Die Welt steht vor tiefgreifenden wirtschaftlichen, ökologischen und sozialen Herausforderungen; das sind im Besonderen: die Klimakrise, der schnelle technologische Wandel, die Globalisierung und die Ungleichheit zwischen Generationen und Ländern. Zwar haben viele der in den letzten 40 Jahren...

The post-crisis European economy is characterised by slow rates of growth. The consequences of the Great Recession which followed the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers, determined that, on the 15th of September 2008, all the actors of the global economic scene assess the symptoms,...

Circular economy is becoming an increasing concern for specialists due to the benefits it can have upon the environment and people. Although there are no well-defined indicators according to which the progress of a circular economy can be quantified, there is more and more concern in the...

We study the interplay between scientific progress and culture through text analysis on a corpus of about eight million books, with the use of techniques and algorithms from machine learning. We focus on a specific scientific breakthrough, the theory of evolution through natural selection by...

Nowadays the world is facing a serious problem related to climate change and its repercussion for human beings. At the same time, world societies are struggling with the consequences of the last economic crisis. These issues have not escaped the attention of the United Nations, and therefore in...

In diesem Kurzaufsatz diskutieren wir die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen Karl Marx und der katholischen Soziallehre. Wir konzentrieren uns auf drei Vergleichspunkte: das Menschenbild, die soziale Frage und die Einstellung zum gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt.

This paper links the super-multiplier to Keynesian macroeconomics, showing it to be the most Keynesian of growth perspectives. Next, the paper shows that the super-multiplier is a micro-economically coherent theory of investment and capital accumulation. Firms' decisions regarding capital...

In diesem Kurzaufsatz diskutieren wir die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen Karl Marx und der katholischen Soziallehre. Wir konzentrieren uns auf drei Vergleichspunkte: das Menschenbild, die soziale Frage und die Einstellung zum gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt.

Nowadays the world is facing a serious problem related to climate change and its repercussion for human beings. At the same time, world societies are struggling with the consequences of the last economic crisis. These issues have not escaped the attention of the United Nations, and therefore in...

Introduction: the pencil -- part 1. Deceptively simple -- Bricks -- The factory -- The postage stamp -- Bicycles -- Spectacles -- Canned foods -- Auctions -- part 2. Selling the dream -- Tulips -- Queen's ware -- The Bonsack machine -- The sewing machine -- The mail-order catalogue -- Fast-food...

"In this brief text, John Dewey compiled excerpts from Henry George's influential work on economics. Fifteen chapters of highlights from the influential treatise are followed by comments from other American economists."

"Progress and Poverty offers a fundamental inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of poverty and advancing wealth. Upon its 1879 debut, it quickly became the best-selling book on economics and was a principal inspiration for the United States' Progressive Era of the...

Part I. Poverty is on the run -- Part II. Enrichment didn't come for the reasons you imagine -- Part III. It came because ideas, ethics, rhetoric, and ideology changed -- Part IV. The causes of the causes were not racial or ancient.

Changes in the labor share of national income affect inequality (Piketty 2014). This paper aims at investigating the relationship between the labor share and technical progress, based on provincial data of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to 2012. Our main empirical results show...

Corruption, commonly defined as the abuse of public power for private gain, is a widespread phenomenon in many countries of the world where its consequences have serious problems. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating role of national culture on the social...

In ihrem gesellschaftskritischen Sachbuch entwickelt Sarah Spiekermann eine Ethik für die Technologien der Zukunft - und zugleich ein Plädoyer für Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Apps, die unaufgefordert Informationen zuschicken; Autos, die von Google-Rechnern...

Economists have traditionally been interest in analyzing economic growth enhancing factors. Entrepreneurship is one of factors considered by economists. However, in this analysis is also necessary to be considered how economic progress and distributive justice are affected. Usually economic...

I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade. This favoritism, estimated in the form of individual teacher effects, has long-term consequences: as measured by their national evaluations three years later, male students...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the moderating role of gender in the relationship of networking behavior's and career progression of individuals. Five dimensions of networking behavior's: Maintaining Contacts (MC), participating in Community (PC) increase in Internal Visibility...

Economists have traditionally been interest in analyzing economic growth enhancing factors. Entrepreneurship is one of factors considered by economists. However, in this analysis is also necessary to be considered how economic progress and distributive justice are affected. Usually economic...

I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade. This favoritism, estimated in the form of individual teacher effects, has long-term consequences: as measured by their national evaluations three years later, male students...

Since the commercialization of the Internet, content and related applications, including video streaming, news, advertisements, and social interaction have moved online. It is broadly recognized that the rise of all of these different types of content (static and dynamic, and increasingly...

Growing levels of regulation force financial institutions to change their business models toward lower risk levels, higher capital adequacy, service quality, and more stable revenue pools. In parallel with the regulatory changes, the banks are subject to pressure from accelerated technology...

In 2010, nearly 74,000 new cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed among Indian women. This number is estimated to increase to as high as 225,000 cases by 2025. Cervical cancer is also the leading cause of cancer deaths in India, as most cases are not detected until they are in an advanced...

Cervical cancer screening is highly cost effective, feasible, and culturally acceptable in higher and lower income settings across the world. According to the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum, screening for cervical cancer is an evidence-based ?best buy? prevention...

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique dataset containing grades given by teachers, scores obtained anonymously by pupils at different ages, and their course choice during high school. Based on double-differences, the...

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique dataset containing grades given by teachers, scores obtained anonymously by pupils at different ages, and their course choice during high school. Based on double-differences, the...

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In Nepal, both early marriage and motherhood still place adolescents and their children at a great disadvantage. In 2011, one-third of girls aged 15-19 were already married. About 60 percent of them were pregnant or had at least one child, and one in ten had two living children (Nepal...

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) is one of five areas of focus of the World Bank's Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010 - 2015 (RHAP), which recognizes the importance of addressing ASRH as a development issue with important implications for poverty reduction. Delaying...

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) is one of five areas of focus of the World Bank?s Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010?2015 (RHAP), which recognizes the importance of addressing ASRH as a development issue with important implications for poverty reduction. Delaying childbearing...