Among the challenges posed by human-caused climate change are issues of justice and democracy, in how the environmental problem is expected to affect human social and economic systems and in the response taken by states and the international community to mitigate the problem. While unmitigated climate change unjustly harms the most vulnerable and widens existing unjust inequalities, programs to...

Policy makers from around the world are trying to emulate successful innovation systems in order to support economic growth. At the same time, innovation governance systems are being put in place to ensure a better integration of stakeholder views into the research and development process. In Europe, one of the most prominent and newly emerging governance frameworks is called Responsible Resear...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the, relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior among 186 experts of Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance (MEAF) in Iran. Design/methodology/approach – The papers develops a research model based on current literature and then test this model in MEAF selected from 18 Ministry, public sector in Iran. St...

Transitional justice, as defined by the United Nations, is the full range of processes and mechanisms associated with a society’s attempt to come to terms with a legacy of large-scale past abuses of human rights (UN, 2010: 2). Although the UN acknowledges the equal importance of all human rights for human well-being and explicitly calls for addressing all these rights in processes of transition...

I with Prabhat Jha and James Lavery that technological advances, rather than improvements in income and education, have been responsible for improvements in health care in the developing world. Sri Lanka and the state of Kerala in India have made rapid advances in health care through their investment in primary care and education and measures to reduce social and health inequities. Despite a ci...

I undertake a political economy exercise of a type described in John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice; namely, one in which economic institutions are judged by how well they match the key principles in theories of distributive justice. My main contention is that such an exercise is integrally related not only to economics in general but to empirical economics in particular. I argue that most standard...

Duncan Hall was honored with an aw ard of m eri t in Midwest Construction’s “Best of 2008” com­ petition in the residential/hospitali­ ty category, the University announced Friday. Midwest C onstruction is a monthly magazine focused on the construction industry in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Eastern Missouri. It is one of 10 regional magazines published by McGraw11 ill Construction. The Un...

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