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Purpose – The purpose of this manuscript is to quantify exactly how much information and/or predictive content is contained in business sentiment surveys. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses techniques drawn from information theory econometrics, and more specifically the theory of...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the approaches to smart specialisation being adopted in different European Union (EU) regions are likely to be heavily shaped by the institutional and governance context, as well as the regional economic specifics. Along with the specific...
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Because economics is increasing in importance in the high school curriculum, it is critically important that it is … taught well by well-trained teachers. We offer suggestions for teaching high school economics in the areas of content … materials, and innovative approaches for teaching economics. The use of literature, film, music, and activity-based lessons are …
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. This article helps teachers integrating economics into their classrooms plug into this M2 frenzy. It identifies numerous … engaging students in advancing along the economics learning curve. Hopefully, their engagement will spill over and entice …
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The authors make the case that data literacy is a key component to critical thinking in the world today. They describe the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) database and how it can be used. They provide a classroom lesson that uses FRED to help students gain an understanding of inflation and...
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Dr. Anna Julia Cooper was an early, radical educational pioneer who asked why African Americans were perceived as problematic to society and subjected to economic biases (Berry, 2006; May, 2007) Her life spanned the period of the Civil War to the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement ,. Reflecting on...
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The U.S. has a deficit problem. Both political parties agree that the debt and the deficit must be addressed, but are at odds about how to do so. Worse still, there are members of both parties who make finding solutions difficult because of entrenched ideology. As we approach the second year of...
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Writing is an important tool for content acquisition and for teaching analytical skills in economics. Students must be … able to read and write in the economics with an understanding of how knowledge is produced and disseminated in the field …. This study sought to understand how 12 secondary students enrolled in an economics course engaged in evaluating, critiquing …
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Economics classrooms are typically teacher-centered, textbook-driven, and often dominated by chalk-and-talk methodology …
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. The authors interpret understandings of citizenship as being closely related to conceptualizations of economics and view …
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