Catharsis or Apocalypse? Analysis of the Present Through the Prism of Functional and Pathological Systems

#2. The Ice Age

The present systemic crisis of the human population is not the norm from the theory of self-regulation systems viewpoint: it is caused by yet little studied effect of “pathological system”.

System Foundations of Solving Managerial Problems of Interaction Between Fundamental and Applied Science and Manufacturing Sector as the Main Factor of Russia’s New Industrialization

#2. The Ice Age

The basic trend of world economic development — sustained increase in demand for scientific and technical resources, including innovation.

From the Stability and Growth Pact to the Fiscal Pact

#1. Beyond Design Basis Evaluations

The first 8 years of euro existence and 10 years — of stability and growth Pact can be characterized as the time of missed opportunities, when all the prerequisites for the eurozone crisis were formed.

Personal World of a Student as World of Abilities and the Problem of Modern University Business Reputation

#8. Is a burden of one’s own choice is not felt?

The major direction of humanization of technical higher education is becoming deepening into the world of knowledge about the historical logic of human personality formation.

Layman’s Primer on Quantitative Decision and Risk Analysis: Monte Carlo Simulation, Real Options Analysis, Forecasting and Optimization

#6-7. Springs of Surprises

With the advent of games of chance human greed promoted studies of risks and probabilities, which more and more accurately reflected real-life events.

The Law of Polarization and Socio-Political Partnership in Crisis Situations

#5. Cultural Revolution

The law of polarization and socio-political partnership in crisis situations is the development and confirmation of the theory of crises and ways out of them, an addition to the social law of totalitarianism and freedom fluctuations, discovered by Pitirim Sorokin, and to negative and positive trends in religious and local polarization, formulated by him.

Locality and Globality. Self-Reproduction of Society

#5. Cultural Revolution

The society consumes what it was convinced to consider necessary, but to convince it are not those who are concerned about life and true needs of a man as he was conceived by the Creator, but consumer hunters, concerned only about his wallet.