This article argues that contemporary interest in social capital by community development theorists, funders, and practitioners is misguided and needs to be thoroughly rethought. It argues that social capital, as understood by Robert Putnam and people influenced by his work, is a fundamentally flawed concept because it fails to understand issues of power in the production of communities and bec...

This paper provides a critical appraisal of new growth theory from the perfective of postKeynesian approach to macroeconomic dynamics. It argues that new growth theory appears new from the point of view of introducing endogenous growth only if one ignores many nonneoclassical contributions to old growth theory. New growth theory also suffers from other problems, including the fact that it does ...

this comment on professor fotaki’s editorial agrees with her arguments that training health professionals in more compassionate, caring and ethically sound care will have little value unless the system in which they work changes. it argues that for system change to occur, senior management, government members and civil servants themselves need training so that they learn to understand the effec...

The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the recent development of the notion of “policing diversity” in England and Wales. In addition to outlining why policing diversity has become a preeminent theme in current debates about policing, the article explores central conceptual issues and argues that it does represent a fundamental break with long-standing notions such as “policing by...

This paper discusses challenges the US intelligence community faces in helping to counter bioterrorism—a real and emerging threat that has the potential to cause mass destruction in the United States. It includes background material on a number of issues related to the threat of bioterrorism to help the reader understand why the bioterrorism threat is real, why it may be growing, and why it cou...

the present article considers literary works and the criteria for their evaluation. it argues the relationship between construction and consistency.construction and consistency are like the two wings of a bird for literary works. the article also discusses imagination, grace and other factors which cause construction and consistency.

It is widely acknowledged that texts are not translated word by word, but unit by unit. Single words are polysemous and therefore ambiguous in translation. Corpus linguistics, in monolingual context, has replaced the traditional basic notion of meaning (words) with the extended unit of meaning. Accordingly, this paper argues that in bilingual context, the translation unit, as the counterpart co...