An article about the use of the methodology of general systems theory and the theory of self-organization as a methodological basis of scientific interpretation of social reality. The author analyzes the role of ideology and propaganda in the different concepts of interpretation of social...

Since the 1970’s, there has been a progression toward market processes in nations once committed to comprehensive central economic planning. Multinational donors and individual Western countries have expended substantial resources to advise these nations about legal reforms designed to promote...

Consider a licensing contract where a monopolistic grid sells a license to a competitive licensee. Unless it is regulated, the grid will exploit its monopolistic position which, in turn, will imply an exploitation of the consumers who buy the end product from the licensee. Therefore, the...

This paper establishes a `turnpike theorem' for a closed linear model of production with a primitive input requirement matrix. Optimal programs of resource allocation have a `turnpike property' if the growth factor of every sector in the economy converges, in the long run, to a common value. The...

Modern urban regions are highly complex entities. Despite the difficulty of modeling every relevant aspect of an urban region, researchers have produced a rich variety of models dealing with interrelated processes of urban change. The most popular types of models have been those dealing with the...

Sustainability is an important, influential but elusive concept. I review concepts related to sustainability in earlier literature, and then summarize and synthesize recent work on sustainablity by Chichilnisky (1993), Beltratti, Chichilnisky and Heal (1994) and Heal (1993). This provides a...

Today's global society, from the year 2000, is a paradigmatic shift period, dominated by a theoretical cleavage from theory of the postmodern paradigm, methodological individualism and programmatic deconstruction by a transmodern paradigm, centered on "integration and border spiritualization"...

The paper examines the optimal saving policy for a small exhaustible resource-exporting economy (ERE) that has an exhaustible asset and a reproducible capital stock. It shows that, both in magnitude and time profile, the optimal saving policy for an ERE sharply differs from (a) that of a...