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Teaching economics, appreciating spontaneous order, and economics as a public science
Boettke, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
James M. Buchanan has argued that the primary role that the economist plays in society is a pedagogical one. The job of the economists is to teach students the principles of economics, most notably an understanding of spontaneous order and the role of the price system in generating that order...
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Pattern of Computer and Internet Use among Teachers in Higher Institutions in Nigeria
Awoleye, Michael; Siyanbola, William; Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This research borders on assessing teachers’ competences in the use of ICT tools in teaching and research in Nigeria. Two common ICTs: the computer and the internet were selected, and the skills and attitudes of teachers in 7 Nigerian higher Institutions were assessed. About 760 questionnaires...
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Can't See the Tacking for the Trees? Try a Coasian Solution
Beaulier, Scott; Mixon, Franklin; Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This note provides a modern story for principles instructors to use as a supplement to textbook accounts of problems associated with externalities and the applicability of the Coase theorem. Our story begins in July of 1988, when Larry Ellison paid $3.9 million for a home in the Pacific Heights...
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The Free-Rider Problem: A Pedagogical Note (Using Indifference Curve Technology)
Cebula, Richard; Belton, Willie; McLeod, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
This brief note develops a pedagogically useful new (albeit still rudimentary) way of teaching the free-rider concept. This simple approach applies the familiar tools of indifference curve analysis to the topic at hand. Since so many students of economics are well versed in indifference curves,...
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The social issues pedagogy vs. the traditional principles of economics: an empirical examination
Grimes, Paul W.; Nelson, Paul S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Standardized test (TUCE) scores for students enrolled in a Social Issues course were compared to those of students in traditional Principles of Economics courses within the framework of a standard educational production function. The production function was estimated using Heckman's two-step...
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The Theory and Practice of Case-In-Point Teaching of Organizational Leadership
Robert, Yawson - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
education is an emerging pedagogy that is gaining ascendancy and relevance both in theory and practice. The pedagogy is … longer be the dominant epistemology. This paper discusses how Case-In-Point Pedagogy can be used in teaching organizational … leadership. The discussions are based on Ron Heifetz’ Case-In-Point Pedagogy as situated in the realist ontological frameworks of …
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Teaching the Economics of Income Tax Evasion
Cebula, Richard; Foley, Maggie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The purpose of this pedagogical study is to provide a straightforward and easily understood framework that can be used to teach the economic behavior underlying income tax evasion. We begin with presenting a brief background that reflects the research that had been done, especially for the case...
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Measuring fiscal stance for the United Kingdom, 1920-1990
van der Eng, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it presents a very concise way of measuring fiscal stance. This procedure is based on the assumption that the ‘neutral change’ in the government budget can best be simulated with a long-term approximation of the underlying trend of total output....
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The Pattern of Foreign Market Entry of Canadian Exporters
Sui, Sui; Yu, Zhihao - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper employs a unique large-scale longitudinal (1997–2005) dataset to investigate the pattern of foreign market entry by 6,079 Canadian exporters. We have found that fewer firms are choosing the United States as their initial export destination. This trend suggests that a growing number...
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The dynamics of personal income distribution and inequality in the United States
Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
predict the dynamics of personal incomes for every single person in the working-age population in the USA between 1930 and …
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