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{"title":"The African Continental Free Trade Area and Financial Development for Female Labour Force Participation in Africa","authors":"Vanessa S. Tchamyou, Juste Somé, Simplice A. Asongu","doi":"10.1080/07360932.2023.2297169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2023.2297169","url":null,"abstract":"The study assesses how financial development dynamics can moderate the incidence of African trade integration on female labour force participation. The focus is on 47 African countries for the peri...","PeriodicalId":42478,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Social Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139051983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Long Way Toward a Post-Industrial Justice","authors":"Review essay by Paolo Borghi","doi":"10.1080/07360932.2023.2293449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2023.2293449","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reviews three recent publications that, from different disciplinary approaches, address the capital-labour relationship by delving into the dynamics of the organisation of labour, the st...","PeriodicalId":42478,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Social Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138687060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inquiries into Farmers’ Perception of Biodiversity in Vietnam: A Systematic Analysis","authors":"Thao Phuong Pham, Nguyen Thi Khanh Chi, Tuan Anh Truong, Nam Hoang Vu","doi":"10.1080/07360932.2023.2288793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2023.2288793","url":null,"abstract":"Conserving biodiversity has become more important for tropical countries, where agricultural production is featured by a large number of small farms scattered in wide areas conducting increasing in...","PeriodicalId":42478,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Social Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138575996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reality, Humanity and Economics: A Review","authors":"Sara Casagrande","doi":"10.1080/07360932.2023.2287957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2023.2287957","url":null,"abstract":"Economic theory is expected to answer the two fundamental questions of how real economic systems work and how they should work to meet the goals of human societies. Orthodoxy explains, through an a...","PeriodicalId":42478,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Social Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sexual Violence First Experienced as Childhood or Adolescent: The Effects on U.S. Female Education and Occupation","authors":"Morgan Kearns, Cassandra DiRienzo","doi":"10.1080/07360932.2023.2275119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2023.2275119","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractPrevious research generally considers sexual violence as binary, meaning it has been experienced or not, and has yet to identify if the age at which a survivor was first assaulted has differing long-term effects. The primary purpose of this study is to empirically explore the effect of age, specifically the two age ranges of childhood or adolescence, at which sexual violence is first experienced on female survivors’ educational attainment and occupation in the United States (U.S.). Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health survey, the empirical results indicate that study participants who first experience sexual violence in childhood are 50.2% less likely to have attained a level of high school education or above compared to those who did not experience sexual violence in childhood. Further, the analysis results suggest those participants who first experienced sexual violence in adolescence are 41.6% less likely to have attained a level of high school education or above compared to those who did not experience sexual violence in adolescence. In reference to occupation, the analysis results indicate that first experiencing sexual violence as an adolescent makes the odds higher that the survivor will be employed in a lower skill occupation (associate professional) relative to the highest skill occupation (professional). Overall, this study concludes that the age at which a survivor was first assaulted impacts the long-term effects of the assault, contributing new information to those researching the effects of sexual violence, those working with survivors, and policy makers developing survivor treatment plans.KEYWORDS: : Childhood sexual violenceadolescent sexual violenceeducation attainmentoccupational choice Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Wadsworth et al. (Citation2020) identified mental health symptoms and diagnoses, substance abuse, inflexible attendance policies, and workplace bullying as barriers to healing and occupational well-being.","PeriodicalId":42478,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Social Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136134574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trends in Social Cohesion and Trust towards European and National Institutions in Greece after 12 Years Long Financial Surveillance","authors":"Enrico Ubiali, Eugenio Bagnini","doi":"10.1080/07360932.2023.2263816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2023.2263816","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the joint EU-IMF surveillance on Greek government spending from 2010 onwards, and the effects these have had on the country’s social cohesion and trust in political institutions. After overviewing Greece’s most recent history, the paper focuses on social and political variables aiming at tracking governmental turnover and its alignment to EU policies and budgetary constraints, hypothesizing a decrease in social cohesion and institutional trust.Social cohesion is indirectly measured through indicators about public-spending and sociological variables on which austerity measures impacted, investigating socio-economic secondary data as trend analysis. Moreover, this study takes into consideration the trends of people’s trust towards national and EU institutions, assessing the overall commitment towards the adopted measures of the 2010–2022 time frame. Nowadays, Greece shows simultaneously signals of incremented governmental stability and persisting structural suffering in welfare policies, social cohesion and institutional trust.KEYWORDS: : Greek crisissocial cohesioninstitutional trustEU-surveillancebailout Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2022&locations=GR&start=2006 Data in USD.2 https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/2015/07/02/i-disastrosi-effetti-dellausterity-secondo-il-governo-grafici_92268da4-b9b8-46b5-9393-cc74c8a78387.html3 https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/2015/07/02/i-disastrosi-effetti-dellausterity-secondo-il-governo-grafici_92268da4-b9b8-46b5-9393-cc74c8a78387.html","PeriodicalId":42478,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Social Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135094420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The CAP (Common Agricultural Policy): A Short History of Crises and Major Transformations of European Agriculture","authors":"Alfonso Giuliani, Hervé Baron","doi":"10.1080/07360932.2023.2259618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2023.2259618","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe purpose of this article is to study the