What Do Economists Know That Managers of Technology Find Useful?.

Maital, Shlomo

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ERIC Number: EJ458413

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1992

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What Do Economists Know That Managers of Technology Find Useful?

Maital, Shlomo

Journal of Economic Education, v23 n2 p175-80 Spr 1992

Presents results of a survey on the usefulness of economic concepts to graduates of a management of technology program. Reports that the students judge microeconomics to be more useful than macroeconomics in providing tools for decision making. Concludes that concepts should be taught by stressing relevant applications. (DK)

Descriptors: Decision Making, Economics, Economics Education, Educational Research, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Questionnaires, Relevance (Education), Technology, Theory Practice Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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