Showing 1 - 10 of 15,000
Purpose of one of the priority projects of the Arctic academy of sciences is development, based on the principles of … safe and sustainable development, taking into account the experience of United Nations - HABITAT and purposes of the … development of United Nations, practical recommendations regarding the guarantee of level and quality of the life of population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397377
Recently, it has been suggested that the process of economic development should ideally be viewed as a socioeconomic … aspects have only been inadequately addressed in development theory. This paper argues that social-cognitive vicarious … development trajectory of these regions suggests that a proper understanding of the vicarious learning mechanism provides crucial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266731
Economic motivations and economic processes play a key role in the emergence and diffusion of communication and information technologies. The objective of this paper is to offer an economic approach which is better suited to understanding such motivations and processes within an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448734
According to neoclassical economics, the most efficient way to organize human activity is to use the free market. By stoking self interest, the theory claims, individuals can benefit society. This idea, however, conflicts with the evolutionary theory of multilevel selection, which proposes that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012626981
-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420247
The evolution of the development doctrine over the last six decades is analysed in some detail in this paper. The … development doctrine is defined as the body of knowledge consisting of four interrelated components: (1) the prevailing … development objectives; (2) the conceptual state of the art relating to development theories, models, techniques and applications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284819
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played asignificant role in the process of … economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growthpromoting traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486959
The internationalization of services is a natural part of the evolutionary development of anopen market economy. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870403
This article mobilizes and integrates both existing and new time series data on real wages, physical heights and age-heaping to examine the long-term trend of living standards and human capital for China during the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Our findings confirm the existence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870480
perception of the Middle Kingdom and contributed to the evolution of Orientalism. It examines the evolution of the Jesuit mission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870547