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synthesizes and critically reviews the emerging traditions in the study of change dynamics. Three mainstream theories of evolution …
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-based understanding of institutional evolution and livelihood formation vis-à-vis micro/macro-interventions. …
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Doubts about the decidability of moral questions have often been used as an excuse for economists to eschew any normative propositions. Evolutionary economics, still lacking a well-developed normative branch, gives rise to a form of descriptive moral relativism. This paper wants to explore the...
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's cultural relativism and Boudon's anti-relativism, as well as to the notion of rationality and the theory of social evolution …, referable both to the evolution and organization of human societies, is sketched out that may also be extended to the …
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This paper explores the interaction between the world of information processes in human society and the non-information dynamics, which the latter set out to understand. This broad topic is approached with a focus on evolutionary political economy: It turns out that progress in this scientific...
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Article about the role of Protestantism in shaping the conditions for successful social and economic development of the state. The author compares the Orthodoxy in Russia and European Protestantism as the ideological foundation of ensuring social stability and social progress of the state.
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Contemporary social teaching suffers from a grave deficiency: it is lacking rules of methodology and procedure suited to social reality that are, in particular, able to reconcile increasing creativity (implying irreversibility) with rationality, which are indispensable for the scientific...
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The article is devoted to institutional control of social system and conceptual aspects of the structure of institutional matrix.
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Labour potential of the community is a complex system of the elements such as the labor power of demographic system and the institutional capacity of social system. The institutional capacity provides the division of labor and integration of individuals in the process of social production. The...
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This volume – Predicting Crisis: Five Essays on the Mathematic Prediction of Economic and Social Crises – is the first of three sets of essays. In this first set the economic and social history of the United States is shown to be a “system of movement,” i.e. a logical and mathematic...
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