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Post-Keynesian theory, direct action and political involvement
Harcourt, G.C. - In: Intervention. European Journal of Economics and … 08 (2011) 1, pp. 117-128
In this paper I analyse how I became an economist and at the same time a democratic socialist and a Christian. I also explain how I became politically involved after my graduate studies at Cambridge in the late 1950s and started lecturing at Adelaide. When back in Cambridge in the 1960s,...
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Communication science: An integral part of business and business studies?
Hinner, Michael B. - 2002
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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UWM/UP joint study program: experience, problems, and future perspectives:to be presented at the 2nd Transatlantic Degree Program (TDP) workshop 'Education for a globalized world:...
Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2007
The paper describes the exchange program in between the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee and the University of Potsdam in the field of economics. It discusses in detail the development of the program, including the problems and challenges. Additionally a brief description of the curriculum is...
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Einflussfaktoren des Studienerfolges im betriebswirtschaftlichen Studium: Eine empirische Untersuchung
Giese, Stefanie; Otte, Franziska; Stoetzer, … - 2013
with the factors that influence a students success, ie grade, in studying business economics. As to students, universities …-Abbe-University of Applied Sciences Jena. These former students graduated between 1996 and 2011. The empirical findings suggest, that …: First, high school records are good predictors of university grades. Second, age and gender do not influence students grade …
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How University Students Use Internet Resources: Students' Self-Assessment Vs. Exams Results
Gašpar, Dražena; Mabic, Mirela; Ćorić, Ivica - In: ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion 9 (2023) 1, pp. 13-21
since birth. This paper aims to check to what extent the above statements apply to University of Mostar (SUM) students. For … this purpose, the authors researched SUM students to determine how they self-assess their knowledge and use of Internet … authors compared the results obtained by surveying students with actual exam results. The results of the research suggest that …
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Brauchen wir eine neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft?
Blum, Reinhard - 2002
Wer nur an die Marktwirtschaft glaubt, ist abergläubisch, stellte der katholische Theologe Hans Küng vor einigen Jahren in einem Beitrag „Ökonomie und Theologie“ für Studenten der Wirtschaftswissenschaften fest. Soziale Marktwirtschaft, so ließe sich fortfahren, schützt vor diesem...
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Foreign aid and sustainable energy
Gomez-Echeverri, Luis - 2013
Energy is linked to most of the major global challenges of the twenty-first century. Poverty eradication, climate change, ecosystem management, world health and security are all influenced by energy, its availability, cost, emissions and other impacts. Unfortunately, energy systems as currently...
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Top5itis
Serrano, Roberto - 2018
Top5itis is a disease that currently affects the economics discipline. It refers to the obsession of the profession of academic economists with the so-called "top5 journals".
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The digital revolution: Lights and shadows: Lecture delivered at Fundación Ramón Areces
Serrano, Roberto - 2019
The digital revolution has brought about a wave of technological optimism, sustained by all the things technology does for us in our every day lives. This is in principle good, but it has a dark side, as the poor use of the new technologies may lead us to become lazier and to replace or strain...
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The measurement of intellectual influence: The views of a sceptic
Serrano, Roberto - 2004
In an extremely interesting paper, Palacios-Huerta and Volij (2004) [PV] introduce the axiomatic method to the problem of how to rank academic journals on the basis of their mutual citations. They characterize the invariant method as the only one satisfying a list of five appealing properties....
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