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Mitteilung der Kommission an den Rat und das Europäische Parlament über die Evaluierung der Kooperationsprogramme zwischen der Europäischen Union und den Vereinigten Staaten von Am...

2005

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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...

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Higher education in a global society

Johnstone, Donald Bruce (contributor); … - 2010

Higher education functions in a global environment of consumers, employees, competitors, and partners. It has been a force for globalization and a model for adaptation, but nonetheless faces challenges. This volume of essays examines emerging issues and opportunities for advancing education...

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Learning to compete in European universities : from social institution to knowledge business

McKelvey, Maureen D. (contributor); … - 2009

This book addresses the critical issue of how and why European universities are changing and learning to compete. Anglo-Saxon universities particularly in the US, the UK and Australia have long been subject to, and responded to, market-based competition in higher education. The authors argue...

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The economic institutions of higher education : economic theories of university behavior

Raines, J. Patrick; Leathers, Charles G. - 2003

Working within the context of the evolutionary-institutional transformation of higher education, the authors trace the development of an economic model by which the behavioral tendencies of modern universities can be evaluated. That model is expanded to provide insights to the following...

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In what format and under what timeframe would China take on climate commitments? A roadmap to 2050

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Given that China is already the world’s largest carbon emitter and its emissions continue to rise rapidly in line with … its industrialization and urbanization, there is no disagreement that China eventually needs to take on binding greenhouse … gas emissions caps. However, the key challenges are when that would occur and what credible interim targets China would …

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Recruitment, retention, and retirement in higher education : building and managing the faculty of the future

Ma, Jennifer (contributor); Clark, Robert Louis (contributor) - 2005

This volume examines some of the most pressing employment and compensation issues confronting academic administrators. Contributors discuss topics such as: ageing of faculty, changing economic conditions and shifts in faculty employment patterns, rapid increases in health care costs and trends...

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Economic integration, democratization and national security in East Asia : shifting paradigms in US, China and Taiwan relations

Chow, Peter C. Y. (contributor) - 2007

The US policy of supporting a democratic Taiwan while simultaneously engaging China is a delicate and complex balance … amid the emerging power of China continues to change the paradigm. The contributors to this volume explore the political …

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Educating economists : the Teagle discussion on re-evaluating the undergraduate economics major

Colander, David C. (contributor); … - 2009

The economics major is a central part of a college education. But is that economics major doing what it is meant to do? And if not, how should it be changed? This book raises a set of provocative questions that encourage readers to look at the economics major in a different light than it is...

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Economics, competition and academia : an intellectual history of sophism versus virtue

Stabile, Donald - 2007

1. Introduction : markets, competition, and higher education -- 2. Sophism, academia, and Greek economics -- 3. Adam Smith and sophism : reaction to the endowment model -- 4. Virtue and early academia in the US -- 5. Academia and the rise of capitalism in the US -- 6. Corporate capitalism and...

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