he ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the influence of socioeconomic and demographic factors (gender, economic class, age and marital status) on the occurrence of temporomandibular disorder. STUDY DESIGN One hundred individuals from urban areas in the city of Recife (Brazil) registered at Family Health Units was examined using Axis I of the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD...

Concepts from cooperative game theory have been applied to a wide range of economic problems with great success. The core equivalence and value equivalence theorems are outstanding examples of the fruitful synthesis of game theory and equilibrium analysis. These (and other results from cooperative game theory) have provided insight into market outcomes by investigating the problems in the absen...

The contribution of information technology (IT) to economic growth and development is seen as an important factor underlying the pace of development in many developing countries. While Asia’s NIEs are often portrayed as models for economic growth, Ireland’s recent economic performance has attracted considerable attention, earning it the label, Europe’s Celtic Tiger. We adopt a framework of IT-l...

This paper addresses the problem of measurement of non-monetary economic activity, specifically in the area of free/open source software communities. It describes the problems associated with research on these communities in the absence of measurable monetary transactions, and suggests possible alternatives.. A class of techniques using software source code as factual documentation of economic ...

This paper demonstrates that the economic surplus which agents produce in bilateral interactions is extractable by an outside party having sufficient initial resources. The third party achieves this outcome using a class of ‘‘exclusive-interaction’’ contracts. A basic extractability result is shown to be robust to several extensions: competition among outside parties, multiplicity of interactin...