Today, humans have a critical impact on the Earth system and vice versa, which can
generate complex feedback processes between social and ecological dynamics. Integrating …

MY main purpose in this article is to explicate what Diego Gambetta has referred to as" the
elusive notion of trust."''As the literature on trust reveals, and as developed here," trust" is a …

A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-
being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to …

Welfare states treat different groups of needy people differently. Such differential rationing
may reflect various considerations of policymakers, who act in economic, political and …

In arguably his most important book to date, Hodgson calls into question the tendency of
economic method to try and explain all economic phenomena by using the same catch-all …

The idea of Social Capital is an attempt to incorporate social considerations into mainstream
economic thinking. Its proponents feel that social factors are properly quantifiable. So, they …

This book examines and compares the two major traditions of thought that have attempted to
incorporate institutions within economics. These are the" Old"(or American) Institutionalist …

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Variations in medical practice are well documented, but there has been less progress in
explaining these variations. This paper discusses the existing theories and hypotheses and …

In research on the social capital of individuals, there has been little standardisation of
measurement instruments, and more emphasis on measuring social relationships than on …