This paper shows some relationships among economy, environment and natural resources. The concept of sustainable development is discussed, as well as its evolution along the time and the two competing approaches on this question. The paper also evaluates the connection between natural capital...

The objective of this manuscript is to explain how tournaments can be used in order to select the best candidates to fulfill the highest posts in religious organizations. With this purpose, in this working paper, we seek to show an model, modified from the original one, where the psychic income...

This paper shows an application of Promotion Tournaments to religious organizations, which is appropriate, especially in the case of highly ranked institutions such as the Catholic Church. With this objective, we seek to verify the suitability of the use Tournaments in religious organizations,...

This paper shows an application of Promotion Tournaments to religious organizations, which is appropriate, especially in the case of highly ranked institutions such as the Catholic Church. With this objective, we seek to verify the suitability of the use Tournaments in religious organizations,...

This article aims to explain, briefly, the evolution of higher education in Rio Grande do Sul, through data on the evolution of the number of higher education institutions, courses, vacancies, subscribers, enrollment and admission of students, between the years 1991 and 2013. Outside the Porto...

One of the most important models of rational choice to religion is the one presented by Durkin and Greeley. The authors base the problem of uncertainty of religious choice in Pascal's wager as a problem of maximizing expected utility and faith as an insurance In this paper, we test the...