too far in prioritizing consumption in analyses of the cultural economy. The article adopts a version of the ‘production of culture’ perspective and is illustrated through discussion of three interrelated fields of the cultural economy: the new economy, creativity and consumption. The article argues in favour of studies of the material culture of production (redefined to take in the whole ‘cycl...

Our modern society relies on an economic system that is mainly based on the mechanism of contracts. Right now our industrial and service society is changing to an even more modern information society. One of the most important indicators that shows this change is the growing digital economy. But without any trust of the economic community in electronic contracts the new economy will not be able...

Many people believe that we are now in a period of business changes as significant as those in the industrial revolution. This presentation suggested some provocative ideas about what some of these changes will be. For example, the talk described the possibilities of an “e-lance economy” where electronically connected free-lancers, joining together in temporary teams, will perform many of the t...

The shifting of the economy from manufacturing-based to knowledge-based has raised importance Intellectual Capital (IC) in business value creation process. Although IC been recognized integrated reports, limited information about it is still reported traditional financial disclosures. present study examines extent intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) Indian firms and assesses gap between stake...

Background & Objectives: Knowledge-based economy is one of the major parts of the resistance economy and is recognized as the essentials of the information technology age. As one of the most important educational units and the custodian of community health, universities of medical sciences play a pivotal role in the success of resistance economy based on the knowledge-based economy. Among the e...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the quality of reports about randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of scalp acupuncture (SA) for the treatment of vascular dementia (VD). METHOD A systematic search of reports published through to December 2015 was performed in eight databases. The quality of RCTs that used SA as an intervention for VD was evaluated based on the 2010 Consolidated Standard...

Evidence has been mounting (over the centuries) that the interest based debt financing regime is under ever increasing distress. All of the earlier crises whatever label they carried− exchange rate crisis or banking crisis – have been debt crises in essence. At the present, empirical research suggests that the debt-to-GDP ratio of the richest members of the G-20 threatens to touch 120% m...