Economic Development: Then and Now

Economic Development: Then and Now

DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS as a separate branch of economics emerged at the end of the Second World War. During the dominance of neo-classical economics from the 1870s until the Keynesian Revolution of the 1930s, economists were more concerned with partial equilibrium analysis. They worked on the assumption that a free competitive capitalist economy would automatically ensure the maximisation of nat...

Professional Development: Then and Now

Technological developments have altered pedagogies in classroom teaching but approaches to teacher professional development have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to describe an evolving learning process that spans the last decade and draws from three different investigations into professional development. The author compares and contrasts the key findings from two indepe...

Heifer Development – Then and Now

Schizophrenia: Then and Now

EPS—Then and Now

"Slime" played a brief and spectacular role in the 19th century founded by the theory of primordial slime by Ernst Haeckel. However, that substance was never found and eventually abandoned. Further scientific attention slowly began in the 1930s referring to slime as a microbial product and then was inspired by "How bacteria stick" by Costerton et al. in 1978, and the matrix material was conside...