The purpose of the paper is to propose and examine a logical and epistemological tool to measure science as a specific human activity in the social cooperation network. In preparing the very approach of the main issue of the research, a short examination of the concept and typology of science is...

Any economic paradigm is in some way based on a certain value premise. The Islamic one considers that the main actor, the individual, does not have as a goal the maximising of the output that needs to be realized, in the shape of the wealth or of the individual consuming. The individual is not...

This article analyses the literature on altruism produced in economics (and also in psychology and socio-biology). Altruism is generally regarded as behaviour alternative to self-interest pursuit. Selfish behaviour, as assumed by traditional economic models, is contested by a vast series of...

PhD students have to take responsibility managing their own learning and getting a PhD. They are also responsible for determining what is required as well as for carrying it out, and must always keep in touch in regular meetings with the supervisor. The student is the main person responsible for...

In this paper we analyze how Poverty and social sciences research, dedicated to poverty, are worked in journalism, using some cases as example. Journalism dedicated to the dissemination of info on research and results from scientific studies related to poverty has an important role of educating...

Islamic economics and finance is a nascent discipline. Since 1976 when the First Conference on Islamic Economics was held under the auspices of King Abdelaziz University at Makkah, it is merely four decades that serious efforts to transform Islamic economic teachings into a social science...