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Bitcoin Mission Statement. Or What Does It Mean Sharing Economy and Distributed Trust?
Kosten, Dmitri - 2015
Technological advancements in the means of production are the driving force behind the changes in the prevailing system of socio-economic relations. Feudalism was transformed into capitalism as a result of such advancements. While man obtained physical freedom, the financial freedom remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012829
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Cyberfinance : Liberating the Financial Markets
Wales, Kim - 2015
A new economic revolution liberating financial markets? Seeks to answer some of the questions driving the existential crisis embroiling finance: What is currency? What is value? What is a business? What is a bank, even?This article discusses how regulatory reform, transformative technologies,...
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Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the International Benchmarking Review on Research Assessment
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article, deposited for archival purposes with Repec, contains the submission of the UK-based Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) on the benchmarking of research assessment in economics in the UK, to a consultation organised by the Economics and Social Science Research Council (ESRC)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258872
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Spellings Commission Report on Affordability and Access to Higher Education: changing demographics, economic crisis and investment in human capital
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper discusses report of The Spellings Commission for Future of Higher Education that was set up to look into the issues facing the higher education system in the U.S., outline the challenges and offer recommendations to tackle the problems. Most importantly, The Spellings Commission Report...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596361
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A Litmus Test of Academic Quality
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper discusses the major issues connected with the accreditation procedures in higher education system in the U.S. The questions raised are as follows: what are the reliable and credible indicators of quality instruction that could be measured in the process of accreditation of higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596413
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Catechism versus pluralism: the heterodox response to the national undergraduate curriculum proposed by the UK Quality Assurance Authority
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Paper presented to the 2007 conference of the International Confederation for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE), June 1-3, Salt Lake City, Utah. This paper was authored by myself following consultations, and submitted collectively by the Association for Heterodox Economics, as a result of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836214
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Economics Professors' Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)
Davis, William L.; Figgins, Bob G.; Hedengren, David; … - In: Econ Journal Watch 8 (2011) 2, pp. 126-146
A sample of 299 U.S. economics professors, presumably random, responded to our survey which asked favorites in the … followed closely by Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok). The survey also asked party-voting and 17 policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018179
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Does Economics Make You Sexist?
Paredes, Valentina; Paserman, M. Daniele; Pino, Francisco J. - 2020
students in economics relative to other fields. We conducted a large scale survey among undergraduate students in Chilean … universities, among both entering first-year students and students in years 2 and above. The survey elicits measures of implicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269901
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Why Teach History of Economic Thought Today?
Álvarez, Andrés - 2010
Shorter undergraduate studies, increasing specialization and the priority of applied research in Economics represent threats for the History of Economic Thought (HET) as an integral part of the training of young economists. There are mostly sociological arguments to reduce or eliminate HET...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136258
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Does Economics Make You Sexist?
Paredes, Valentina - 2020
students in economics relative to other fields. We conducted a large scale survey among undergraduate students in Chilean … universities, among both entering first-year students and students in years 2 and above. The survey elicits measures of implicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834573