Capitalist Enterprise and Social Progress.

Capitalist crises, social capital and well-being

Alleviating poverty is among the most laudable aim of the Millennium Development Goals. However, policies aimed at alleviating poverty could only be successful if they are underpinned by clear understanding of mechanisms which contribute to poverty incidences and distributions. This study seeks to investigate the effect of major capitalist crises, such as the Asian financial crisis on health di...

Social Simulation Modelling Progress

GENESIS is a UK project funded by its Economic and Social Research Council through the National Centre for e-Social Science research node program. Some GENESIS work aims to develop simulation models that represent individual humans and their organisations and how they change their location and influence over time. For this I am developing two models that operate at different temporal resolution...

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Capitalist Development and Civil War

Capitalism has emerged as a force for peace in studies of interstate conflict. Is capitalism also a force for peace within nations? This article shows how a market-capitalist economy—one where most citizens normally obtain their livelihoods contracting in the market—creates citizen-wide preferences for universal freedom, peace, and the democratic rule of law. Prior research has corroborated the...

Capitalist Development and Educational Structure

and arcane world of game theory (where, ironically, it is also unwelcome!), and to the even more distant reaches inhabited bl political scientists, sociologists, and Galbraith. If ‘every economic actor is a price taker’, or if, more pointedly, as Samuelson tells us it makes no difference whether the capitalist hires the worker or the other way around, we can safely forget about power in the com...