The Downsizing Of Economics Professors
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The Downsizing Of Economics Professors
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Author : Steven Payson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2017-10-24
The Downsizing Of Economics Professors written by Steven Payson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with Business & Economics categories.
The number of economics professors now teaching at universities will decline substantially over the next couple of decades. This will happen for one main reason—the advent of distance learning, especially in the form of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which enable a single professor to lecture to tens of thousands of students. Other academic fields will undoubtedly encounter similar reductions in their numbers of professors. However, as this book argues at several levels, academic economics is the one profession that is most qualified to study and address the topic. In this sense it is the one profession that should best recognize the economic benefits of this transition, which this book describes, and take responsibility for leading the transition among all academic fields. Unfortunately, the position espoused by several academic economists has been against this inevitable transition—a position that politically upholds their employment and the status of their institutions. They have asserted that MOOCs lower the quality of education and threaten the financial viability of traditional universities. Based on extensive evidence and analysis, however, this book argues that their position untenable. Their position is hypocritical as well, given the fact that economics professors, more than anyone else, have upheld the idea that jobs should be lost, and new ones should be gained, in response to technological changes that promote economic efficiency. There is also irony in the fact that the high tuitions required to maintain traditional classrooms effectively deny a college education to those who cannot afford it. Thus, unsound arguments that traditional lectures are needed to preserve the quality of education actually do not improve the quality of education but have the only real effect of denying education to many people who would otherwise be able to receive it. To address this topic comprehensively, the book goes deep into fundamental questions about what economics professors really do with their time and energy, and what they should be doing in the best interests of their students and of society. These are areas that the profession has needed to address for a long time, but has failed to do so.
Weathering Layoffs In A Small Community
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Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Weathering Layoffs In A Small Community written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Unemployed categories.
Modern Theories Of Money
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Author : Louis-Philippe Rochon
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Modern Theories Of Money written by Louis-Philippe Rochon and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
'This is a timely book. Being on modern theories of money - essentially the study of traditions of endogenous money - it is a welcome contribution to current thinking on monetary policy. The modern central bank view on money is that the rate of interest should be manipulated by central banks to achieve an inflation target with the money supply being the "residual". Although money is in effect endogenous, there is no theory that explains its behaviour. Modern Theories of Money is a serious attempt to sharpen existing views on the issue and fill gaps in an admirable manner.' - Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge, UK and Levy Economics Institute, US This book unites diverse heterodox traditions in the study of endogenous money - which until now have been confined to their own academic quarters - and explores their similarities and differences from both sides of the Atlantic. Bringing together perspectives from post-Keynesians, Circuitists and the Dijon School, the book continues the tradition of Keynes's and Kalecki's analysis of a monetary production economy, emphasising the similarities between the various approaches, and expanding the analytical breadth of the theory of endogenous money. The authors open new avenues for monetary research in order to fuel a renewed interest in the nature and role of money in capitalist economies, which is, the authors argue, one of the most controversial, and therefore fascinating, areas of economics.
Issues For Debate In Social Policy
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Author : CQ Researcher,
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2009-08-18
Issues For Debate In Social Policy written by CQ Researcher, and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-18 with Political Science categories.
Issues for Debate in Social Policy is a timely supplement for courses in Social Policy. Each article gives substantial background and analysis of a particular issue as well as useful pedagogical features to inspire critical thinking and to help students grasp and review key material. Topics include: * Women′s Rights * Middle Class Squeeze * Vanishing Jobs * Race and Politics * Domestic Poverty * Welfare Reform * Hunger in America * Social Security Reform * Child Welfare Reform * Wounded Veterans * Universal Coverage * Ending Homelessness * Mortgage Crisis * Caring for the Elderly * Aging Baby Boomers * Gender Pay Gap * The Obama Presidency.
The Economics Of Economists
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Author : Alessandro Lanteri
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-05
The Economics Of Economists written by Alessandro Lanteri and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Leading scholars investigate the profession of academic economics, with a focus on the intellectual environment and incentives for economic research.
Microeconomics
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Author : David C. Colander
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Release Date : 1998
Microeconomics written by David C. Colander and has been published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Business & Economics categories.
The New Investment Theory Of Real Options And Its Implication For Telecommunications Economics
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Author : James J. Alleman
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-08-19
The New Investment Theory Of Real Options And Its Implication For Telecommunications Economics written by James J. Alleman and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-19 with Business & Economics categories.
Randall B, Lowe Piper & Marbury, L.L.R The issue of costing and pricing in the telecommunications industry has been hotly debated for the last twenty years. Indeed, we are still wrestling today over the cost of the local exchange for access by interexchange and competitive local ex change carriers, as well as for universal service funding. The U.S. telecommunications world was a simple one before the emergence of competition, comprising only AT&T and independent local exchange carriers. Costs were allocated between intrastate and interstate jurisdictions and then again, between intrastate local and toll. The Bell System then divided those costs among itself (using a process referred to as the division of revenues) and independents (using a process called settlements). Tolls subsidized local calls to keep the politi cians happy, and the firm, as a whole, covered its costs and made a fair return. State regulators, however, lacked the wherewithal to audit this process. Their con cerns centered generally on whether local rates, irrespective of costs, were at a po litically acceptable level. Although federal regulators were better able to determine the reasonableness of the process and the resulting costs, they adopted an approach of "continuous surveillance" where, like the state regulator, the appearance of rea sonableness was what mattered. With the advent of competition, this historical costing predicate had to change. The Bell System, as well as the independents, were suddenly held accountable.
What Is The Real Debt Limit
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Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
What Is The Real Debt Limit written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
The Economics And Management Of Technological Diversification
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Author : John Cantwell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-04-22
The Economics And Management Of Technological Diversification written by John Cantwell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-22 with Business & Economics categories.
And conclusionsFurther bibliography; Index.
The New World Of Economics
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Author : Richard B. McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-05-16
The New World Of Economics written by Richard B. McKenzie and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-16 with Business & Economics categories.
The New World of Economics, 6th edition, by Richard McKenzie and Gordon Tullock, represents a revival of a classic text that, when it was first published, changed substantially the way economics would be taught at the introductory and advanced levels of economics for all time. In a very real sense, many contemporary general-audience economics books that seek to apply the “economic way of thinking” to an unbounded array of social issues have grown out of the disciplinary tradition established by earlier editions of The New World of Economics. This new edition of The New World will expose new generations of economics students to how McKenzie and Tullock have applied in a lucid manner a relatively small number of economic concepts and principles to a cluster of topics that have been in the book from its first release and to a larger number of topics that are new to this edition, with the focus of the new topics on showing students how economic thinking can be applied to business decision making. This edition continues the book’s tradition of taking contrarian stances on important economic issues. Economics professors have long reported that The New World is a rare book in that students will read it without being required to do so.