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Eksperci i narcyzm kulturowy - próba analizy wzajemnych relacji
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
forms of trust and risk, untransparent social situations and economic, political and cultural globalization. These processes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163533
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Trust and Prosperity: A Conditional Relationship
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on ‘trust and growth: a shaky relationship” by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Secondly, when initial levels of growth come into play in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260692
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Questionario e guida pratica per la misurazione del capitale sociale
Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Questo paper presenta un questionario e una guida pratica per la misurazione del capitale sociale. Il lavoro vuole costituire un vero e proprio manuale rivolto a ricercatori, studenti e docenti, consulenti di impresa e operatori del terzo settore che per qualsiasi ragione, dalla redazione della...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562605
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Economic Growth in the Potterian Economy
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108988
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The Solaria Syndrome: Social Capital in a Growing Hyper-technological Economy
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous technical progress. Starting from the assumption that the well-being of agents basically depends on material and relational goods, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490498
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Spellings Commission Report on Affordability and Access to Higher Education: changing demographics, economic crisis and investment in human capital
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596361
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Shadow economy revisited: logic, morality and intuition in corrupt practices and illegal channels
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of the paper is to analyze how corruption contributes to the spread of shadow economy and damages viable economic development of any country. The unfreedoms that are created under the conditions of illegal transactions and corrupt practices considerably limit the opportunities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596407
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A Litmus Test of Academic Quality
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper discusses the major issues connected with the accreditation procedures in higher education system in the U.S. The questions raised are as follows: what are the reliable and credible indicators of quality instruction that could be measured in the process of accreditation of higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596413
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Can Trust Explain Social Capital Effect on Property Rights and Growth?
Hall, Stephen G; Ahmad, Mahyudin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
political institutions) towards economic growth. Utilizing the World Value Survey (WVS)’s trust variable that has often been … studies, this study shows that WVS’ trust data suffer severe missing observation problem and the panel fixed effect estimation … of social capital beyond the WVS trust indicator. The results also indicate that political institutions effect on growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258083
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Общая теория систем и научная интерпретация социальной реальности
Kaluzhsky, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
An article about the use of the methodology of general systems theory and the theory of self-organization as a methodological basis of scientific interpretation of social reality. The author analyzes the role of ideology and propaganda in the different concepts of interpretation of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107986