Over the last century, mainstream economists have become increasingly defensive and sectarian, increasingly rigorous in excluding dissidents, sometimes blighting careers at a hint of disagreement with the standard orthodoxy, or, when someone had managed to achieve recognition outside their reach, saying—as I've heard it said about the late Ken Galbraith— " well, he's very clever, but of course ...

conventional methods for fungal identification in the clinical laboratory rely on morphological andphysiological tests. these tests often need several days or weeks to complete and are frequentlyunspecific. molecular identification mostly implies sequencing, which is relatively expensive andtime-consuming, as well as impractical for large numbers of isolates. the rolling circleamplification app...

This study examines factors determining farmers’ investment in organic farming using a contextualized lab-in-the-field experiment with 220 small household farmers Northern Vietnam. We focus on the role of network structure, information nudge, and social comparison between three types networks: circle, star complete. Our results suggest that, average, around 64% land is invested complete which e...

the internet is a widely recognized channel for information exchange, academic research, entertainment, communication and commerce. the internet is a new tool that is evolving into an essential part of everyday life all over the world and its use increases especially among young people. although the positive aspects of the internet have been readily praised, there is a growing amount of literat...

There is no need to try to ease into the discussion because the issue being discussed here is too involved to waste words that way. It is important to get right to the point. The starting premise is that we seek to understand the world in which we live. This leads immediately to a whole set of related premises that define the problem as being the answer to the question “how we can obtain that w...