Selected files by Wendy Olsen that you can download (click here to return to home page)
Morgan, J., and W.K. Olsen, “Conceptual issues in institutional economics: Clarifying the fluidity of rules”, forthcoming in Journal of Institutional Economics, PDF, 2010. doi:10.1017/S1744137410000299, forthcoming 2010, 30 pages.
Olsen, W.K., and J. Morgan (2010) “Institutional Change From Within the Informal Sector in Indian Rural Labour Relations” (PDF) , International Review of Sociology, as part of a special issue, 20:3, 535-555, on “The Regulation of Indian Informal Capitalism”, eds. Elisabetta Basile (University of Rome “La Sapienza” - Italy) and Barbara Harriss-White (Oxford University – UK).
Morgan, J., and W.K. Olsen, (2010) Aspiration Problems for the Indian Rural Poor: Research on Self-Help Groups and Micro-Finance, Capital and Class (PDF) , forthcoming.
Olsen, W.K. and J. Morgan (2010), Aspiration Problems in Indian Micro-Finance: A Case Study Exploration, Journal of Developing Societies (PDF), 26:4, 415-455. DOI: DOI: 10.1177/0169796X1002600402..
Olsen, Wendy, and H. Nomura (2009). “Poverty Reduction - Fuzzy Sets vs. Crisp Sets Compared”, Sociological Theory and Method (PDF) , Journal of the Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology. 24:2, 218-246. September. ISSN 0913-1442.
Olsen, Wendy (2009) “Moral Reasoning About Gender Pay Gaps” (PDF), International Journal of Green Economics, 3:2, 142-156.
Morgan, J., and W. Olsen, (2007) "Defining Objectivity In Realist Terms: Objectivity as a Second-Order 'Bridging' Concept", Journal of Critical Realism, vol 6 no. 2, pgs 250-266; see also http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/JCR/) PDF and part 2 of same paper, PDF
Olsen, W.K. (2009) "Moral Political Economy and Moral Reasoning about Rural India: Four Theoretical Schools Compared", Cambridge Journal of Economics. PDF
Olsen, W.K. (2007), Pluralist Methodology for Development Economics: The Example of
Moral
Indian Labour Markets, Journal of
Economic Methodology (PDF) . Working Paper No. 53, Global
Poverty research group, www.gprg.org.
This paper is on moral overtones and moral undertones in statistical
analysis.See also www.gprg.org/pubs/workingpapers/pdfs/gprg-wps-053.pdf
Olsen, W.K. (2005), Moral Political Economy and Poverty: Four Theoretical Schools Compared, Global Poverty Research Group, Working Paper No. 31, www.gprg.org. See http://www.gprg.org/pubs/workingpapers/pdfs/gprg-wps-031.pdf.
Olsen, W.K. and S. Mehta (2006) A Pluralist Account of Labour Participation in India, Global Poverty Research Group, Working Paper No. 42, www.gprg.org. See http://www.gprg.org/pubs/workingpapers/pdfs/gprg-wps-042.pdf.
Olsen, W.K. (2006) Pluralism, Poverty and Sharecropping: Cultivating Open-mindedness in Development Studies, Journal of Development Studies, PDF here , October 2006. See http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00220388.as.
Social Structures of Accumulation conference, video introduction, and abstracts. Be sure to go down low into the page and find the video segments. Each one has a largish picture, and the ability to watch the lecture that was given by that person!
Indian tenancy and the social structures of accumulation: Olsen presentation in the SSA conference. Click to see the slides.
Olsen, Wendy, and Mehta (forthcoming, 2006) "The Right to Work and Differentiation in Indian Employment", Indian Journal of Labour Economics. Click to read the paper.