This paper examines the links that have recently been studied between poverty, high fertility, and undernourishment, on the one hand, and degradation of the local environmental-resource base and civic disconnection, on the other, in poor countries. An account is offered of a number of pathways...

Consider a game whose strategies are "contributions". A strategy profile is a Kantian equilibrium if "no" player would like "all" players to alter their contributions by the "same multiplicative factor." Kantian equilibria are Pareto efficient. We characterize the allocation rules on several...

For the first time in some years, a conservative government came to power in Denmark in 2001, due primarily to the citizenry's disaffection with social-democratic policies on immigration. We represent political competition in Denmark as taking place over two issues-the size of the public sector...