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Article: ELECTED OFFICIALS PROMOTE CORPORATE GREED, DISHONESTY.(Opinion)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2002
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Byline: Melvyn Miller
Fifty years ago most business schools, or at least the one I attended, required two semesters of accounting, one of statistics and one of economics, taught from Paul Samuelson's modern educational approach to economics rather than the old liberal arts methodology. Most of our business courses avoided financial analysis, which would come later, when and if we decided on an MBA.
We learned about corporate structures, business attitudes, corporate behavior and the government's role in regulating business. We were encouraged to look deeper into businesses to learn to understand them, their operation and their souls, rather than crunch ...