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This chapter surveys the major contributions to the rapidly growing empirical literature on social capital and economic performance, focusing primarily on cross-country approaches. It first addresses characteristics of governments that fall under broad definitions of the term social capital. It...
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The monography considers laws and mechanisms of social development from positions of positivism, dialectic materialism and the theory of systems. The methodology of the author is based on causality in relations of a society and social institutes. Social development is considered as result of...
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The Eurocrisis challenges our definition of a common future in Europe. As first step, this article describes a vision of a future Europe without the Euro as state of political and economic marginalisation. I am contrasting this vision by demanding European values and civic duties that make the...
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Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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especially of the theory of contractual and relational norms. This theory, deriving from Macauley's implications, but structured … business relations' rules and practice. After presenting the key literature about the norms theory and especially defining the … content of MacNeil's norms, we define management contracts as relations, characterised by a high relational element and we …
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inspections and the enforcing of social norms play a critical role in reducing fatalities but not non-fatal accidents. …
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strategy, and industrial organization." This part of the literature deals with the effect of tipping on firms and markets. For … close relationship of tipping to industrial organization and firm strategy. Several review articles made an attempt to … extensive literature review that focuses on the area of "tipping, firm strategy, and industrial organization." The purpose of …
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vividness, omission bias, scapegoating and xenophobia, fairness and reciprocity norms, overconfidence, and mood effects. This …
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on political economy, security, norms and identity, environment, human rights, migration and human security in Northeast …
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In soccer penalty kicks, goalkeepers choose their action before they can clearly observe the kick direction. An analysis of 286 penalty kicks in top leagues and championships worldwide shows that given the probability distribution of kick direction, the optimal strategy for goalkeepers is to...
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