Article history: Received 3 August 2015 Received in revised form 25 July 2016 Accepted 23 September 2016 Available online xxxx Empirical research has identified various institutions that improve resource longevity by supporting individual resource conservation. However, themechanisms bywhich these institutions emerge have not been established. We speculate that economic institutionswhich suppor...

in this article, the set of institutions which embody the form and contents of the economic system of islam is introduced. by institutions, it is meant the economic freedoms, the government, ownership, motivation, the mechanism for coordinating economic activities, power, organization and bureaucracy. after explaining islam’s outlook regarding these institutions, the form and the contents of th...

I will first discuss how social interactions organize, coordinate, and specialize as “artifacts,” tools; how these tools are not only for coordination but for achieving something, for some outcome (goal/function), for a collective work. In particular, I will argue that these artifacts specify (predict and prescribe) the mental contents of the participants, both in terms of beliefs and acceptanc...

social capital has received considerable attention in all branches of social sciences, and has recently been the focus in the field to explain about procreator elements. trust is one of the social capital elements and plays an important role in specifying consequences incidental to social capital. nearly two decades ago, robert putnam proposed an explanation of trust relying on associational li...

Children's perceptions of social resource inequalities were investigated by measuring spontaneous explanations for race-based disparities in access to societal resources. Fifth graders (N = 139, M = 11.14 years, SD = .61 years) viewed animated vignettes depicting hypothetical resource inequalities between institutions serving children of African-American and European-American background. Childr...