This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points … an historical analysis of sociology itself. It shows the great comeback of the Object within the sociological field at … the beginning of the 80s. Different models have been developed from the generalized kinds of sociology to those that have …

Asia, our study will show that good governance and tax exemption may be significant factors in increasing charitable giving …

its cause? The conventional wisdom in the world history literature offers globalization as the answer: it alleges that … European import demand and foreign export supply from Asia and the Americas. The behaviour of the relative price of foreign …

answer is less. Three centuries of history show unambiguously that economic isolation caused by war or autarkic policy has … early 19th century; but it did not do so after the 1970s as the Third World shifted to labor-intensive manufactures. Whether …

This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America …, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial … markets also reduced the cheap capital advantage of the leaders. However, ever-cheaper labor was not a serious cause of …

Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid …