MY EDUCATION IN MINERAL (ESPECIALLY OIL) ECONOMICS

Dedicated to My Whole Family, Especially My Mother, My Husband and My Children

My interest in the department of medical education

My interest in the department of medical education started in the year 1955 when about 900 high school graduates in Shiraz, participated in the “Konkoor”, an Iranian University entrance exam. Of these 900 graduates, 42 passed and gained admissions into Shiraz University Medical School and six years later, 32 graduated and received a medical degree from Shiraz University Medical School. I was on...

Recollections of My Past Research in Economics

I am an economic theorist. The younger economists today tend to use the term “theory” to refer to the theory of games and decisions; in fact, I have contributed to game theory. But my main theoretical interest is in economic systems – in systems of economic organization. I have found myself comparing the outcomes of a system against those of another system and in gauging the human rewards of di...

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...

Essays in Education Economics

My dissertation examines the causes of, and one possible program to help alleviate, urban public school district enrollment decline. Enrollment decline has plighted many cities in the Northeast and Midwest over the past two decades, leading to financial struggles and, sometimes, large school closures or reorganizations. In my first essay, " Determinants of Urban Enrollment Decline " , I describ...