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The rise of monogamy
Why has polygyny, marriage of a man to multiple women, common in most societies throughout history, almost disappeared in modern industrialized...
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Surnames and Genetics
There are fascinating parallels between surnames and genetics, and the extent and scale of them has only been recently revealed thanks to the...
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On the Concept and Measurement of Empowerment
Empowering individuals and groups enhances their contribution to, and enables them to benefit from, poverty reduction. This chapter, which treats...
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The New Division of Labor in the Globalized Economy: Women’s Challenges and Opportunities
The way in which the new international division of labor (NIDL) in the globalized economy affects gender inequalities has not been sufficiently...
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Does the Field of Comparative Economic Systems (CES) Care about the Good Society? A Feminist Angle on the Need for Institutional Analysis in CES
Philosophers have historically asked: “What is the good society?” Correspondingly, economists have asked: “What makes for a good economic system?”...
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Introduction: Learning and Interaction — Drivers for Innovation in Current Competitive Markets
The challenge for Europe after the global economic and financial crisis is substantially different from the scenarios envisaged by the 2000 Lisbon...
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Associated Development Programmes and Projects
While the greater part of WFP assistance has gone to emergency operations, support has still been provided for specific and associated development...
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Unpaid HIV/AIDS Care, Gender and Poverty: Exploring the Links
Traditionally, women are known worldwide to be the main care providers in families and households, devoting much of their time to carrying out...
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Comparative economics: evolution and the modern economy
Comparative economics—the description and underlying explanation of human and nonhuman variations on the relationship between life and its...
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Economic Systems in the Develo** World: Regional Differences
The prevalent view among most economists is that of considering the develo** world as a comparable set of individual countries that pass through a...
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The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development Aid
The purpose of this chapter is to construct a framework for understanding the gender dimensions of post-conflict reconstruction (PCR), in order to...
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The Most Relevant Theories and Methods
Philosophy of science is a highly contested field these days. Yet there is considerable consensus on what is no longer accepted. The falsificationism...
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Hunting and Gathering Economies
Men and women (Homo erectus) who were culturally and biologically distinguishable from other hominoids have lived on the planet Earth for about 1.6...
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Rosen, Sherwin (1938–2001)
Sherwin Rosen made fundamental contributions in equilibrium theory, human capital theory, income distribution theory and investment theory. One...
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Feminist Ecological Economics and Sustainability
New developments in feminist ecological economics and ecofeminist economics are contributing to the search for theories and policy approaches to move...
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Education, Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development: a Review of the G8–Unesco Forum
The G8–Unesco World Forum recently held in Trieste examined the relationship between knowledge and sustainable development, focusing on the gap...
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Altruism: Evolution and a Repercussion
Evolutionary biologists have developed a powerful theory of the evolutionary foundations of altruism between relatives. The theory is based on the...
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On Human Emancipation: The Archaeology of Discontent
European social ideologies, within which modern (and modernist) social science occupies a hallowed and hegemonic space, as evolved in the great...
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General Conclusions: From Crisis to a Global Political Economy of Freedom
If anything, the world economy at the start of the twenty-first century – even more so than during the interwar period – shows the kind of complexity...
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Modelling firms’ location and cluster development
The second chapter of this thesis has shown the empirical relevance of high-tech clusters in four advanced countries, the third has presented a...