Contributions to CONFLICT M ANAGEMENT, PEACE ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 15 tT! GORDON BURT The Open University, UK United Kingdom - North America - Japan India — Malaysia — China CONTENTS FOREWORD ...

Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science provides a foundational mathematical approach to the modelling of social conflict. The book illustrates how theory and evidence can be mathematically deepened and how investigations grounded in social choice theory can provide the evidence...

How might we model the historical processes which transported Mozart's compositions in eighteenth century Vienna to their performance in twentieth century Japan? There is a need to look beyond the neo-classical economics tradition. A description is given of how cultural taste gives direction to...

Mathematics is associated with abstraction, generality, and simplicity, whereas reality is associated with specificity and complexity. Because of this, it might be argued that the humanities disciplines are better than mathematics at providing accounts of the history of societies and the lives...

The mathematical science approach to the study of social affairs has been much debated not least among scholars of international relations. Wight (2002, p. 37) reviews the current debate – discussing the views of Michael Nicholson and Steve Smith quite extensively – and comments:all of this...

Our physical universe is 1.5×10 10 years old. It began with the Big Bang. There is some debate about what happened in the first tenth of a second! The first 3×10 5 years were radiation dominated. Since then it has been matter dominated. (This in accordance with the first law of thermodynamics...

Taken all together, how would you say things are these days – would you say that you are very happy, pretty happy or not very happy? (USA General Social Surveys Question 157)On the whole, are you very satisfied, fairly satisfied, or not at all satisfied with the life you lead? (Eurobarometer...