It is well known that technological change causes social change, and vice versa. Using system and historical perspectives, this article examines that truth at a finer level of specificity, namely, that social perceptions of interconnectedness influence the progress of science and technology, and...

It is well known that technological change causes social change, and vice versa. Using system and historical perspectives, this article examines that truth at a finer level of specificity, namely, that social perceptions of interconnectedness influence the progress of science and technology, and...

Das Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) gehörte zu den leistungsfähigsten Zentren der Wirtschaftsforschung in Deutschland. Ab Mitte der 1930er-Jahre reagierte das IfW bereitwillig auf die zivilen Anreize und dann ab 1939 auf die Kriegsforschungsprogramme der Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für...

Das Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) gehörte zu den leistungsfähigsten Zentren der Wirtschaftsforschung in Deutschland. Ab Mitte der 1930er-Jahre reagierte das IfW bereitwillig auf die zivilen Anreize und dann ab 1939 auf die Kriegsforschungsprogramme der Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für...

Abstract Although the concept of randomized assignment in order to control for extraneous confounding factors reaches back hundreds of years, the first empirical use appears to have been in an 1835 trial of homeopathic medicine. Throughout the 19 th century there was a growing awareness of the...

During the 1960s but mainly in the 1970s, large mathematical dynamic global models were implemented in computers to simulate the entire world, or large portions of it. Several different but interrelated subjects were considered simultaneously, and their variables evolved over time in an attempt...

In order to determine the concept of space interpretation in several multiverse hypotheses, this article analyzes a number of them, which arises from some theories of modern physics. The interpretation of space in the history of philosophy and science and their interrelation with modern physical...

Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868 - 1931) was a European statistician. His scientific work covered theoretical economics, stochastics, mathematical statistics and radiology, today we would call him a cross disciplinary scientist. With his clear views on mathematical principles with their...

Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868 - 1931) was a European statistician. His scientific work covered theoretical economics, stochastics, mathematical statistics and radiology, today we would call him a cross disciplinary scientist. With his clear views on mathematical principles with their...