Culture refers to patterns of behaviour, attitudes and beliefs that are common to a group of people who commonly share these attributes and who use them for their identity.
Technology is a complex system, composed of more than one entity or sub-systems of technologies and a relationship that holds between each entity and at least one other entity in the system for achieving specific goals.
Science is a complex system with dynamic elements (e.g., disciplines and research fields) that develop over time. The evolution of science is critical to explain human progress.
Full reserve banking is name for a bank system under which, to over-simplify, private/commercial banks cannot issue money: that is, all money is issued by central banks. Other phrases used to describe that system include “100% reserves”, “Sovereign Money” and “narrow banking”.
It is helpful at this point to consider the big picture, the underlying political economy of bank capital. In a laissez faire world with no central bank and no financial regulation, banks would sink or swim with no expectation of being bailed out by the state or its agencies if
In the years following the Second World War, America’s Bell System developed the innovation that would launch a third industrial revolution in the United States and soon after in the rest of the world.
Income distributive justice is a political subjective phrase related to an income distribution rather than to a scientific issue. Most people believe that income inequality should be as small as possible. Nevertheless, it is understood that a certain gap between the rich and the poor is necessary to stimulate competition
The humanities and social sciences analyse change, both micro and macro. Thus, there is much talk about development in both explanation and prediction.
Survival analysis or duration modelling is a widely applied statistical method for estimating the expected time until a specific event of interest occurs.