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Pros and Cons of Teaching and Research in the History of Economic Thought Today
Hurtado, Jimena; Álvarez, Andrés - In: Lecturas de Economía (2010) 73, pp. 275-301
This article intends to rebut the arguments against teaching and research in the history of economic thought, thus …
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A Benchmark Profile of Economics Departments in 15 Private Universities
Dearden, James; Taylor, Larry; Thornton, Robert - In: Journal of Economic Education 32 (2001) 4, pp. 387-396
survey concerning such items as departmental resources, teaching loads, class sizes, departmental research expectations, and … weights given to research, teaching, and service in salary determination and promotion. The authors believe that their results …
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Internationalization of Universities as Internationalization of Bildung
Lenz, Rainer; Steinhaus, Carol - 2010
Internationalization receives top priority in nearly any university mission statement. But why? What is the value of … internationalization for a university? Is the purpose to improve a university’s ranking, or to explore new revenue sources by entering … itself. Internationalization is a powerful means to fulfill a university’s central task “Bildung of individuals” as it …
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The State of Economic Research in Slovakia (in Slovak)
Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivèák, Ján; Rajcaniová, Miroslava - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 55 (2005) 11-12, pp. 546-562
quality of a given university or research institute is measured by the stock approach, i.e., current staff publication …This paper evaluates economic universities and research institutes in Slovakia with respect to research output. The … activity as recorded in the SSCI and EconLit databases. Our results show that no significant transformation of university …
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Towards Expenditure Rules and Fiscal Sanity in the Euro Area
Schuknecht, Ludger; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Sanchez … - 2011
The study looks at primary expenditure developments in the euro area, its three largest members and four “macro-imbalances” countries for the period 1999- 2009. It compares actual expenditure trends with those that would have prevailed if countries had followed neutral policies based on...
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The American economist Martin Bronfenbrenner (1914-1997) and the reconstruction of the Japanese economy (1947-1952): (a version for presentation in East Asia)
Ikeo, Aiko - 2011
Martin Bronfenbrenner (1914-1997) was an American economist who was conversant with Japanese counterparts and well informed in Japan's economics and economy. This paper aims to examine how he managed to communicate with Japanese economists when he visited Japan (three times) during the period...
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What economics education is missing: The real world
Pühringer, Stephan; Bäuerle, Lukas - 2018
The global financial crisis (GFC) led to increasing distrust in economic research and the economics profession, in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001900
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"The market deals out profit and losses": Wie ökonomische Standardlehrbücher das unreflektierte Denken in Metaphern fördern
Graupe, Silja; Steffestun, Theresa - 2018
Das Paper analysiert den bisher kaum beachteten Gebrauch von Metaphern in ökonomischen Standardlehrbüchern am Beispiel der Lehrtexte von Paul A. Samuelson und N. Gregory Mankiw. Dabei steht die metaphorische Semantik des abstrakten Konzeptes "des Marktes" im Zentrum der Untersuchungen. Mittels...
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Do economic policymakers practice what they preach? : the case of pension decisions
Dahan, Momi; Kogut, Tehila; Shalem, Moshe - 2009
This paper examines whether policymakers, economists at the Israeli Finance Ministry, act in their personal pension decisions in accordance with the rational behaviour assumptions underlying the pension policies they advance. We find that while economists' decisions regarding three other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266014
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Monetary persistence and the labor market: A new perspective
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010
In this paper we propose a novel way to model the labor market in the context of a New-Keynesian general equilibrium model, incorporating labor market frictions in the form of hiring and firing costs. We show that such a model is able to replicate many important stylized facts of the business...
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