Recent research has considered the “benefits of leisure” from psychological, physiological , and social perspectives. Such studies, while valuable, have overlooked an even more fundamental benef i t , that i s , the poss ible contribution of leisure to human adaptation. The concept of adaptation holds that those who possess environmentally favored forms, whether biological, behavioral, or cultu...

Urban economists have put forward the idea that cities that are culturally interesting tend to attract “the creative class” and, as a result, end up being economically successful. Yet it is still unclear how economic and cultural dynamics mutually influence each other. By contrast, that has been extensively studied in the case of individuals. Over decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu...

In this article, the role of cultural capital in strengthening social trust in Iran has been studied. Social trust is one of the most important components of social development. It is one of the important aspects of social relations. Cultural capital, which is an indicator of cultural development, is used objectively and the scientific and cultural qualities of a person can affect social trust....

We examine how inv estment in human capital affects the U.S. economy using a three-sector growth model. Investment in human capital is produced in a constant returns to scale Education sector that has capital, labor, student time and intermediates as inputs. The perfectly foresighted household determines investment in physical capital while the government determines the rate of Education invest...