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As the planet spirals ever deeper into social and natural disaster, with all things becoming ever more tightly knit into the tentacles of global capitalism, there is an urgent need for new maps and compasses to help stee...

Abstract This paper is concerned with those actions of business firms which have harmful effects on others. The standard example is that of a factory the smoke from which has harmful effects on those occupying neighbouri...

The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit p...

Non-randomised studies of the effects of interventions are critical to many areas of healthcare evaluation, but their results may be biased. It is therefore important to understand and appraise their strengths and weakne...

People in different cultures have strikingly different construals of the self, of others, and of the interdependence of the 2. These construals can influence, and in many cases determine, the very nature of individual ex...

BACKGROUND: Rigorous analysis of levels and trends in exposure to leading risk factors and quantification of their effect on human health are important to identify where public health is making progress and in which case...

Materias / palabras clave: history, economics, sociology, geography; Social Sciences: Social sciences (General)

Materias / palabras clave: social welfare, social sciences, social harm, social health, sociology, social policy; Social Sciences: Industries. Land use. Labor: Labor. Work. Working class: Social insurance. Social security. Pension

Materias / palabras clave: crimes and economic and social harms and methods of monitoring them, bisexuality and moral deviations, cybercrime and cyberspace, marriage and family and its harms, street fighting and violence; Social Sciences: Sociolog...

Materias / palabras clave: interfaith harmony, islamic perspective, social science, sustainable solutions, islamic civilization, contemporary religions; Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Islam. Bahai Faith. Theosophy, etc; Social Sciences: Social ...