This article explores the way in which Mexico’s countryside was affected by the country’s economic integration to its northern neighbors since the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Mexico’s political technocracy placed its bet for economic growth on the comparative advantage of cheap labor, a losing bet: Mexico’s asymmetrical integration into the North American economy, ...

The article presents the author’s viewpoint on the basic characteristics of the socio-cultural context of the development of convergent technologies in the modern world. The main aspects of this contextual area are the states of social institutions, ideology and social myths in conditions of institutional competition. It is proved in the article that modern convergent technologies in addition t...

Sweden's management of the coronavirus pandemic, beginning in early 2020, has been much discussed because it deviated from other countries' equivalents. Set context scholarly debate about balance between politicians and experts political decision-making, we argue that a necessary condition for this case Swedish exceptionalism was manner policy-making adopted by authorities. In article, describe...