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Dynamic Interactions Between Health, Human Capital and Wealth

Wei Zhang · Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan
This paper proposes a dynamic economic model with health, human capital and wealth accumulation with elastic labor supply. The economic system consists of one industrial, one health, and one education sector. Our model is a synthesis of four main models in economic theory: Solow’s one-sector neoclas…
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Logic and its Pragmatic Aspects

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
A pragmatist conception of logic rejects any kind of logical constructionism, based on the appeal to privileged ontological and epistemological items and to a perfect language supposedly provided by mathematical logic. Even in logic, “pluralism” must be the key-word if one does not want to be locked…
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Sacred and Profane. Essential ambiguity and vital necessity of the Sacred.

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
In a situation in which the market economy is regarded as so important and decisive as to induce the emergence of a market society, the notion of the «sacred» becomes essential. The market is perfectly legitimate as a forum of negotiations, but it has a purely instrumental value. A market society is…
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Role and participation of women in the establishment and implementation of international security policies

Marigonë Vrajolli · International Politics, University Hasan Prishtina, Pri…
Women have long been excluded from peace and security processes, which include disarmament, despite being disproportionately affected by weapons. Emphasizing, the role of women in peace and security processes began to gain meaning only after 2000, when the United Nations Resolution, Resolution 1325 …
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The Role of National Ombudsman’s Offices in Promoting the Concept of good Administration in Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo. The way ahead

Arlinda Memetaj · Kolegji AAB, Prishtinë, Kosovë
The private persons in any democratic state should have a right to dispute the administrative decisions affecting their rights, freedoms or interests before (among others) competent independent courts. It is the key precondition for the principle of transparent and responsible public administration …
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Pragmatism and Evolutionary Epistemology

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
To understand the significance of a pragmatist stance in this matter we must address a basic question: which kind of evolution are we referring to when talking of “evolutionary epistemology”? If we take evolution to be an undifferentiated concept, such that no useful distinction can be found in it, …
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State, Nation, and Sociology

Roberto Cipriani · University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
The sociological science must be employed in the amelioration of society. The intellectual climate of a nation is a determinant feature for the success of sociology. Actually, there are areas in which the frame seems more favourable. The establishment of new electronic journals, regional and nationa…
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The manifestation of disturbing behavior on adolescents as a result of using violent video-games

Leticja Papa, Marsela Mitrushi · Faculty of Social Science, University of Tirana, Albani…
The use of violent video-games among teenagers is becoming undisputed. The goal of this study is identifying the video-game typology played by teenagers in two most important High Schools in the two most important cities of Albania and present the effect of this video-games. There were twenty-six pa…
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The Estrangement of Youth and the Quest for a different Society

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The author contends that any contestation or countercultural movement, no matter how generous, is bound to failure unless it develops as a rational project. Violence, as such, might help visibility, but, in the last analysis, it amounts to nothing more than self-gratifying narcissism, incapable to p…
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The Bumpy Road of EULEX as an Exporter of Rule of Law in Kosovo

Gentjan Skara · University, Tirana, Albania
This paper analyses EULEX mission in Kosovo (hereafter EULEX) as an exporter of rule of law. From the deployment of the mission, two mainstream discourses have coined the effectiveness of EULEX establishing the rule of law in Kosovo. From the Brussels point of view, EULEX has marked a lot of progres…
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Three growing questions about Masonry

Davide Crimi · Independent Researcher, Catania, Italy
Through three capital questions, this short essay tries to offer a general panorama and a better understanding of the proteiform complex body or Masonry. Through by a multi-level hermeneutic, this study get the ambition to be comprehensible both to Readers who are not used to this kind of literature…
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The Role of Interreligious and Interfaith Dialogue in the Post-Secular World

Biljana Popovska, Zhanet Ristoska, Pablo Payet · Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany. Ministry of…
Today, western liberal democratic societies are secular, or in other words, religion is set apart from the state. However, the beginning of the 21st century has seen a re-politicizing of the religion. This paper argues that religion plays an important role in current global politics and events. More…