In October 1998, we convened scholars, policy makers, and practitionersto review what we know about the processes that affect childdevelopment and how we might wisely increase public and privateinvestments in children to promote both their well-being and theproductivity of the next generation....

This bold, imaginative book advances an entirely new theory of voters’ behavior.The starting point for this theory is that individuals are endowed with a set of beliefs, ora worldview, and derive psychological benefits from acting in accordance with these beliefs.However, the beliefs of most...

Der Nobelpreisträger AMARTYA SEN spricht von einer Fetischisierung der Wahlfreiheit in unserer Gesellschaft und mahnt darüber nachzudenken, ob wir ihr Nahrung oder Entbehrung verdanken. Wahlfreiheit, so SEN, sei nicht unbedingt mit Feiheit gleichzusetzen.In der Tat hat sich das Prinzip der...