This article offers a normative perspective on regulating communications platforms. The primary economic goal for communications platforms should be to enhance progress -promoting the economic well being of consumers by expanding output and distributing it in an equitable manner.1 The primary political goal should be to enrich civic discourse -improving the ability of citizens to participate ef...

For the past two decades, distressed rural communities throughout the United States have been turning to prisons as a rural development strategy. In many cases, communities have competed fiercely for correctional facilities and have provided costly incentives in the way of tax abatements and infrastructure development. As financially strapped local governments are finding it difficult to fund l...

Open Educational Resources (OERs) have gained increased attention for their potential to provide equitable and accessible educational facilities for people worldwide. Obviating demographic, economic, and geographic educational boundaries can be the OERs slogan. Realization of this promise is an inevitable target of eLearning, thus offering education new challenges. In this observation paper, we...

Those who analyze political institutions often employ broad labels. They refer to democracy or authoritarianism; presidential or parliamentary governments; or to systems of plurality or proportional representation. In this paper, I refrain from addressing politics at this level and adopt an approach that is far more micro-in perspective. The approach I take can be referred to as " neo-classical...

Property relation management of the (ownership, disposable, using) limited resources, which naturally occurs in the economic systems, face a problem uncertainty behavior of its active elements. The model of identification and forecasting of the economic system trajectory states in time is offered in work, which allows complex estimation its conduct from positions of risk (additive distributing)...

Property relation management of the (ownership, disposable, using) limited resources, which naturally occurs in the economic systems, face a problem uncertainty behavior of its active elements. The model of identification and forecasting of the economic system trajectory states in time is offered in work, which allows complex estimation its conduct from positions of risk (additive distributing)...

Sundquist et al present a care need index for allocation of primary health care resources. Unfortunately, their paper rests on an erroneous description of the allocation model presently used in Stockholm, a blurred conception of need, and a mistake in the handling of data. The model used by Stockholm County Council to distribute funds between areas to purchase health care consists of four diffe...

1 Background Why are some countries rich and others poor? Since Solow (1956), the tentative answer has been differences in capital accumulation and technical change, but this was unsatisfactory since the theory failed to explain what accounts for these differences. Endogenous growth theories (Aghion and Howit 1992; Grossman and Helpman 1991; Romer 1990) emerged to answer the faithful call and a...

In this article, the set of institutions which embody the form and contents of the economic system of Islam is introduced. By institutions, it is meant the economic freedoms, the government, ownership, motivation, the mechanism for coordinating economic activities, power, organization and bureaucracy. After explaining Islam’s outlook regarding these institutions, the form and the contents of th...