This research aims to develop and demonstrate an advanced, integrated earthquake loss estimation methodology for urban lifeline systems. The methodology, which evaluates direct and indirect economic losses from lifeline failures, provides a means for assessing both expected losses from future earthquakes and potential loss reduction from mitigation alternatives. This effort builds on and coordi...

There is a long tradition among sociologists of using economics as an intellectual straw man. For a while in the 1980s and 1990s, every economic sociology article, on every topic, ran something like this: it began by ritualistically presenting the view from economics, and then proceeded to pull it to pieces by showing that “it is, in fact, much more complicated” than the play of interests and i...

This article presents current research work on the development of BEBS (BIONETS Economic and Business Simulation Model). This model is used to illustrate how in pervasive agent-based networks dynamic agents engage in distributed mobile communication exchanges that carry a potential, non-quantified value to be determined. This value can be monetised either as advertisement or as share of revenue...

Globalization, widely cited as the dominant international economic trend of the post-World War II era, is deeply connected with the opening of the world economy. The relationship between trade and growth has been intensively debated in the economic literature, within the fields of economics, sociology, political sciences, and others. However, in the areas of International Business (IB) and mana...

Though there is wide agreement among political scientists that separation of political and socio-economic statuses is necessary for the functioning of democracy, wide disagreement exists over the extent to which political statuses in tlie United States differ from socio-economic ones. This article focuses on PACs (Political Action Committees) as a new means for status-fusion in the United State...

The commonalities and differences between Ukraine the United States have been studied. They compared their socio-cultural economic "field" proved that only in were relatively favorable conditions for emergence strengthening of sociology as a science university discipline, where there mostly professors scientific schools organized by them. America has successfully used human resources Poland oth...