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scholars. The first memoir is on Dr. Vernon W. Ruttan and the UP School of Economics during the 1960s. His contributions to the … development of the UP School of Economics and of the Philippine economic profession as remembered here were incidental to his main …
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More than one hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court started to refer to social science evidence in its judgments. However, this has not resonated with many constitutional courts outside the United States, in particular in continental Europe. This contribution has a twofold aim. First, it...
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The paper discusses measurement, primarily in economics, from both analytical and historical perspectives. The … classical economics and marginalism, through the struggle of orthodox economics against socialism down to the cold-war alliance … between mathematical social science and anti-communist ideology. In economics the commitment to ordinalism led to the …
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In den vergangenen Jahren hat sich das Verständnis der Volkswirtschaftslehre gewandelt. Bis in die siebziger Jahre dominierte die Wirtschaftspolitik, die sich auch als Berater außerhalb der Universitäten verstand. Dann schwappte von den USA die Mathematisierung der Volkswirtschaftslehre nach...
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Communication is at the center of any business transaction. Unfortunately until recently, communication has rarely been assigned its proper relevance in traditional business studies at German universities. This paper attempts to demonstrate why communication science can and should be an integral...
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Economics in Sweden contains the results of one of the most comprehensive attempts to evaluate research in economics …. Slow, examined the structure of economics in Sweden and its results. They identified postgraduate education as a key area …
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This paper analyses the determinants of grades achieved in three core subjects by first-year Economics undergraduate …
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economics education. The German perspective with its particular tertiary education system and decade long history of gender … have been used to test, in a nationwide sample, potential gender differences in the outcome of exams in basic economics. By … type of university, over the last decades gender equality in economics education has been consolidated and any observed …
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