Deirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Dignity (2010) represents another breakthrough work in her career, and the second volume in a multi-volume work on the economic and intellectual history of western civilization. In a sense, the subtitle of the book explains well what this volume is all about – why...

The present work tries to analyze the existence and the development of social enterprises in Bulgaria. It reviews the possibility for the social programming approach application, aiming increasing their effectiveness and impact, of the process's participants as well as of the supplied services'...

The present work reviews the social effectiveness of the processes as a basic element for social development. It tries to analyze the term from all its dimensions and to search for its applicability in the assessment of social impact. It reviews the accumulated experience and tries to give...

The present work reviews the social effectiveness of the processes as a basic element for social development. It tries to analyze the term from all its dimensions and to search for its applicability in the assessment of social impact. It reviews the accumulated experience and tries to give...

The present work tries to analyze the existence and the development of social enterprises in Bulgaria. It reviews the possibility for the social programming approach application, aiming increasing their effectiveness and impact, of the process's participants as well as of the supplied services'...

In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...

This paper draws on a natural experiment to identify the relationship between income and trust. We use a unique panel dataset on Russia where GDP experienced an 8 percent drop in 2009. The effect of the crisis had been very uneven among Russian regions because of their differences in industrial...

The English Parliament's struggle for supremacy against monarchical dictatorship during the Civil War (1642-48) was crucial for the establishment of representative government, yet its lessons continue to be debated. I exploit novel data on individual MPs drawn from 1842 biographies to show that...

Human progress, driven by technical advances, increases wealth and well-being in society. However, socioeconomic and technological progress does not always lead to general well-being of people in society. In particular, this study shows some inconsistencies of human progress, technology-driven,...

The early 21st century will be remembered for its shift in global economic power dynamics. In the past two decades, the Chinese government has fostered the growth of many of the world’s most valuable firms, advanced complete integration of Chinese companies in global supply chains, and...