Why do sudden and massive social, economic, and political changes occur when and where they do? Are there institutional preconditions that encourage such changes when present and discourage such changes when absent? I employ a general model which suggests that cascades which induce massive...

Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that racial “segregation within an industry – that is, firms with either all black or all white labor forces” – may be explained by economic theory, but “the...

In the analysis of the economic motivation of the war, the financial evaluation around resourcing stands; In Colombia has made ​​considerable effort to understand and quantify the finances of the guerrillas. If you remove a small fraction of funding from public funds, it can be said that the...

The article is about the specifics of social control as a social phenomenon. The author analyzes as social control historically was changing, as approaches to its definition, its types, methods, the system of sanctions were changing also. Particular attention is paid to identifying the sources...

The article is about the main approaches to the definition of social management and control. The author traces the evolution representations about the social management and control in the sociophilosophical and sociological concepts. Particular attention is paid to the different concepts and...

The article is about the specifics of a new form of social control – the global social control. The author analyzes the development of global institutions, their formation as subjects of social control. Particular attention is paid to the characteristic of features of global social control in...

The article is about the specificity of social control as an element of social management. The author indicates that social control is carried out within the subject-object relations. The author gives a detailed description of the participants of social relations in social management and...

The application of game theory and cognitive economy to analyze the problem of undesired location - The analysts of the processes of public bodies decision - taking have long been discussing on the establishment of proper strategies to manage "environmental conflicts" - above all the so-called...