... and voluntary fall into line with that role of the people that “promote” the science. The success of science‐based technology has fostered the pseudo religion of “scientism.” The deterministic, materialistic, mechanistic and reductionistic research program of science has been elevated to the status...

... a timely discussion of this important topic in ways that have immediate practitioner application as well as suggesting additional research, dialogue, and thought. Alf H. Walle can be contacted at: alfwalle@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Communities Culture Developing...

...Kavous Ardalan Finance has begun to utilize clinical approach in its research. The extent of its appropriate use is a serious point for consideration. Any adequate use of a research methodology would highly benefit from a deep understanding of its underlying worldview. This paper, therefore...

... the assumption in the public choice literature that people will vote for a tax policy only if it is in their self‐interest. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Health care Insurance Research The OECD countries each face similar problems with respect to the provision of health services despite differences...

...Udo E. Simonis Board   on Sustainable Development . Our Common Journey. A Transition toward Sustainability . Washington, DC : National Academy Press   1999 . 363 pp. , ISBN: 0‐309‐06783‐9.1 © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Sustainable development USA Research...

...Anghel N. Rugina Attempts to prove, in this second chapter of the author’s monograph, that with a new research programme, it is possible to build a methodological bridge between economics and all other natural sciences and the scientists should address this challenge. Reviews basic principles...

... thinkers in this discipline and shows improvements or errors made by them. Concludes that there will be further breakthroughs and that there are no boundaries involved in this sphere. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Research Economics Methodology ...

...Charles Hickson; Titus Oshagbemi The core activities of university teachers are in the areas of teaching and research. This article addresses the effect of age on the satisfaction of academics on these activities. Towards this end, a questionnaire was designed including several demographic...

...Don Lamberton Reviews past and present research into the role of information as a public good and states that progress in thinking has not kept pace with events that led the New York Times to label the 1980s as “when information accelerated”. Argues that a new perspective on the role...

... Funding Investment R&D Research Technological change Technology A country’s eminence in a field of science is not a good guide to its economic strength and growth (Carter and Williams, 1964, p. 197). In the past four decades, the relationship between science, technology and economic...

... to the principal objectives of the analytical synthesis. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Environment Environmental audit Methodology Research Meta‐analysis is increasingly recognized as a potentially important analytical framework for comparative research that aims to draw inferences on common...

... Research A Triad of Revolutions: 1776 Franz H. Mueller University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota, USA A Triad of Revolutions Rarely does a historian encounter events that occur at the same time as if by design rather than by chance. However, the year 1776 does offer some truly amazing "coincidences...

... and disjointed approaches of their respective disciplines, in building up a body of integrated theory and in suggesting new areas of research. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Economic theory Methodology Research The Dehumanisation of Economic Science: In Search Dehumanisation of Economic Science...

... in the national product and in the level of employment. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Central government Economics Interest rates Policy Research The Timing of Changes in The Balanced-budget G and T in the Balanced-budget Multiplier Multiplier Ernest Raiklin University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls...

... of the liberal or conservative approaches to be tested. A new research programme using a simultaneous equilibrium versus disequilibrium approach is proposed which has full application in politics as well as in economics and the social sciences. This research programme shows the organic relationship between...

...Anghel N. Rugina The process of perestroika, or restructuring, is necessary,not just for the socialist‐communist countries of the world, but for Western capitalist countries also. The social benefits and socially harmful aspects of modern capitalism are outlined and a new research...

...) between micro – and macro‐physics and mechanics. Parallel or beneath there is also a second crisis derived from a discontinuity (again a cleavage) between classical and modern science,that is between two previous revolutions. A new research programme of a simultaneous equilibrium versus disequilibrium...