The Pareto principle, the seemingly incontrovertible dictum that if all individuals prefer some regime to another then so should society, may conflict with competing principles. Arrow’s impossibility theorem and Sen’s liberal paradox are two notable examples. Subsequent work indicates more broadly that the Pareto principle conflicts with all nonwelfarist principles. This essay surveys these res...

Urban economics emphasizes: the spatial arrangements of households, firms, and capital in metropolitan areas; the externalities which arise from the proximity of households and land uses; and the public policy issues which arise from the interplay of these economic forces.

“If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity” (Lanyon 2011). There is little doubt Martin Davies and Ronald Barnett (2015) would agree with this pronouncement if The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education were a fair indication because Davies and Barnett specifically compiled the chapters in this book in or...

Despite the fact that democracy promotion is a major part of liberal foreign policies, the discipline of International Relations has not paid much systematic attention to it. Conversely, the study of democracy promotion is dominated by comparative politics and pays hardly any attention to the international system. This mutual neglect signifies a core weakness in the theory and practice of democ...

Social norms are customary rules of behavior that coordinate interactions among people. Once a particular way of doing things becomes established as a rule, it continues in force because people prefer to conform to the rule given the expectation that others are going to conform (Lewis, 1969). This definition covers simple rules that are self-enforcing at a primary level, such as which hand to e...

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Information Visualization (2003) 2, 1–2. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500030 It is an honor to welcome you to the first theme issue of Information Visualization dedicated entirely to the papers selected from IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2002. The annual InfoVis symposium, which has been sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics (TCVG) since 1995, ...

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Research in the economics of security has contributed more than a decade of empirical findings to the understanding of the microeconomics of (in)security, privacy, and ecrime. Here we build on insights from previous macro-level research on crime, and microeconomic analyses of ecrime to develop a set of hypotheses to predict which variables are correlated with national participation levels in cr...