Three recent state economic development proposals are reviewed and compared with one another. A similar policy effort currently underway in Massachusetts is also reviewed in terms of its process and likely outcome. The reports, from Ohio, Washington, and Rhode Island, are reviewed along three dimensions: institutional setting and process, substance and framework of the economic analysis, and pr...

This paper considers aspects of language and its relation to political practices in psychiatry. It analyses the ways in which groups of psychiatric patients – selfdefined ‘self-harm survivors’ – have resisted psychiatry’s power to define their experiences in terms of the ‘official’ category, ‘Deliberate self-harm’ (DSH). DSH refers to self-inflicted injurious acts that do not result in death, i...

The article analyses the educational ideas and social initiatives of period autonomy in Galicia, revealing several important elements. Two aspects should be pointed out by taking into account rationale principles Catholic Church, for which impetus was provided Leo XIII’s encyclical „Rerum novarum”, focus on ‘catholicity’ shaping an identity a reborn nation does not have universalist dimension p...

BACKGROUND To provide an overview of the development of health technology assessment (HTA) in Iran since 2007, and to facilitate further development of HTA and its integration into policy making. METHODS Data of this study were collected through key documents (e.g. literature, laws, and other official documentation) and analyzed by experts of opinion in form of qualitative methods. RESULTS ...

Urban political ecology now finds itself at a crossroads between gradual marginalization or renewed intellectual impetus. Despite some recent critical re-evaluations of the field, there remain series conceptual tensions that have only been partially explored. I consider six issues in particular: uncertain relations urban and biophysical sciences; emergence extended conceptions agency subjectivi...

The development of the Digital Economy in last decade has become increasingly prominent and significant. dynamics transactions span from corporate to household levels, local global scales. use advanced information technology internet field paved way for Economy, especially financial or realm. This reality is directly correlated with current financialization contemporary capitalism which strengt...

This article assesses the inter-war campaign against trafficking in women and children, with a particular focus on the leading role played by British and British-dominated voluntary associations. This humanitarian campaign was conducted by social relief organizations such as the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (AMSH) and the International Bureau for the Suppression of the Traffic in Wo...