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...

The general population has been shown to have at best a rudimentary knowledge of economics, while the making of economic policy is in the hands of those with a similar lack of understanding as shown in surveys of the political parities (Fuller, Alston, and Vaughan 1995; and Geide-Stevenson 2007)....

The rhetoric of positivism had a profound effect on the worldview and practice of economists in the middle of the last century. Though this influence has greatly diminished, it still may be found in the attitude of many economists towards the history of their discipline. This paper traces the...

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...

A pluralist approach to economics is both necessary from anacademic as well a policy point of view. From an academicviewpoint pluralism can be understood as the outcome ofcompetition and specialization in the search for new ideasthat can deal with imperfections of the real world. From apolicy...

This paper evaluates the use of specialist software within university trading rooms in order to enable students to experience a simulated environment which allows them to gain an appreciation of "real life" decision-making within the finance and banking industry and become familiar with...

Much of the literature on teaching methods for economics modules demonstrates alternative ways in which the instructor can present the material to the students. In this paper the author proposes a method which puts the responsibility of the teaching and learning of the syllabus in the hands of...

The standard U-shaped cost curve/profit maximizing model of the firm is fundamentally inconsistent with the iso-quant explanation of efficient utilization of the factors of production. Because factor productivities are interdependent, the presence of any fixed factor of production whose return...

At many large universities it is conventional to deliver undergraduate introductory economics courses in a large lecture hall. However, not surprisingly, casual empiricism suggests that rates of student absenteeism are significantly greater in a large lecture format than in a smaller classroom...

In recent decades, there have been concerns within the economics profession about the narrowness in both graduate and undergraduate economics programs. These concerns have been based on the view that economic phenomena can be the subject of many modes of explanation, each based on a particular...