Abstract – The paper considers end-use electricity consumption and efficiency trends in transition countries, i.e. ten former socialist states that are now new EU members, and the Republic of Croatia as a candidate country. For the last twenty years, transition countries are in the process of changing their social, economic and political structures with considerable influence on the electricity...

Religious socialization occurs within the immediate family as well as in the broader social context. Previous research has shown that parents’ religiosity matters less for the transmission of religious beliefs in devout than in secular nations, implying smaller costs of religious socialization. In this paper we test which other societal factors affect the transmission of religious beliefs: anti...

The recent decades of Marxist social science, particularly political economy, have been characterized by an intense theoretical defensive. The shortcomings of Eastern European socialism and its ideological reflections have been revealed gradually. However, the "ruthless criticism of all that exists" has not been accompanied by an alternative socialist theory. The image of the society to be achi...

Introduction Women's organizing in Canada in the last twenty years has netted some significant gains. Perhaps the 1988 Supreme Court decision declaring the abortion law unconstitutional is the most striking, but a balance sheet would also include other legislative gains in the areas of equal pay, affirmative action, sexual assault, family law and sexual harassment. Increases in women's union ac...

This paper asserts that economists of the mid twentieth century developed two methods of analyzing institutions. Austrian and Coasean economists developed complementary approaches to institutional analysis. Coase developed a research program of Comparative Institutional Analysis, whereby economists compare alternative institutions according to their most similar features. Ludwig von Mises and F...

INTRODUCTION The growth prospects of individual post-socialist economies are to a great extent constrained by their ability to transform inherited technological capacities from the period of closed economy into assets in the market economy context. In terms of analysis this transformation cannot be reduced on marketisation of old capabilities. Capabilities exist in an institutional context whic...

We analyze the connection between structure and function for regulatory motifs associated with cellular uptake and usage of small molecules. Based on the boolean logic of the feedback we suggest four classes: the socialist, consumer, fashion, and collector motifs. We find that the socialist motif is good for homeostasis of a useful but potentially poisonous molecule, whereas the consumer motif ...

The capitalist and socialist societies of the 20 century assigned firms different roles within their economic systems. Enterprises transforming themselves from socialist to market economies thus face fundamental organizational restructuring. Many former state-owned firms in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe failed, so far, at this task. Firms pursued primarily defensive d...

= −1 for all y satisfying y(y + 4)(y + 6)− 1 ≡ 0 (mod p). He confirmed that there are no such primes less than 109. In this paper, we describe the connection between the socialist primes and the left factorial function !n = 0! + 1! + · · · + (n − 1)! introduced by Ðuro Kurepa [4]. Kurepa conjectured that gcd(!n, n!) = 2 holds for all integers n > 1, which is equivalent to the statement that the...