While Ethiopia has experienced remarkable improvement in access to education, quality of education has hardly kept pace. An acute shortage of teaching/learning materials has particularly hampered learning in primary and secondary education, and the limited materials available frequently turn out...

S social science : foundations 1 pluralist economics: is it scientific? / Sheila Dow -- Monism in modern science and competitive pluralism : the case of economics / Frank Beckenbach -- Pluralism in economics : epistemological rationales and pedagogical implementation / Jakob Kapeller -- In and...

Introductory economics courses emphasize opportunity cost, comparative advantage and specialization to show the benefits of trade. We assert that this emphasize leads to erroneous student mindset that trade requires specialization based on comparative advantage. We test students who have been...

What is the case method? : what's in it for you? -- Part I. Analyzing cases: What is a case? -- The skills you need to read and analyze a case -- How to analyze decision scenario cases -- How to analyze evaluation scenario cases -- How to analyze problem-diagnosis scenario cases -- Part II....

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey...

Vorwort zur ersten Auflage -- Einleitung -- Betriebswirtschaftliche Grundlagen -- Managementprozess -- Organisation -- Konstitutive Entscheidungen -- Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsethik : verantwortliches Handeln -- Materialwirtschaft und Logistik -- Produktion -- Marketing -- Personalmanagement --...

Practical exercises on Spanish constitutional law / María Garrote de Marcos -- Basic practice of criminal law / José Núñez Ferández -- Practical aspects of Spanish procedural law / Manuel Díaz Martínez -- Practice of international labour and social security law / Belén Alonso-Olea...

Dieses Buch ist für angehende Bilanzbuchhalter geschrieben, die kurz vor der Prüfung "Finanzwirtschaftliches Management" stehen. Es bietet eine klare, kompakte Anleitung zur optimalen Prüfungsvorbereitung und ist speziell auf die besondere Art der Prüfungsaufgaben ausgerichtet, enthält alle...

When we started the development of our CD to support the teaching of our basic statistic courses our work was twofold: we had to develop the content and the necessary software ourselves. Maintaining our software development in a university environment turned out to be especially difficult since...

Abstract: Reports that data on textbook availability in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remain patchy and often difficult to compare across countries. Even when textbooks physically exist in a school, they may not prove available for students to use. A 2008 survey of 19 SSA countries found (1) all but...