The fundamental assumption of the Malthusian model of pre-industrial society is that reproductive success increased with income. However, the direct evidence for this proposition for any pre-industrial society is surprisingly weak. Indeed most tests of this assumption for pre-industrial England, France and Japan have failed to detect any link between either mortality and real incomes or fertili...

Theodor W. Adorno asked in 1968: What is the fundamental question of the present structure of society? Do we live in late capitalism or an industrial society? In today’s society, we can reformulate this question: What is the fundamental question of the present structure of society? Do we live in capitalism or an information society? This article deals with these questions. A typology of informa...

the study assessed the post-harvest management information needs of yam farmers in kogi state. interview schedules were used to collect data from 189 yam farmers who were randomly selected from the four agricultural zones of the state (zone a, b, c and d) by using multistage random sampling techniques. the data collected were subjected to descriptive statistics and binary logit regression. resu...

The search engine now a days is a popular information retrieval tool. The progress of a society largely depends upon its intellectual manpower, industrial development, availability of information and knowledge and the extent of their use. The present work designs a framework for the progress of individual person depends upon the information availability of that society. The desire and need to b...

The major source of environmental problems nowadays is the disregard of the laws of nature which escalates even more in the globalizing industrial society. It is a natural question whether we are not facing similar dangers in the more rapidly globalizing information society. What are the most important factors which characterise software or information customers’ value systems in different nati...