The collapse of the centrally administered economies gave rise to a transition process towards economic systems based on market relations. Nevertheless, the transition process is not restricted to the economic field. The political and ideological aspects of the transformation are fundamental. As...

The "Discouraged-Business-Major" hypothesis is the phenomenon where students who are screened out of the business curriculum often make an economics major their alternative choice. The paper explains how the discouraged business majors were identified from those economics majors in the...