About the contributors -- The long trends of profit (March 2008) / Fred Moseley -- A new sort of financial crisis (April 2008) / Costas Lapavitsas -- The crisis depends on the fightback (April 2008) / Leo Panitch -- An era of rampant inequality (May 2008) / Simon Mohun -- The imbalances are...

Trust among individuals of a society is an important dimension of social capital and may have different economic and development implications. The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship of trust with economic growth and human development. It is unique in at least two...

Since its inception, the main analytical contribution of the Human Development Index (HDI) has been its emphasis on enhancing the quantity of its components. In this paper, a set of qualitative indicators are introduced in order to formulate a quality-adjusted human development index (Q-HDI)...