This paper presents a survey of studies analyzing various uncertainties in integrated assessment models of the economics of climate change. Applications of techniques for both deterministic models (Monte Carlo simulations, sensitivity analysis) and stochastic IAMs (stochastic dynamic...

In article some results of research received by the author of some the Moscow small enterprises are analyzed. Under a critical corner of sight activity on support of SME in Russia is considered. Problems of small business are formulated and ranged.

Any legislative framework is likely to generate different institutions or norms of behavior which the legislator occasionally could have never foreseen. I suggested a general pattern, on which inefficient, if stable, norms or institutions called institutional traps would form.

The article is devoted to the study of the crisis of modern Western democracy. It is noted that the important causes of the crisis are slowing down of economic growth and deepening inequality in developed countries. It is shown that strong inter-party competition inevitably generates a mechanism...

We introduce the concept of collaborative hierarchy, a mechanism of collaboration which combines hierarchical and peer-to-peer interactions. In a collaborative hierarchy, a set of participants informatively "subordinate" to the same coordinator forms a peer-to-peer network producing consensual...

The article is about the specifics of political control as a form of social control. The author analyzes the practice of political control, identifies social control methods which applicable to the various objects. Particular attention is paid to the mechanisms of solving social problems arising...

The article is about the specifics of social control as a social phenomenon. The author analyzes as social control historically was changing, as approaches to its definition, its types, methods, the system of sanctions were changing also. Particular attention is paid to identifying the sources...

The article is about the various types of participants in social relations in the structure of social control. The author analyzes the specifics of the subject-object relationship, offering a classification of subjects and objects of social control. Particular attention is paid to the features...

The article is about problems of formation the non-state sector of social work in Russia. The author analyzes the specificity of functioning non-state sector of social work. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of public formations the non-state sector as subjects of social work.

The article is about the main approaches to the definition of social management and control. The author traces the evolution representations about the social management and control in the sociophilosophical and sociological concepts. Particular attention is paid to the different concepts and...