Asian development in the 1970's is likely to take place under conditions quite different from those typical of the past two decades. These changing conditions will have an important influence on the research focus relating to growth and development. This paper examines two such changes. First, the population explosion of the 1940's and 1950's will be transformed into a labor force explosion in ...

The author reveals the features and peculiarities of development science in USSR, due to limits socio-political system internal logic intellectual elite, which ensured country's readiness for challenges era. study phenomenon scientific establishment USSR on materials representative biographies scientists allows us formulate concepts counter-elite opposition, identify their place process at diff...

In the 19th century, the United Kingdom began a period of economic transformation known as the Industrial Revolution. While the typical reader may think of Dickensian mills when hearing of the Industrial Revolun the 19th century, the United Kingdom began a period of economic transformation known as the Industrial Revolution. It’s commonly believed that this era opened as new inventions improved...

This paper discusses the relations between economic development, family income, and happiness in post-communist Poland from the point of view of Inglehart's theory of modernization. The happiness is understood as satisfaction with income and life, and as psychological well-being. The analysis of survey data yields the conclusion that economic development reduces the strength of the relations be...

this paper is about to discover the roots of formation of one of the political and social phenomena called political party in a particular period of iranian contemporary history. in the light of this kind of study we can go beyond the superficial and general analyses which are the characteristic of traditional and under developed societies unfortunately these analyses are used to justify all th...

A standard view of Southern history identifies the Civil War and emancipation as a key stage in the transition to capitalism or “modernization”. This interpretation is closely associated with the work of Charles and Mary Beard, and was epitomized in C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, a survey of postbellum Southern history that remains highly influential today, more than half a centur...

Assembly, one of the oldest forms of industrial production, and its twin area, disassembly, have enjoyed tremendous modernization in the era of the information revolution. New enabling technologies, including prominent examples such as virtual CAD, Design for Assembly and Disassembly (DFAD), robotic and intelligent assembly, and Flexible Assembly (FA), are now becoming commonplace. This article...