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Trends and Changes in Economies
Chapter 1 describes the changes in the role the economic sphere has played in societies over the last couple of centuries. It addresses changes in...
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A holonic framework to understand and apply information processes in evolutionary economics: survey and proposal
Economists unsatisfied with the basic neoclassical assumptions of rational economic actors and economic evolution towards equilibrium states founded...
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New Evidence on Active Ageing in Europe
Ensuring active ageing, i.e. the optimisation of opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people...
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Dynastic inequality, mobility and equality of opportunity
One often heard counter to the concern about rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on inequality of outcomes in a...
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Introduction
It is argued that mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes. As J.K. Galbraith said, this...
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Growth points or black holes: How efficient are state stimulation tools for territorial development?
The paper evaluates the efficiency of state stimulation tools for territorial development that have been actively applied in Russia in recent years,...
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Faith, Works and Talents Entwined: Driving Forces Behind John Nevile’s Contributions
In this article, we consider the mainsprings of John Nevile’s many contributions to economics. John has repeatedly argued that because ’economic...
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Greening the Australian Welfare State: Can Basic Income Play a Role?
A key policy and indeed political challenge at the start of the twenty-first century is how to create conditions for human flourishing within the...
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Smart Persons and Human Development: The Missing Ingredient in Behavioral Economics
In chapters 2 and 3, the focus has been on human capital (HC): (1) how the conception of HC is far too limited, (2) how the concept of HC could be...
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Development of Human Societies
Historians and other social scientists, using various models and criteria, have defined several stages of societal development. Some have made the...
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Education and Development
Since the appearance of early human societies, humankind’s search for food and security has never stopped; and humankind’s capacity to control and...
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Transformative Literacy: Case Study City of Basel
Thus far, the author has been focusing on understanding and describing the dynamics related to the field of mobility from the following perspectives:...
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Development, Social Justice and the Limits of Public Policy
Pakistan’s development experience of recent years can be best understood by briefly retracing events that followed in the immediate aftermath of the...
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1999: How the Economy Came to Resemble the Model
George Stigler (1976, p. 351) wrote that “economists exert a minor and scarcely detectable influence on the societies in which they live.” I don’t...
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A Personal Note
Because this book is about development that draws its lessons from the past as it tries to change the present and chart a promising path to the...
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Introduction
The book seeks to shed light on the journey of Pakistan’s development over the last six decades. It is a journey that began with promise and hope but...
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Behavioural Economics
In the mid-20th century psychologists in the develo** field of cognitive psychology, such as Ward Edwards,1 Amos Tversky, and Daniel Kahneman began...
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Global Imaginations: Projection versus Reality in Indian Megaprojects
This chapter explores the perception versus reality of mega townships in India. The projections of these townships are desperate plights to create...
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The Evolution of Economic Behaviour
The biological bases of economics include all those biological factors that influence the economic behaviour of individual animals. Humans are...
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Social Costs and the Measurement
Concerning social costs, in Japan, many disputants have already argued, so the terminology of social costs has been used generally.,