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Professionalism can be defined generally as adhering to the accepted standards of a profession and placing the … interests of the public above the individual professional's immediate interests. In the field of medicine, professionalism … extrinsic incentives to do so. In this study we examine the behavior of 80 practitioners from the Arusha region of Tanzania for …
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of Tanzania for evidence of latent professionalism, professionalism and responsiveness to extrinsic incentives in the …Medicine is a professional pursuit, and even in developing countries professionalism should lead at least some … practitioners to care for their patients despite the absence of direct incentives to do so. Even if practitioners do not behave as …
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Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. In order to further their careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but for the vast majority this is impossible because there are few slots open for them in such journals. Such academic...
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in such journals. Such academic competition is held to provide the right incentives for hard work, but there may be …
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Academic economists today are caught in a “Publication Impossibility Theorem System” or PITS. To further their careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but for the vast majority this is impossible because there are few slots open in such journals. Such academic competition maybe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979379
in such journals. Such academic competition is held to provide the right incentives for hard work, but there may be …
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The geography of scientific knowledge is defined as the replication process of locally produced knowledge claims … between tacit and codified knowledge, proximity supports the replication of codified knowledge claims. Distinguishing between …
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Part I of this essay explained the sequence of events that enabled the neoclassical paradigm to regain its dominant position in mainstream economics following serious challenges by ‘Keynesian’ economists. This second essay seeks to answer the question of why the economics profession was so...
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We provide a tractable concept that can be used to study the influence of the degree of farsightedness on network stability. A set of networks GK is a level-K farsightedly stable set if three conditions are satisfied. First, external deviations should be deterred. Second, from any network...
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