Novel externalities are social activities for which the emerging cost (or benefit) of the
spillover is unknown and must be discovered. Negative novel externalities have regained …

As social entrepreneurship gains maturity, research has begun to explore the less alluring
aspects of the field, including the heroic stance of social entrepreneurs, the assumed moral …

The aims of this paper are to (1) posit the notion of “YOLO Capitalism” as a sub-movement
within late-stage capitalism that is characterized by widespread coordination among small …

This chapter seeks to address the following question: To what extent does the retail trading
engagement with GameStop of early 2021 resemble a social movement? The chapter …

I develop a bioeconomic theory of social institutions that helps to explain the coevolution of
ideas, social institutions, and technology. The theory is “bioeconomic” because it traces …

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of border policies and the increased
militarization of border control practices on the expansion of police powers, the erosion of …

Most social problems are “wicked”, meaning that they are highly complex, intractable, open-
ended, and multi-dimensional. In wicked learning environments, information is ambiguous …

This paper contrasts two views of peacemaking. The first, and dominant, view treats
peacemaking as a top-down phenomena where peace, defined as the absence of large …

We investigate the relationship between successful revolutions and corruption using data on
revolutionary campaigns since 1900 and corruption measures retrieved from the Varieties of …

Entangled political economy views societal phenomena as featuring substantial interaction
between economic and political entities, but questions have been raised about the …