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Inside the business schools : the content of European business education
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ISBN: 8763001136 Year: 2003 Publisher: Copenhagen Copenhagen Business School


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A guide for the young economist
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ISBN: 9780262016162 9780262515894 9780262298544 026251589X 0262016168 0262298546 9780262299435 0262299437 0262297655 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

The making of an economist, redux
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ISBN: 0691138516 9780691125855 0691125856 9786612158728 1282158724 1400828643 9781400828647 9780691138510 Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today's economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer's classic The Making of an Economist, this book shows what is happening in elite U.S. economics Ph.D. programs. By examining these programs, Colander gives a view of cutting-edge economics--and a glimpse at its likely future. And by comparing economics education today to the findings of the original book, the new book shows how much--and in what ways--the field has changed over the past two decades. The original book led to a reexamination of graduate education by the profession, and has been essential reading for prospective graduate students. Like its predecessor, The Making of an Economist, Redux is likely to provoke discussion within economics and beyond. The book includes new interviews with students at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, and Columbia. In these conversations, the students--the next generation of elite economists--colorfully and frankly describe what they think of their field and what graduate economics education is really like. The book concludes with reflections by Colander, Klamer, and Robert Solow. This inside look at the making of economists will interest anyone who wants to better understand the economics profession. An indispensible tool for anyone thinking about graduate education in economics, this edition is complete with colorful interviews and predictions about the future of cutting-edge economics.


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La escuela de economia de la UCV : una trayectoria de 70 años.
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ISBN: 9789800025178 Year: 2008 Publisher: Caracas Universidad central de Venezuela


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The dissemination of economic ideas.
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ISBN: 9780857935571 0857935577 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cheltenham Elgar


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Living economics : yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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ISBN: 9781598130751 9781598130720 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oakland Independent institute


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The economic reader : textbooks, manuals and the dissemination of the economic sciences during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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ISBN: 9780415554435 9780203806395 9781138807686 9781136654947 9781136654985 9781136654992 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Routledge

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"In the nineteenth century and still in the early decades of the twentieth century textbooks of economics were quite different from those over which thousands of undergrads sweat blood today to prepare their exams. They pedagogical tools, rich of moralistic overtones and of practical indications addressed to policy makers. They were made to persuade both students and the ordinary layman about the benefits of the market order. They also indicated the rules of behaviour that were considered consistent with the smooth functioning of economic mechanisms. The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson's Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book cover a large part of Europe, the British Commonwealth, the United States and Japan. Each chapter examines various types of textbooks, from those aimed at self-education to those addressed to university students, secondary school students, to the short manuals aimed at the popularisation of political economy among workers and the middle classes. An introductory chapter examines this phenomenon in a comparative and transnational perspective. This study on the archaeology of modern textbooks reveals the massive effort made by governments and academic authorities to construct and disseminate a system of economic representations and regulations that could be instrumental to establish and consolidate what Michel Foucault called a new type of governmentality, based on natural market laws and on Malthusian population mechanisms"-- "The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson's Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book cover a large part of Europe, the British Commonwealth, the United States and Japan. Each chapter examines various types of textbooks, from those aimed at self-education to those addressed to university students, secondary school students, to the short manuals aimed at the popularisation of political economy among workers and the middle classes. An introductory chapter examines this phenomenon in a comparative and transnational perspective"--

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