Using a unique sample of new Ph.D. economists in 1987 and 1997, we examine how job seekers and their employers alter … shifted their applications away from academia and toward the business sector. In bust conditions, academic institutions …

Ronald H. Coase, one of the most innovative and provocative economists of the twentieth century, has had a lasting … Companion, 31 leading economists, social scientists and legal scholars, including two Nobel Laureates, offer the first global …

. Providing Incentives for Change: Evaluating Teaching / Ann L. Owen -- Reflections on Introductory Course Structures / Paul W … Incentives (and Culture) in Rebalancing the Economics Major / Bradley W. Bateman -- What Do Economics Majors Think of the …

These volumes gather together a selection of autobiographical essays written by significant economists whose work is … on introductions to volumes in the Edward Elgar series Economists of the Twentieth Century (which collects together the … key papers of these economists). This volume focuses on leading economists who were born, or have spent the greater part …

Incentives to Improve Education identifies three categories of incentives: rewards, (financial rewards for teachers …