Introduction -- "One shekel of your private silver" -- The pirates of Phoenicia -- The reluctant Romans -- An enterprising faith -- Flying money and capitalist monks -- Western Europe and a 'new world' of profit -- Captains of the revolution -- The land of [entrepreneurial] opportunity --...

Simplicity and complexity / James Z. Lee, Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell -- Previous paradigms and new models / James Z. Lee, Wang Feng, Noriko O. Tsuya -- Reproduction : models and sources / Noriko O. Tsuya, Cameron Campbell, Wang Feng -- Household organization, co-resident kin, and...

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the “social capital” theories that link civil society and democracy. Using data from the Civil Society Index for 44 countries, we find that not only this relationship exists, but that civil society is also positively correlated with human...

The social policy of a country is a set of specific measures that are aimed at regulating social relations between subjects that are different in their social status. This approach to understanding social policy is also called the functional approach and, in fact, it considers social policy as...