Within the subprime crisis (2007) and the recent global financial crisis of 2008-2009, we have observed significant decline, corrections and structural changes in most US and European financial markets. Furthermore, it seems that this crisis has been rapidly transmitted toward the most developed...

Population sizes, birth and death rates / Piyu Yue -- Changing age structure of the Muslim population / Piyu Yue -- Rapid urbanization and its problems / Piyu Yue -- Population quality : illiteracy and education / Piyu Yue -- The Islamic empires / Piyu Yue -- Colonization and Islamic...

Introduction and overview / Ann Harding -- Health status, health inequalities and the ability of older Australians to stay in the labour force / Agnes Walker -- Evaluating catastrophic drug expenditure plans / Bert Waslander -- Projections of Commonwealth health expenditure in Australia's first...

Rational parties and retrospective voters / David A. Siegel -- A spatial theory approach to the study of political spaces / Melvin J. Hinich -- Proximity versus directional models of voting : different concepts but one theory / Susumu Shikano -- Markets and politics : the 2000 Taiwanese...