We present an in-depth analysis of the music industry and use our findings to judge the practicalassumptions and design of an original theoretical model. The model is in three stages, where, in aHotelling-type framework, the last agents to act are consumers who choose between copying,...

Two firms choose locations (non-wage job characteristics) on the interval [0,1] prior to announcing wages at which they employ workers who are uniformly distributed; the (constant) marginal revenue products of workers may differ. Subgame perfect equilibria of the two-stage location-wage game are...

Happiness research is a new, rapidly growing and provocative aspect of economic science. In fact, there are now over 1,800 published papers on the subject, and it might be said that the ‘dismal science’ has come to be obsessed with happiness. This research provides a number of interesting...

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-06, Section: A, page: 2350.

A cikk a népesedéssel kapcsolatos problémák közül néhányat alaposabban is körüljár. A tanulmány bemutatja a különféle, egymással összebékíthetetlennek látszó „zöld” elképzelések mozgatórugóit és a törésvonalat: a modernitást és a modernitás tagadását; s a...

Due to the communist regime in Hungary the values and principles of the Second Vatican Counsil could hardly achieve their goal in the region and the situation is almost the same even today. This paper examines two levels of society where the thoughts of Gaudium et spes might have appeared: we...

A fejlődést gazdasági növekedésként felfogókat bíráló hangok szórványosnak és erőtlennek hatnak, pedig a nyugati fogyasztói társadalom árnyoldalait és hosszú távú fenntarthatatlanságát taglaló tudományos igényű munkák ma már egyre szélesebb körben hozzáférhetők....