"Based on a dialectical analysis of purposeful activity, a decentralized economy is presented as a complex nonlinear living system of economic actions. In such an economy, the general laws of the universe, which dialectics and synergetics studies, manifest themselves in a specific form. This...

Land reform has been perceived to be a major avenue for poverty reduction, amid controversies regarding the impacts of land reform in developing economies. This paper demonstrates how China’s land reform in the 1950s succeeded in reducing hunger and poverty. To be more specific, our paper...

"This radical new reading of the eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population exposes his narrow understanding of food production by examining subsistence activities such as hunting, herding, and gardening. In broadening our conception of human...