Endogenous Development based on African Moral Economy

HIV and the moral economy of survival in an East African City.

Based on fieldwork in the city of Kisumu, Kenya, the article examines the survival of HIV-positive people on antiretroviral (ARV) medicines and situates this within broader moral economies of their lives-in matters of food, hunger, social relationships, and networks of care, including NGOs. Through locating survival at the level of individual adherence to medication, ARV programs medicalize it....

Conceptualizing Moral Panic through a Moral Economy of Harm

This paper explicates a critical theory of moral panic, arguing that there is an afŽ nity to be discerned between the sociology of moral panic and the sociology of moral regulation. It is demonstrated how efforts to distance sociological investigations of moral regulation from studies of moral panic have been founded on a narrow treatment of the ways in which the latter have conceptualized pani...

Wiring the African Economy

knowledge based economy and sustainable development

this paper proposes a structural model for the analysis of correlation between knowledge economy index and sustainable development across the world. an analytical model is devised for investigation of the role of the major factors in the process of development. the proposed structural model is calibrated using statistical data from the world bank, and the united nations for national economies a...

Multi-Agent Based Modelling of an Endogenous-Money Economy

We present an agent-based model of a simple endogenous-money economy. The model simulates agents representing individual persons who can work, consume, invent new products and related production technologies, apply for a loan from the bank and start up a business. Through the interaction of persons with the firms, we simulate the production of goods, consumption and labour market. In order to a...