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  • Estimating institutional and cultural drivers of human flourishing using cross-national microdata
    Author: Rafael Acevedo Menard Family Center for Economic Inquiry, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USARafael Acevedo is the Senior Program Manager and Research Associate of the Menard Family Center for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University and an Adjunct Instructor of Economics at the University of Illinois Springfield and Western New Mexico University. He holds a PhD in Management and an MSc in Economics. His research focuses on institutions, economic freedom, entrepreneurship, innovation, public policy, and human flourishing.
  • Does social capital improve gender equality?
    Author: Irene van Staveren Nicola Mangraviti Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The NetherlandsIrene van Staveren is a professor of pluralist development economics at the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is the author of a pluralist economic textbook and a related MOOC with over 79,000 learners worldwide. Her latest book is Alternative Ideas from 10 (almost) Forgotten Economists (PalgraveMcMillan, 2021). She is a member of the Dutch think tank Sustainable Finance Lab and a columnist for the Dutch national newspaper Trouw. She was awarded the Thomas Divine Lifetime Achievement Medal by the Association of Social Economics in 2015.Nicola Mangraviti is a joint-degree PhD student in development economics at the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Brescia. He coordinates the development economics PhD group at ISS. He has expertise in behavioural economics as well as development economics.
  • Moral–temporal economy of aging: a personalist social economics framework for solidarity and equity in aging societies
    Author: Casper Hendrik Claassen Cheryl Hiu-kwan Chui Junki Kim a Institute for Future Strategy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Koreab Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Centre for Civil Society and Governance, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of Chinac Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of KoreaCasper Hendrik Claassen is a senior researcher at Seoul National University’s Institute for Future Strategy. He obtained a Ph.D. in Governance from the Hertie School in 2020. His research areas include the third sector, social welfare, social policy, public administration, and organization studies.Cheryl Hiu-kwan Chui (corresponding author) is an associate professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration and the Centre for Civil Society and Governance, The University of Hong Kong. Her research includes social innovation and enterprises, gerontology, work, and community development.Junki Kim is a professor of public policy at the Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA) of Seoul National University and served as the Director of the National Assembly Budget Office in Korea between 2015 and 2017. He received a B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and completed his Master's and Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He also served as the Dean of Graduate School of Public Administration of Seoul National University from 2012 to 2014 and as the Dean of International Affairs at Seoul National University from 2010 to 2012. He later became Director of Korea’s National Assembly Budget Office, where he served between 2015 and 2017. He is currently serving as the Executive Vice President for Planning and Communication at Seoul National University. His main research area includes budgeting, financial administration, government-business relations, public enterprise, and quasi-public sector.

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