Article: Modern Economics Education in TEs: Technology Transfer to Russia.(transition economies)(Statistical Data Included)

I. Introduction

In 1948 a young and recent Chicago Ph.D. in economics by the name of Don Patinkin immigrated to Israel and accepted a position as a professor of economics in the faculty of social sciences at the Hebrew University. At the time the HU had a small number of economics teachers with a curriculum that followed mostly the continental (German) tradition of concentration on descriptive history and geographical emphasis. Don Patinkin started to teach "American", positive economics, he initiated the sending of dozen or so students to study abroad (mostly in England and in the US). Within a few years the department of economics at the HU was completely ...

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