Political Development in Social Sciences Textbooks: Content Analysis of the High School Texts M. Abtahi, Ph.D.* G.R. Mohammadimehr**   Political development, as an educational objective, could be achieved if certain concepts and values are dealt with in the textbooks. Chief among such concepts and values are rationality, scientific tendencies, law abiding, group work, consultation, ...

Behavioral economists increasingly argue that violations of rationality axioms provide a new rationale for paternalism—to “de-bias” individuals who exhibit errors, biases and other allegedly pathological psychological regularities associated with Tversky and Kahneman’s (1974) heuristics-and-biases program. The argument is flawed, however, in neglecting to distinguish aggregate from individual r...

Variations in aggregate poverty indices ca be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the welfare distances between those poor of initially unequal welfare status, and/or to emerging disparities in welfare among those poor of initially similar welfare status. This note uses a general cost-of-inequality approach that decomposes the total change in poverty into a sum of ind...

This article contains a survey on the conjectured rationality of the moduli space of vector bundles over a smooth curve. The main result is a new proof of stable rationality, which implies Conjecture 1 (stated below) for a large number of cases. We describe the progress which had been made on this problem by Tyurin and Newstead, and explain why the proof does not work in general. Ballico rejuve...