Oakland, a city in California, represents the problems and the promises of large 21st Century market based economic systems: immigrants and working people struggle to create a decent life in an infrastructure undergoing radical changes. The Oakland population contains people suffering from some market failures as well as brilliant people working to overcome them.
Mission of Reality Based OSE
The Oakland School of Economics [OSE] Journal presents papers addressing the real world status of problematic social issues in the United States and other market based economies. OSE Journal authors come from diverse national, cultural and educational backgrounds. Their papers address both the primary and selected secondary effects of a specific issue; it has happened that some traditional economic analysis limits its scope to the primary effects of social issues without considering any secondary effects.
OSE papers addressing an existing issue focus on the factual analysis of the existing situation and keep any policy recommendations in a separate Appendix.
Also, the OSE Journal seeks papers documenting existing and creative endeavors to address social issues without the traditional capitalist or ‘free market’ solutions. These papers will present detailed analysis of the costs, reach and benefits of any such endeavor. Readers may choose to follow that example and Journal authors explicitly accept that premise.