In seeking to illuminate the ways in which inchoate models of addiction emerged alongside the unprecedented popularity of gambling in Stuart London, this paper will explore the intersections between a rudimentary pathology of addiction and transformations in the epistemology of reason, the passions, and humoral psychology in the seventeenth century. By exploring the connections between endogeno...

Abstract Late medieval slavery was profoundly entangled in urban life particular. Cities all around the Mediterranean coast were implicated trade—although this article focuses on Christian which bound together by a general reliance Roman law (alongside local customary laws and canon of Church). Recently, scholarship late has proliferated, offering range detailed studies primarily based legal re...

The use of geo-spatial differentiation in resource economics has become more widespread in recent years, particularly in the urban and real estate literature. However, previous to use in environmental economics, geo-spatial characteristics were used in international trade and theories of industrial concentration (Krugman, 1998). Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, is a database management s...

Energy has always been of particular importance to humanity. Oil and gas have been some of the energies that greatly influenced the national security of countries, which produce and consume energy. With the transformation of geostrategic discourse into geo-economic discourse in recent decades and the key role of economics in global relations, oil as the basis of modern industry has enjoyed a hi...

Islam This research focuses on the impact of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) national development and societal integration in Pakistan. Substantial literature is available geo-political geo-economics CPEC; however, a gap exists interplay domestic politics CPEC. I want to explore intrinsic linkage federal provincial disputes, which influence implementation CPEC how such dialectic relatio...

In reaction to the monetary turmoil created by the financial crisis of September 2008, both legislative and constitutional reforms have been proposed in different Countries to introduce Commodity Money alongside existing National Fiat Currency. A thorough evaluation of the Economic consequences of these new proposals is warranted. This paper surveys some of the existing knowledge in Monetary an...

thinking about the economics of huntergatherer food storage, this critical component of many foraging economies and important factor in the evolution of complex social systems remains poorly understood, leading Kuijt (2009:641) to recently lament that “archaeologists have yet to develop a detailed understanding of the scale of economic contributions of food storage in preagriculturalist communi...

It is time hospice and palliative care grew up. We can no longer expect governments to treat them as a charity case, with just enough funding to avert adverse newspaper headlines. Increased financial pressure from the global economic recession and fiscal crisis on already stretched budgets means tough decisions have to be made about where to invest limited health funds. Consequently, we need to...

A striking feature of today’s economics discipline is the amount of methodological consensus. This is very exceptional for a social science. Take any introductory textbook to sociology, history, international relations theory,... and different approaches to the discipline will be developed alongside each other. It earns them names such as ‘pre-paradigmatic science’, the idea being that scholars...