My first encounter with the work of Timur Kuran took place in 1995 when I read his study Private Truths, Public Lies. This is a celebrated book that in all brevity can be described as an exploration by an economist of a general social mechanism. According to the author, there exist many situations in social life when it is not enough to look at the preferences of an actor; you also have to look at his or her hidden preferences, and at what adds up to preference falsification, to use the author’s terminology. The result of situations with preference falsification is in many cases startling and counterintuitive, since actors mistake falsified preferences for genuine preferences and act accordingly. This time Timur Kuran is bringing together two topics that by tradition tend to be studied apart in the scholarly literature: economies, on the one hand, and civilizations, on the other. And again one may hope for creative and counterintuitive results. What role do economic factors play in civilizations? How do we study these? Do different civilizations perform differently, from an economic perspective, and if this is the case, why? These are some of the key questions that need to be answered when you confront

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This essay suggests and analyzes six themes that the author concludes are crucial both in understanding the past course of events in the Catholic Church of the United States and that may well shape its future. These themes involve 1) the nature and effectiveness of the Catholic sub-culture over

Algebraic graph theory comprises both the study of algebraic objects arising in connection with graphs, for example, automorphism groups of graphs along with the use of algebraic tools to establish interesting properties of combinatorial objects. One of the oldest themes in the area

Design of integrated business-IT solutions is the main theme in the Business Information Technology programme (BIT) at the University of Twente. Our mission is to teach students to design solutions that are needed instead of solutions that are asked for. This makes requirements engineering

Richard L Rudolph is Professor of History at the University of hfinnesota. His primary research interests are the social and economic history of Russian and of eastern and central Europe. focusing on the interrelationship of economic change and the peasant household. He is currently working on a history

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a notion of hyperlinked communities on the www through an analysis of the link topology. Byinvoking a simple, mathematically clean method for de ning and exposing the structure of these communities, we are able to derive anumber of themes: The communities can be viewed as containing a core

not only in all the genera examined, but also in both bacteria and archaea (Alex & Simon, 1994). The central theme, an ion-driven motor rotating a semi-rigid helix, controlled by a phosphorelay system to bias the

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