Economics For a Higher Education

The Economics of Higher Education

The following investigation of post secondary education will proceed via three subdisciplines of modem economic analysis: first, by way of well-known techniques used in the study of public finance (welfare economics); second through models connected with the economic theory of organization; and third through the approach of ʺpublic choiceʺ (the economics of politics). There are important areas ...

Cognitive Economics A New Approach for Revolutionizing Economics Education in Iran

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate critically economics education in Iran within the framework of cognitive economics. For that the main problems dominating economics education have been explained and illuminated such as unsatisfactory national academic achievements, ignoring in part critical applied areas in economics, little progress and development in teaching economics during the last...

For a Higher Education

In Becker (1997), I called attention to economists' lack of interest in the teaching of economics and the plunging number of majors in economics within the United States. Six years later I reported on the growth in economists' interest in the teaching of economics and an apparent turnaround in the number of majors (Becker, 2003). For instance, when economics degrees were at a relative high of 2...

Economics Students’ Migrations in the Hungarian Higher Education System*

The Hungarian Higher Education has faced several structural challenges since the regime change of 1990. The ‘golden age’ seems to be over and the government tends to impose severe limits on institutions regarding the number of state-financed students, the minimal application points and the institutions’ missions. These new aspects influence the application procedures, as students are eager to a...

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