The desire to understand the mechanisms of market information integration motivates this study. Large sample experimental prediction markets with varying feedback mechanisms afforded the study of aggregate and individual's actions. Markets without feedback demonstrated information collection by...

This chapter documents a multi-disciplinary collaboration among a mathematical economist, an ecological economist, and a systems scientist to demonstrate the contributions of system dynamics (SD) to the advancement of dynamic modeling in ecological economics. Ecological economics is a...

In this rejoinder to David Henderson’s article "False Perspective: the UNDP view of the world" (World Economics Vol 1 No 1 January-March 2000), Richard Jolly, former special adviser to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, argues that Henderson’s criticisms...

This article reviews various strands of development policies such as employment and basic needs policies, structural adjustment policies, human rights and human development policies, as well as policies emanating from the so-called Washington Consensus leading to current globalization practices....

Since its introduction in UNDP's Human Development Report 1994, 'human security' has been a topic of lively debate. The purpose of this paper is to explore empirically how human security has been treated in National Human Development Reports (NHDRs), produced in 13 countries since 1997 with...

Richard Jolly argues that a new approach to development co-operation will require a much broader set of objectives and a broader range of indicators to monitor progress towards them. He suggests how the monitoring of development co-operation needs to cover results in relation to objectives and...