Harbaugh's daughter went to a French school at which every day before class, everyone in the class must kiss each other. It is easy to see that a class of 35 kids must engage in 595 kisses. Organizing the kissing for the purpose of time-saving and predicting how much time it would take are...

Esta breve nota explora la relación del análisis económico con la formación delempresario considerando cuatro aspectos: 1) la necesidad de que los estudiantesde los programas de negocios tengan entrenamiento en teoría económica; 2) lasáreas de cruces o interacción entre la economía y los...

El presente artículo pretende hacer un llamado acerca de la estructura general de los cursos de economía internacional I de pregrado (teoría y política del comercio internacional) por cuanto la visión económica neoclásica tradicional limita las explicaciones acerca de las causas y...

Este trabajo versa sobre la utilidad de las ecuaciones diferenciales y las ecuaciones en diferencias finitas para la resolución de distintos problemas en el ámbito de la economía y la empresa. En Economía es frecuente estudiar la evolución de los valores de una misma variable en distintos...

This paper presents a brief general history of the derivative and the beginnings and development of the differential calculus in economics, better known as marginal analysis. Moreover, we mention the various notations and interpretations of the derivative that usually appear in textbooks and...

This paper deals with the use of differential equations and finite difference methods for solving several problems in the field of Economics and Business Administration. Economics usually needs to study the evolution of the values which are taken by a given variable in different moments. If the...

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 toward the history of their discipline. This article traces the...

The authors measure math skills with a broader set of explanatory variables than have been used in previous studies. To identify what math skills are important for student success in introductory microeconomics, they examine (1) the student’s score on the mathematics portion of the ACT...

The author describes an introductory economics course in which all of the reading material is drawn from the Great Books of Western Civilization. He explains the rationale and mechanics of the course. An annotated course syllabus details how the reading material relates to the lecture material.

The author describes a course designed to build the critical thinking skills of undergraduate economics students. The course introduces and uses game theory to study the Bible. Students gain experience using game theory to formalize events and, by drawing parallels between the Bible and common...