It is increasingly recognised that population thinking is a basic characteristic of evolutionary economics. This paper demonstrates that there are several forms of population thinking. The most basic form is intra-population thinking for single populations, and this thinking easily extends to structured populations, where selection takes place at several levels. But there is also a need of appl...

We develop a growth model with endogenous technological progress in which the financial sector plays an explicit role. Thereby we discuss the role of different financial regimes in the growth process. We contrast a bank-dominated financial system with a market-dominated system. In the first one a financial intermediary (a bank) is able to solve informational problems, however, at a cost. There ...

Broadband access plays a major role for the economic growth and for the social and cultural development of urban and rural areas. Market failure within the broadband sector emerges often in regions with a low density of population and weak economic conditions. A provision of broadband infrastructure and services in such areas is not attractive to private investments because of a low or even neg...

Interaction with the rapidly expanding digital technologies for education, work, and play has drastically changed the processes and practices of world populations. As societies evolve in response to these new communication and calculation tools, the need arises to understand the sometimes unique but increasingly common change in cultures. The Digital Ethnicity Scale (DES), utilizing Longstreet’...

Even though Russia is the largest country in the world (16,377,742 km of land), its 142 million population is sparsely distributed across the vast land and concentrated in the European part. 73% of the population lives in urban areas while 27% are in rural areas. The country’s population is predominately ethnic Russian (79%), and for 92% of it Russian is the first language. Russia’s GDP in 2008...

With many industrialized societies bearing the cost of an increasingly sedentary lifestyle on the health of their populations there is a need to find new ways of encouraging physical activity to promote better health and well being. With the increasing power of mobile phones and the recent emergence of personal heart rate monitors, aimed at dedicated amateur runners, there is now a possibility ...

One of the major demographic changes during the past 200 years is the emergence of the twochild norm as part of the creation of the modern family. While we know a great deal about the timing of the fertility transition in different regions, we know much less about specific features and causes. The aim of this paper is to use longitudinal micro-level data for seven local populations in Europe an...