Abstract This special issue introduction addresses the current stakes and possibilities of work Norman O. Brown. Beginning with a reflection on recent Brown conference, elaborates Brown's major theoretical interventions before providing brief synopses essays included in issue.

Among the various arithmetic operations required in implementing public key cryptographic algorithms, the elliptic curve point multiplication has probably received the maximum attention from the research community in the last decade. Many methods for efficient and secure implementation of point multiplication have been proposed. The efficiency of these methods mainly depends on the representati...

This article summarizes to some extent the predominating Marxist and structuralist schools explanations of the international poverty trap. It also looks at more recent theoretical contributions to this topic, for instance lack of knowledge in underdeveloped countries. For several decades, rich countries tried to give some public assistance to poorer ones, to give them an initial momentum for th...

Why do voters finance the candidates, even the out-of-district one? Previous studies suggest physical closeness, ideological appeal, material gain, and personal resource. Yet studies based on self-report survey or aggregate-level post-election data blur the causal linkage between candidate’s appeal and voters’ motivation. In this article, we combine and exploit two unique datasets from a candid...