A significant amount of research has proposed that power leads to heuristic and category based information processing, however, the evidence is often contradictory. We propose the novel idea that power magnifies chronically accessible information processing styles which can contribute to either systematic or heuristic processing. We examine heuristic (vs. systematic) processing in association w...

Increasingly, sustainability is conceived as a crisis of the human mind and the key challenge for pro-sustainability education is developing sufficient motivation in learners. The spiritual aspirations of religious communities contain sufficient motivational force, which may be deployed for effective sustainability education. This paper explores the approaches to sustainability and sustainabili...

In the current political and social climate, with its call for self-reliance as the means by which families and individuals should support themselves, the official U.S. poverty indicator may be measuring the size of a population that is of less interest to policymakers than in past years. We present here an alternative measure of poverty for the United States population that is based on a famil...

in communities-of-practice (COP) much effort is dedicated to prevent "knowledge hoarding", as if knowledge contribution is the chief success factor. Little attention is paid to knowledge consumers' motivation. Two case studies are presented in which a COP had been much appropriate but, despite organizational support, has dissolved. The prime impediment was reluctant demand for knowledge as comm...

This article examines connections between the Protestant Reformation and American literature and argues that Protestantism’s best expression exists in contemporary iterations of self-reliance. The first part focuses on William Ellery Channing’s and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s literary criticism of John Milton, a poet who represents the Protestant ideals these writers combine with American principles ...

Introduction The effect of imperialism on the economic development of Third World countries has long been a subject of interest to Marxist scholars. The international expansion of capitalist states, which led to the creation of a world market and the integration of pre-capitalist countries into this market, heralded a new phase of capitalism the implications of which are still being debated. Th...

The concept of economic self-reliance, widely known by Thai people as the philosophy of sufficiency economy, has been widely promoted in rural Thai societies. By practicing this philosophy, it is expected that the citizens’ quality of life and local environments could be sustainably improved. This study aims to explore the contribution of the community practices of the sufficiency economy philo...

This paper evaluates Mexico's past and present development strategies in terms of their equity and employment implications. It concludes that the current neoliberal stabilization efforts are likely to result in increased income concentration, also leading to the dampening of aggregate demand and economic activities. Given the gravity of the current crisis in Mexico, the paper argues for the urg...