En este texto examinamos la distribución del personal de dirección de las instituciones políticas y económicas, según la nacionalidad en la URSS y sus regiones. Gracias a la depuración de los archivos en Moscú, donde se conservan los censos de población no publicados, h...

Legitimacy is a crucial factor determining the success of technologies in the early stages of development and for maintaining resource flows as well as public and political support across the technology life cycle. In sustainability transitions that unfold over long per...

Orono-Island is a remote island in the Sea of Genkai. The author conducted an environmental survey of Orono- Island.The research was ecology investigations for wild birds and endangered plant species. The studies developed from these research lead to some unknown histor...

In this paper we assess both the benefits of academic freedom and the conditions required for its existence. We propose a long run historical sketch to put forward the institutional and financial characteristics of the Humboldtian model that stressed the very idea of ac...

Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox:...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Refugees are often perceived as an economic ‘burden’, as the current debate on the European refugee crisis illustrates. But there is little quantitative evidence on the medium-term outcomes of refugees in the UK. We fill this ga...

59 p. Este trabajo realiza una revisión de la literatura sobre la relación entre trabajo y familia y un estudio de caso sobre la experiencia española en torno a la fecundidad a partir del análisis de la Encuesta de Fecundidad de 2018 del INE. Pretende identificar las ra...

Bubbles have become ubiquitous. This ubiquity has stimulated research over the past three decades into bubbles in history. In this article, we provide a systematic overview of research into historical bubbles. Our analysis reveals that there is no coherent approach to t...