In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their "exclusiveness" we find that these...

This paper describes an alternative way (other than taxation) to eliminate poverty and unemployment from the world. This is done by creating a single money worldwide, and letting each government subsidize the economy of each country, through acting as a non-profit venture capital subsidizer, by...

Die Diskussion um eine Politik des neuen dritten Weges ist bislang durch einen Mangel an Systematik und typologischer Einordnung gekennzeichnet. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird daher die Analyse des Reformgeschehens in den EU-Ländern auf zwei Aspekte konzentriert: Die Deregulierung auf dem...

The principle of equality of capabilities developed by Sen and Nussbaum aims at providing a new conception of equality of opportunity, alternative to the major criteria so far formulated, and in the first place to the principle deriving from equality of resources. Recently, however, the...

Many empirical studies illustrate the natural correlation between freedom and economic prosperity. Therefore, the quality of economic and political institutions that prevail in a country must be assessed considering their capacity to promote a lower level of government intervention in all...

The cross-country correlation between social trust and income equality is well documented, but few studies examine the direction of causality. We show theoretically that by facilitating cooperation, trust may increase efficiency and lead to more equal outcomes, while the feedback from inequality...

Este trabajo evalúa qué variables caracterizan el nivel de desarrollo y calidad de vida de las comunida- des que habitan las localidades de Bogotá. Para lograr este objetivo se recolectó información de 19 de ellas, dentro de las cuales se analizó el indicador compuesto de necesidades...

The cross-country correlation between social trust and income equality is well documented, but few studies examine the direction of causality. We show theoretically that by facilitating cooperation, trust may lead to more equal outcomes, while the feedback from inequality to trust is ambiguous....

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

Настоящий научный доклад посвящен анализу экономических реформ, осуществляемых в России после 2000 г. и оказывающих непосредственное влияние на человеческий...