Global agriculture finds itself engrossed in a heated debate over genetically modified (GM) crops. This debate, which features science, economics, politics, and even religion, is taking place almost everywhere. It is going on in research labs, corporate boardrooms, legislative chambers, newspaper editorial offices, religious institutions, schools, supermarkets, coffee shops, and even in private...

1. Faculty of Economics and Politics; Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge CB2 1TA, UK. [email protected] 2. Schlumberger Cambridge Research, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0EL, UK. 3. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Edinburgh University, Grant Institute, West Mains Rd., Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK. 4. Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge CB...

If you really want to be smarter, reading can be one of the lots ways to evoke and realize. Many people who like reading will have more knowledge and experiences. Reading can be a way to gain information from economics, politics, science, fiction, literature, religion, and many others. As one of the part of book categories, computer strategies 199

M. F. J. MARTENS, F. J. N. NIJHUIS*, M. P. J. VAN BOXTEL AND J. A. KNOTTNERUS Group practice, `Geneeskunde voor het Volk', Keinkesstraat 3a, 3600 Genk, Belgium Department of Health, Organization, Politics and Economics, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands Department of Primary Medical...

Purpose: In the context of modernization and development, a complex adaptive systems framework can help address the coupling of macro social constraint and opportunity with individual agency. Combining system dynamics and agent based modeling, we formalize a simulation approach of the Human Development (HD) perspective to explore the interactive effects of economics, culture, society and politi...

Journal of Economic Policy Reform Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713648069 Reforming the local public sector: economics and politics in privatization of water and solid waste Germà Bel a; Xavier Fageda a a Research Unit Public Policy and Economic Regulation, University of Barcelona, Barcelona,...

Hierarchical simple games both disjunctive and conjunctive are natural generalizations of simple majority games. They take their origin in the theory of secret sharing. Another important generalization of simple majority games with origin in economics and politics are weighted and roughly weighted majority games. In this paper we characterize roughly weighted hierarchical games identifying wher...

disorders. Ataru Inagaki, MD, PhD1, Yuki Nishimura, MSc2, Hiroyuki Otsuka, MA2, Hiroyuki Hirakawa, MD2, Kunitoshi Hatou, MD2, Yukihisa Kubota, MD3, Yoichiro Watanabe, MD3, Kazuhisa Miki, MD3, Yo Endoh BPharm4 1. Aoyama Gakuin University, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication 2. Japanese Association of Mental Health Services 3. Japanese Association of Neuro-Psychiatric Cl...

The choice of studying economics instead of another subject should be motivated by the fact that economics training equips students with skills and knowledge that other disciplines do not provide. Which are these skills and knowledge, however, is not always very clear. This article clarifies such issue by first exploring the philosophical foundations and the defining features of the discipline,...

The following investigation of post secondary education will proceed via three subdisciplines of modem economic analysis: first, by way of well-known techniques used in the study of public finance (welfare economics); second through models connected with the economic theory of organization; and third through the approach of ʺpublic choiceʺ (the economics of politics). There are important areas ...