at the causes of the financial crisis and subsequent recession. He argues that much of what went wrong can be analysed using standard economic tools. The Great Moderation was a period of unusually stable macroeconomic activity in advanced economies. This was partly thanks to good luck, including the integration of emerging market countries into the global economy, and partly a dividend from str...

Depopulation of rural areas is a widespread phenomenon that has occurred in most industrialized countries, and has contributed significantly to a reduction in the productivity of agro-ecological resources. In this study, we identified the main trends in the dynamics of rural populations in the Central Pyrenees in the 20th C and early 21st C, and used density independent and density dependent mo...

Long ridiculed for their racial hybridity, India’s Anglo-Indians—a mixed race people—were called ‘Dingos’ and instructed rudely to “Go to Australia” after India won her Independence from the British in 1947. Although their first port of escape from India was Great Britain, thousands of Anglo-Indians left the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) in the second wave of migration, i....

The continuous development of global economy with decreasing in available hydrocarbon sources and increasing discovery and extraction costs due to decrease in-situ oil and gas reservoir, displays the necessity of using new techniques for the improve rate of penetration and productivity in well. Nanotechnology has already contributed significantly to technological advances in the energy industri...