Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa's economy is the least developed...

Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...

Purpose: Workplace Spirituality (WS) nowadays has created a buzz around the corporate echelons. The quest is how the leader can be made more aligned with the organization, finds meaningfulness in his/her work which leads to Supportive Supervisory Relations (SSR), intrinsic motivation, and...

We study the behavior of 12 pairs of undergraduate students while they were involved in a simple coordination game requiring motor interaction. Three experimental conditions were defined according to whether a monetary prize was given to both or only one subject, if the couple was in...

The article “the economy of creative imagination” argues in favour of the assumption that the process of creating economic goods, as well as living conditions of an individual, is accomplished, first of all, in the person\\\\\\\'s brain, in the imagination, by mobilizing the cosmic energies...

Cost optimization in the company in a way that is constantly increasing profits is one of the main objectives of management. Continuous development of technology and market changes, make the achievement of higher profits is becoming increasingly difficult. Companies must perform difficult tasks...

The monography considers laws and mechanisms of social development from positions of positivism, dialectic materialism and the theory of systems. The methodology of the author is based on causality in relations of a society and social institutes. Social development is considered as result of...

This paper reviews the ethically relevant consequences of immigration as established by economists’ studies. We then evaluate what various philosophical frameworks recommend as an ethical immigration policy. Existing U.S. immigration policy is found to be far from ethical regardless of which...

For decades, experimental economics has been very interested in behavior that could be characterized as practicing solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a bridge between these two endeavors that, thus far, had...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life...