development of EU agricultural policies from a historical reconstruction perspective. The 1957 Treaty of Rome, the basis of today’s European Union, gave birth to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in order to coordinate production across different European countries, to ensure food self-sufficiency and the certainty of supply to member states. Over time, several choices, as well as certain subsidies and policies (e.g. milk quotas) have been called into question as part of the liberalisation of the common agricultural market. Others persist, but continue to favour the unequal management of funds in favour of large companies specialised in intensive agriculture and livestock farming. These choices represent a loss in terms of both biodiversity and traditional farming knowledge and know-how. The decisive changes of the CAP at the institutional level have transformed the socio-economic as well as geographical landscape of Europe. It should be added that with the current crises—the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the ecological crises—the entire model is being called into question. Consequently, this article, after providing a brief overview, aims to reconstruct the common agricultural policies. It then provides an explanatory framework in quantitative terms of the French and Italian agricultural sectors to highlight what are, in the authors’ opinion, the limits of the CAP, even in the face of the crises mentioned above.KEYWORDS: : : Agricultural economycommon agricultural policyFranceItalyCAP reformsJEL CODES: : : Q17Q18Q57 Notes1 In the case of France, this structure can be considered as much the long-term effect of Jacobin revolutionary ideology as the result of certain precise legislative choices made during the ‘Glorious Thirties’; in the case of Italy, on the other hand, it is the outcome of the agrarian reform of 1950.2 Here, in the wake of van der Ploeg (Citation2018), we consider the modernisation of agriculture to be closely linked to its industrialisation, and thus to the accumulation of capital in the sector.3 Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and annexed documents. Article 39, 1st line.4 The project is called the ‘Green Bible’ or ‘First Mansholt Plan’ (Sotte, Citation2023, pp. 19–20).5 Technically, one of the choices implemented to control the price of goods, in the case of perishable and difficult to store agricultural products (e.g. citrus fruits) is their destruction. When destruction is not possible, the Commission intervenes by transforming the goods, as in the case of milk that becomes milk powder. When the market price returns above the guaranteed minimum price, the products are put back on the market. The CAP also finances the transformation of surpluses into products to be used in other markets, such as the transformation of milk into cheese. That was at least until 2005.6 The ‘guidance section’ never exceeds 10% of the EAGGF budget, which is large","PeriodicalId":42478,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Social Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135197672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Feast in Time of Plague: Debt-Financed Spending Spree during the Pandemic","authors":"Anna Kurysheva, Andrei Vernikov","doi":"10.1080/07360932.2023.2259619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2023.2259619","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe paper explores the nexus between household consumption, financialization, and socio-economic policy. We focus on the recent episode of debt-financed buying of passenger cars which took place in Russia in 2020–21, amidst the Covid pandemic. We collect statistics on car sales, car loans and household income, and construct metrics to gauge leveraged car buying. The latter is found to be relatively inelastic to the price of a car and personal income. Two specific factors are highlighted: (a) speculation, alias hedging, to which households resort under financial instability; and (b) government policy aiming to facilitate household access to car loans. Conceived as a palliative against the pain of economic downturn, loan availability might instead bolster speculative demand and inflate price bubbles. The paper contributes to the body of literature on the sociology of consumption, household financialization, and the political economy of lending.KEYWORDS: : Sociology of consumptionfinancializationhousehold debtspeculative demandgovernment policyJEL codes: : B52B55E21G51 AcknowledgementsWe thank Anton Pyzhev, Paolo Ramazzotti, Akos Rona-Tas, an anonymous referee, and the participants of conferences held by Southern Federal University in Rostov-na-Donu, Institute of Economics UB RAS in Ekaterinburg, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in Amsterdam, and European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy in Naples. We are grateful to Timothy M. Spence for the language editing.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Financial Conduct Authority (2014). Consumer credit and consumers in vulnerable circumstances. April. https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/research/consumer-credit-customers-vulnerable-circumstances.pdf2 In monetary terms; based on a sample of banks with the largest car loan portfolio, as reported by CBR for 2013–21. Data by Banki.ru, own computation.3 http://www.fingeo.net/2022-04-05-rachel-n-weber-financial-astrology-real-estate-speculation-during-a-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2022-04-05-rachel-n-weber-financial-astrology-real-estate-speculation-during-a-pandemic4 Harvey Leibenstein explained the notion of speculative demand as “the fact that people will often ‘lay in’ a supply of a commodity because they expect its price to rise” (Leibenstein, Citation1950, p.189). Hyman Minsky referred to speculative finance to describe a firm’s borrowings to refinance existing debts. Such a regime provokes an increase in asset prices (Minsky, Citation2008).5 Friedrich Hayek used the term malinvestment to define the process of entrepreneurial calculation, when, at a reduced interest rate, previously unprofitable projects appear profitable to entrepreneurs (Hayek, Citation1939).6 Demoscope survey of 12,650 respondents (6,000 households) within the framework of the project “Research of Financial Behavior and Savings Habits of the Population of the Russian Federa","PeriodicalId":42478,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Social Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135014542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The European Economic Transition before, during, and after the Pandemic through the War in Ukraine","authors":"Paolo Maranzano, Roberto Romano","doi":"10.1080/07360932.2023.2252611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2023.2252611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42478,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Social Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47495351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"International Organizations and Gender Parity in Education: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)1","authors":"Deniz Gevrek, S. Guner","doi":"10.1080/07360932.2023.2248405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2023.2248405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42478,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Social Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45599899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}