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...

This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...

We examine the natural rate of unemployment estimates of two international organizations (OECD and European Commission) and various release dates. Since estimates differ to a large extent, empirical research results which use natural rate estimates will also vary depending on the data source...

The aim of our contribution is to present an innovative instrument to teach macroeconomics at the undergraduate and master level. We develop a digital learning platform to present and explore some controversies at the very foundations of macroeconomic theory. For this purpose, we explicitly...

Changes regarding the importance of graduates' competences by employers and changes of competences themselves are to a great extend driven by the technological changes, digitalization, and big data. Among these competences, the ability to perform business and data analytics, based on statistical...

Die Studie untersucht - basierend auf sprach- und textbasierten Analysen, die sich auf die Kognitionswissenschaften und die Beeinflussungsforschung stützen - ob und welche Arten von Indoktrination im Rahmen der weltweit standardisierten ökonomischen Bildung an Hochschulen ausfindig gemacht...

Vor dem Hintergrund der für viele Experten unvorhersehbaren Finanzkrise von 2008/2009 widmet sich dieser Aufsatz die Frage, wie (ökonomische) Bildung zu einer "moralischen Phantasie" (Günter Anders) befähigen kann, mit der die Genese von Krisen und ihrer Konsequenzen unmittelbarer erfasst...

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...

In Australia, the so-called Group of Eight (Go8) universities have lower student-to-staff ratios, better qualified staff, superior research outcomes, and generally better placement in university rankings compared to non-Go8 universities. They are also typically the most competitive universities...

Das Paper skizziert Überlegungen, die zur Gründung der Cusanus Hochschule geführt haben. Kritisch wurde insbesondere der Verlust des Humboldtschen Bildungsideals durch die Universitätsreformen im Zuge des 1999 ausgerufenen Bologna-Prozesses gesehen. Die Gründung der Cusanus Hochschule...