Investigation of British Mesolithic and Neolithic genomes suggests discontinuity between the two has been interpreted as indicating a significant migration continental farmers, displacing indigenous population. These incomers had already acquired some hunter-gatherer genetic heritage before their arrival, this increased little in Britain. However, proportion ancestry is generally greater than f...

Based on surveys of attitudes towards the wealthy in United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Sweden, we calculate Social Envy Coefficient, which depicts social envy each country. This is complemented by Personality Trait shows whether respondents attribute positive or negative personality traits to rich. These two coefficients are combined form basis Rich Sentiment Index...

In Europe today U.S. management consultancies occupy a dominant position among the largest service providers. In a "league table," published in the Financial Times of September 12, 1995, almost all of the top ten and more than half of the top forty European consultancies were of American origin. Over the past few years, many formerly independent ational consultancies have been taken over by for...

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the National Foundation and that only in the 1960s, when it began to accept federal funding, was it forced to admit African-American patients and care-givers. In his analysis of the British Polio Fellowship, founded in 1939, which he defines as "an organization of the disabled run by the disabled themselves" (p. 165), Gould points out the frequent tensions between the disabled and the able-bodi...

uncertain, and the state lacked the resources for major infrastructural reform. "Medical policing", one of the Enlightenment slogans of the day, thus remained more ideal than reality. In her final Chapter, Lindemann looks at the choices people took when they were confronted with the problem of illness. Fatalism and resignation were relatively uncommon. Most people preferred being well to being ...

From a historical, cross-comparative, life course perspective, this paper examines changing family-related transitions to adulthood and emergent trends and issues for aging families. Primary focus is placed on Canadian families, although comparisons will be made with several Western industrialized countries (U.S., Britain, France, Italy, Sweden). Using nationally representative data, key findin...

How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve t...

This paper examines the empirical validity of the prediction that if governments minimize the deadweight loss from raising revenue through inflation and tax finance, there should be a positive contemporaneous association between inflation and the level of tax burdens. We examine the empirical validity of this prediction using data from Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Inf...