Distinguished international scholars lecture in thematic sessions on: Religion & the Welfare State, Immigration & the Welfare State, The Service Sector in the Welfare State, as well as Agency & Welfare State Development.

The main theme of this conference is intercultural collaboration, from both technical and socio-cultural perspectives. Topics will includecollaboration support (such as natural language processing, Web, and Internet technologies), social psychological analyses of intercultural interaction, and...

The call for papers will make clear that the conference embraces microscopic studies of the mechanisms of innovation, routine and selection as well as studies of the macroscopic problems of Schumpeterian growth and development as a process of "creative destruction". The broad range of issues...

Conference papers will be concerned with all areas of the application of economics to the arts, heritage, media, cultural industries, cultural policy and related areas. Topics: - Art Markets and Cultural Consumption - Creative Clusters and Urban Development - Cultural Entrepreneurship and...

Topics: - Art Markets and Cultural Consumption - Creative Clusters and Urban Development - Cultural Entrepreneurship and Business - Cultural Heritage and Cultural Tourism - Cultural Policy and Arts Institutions - Culture, Globalization and Language - Economic of Copyright and the Cultural...

Papers in allareas involving public economics and growth, including -but not limited to- regulation, social security, education and public goods, are welcome