development and ideal society

Nature Of Economics In The Ideal Society Of Monotheist Religions

Stepwise Development from Ideal Specifications

The stepwise development of a program using reene-ment requires that the original abstract speciication is realisable, i.e., an implementation exists with identical functionality. In some situations, this may not be desirable or even possible, and an ideal speciication which is only approximated by the nal implementation is used. For these speciications, an informal step, based on the developer...

nature of economics in the ideal society of monotheist religions

The Ideal of a Catholic Education in a Secularized Society

This paper argues that the progressive, revisionist reaction within Catholic education and schooling, as well as within Catholicism at large, to the challenge of modernity is a mistake. In view of modernity’s malaises, it advocates instead the affirmation or reaffirmation of the ideal of traditional Catholicism as the only authentic response for Catholics to modern progress. In order to justify...

Society, Community and Economic Development

Studies of economic development and economic history have long been concerned with the relationship between the transparent and supposedly anonymous forces of markets, states and bureaucracies, on the one hand, and the particular local and national forms of social organization in which actors' daily lives are embedded. Economists are quite divided about these latter forces: for some, they are n...

Ideal Points and American Political Development: Beyond DW-NOMINATE

This article aims to persuade historically oriented political scientists that ideal point techniques such as DW-NOMINATE can illuminate much about politics and lawmaking and be very useful to better understanding some of the key questions put forward by American political development (APD) scholars. We believe that there are many lines of inquiry of interest to APD scholars where ideal point me...