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...

Business students often have difficulty integrating economics reasoning into other business disciplines because of differences in the format and presentation of financial data across disciplines. Economics courses use one format while Accounting and other business courses use another. This paper...

The objective of this article is setting a cornerstone to compare and understand the phenomenon of graduate entrepreneurship in developing and developed countries. Our central research questions are: Are there differences in the entrepreneurial intentions of university students? What are the...

The authors describe an interdisciplinary undergraduate course exploring multiple intersections of economics and religion, using a variety of textual sources, exercises, and teaching methods from both fields. They conclude that such a course can be valuable for both majors and non-majors,...

In this brief note we address the relation between economic analysis and the training of businessmen by taking into account four viewpoints: 1) the need for economic theory training in Business Schools; 2) the overlapping areas of economics and business; 3) the portray of the entrepreneur...

The author describes a writing assignment for a Soviet-Type/Centrally-Planned Economy Economy (STE/CPE) course. The exercise requires students to read a novel written by an East Central European or former USSR author and then answer, at length, two questions. First, how understanding the STE/CPE...

Vouchers are used extensively for the provision of services such as education and healthcare across the globe. They entail numerous potential benefits such as freedom of choice, better targeting of vulnerable populations and improved quality and cost effectiveness of service delivery through...

We report on the results of a two-phase survey aiming to explore the learning preferences of graduates in economics, compare the findings with graduates in other disciplines, and identify the determinant dimensions of their developed learning preferences. Economics graduates are compared against...

In this work we compare the undergraduate Economics majors and their underlying structure in the top-ranked Economics departments of Europe and the United States. We identify the fundamental courses usually included in an Economics major by means of a cluster analysis. We further distinguish...

The author describes a course designed to build 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...