This book, "The Mystery of Economic Growth," which was recently published in Hebrew, provides an excellent non-technical description of the developments of growth economics over the last half century. The story of the ideas and research of the theory and empirics of economic growth is organized around four themes. First, the importance of the accumulation of physical and human capital for the e...

This article reveals the leading role of standards in Industrial Ecology. It describes the tendency for the modern stage of world development to introduce widely accepted international standards. Along with this, each country has it own system of standards and respective specifics. A number of significant standards are available for practical operations of industries and institutions, e.g. the ...

This essay provides an overview of the way in which regions and regional institutions have become increasingly important in debates about international security, making it possible to speak of a ‘regional dimension of global security’. After discussing some of the regional sources of insecurity past and present, and introducing the debate about the so-called ‘regionalization of security’, it fo...

most theories of the developmental state assume that industrial transformation requires capable and coherent development bureaucracies that are “autonomous,” in the sense of being insulated from particularistic private interests. these theories however benefit from networks connecting them to relevant private industrial actors. by all scholarly accounts, political factionalism and islamic insti...

We, participants in the First International Congress of Person centered Medicine and the Board of the International College of Person-Centered Medicine, call for action to promote person-centered health for all through transfor-mative educational concepts, programs and actions. Person Centered Medicine seeks to place the whole person in context at the center and as the goal of clinical practice...

The main focus of this article is a systematic development of computer systems with good data models. Example of a data model being changed through its life cycle, the national CRIS-system CRIStin now used by 160 institutions in Norway, is presented. Mapping to CERIF is briefly discussed and international standards touched upon. Also the future of international systems and interoperability is m...