“The Slovene literary language is alive and well in the Republic of Slovenia in Yugoslavia, where it is functionally almost completely self-contained and whose speakers are politically, and more especially, economically successful, culturally and in civilizational terms, above the average Yugoslav. However, [the Slovenes] are still all too unaware that it is their literary language to which the...

The goal of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements is to help identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture for global climate change. It draws upon leading thinkers from academia, private industry, government, and non-governmental organizations from around the world to constr...

The influence of information and communication technology on the collective activities and interests of a broad range of people was discussed and analyzed. The important consequence of ICT called digital divide was mathematically modeled and the results analyzed. The closed loop feedback model proved the need for a society to be educationally, culturally, economically and politically ready to i...

This position paper presents the following thought experiment: can we build communication protocols that (1) are sufficiently useful that they achieve widespread adoption as general-purpose communication mechanisms and (2) thwart censorship as a consequence of their design? We posit that a useful communication platform that is inherently resistant to traffic analysis, if widely adopted and used...

The need for continuing, comprehensive, urban transportation planning on a cooperative basis among all levels of governmental units is emphasized by the growing importance of transportation as a major segment of our economy. Transport facilities have linked our nation together socially, economically, and politically. As our national popula­ tion and economic activity increase in the future, so ...

The question we seek to analyze in the proposed conference is the pervasive phenomenon of inequality. More specifically, we want to examine the extent to which the observed increase in inequality in most developed democratic countries is politically and economically sustainable, whether this trend can be checked, and, if so, by what kind of alternative policies. The problem addressed here is cl...

When does new economic information cause voters to re-evaluate the government’s competence, and ultimately vote economically? Since politically-relevant information is often conveyed by actors with incentives to influence voter perceptions, the credibility of information sources can vary significantly. This paper randomly varies whether voters receive an aggregate unemployment forecast from the...

Recent research has underlined the efficiency of the GATT/WTO rules from the standpoint of politically motivated governments, emphasizing that the current multilateral rules are capable of delivering a politically efficient equilibrium. Such an equilibrium is, however, economically inefficient. Global free trade, in particular, is generally unattainable even in a fully cooperative world, provid...

According to most criteria, North Korea would be classified as a failing state. More often than not the country’s destiny has been predicted as collapse, chaos, and in the end, absorption by South Korea. However, so far the Kim Jong-il regime proved viable and cultivated the art to survive within a globalizing world without opening up. More recently, North Korean authorities appeared to revive ...

Abstract Overall, decoupling from certain countries may be both politically necessary and economically feasible, at least in the long run. However, a general shift of production back to Europe would accompanied by significant losses real income.