This paper identifies key characteristics of Jesuit pedagogy, expounds why Jesuit pedagogy is relevant not only to religious students but to all learners, and explores the benefits of applying these active learning teaching methods to business and economics courses. We review teaching...

Economics needs a set of agreed facts to create a scientific economic paradigm, without which economics remains trapped in the rationalist-scholastic tradition with many rival schools of conflicting theories. Physics and other natural sciences are shown in this paper to be based on an empiricism...

The author shows that often quoted definitions used in the study of introductory courses in economics for the most part are lacking critical elements that would otherwise provide a more complete understanding of the nature of economic pursuits. The author uses the leading theories and...

Elite economics PhD programs aim to train graduate students for a lifetime of academic research. This paper asks how advising affects graduate students' post-PhD research productivity. Advising is highly concentrated: at the eight highly-selective schools in our study, a minority of advisors do...

We examine the pre-graduate school characteristics of American PhD students graduating from the top 50 American economics programs. Attending a highly ranked undergraduate institution is strongly associated with graduating from a highly ranked PhD program, as is research assistant experience...

Ist die zunehmende Mathematisierung dafür verantwortlich, dass ordnungspolitische Inhalte immer mehr aus dem wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Curriculum verdrängt werden? Der vorliegende Beitrag verneint diese Frage. Er plädiert dafür, dass ordnungspolitisch orientierte Ökonomen und stärker...

This paper provides a systematic assessment of academic economics teaching, research and policy advice in Germany. It assembles recent empirical studies and contributes by presenting their main findings in a comprehensible manner as well as contextualizing them in the current economic and...

La aviación civil ha sido uno de los sectores en donde el Estado ha ejercido mayor regulación, considerando que se trata de una industria altamente intensiva en capital y con unos exigentes estándares técnicos, pues presta un servicio en el cual la seguridad de sus usuarios (los pasajeros)...