Performance on intelligence tests is known to be associated with class mobility, with high scorers tending to move up the socio-economic hierarchy, and low scorers tending to move down. However, much remains unknown about the association. It is possible that the importance of intelligence varies across different occupational areas, or that there is friction acting against mobility, such that a ...

This paper compares the standard economic and a complementary socio-economic approach to the transition. While the economic approach looks at social problems from the outside and views them as costs of transition, the socio-economic approach looks at these problems from the inside and views them as a part of the changing social structure. Both approaches are used to analyze four frictions which...

The value of complex social network and the optimization of it are determined by the structure and nodes’ characteristics. Direct friction and indirect friction are defined to describe the possible exchange difficulty each node meets with its neighbors in exchange network. Exogenous intermediary and endogenous intermediary can decrease these frictions by adding links. Agent-based Simulating res...

As ubiquitous computing emerges in our lives and cities new opportunities for artistic and otherwise cultural interventions in urban space follow, but so far not much work has been done in order to articulate the socio-cultural significance of these new opportunities. This paper is part of a general attempt to develop a coherent understanding of the implications and potentials of ubiquitous com...

The sustainable management of shared fishery resources remains a research concern despite the theoretical advances of recent decades. In the context of globalization, governance of fisheries resources cannot be conceived aside from a general restructuring of the value chain and without taking into account the evolution of the standard of living of fishing communities. This paper argues that in ...

The stealth trading hypothesis (STH) states that informed traders concentrate their trades on medium sizes to conceal their information. Supporting empirical evidence for the NYSE case is considerable. In this paper, we question several methodological aspects of previous studies to provide new insights. We show that the STH cannot be rejected under alternative definitions of the trade-size cuto...

One reason why firms exist, this paper argues, is because they are suitable organizations within which cooperative production systems based on human social predispositions can evolve. In addition, we show how an entrepreneur, given these predispositions, can shape human behavior within a firm. To illustrate these processes, we will present a model that depicts how the biased transmission of cul...

Objective: To summarize results of studies that estimate the social costs of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug abuse in Russia. The purpose of these studies was to inform policymakers about the real economic burden of risky behaviors and to provide conditions for evidencebased and well-informed decision making in this area. Methods: The cost-of-illness method was applied to estimate the social...