Here is an early sample of a work in progress: a masterclass in applied economic theory and policy analysis—wrapped in the great American novel. In five acts, the novel takes its readers through an important quarter century of the American experience from the perspectives of five close family...

In today's globalized world, the language used most often is English. As Latha (2012), English has displayed the lingua franca for communication, business, education, and event worldwide. English holds a spot of éclat in our country. Still, after decades of colonial control, no indigenous...

In this paper, we will present a comparative study of all the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology accredited associate degree programs at Yanbu Industrial College, Jubail Industrial College, and Hafr Al-Batin Community College, all located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In this...

This draft chapter for the Elgar International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics is intended to give advice to instructors who might be teaching a history of economic thought course to undergraduates for the first time or who have perhaps been teaching for a while but would like to...

Education is considered to be a chief defense of any country. Literacy in India is the key for socio-economic progress and the Indian literacy rate grew to 74.04% in 2011 from 12% at the end of British rule in 1947. Edupreneur is a person within a public school who takes responsibility in...

The current crisis has triggered significant debate concerning economic theory and policy. Largely absent from this debate is an informed discussion of the methods used by economists in analysing the economy and formulating their proposals. But method matters. Here I argue that current academic...

This research investigates Banks' profitability in the United Arab Emirates from 2008 to 2012 using Bankscope Data Base, Financial Statement, and quantitative methodology techniques. This study focuses on 4 banks, 2 Islamic banks (Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank - Public Joint...

In Nature’s Law, Elliott explained that the Fibonacci sequence provides a mathematical basis of the wave principle. In The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior and The New Science of Socionomics, Prechter explained how Fibonacci sequence exists at all those instances where growth is the...

Libraries as knowledge organizations excel in organizing knowledge for the sake of its efficient retrieval. A Library, since being a storehouse of interdisciplinary knowledge and information, access to the universe of knowledge constitutes an essential precondition for information dissemination....

In the 21st century, the term ‘technology’ is an important topic in many fields, including education. This is because technology has become the highway of knowledge transfer in most countries. Technology integration has now revolutionized and transformed our society, which has completely...