Every policy relies on explicit or implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those assumptions typically rest on an idealized model of how people think, rather than an understanding of how everyday thinking actually works. This year’s World Development Report argues that a more...

We use individual and aggregate data to ask how the Internet is changing the ideological segregation of the American electorate. Focusing on online news consumption, offline news consumption, and face-to-face social interactions, we define ideological segregation in each domain using standard...

This paper, "Competition and Ideological Diversity: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers" to which these Appendices apply is available at the following URL: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2191104" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2191104

We use data on US newspapers from the early 20th century to study the economic incentives that shape ideological diversity in the media. We show that households prefer like-minded news, and that newspapers seek both to cater to household tastes and to differentiate from their competitors. We...

The UK government - in common with the governments of many Western countries - is in the midst of implementing policies to reform education. However, the government has, as a matter of principle, decided that profit-making schools cannot provide state-funded education even if they would lead to...

Fachübergreifende Darstellung der Entwicklung nachhaltiger Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsstrukturen in einem globalen Weltökosystem. Umfassend, mit aussagekräftigen Grafiken und Seitenmarginalien übersichtlich gestaltet, bemüht sich der Titel auch um eine allgemein verständliche Sprache....

в статье изложены некоторые теоретические аспекты профессионального (юридического) правосознания и его деформации. Сформулировано определение и выделены...