The inaugural publication of the International Journal of Green Economics constructed formal foundations for the establishment of a new school of thought and an attempt to explore and capture current developments and thinking in Green Economics. The current issue introduces the next step in the...

Las transformaciones experimentadas por España a partir del Plan de estabilización Económica de 1959 han alterado la realidad de su economía pero también, y de una manera importante, la de su sector público. De hecho, la modernización económica exigía una racionalización de la parte de...

Cette contribution montre les faiblesses de l'induction comme moyen de construction et de validation de la connaissance scientifique et met en lumière la nécessité de développer une recherche scientifique fondée sur une approche déductive. Alors que la recherche scientifique est...

This paper argues that the life-works of Norbert Elias and Franz Borkenau can be best understood together, as they were developed in close interaction during the 1930s. Deriving inspiration from Freud, they took up the project formulated by Weber as the end of his 'Anticritical Last Word'....

A new paper presents a strong case for life satisfaction scales (Diener et al. in Soc Indic Res, <CitationRef CitationID="CR3">2012</CitationRef>). However, it underestimates two important weaknesses in subjective wellbeing (SWB) measures: the contrast between individual satisfaction and social discontent; and the contradictory evidence...</citationref>

During the last decades, conflicts about the use of territory and neighborliness in the countryside have been multiplied. The co-presence of individuals and social groups that have soundly different references, conceptions and practices, leads to misunderstandings and territorial trespassing. If...

In the literature, cohabitation rather than marriage is presented as an indicator of weakening intergenerational ties, either as a cause or an effect. In this paper we compare the frequency of face to face and phone contacts between parents and their married and unmarried children living with a...