Taxation and Education Investment in the Tertiary Sector by Fredrik Andersson and Kai A. Konrad In this paper we briefly report some key data on educational expenditure and output in OECD countries and then turn to the motivations for public education. Public education can be important for equal opportunities and has a number of redistributional aspects within and between generations. We furthe...

The role of energy in development is crucial. Energy fuels economic growth and is therefore of paramount concern for all countries. This was one of the main themes at the world summit on sustainable development (WSSD) held in South Africa in 2002. The Johannesburg plan of implementation highlighted the role of energy service to promote sustainable development and to facilitate the achievement o...

The optimizat ion of traffic flow on roads and highways of modern industrialized countries is key to their economic growth and success. Besides, the reduction of traffic congestions and jams is also desirable from an ecological point of view as it yields a contribution to climate protection. In this art icle, we stick to a microscopic traffic simulation model and interpret the task of traffic f...

Innovation is a major driving force for the economic growth and expansion of companies and the need to innovate has become clear by now. SME’s , even if they are very well aware of the importance of innovation have been rather slow in adopting tools and techniques used in larger companies, which often are very difficult or even impossible to be applied to them. This paper presents a new tool wh...

Focused on the emerging conditions of industrial capitalism in Britain in their own time, the classical economists were able to provide an account of the broad forces that influence economic growth and of the mechanisms underlying the growth process. Accumulation and productive investment of a part of the social surplus in the form of profits were seen as the main driving force. Hence, changes ...

since ethics is one of the subdivisions of practical wisdom, islamic philosopher’s view point is very important in explanation of theoretical and practical reason. this paper is going to analyze the distinction between practical and theoretical reason from haeri’s point of view. in order to finding the roots of his issue, at the beginning we will propose the idea of philosophers like farabi, ib...