Popular Development Economics—An Anthropologist among the Mandarins

Popular Development Economics—An Anthropologist among the Mandarins

I n 1997, I found myself newly arrived at Oxford University. I was taking a detour from my path to do research in West Africa thanks to a fellowship that funded a year of ancillary training before my fieldwork. Though studying anthropology, I was at St. Antony’s College, where Paul Collier’s Center for the Study of African Economies is located, and was in the same entering cohort as Collier’s n...

the effect of using visual aids on the development of speech act of disagreement among iranian intermediate efl learners

abstract the present study tried to investigate the effect of visual aids (films) on the development of the speech act of disagreement among iranian efl intermediate learners. to this end, the researcher selected 40 homogeneous intermediate learners based on their scores on oxford placement test. .the subjects then divided into control group and experimental group. both classes were tested by ...

The Responsibility of the Anthropologist.

the effect of using learning logs as a self-assessment tool on the syntactic development among iranian pre-intermediate efl learners

چکیده: هدف از انجام این پژوهش ،بررسی استفاده از یادداشتهای یادگیری به عنوان یکی از ابزار های خود ارزشیابی بر افزایش مهارت دستوری (صورتهای شرطی و مجهول) زبان آموزان در مقطع پیش متوسطه بوده است .بدین منظور یک تست استاندارد در مقطع پیش متوسطه بین 90 نفر زبان آموز در سنین 15 تا 20 سال در آموزشگاه زبان انگلیسی امین و پارسا در شهرستان شاهرود برگزار شد از میان این افراد 60 فراگیر انتخاب شدند. و این 6...

Markets, Mandarins, and Mathematicians

I would like tobegin on a personal note, in part to expiatepast sins of omission, partly to allow me to illustrate a major theme of this paper. Though I began the study of economics at Oxford in 1960, to my shame the sole work of Peter Bauer’s that I had read until fairly recently was Indian Economic Policy and Development (1961). Leafing through my copy of Bauer’s book to prepare this paper, I...