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Vachris, Michelle Albert; Bohanon, Cecil E. – Journal of Economic Education, 2012
This article illustrates how literature can bring models to life in undergraduate courses on labor market economics. The authors argue that economics instructors and students can benefit from even small doses of literature. The authors examine excerpts from five American novels: "Sister Carrie" by Theodore Drieser (1900/2005); "The Grapes of…
Descriptors: Labor Economics, Labor Market, Wages, Labor Supply
Zinkina, Julia; Korotayev, Andrey – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2014
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the structure of the international migration system has remained stable through the recent turbulent changes in the world system. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology draws on the social network analysis framework--but with some noteworthy limitations stipulated by the specifics of…
Descriptors: Immigration, Evidence, Social Change, Social Networks
Berends, Mark; Donaldson, Kristi – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background: Although we have learned a good deal from lottery-based and quasi-experimental studies of charter schools, much of what goes on inside of charter schools remains a "black box" to be unpacked. Grounding our work in neoclassical market theory and institutional theory, we examine differences in the social organization of schools…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Ability Grouping, Quasiexperimental Design, Mathematics Achievement
Kwok, Yun-kwong – Journal of Economic Education, 2007
In the neoclassical growth theory, higher saving rate gives rise to higher output per capita. However, in the Keynesian model, higher saving rate causes lower consumption, which may lead to a recession. Students may ask, "Should we save or should we consume?" In most of the macroeconomics textbooks, economic growth and Keynesian economics are in…
Descriptors: Financial Policy, Economics Education, Undergraduate Study, Theories
Peer reviewed
List, John A. – Journal of Political Economy, 2004
Walrasian tatonnement has been a fundamental assumption in economics ever since Walras' general equilibrium theory was introduced in 1874. Nearly a century after its introduction, Vernon Smith relaxed the Walrasian tatonnement assumption by showing that neoclassical competitive market theory explains the equilibrating forces in "double-auction"…
Descriptors: Free Enterprise System
Brissett, Nigel O. M. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
The rate of emigration of highly educated people from the Caribbean is one of the highest in the world but little research exists on this phenomenon. This paper helps to fill this gap by focusing on one particular subset of Caribbean skilled emigrants, those working in higher education in the US, including academics and administrators. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Skilled Workers, Foreign Countries
Shanks, Neil – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2019
This article outlines core tenets of feminist economics and contrasts these tenets with traditional neoclassical economic assumptions about human nature, value, markets, inequality, and power. Further, it challenges the "Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics" and the "C3 Framework" for their exclusion of any…
Descriptors: Economics Education, National Standards, Teaching Methods, Feminism
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Merrett, Christopher D. – Journal of Geography, 1997
Argues that neoclassical conceptions of political geography separate economic from political processes and therefore ignore the consequences of economic policies. Uses discourse theory to show how the pretensions of objectivity embedded in neoclassical trade theory obscure these consequences. Briefly reviews trade theory from Adam Smith to the…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Discourse Analysis, Economic Factors, Economics
Foster, Phillip – Prospects, 1992
Comments on the World Bank's policy paper on vocational and technical education and training. Argues that past failures in establishing effective vocational and technical education were a result of not applying conventional neoclassical economic theory. Asserts that the World Bank's policy paper corrects this approach. (CFR)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Colonialism, Developing Nations, Economic Factors
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Egger, John B. – Journal of Economic Education, 1998
Briefly defines and provides some background on Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk's "marginal pairs" theory of pricing. Asserts that Bohm-Bawerk's theory is a good introduction to the Austrian school of economics and illustrates the differences between this approach and neoclassical economic theory. Includes several graphs and tables of data. (MJP)
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Cost Indexes, Economics, Economics Education
Wang, Greg G.; Holton, Elwood F., III – Human Resource Development Review, 2005
In an effort to more comprehensively understand economics as a foundation of human resource development (HRD), this article reviews economic theories and models pertinent to HRD research and theory building. By examining neoclassical and neoinstitutional schools of contemporary economics, especially the screening model and the internal labor…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Economic Factors
Sorensen, Aage B. – 1977
This paper analyzes the properties of the process of social and economic attainments in two contrasting situations: (1) when the process of attainment generates the distribution of attainments, and (2) when the structure of attainments is seen as exogenously determined. It is argued that the neoclassical economic theory of earnings determination…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Educational Background, Educational Status Comparison, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Wignaraja, Ponna – International Social Science Journal, 1996
Traces the search for economic development alternatives that go beyond conventional neo-classical and Marxist theory and practice. Outlines case studies of social and economic transformation in South Korea and China and delineates the differences between similar attempts in Latin America and Eastern Europe. (MJP)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Communism, Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Change
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Cole, Harold L.; Ohanian, Lee E. – Journal of Political Economy, 2004
There are two striking aspects of the recovery from the Great Depression in the United States: the recovery was very weak, and real wages in several sectors rose significantly above trend. These data contrast sharply with neoclassical theory, which predicts a strong recovery with low real wages. We evaluate the contribution to the persistence of…
Descriptors: Wages, Persistence, Labor, Depression (Psychology)
Harrington, David V.; And Others – 1978
This paper is designed to complement Richard Young's (1976) survey, which identified the four main theories of rhetorical invention (neo-classical invention, prewriting, tagmemic invention, and the dramatist invention), by reviewing textbooks under the headings of the four rhetorical inventions. A fifth category, resources in speech communication,…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Devices