This article generalizes a set of core design principles for the efficacy of groups that was originally derived for groups attempting to manage common-pool resources (CPRs) such as irrigation systems, forests, and fisheries. The dominant way of thinking until recently was that commons situations...

Sustainable energy systems of the future will need more than efficient, clean, low-cost, renewable energy sources; they will also need efficient price signals that motivate sustainable energy consumption as well as a better real-time alignment of energy demand and supply. The Power Trading Agent...

This paper aims to locate developments in water delivery within broader financialization trends by considering three aspects of water management. First, despite clear failings of privatization over the past twenty years, state support for the private sector continues. Second, innovations have...

The paper examines the globalization of the R&D, including the factors which have impact on this phenomenon. Transnational corporations account for a major part of global R&D and they are selecting some developing countries as locations for R&D activities. This article identifies the effects of...

The article presents tax policy of every president of the United States in 1975–2008. Starting from period which is previous to Ronald Reagan’s reforms, which is asummed as a starting period of carried analysis, through reaganomics, Bill Clinton’s reforms, up to the changes introduced by...