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efficiency, and regional collaboration. This paper proposes a series of measures to increase the resilience of higher education …€”need not delay reforms in higher education. In fact, the global recession is an opportune time for higher education in the Asia …
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Discussing Economics treats discussion – meaning formal consideration of questions about a reading – as a new approach to learning economics. Setting out a detailed approach modeled on the ideas of Mortimer Adler and the Great Books Foundation, the authors explain why instructors should...
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This ground-breaking book focuses on the implications of the complexity vision, such as that held by economists at the Santa Fe Institute, for the teaching of economics. This complexity vision suggests that answers to questions such as how do markets develop and how do they evolve need to be...
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This fascinating sequel to the 1998 Teaching Economics to Undergraduates provides more alternatives to the lecture and chalkboard approach that dominates university economics teaching. Distinguished contributing authors provide a wide range of innovative teaching techniques and examples aimed at...
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This unique monograph comprises a collection of interviews conducted face-to-face with leading economists at universities throughout the United States. Presented with the singular opportunity to reflect on and share their wisdom and experience, the 21 interviewees discuss how they interpret,...
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This volume is concerned with the different schools within the discipline of economics (theoretical pluralism) and the relationship of economics to other disciplines, such as sociology, political science and philosophy (interdisciplinarity). It addresses the important implications of pluralism...
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economic education in transition economies. Authors from the West and from transition economies describe the major changes in …
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education. Following up on his earlier classic studies of US graduate economic education, he studies the ‘economist production …
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This book demonstrates alternatives to the lecture and chalkboard approach that dominates the teaching of economics, providing a range of innovative teaching techniques and examples aimed at engaging undergraduates in the learning of economics.
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For the first time, data on individual European higher education institutions (rather than data aggregated at the … a range of key questions, including: what is the role of non-university tertiary education, such as vocational training …
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