Radicalizing and renewing home economics for the future. (Perspectives &...

Canadian Home Economics Journal;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Abstract The title of home economics has been a contentious issue throughout...practice it is recognized by. While home economics is currently being abandoned in some...vision and conceptualization of home economics. Home economics is viewed as a complex...

Our intellectual ecology: A treatise on home economics

Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Fall 1990 issue of the Journal of Home Economics. At the time, Kinsey Green was dean, College of Home Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis...executive director of the American Home Economics Association and the RHEA Foundation from...

The Fortunes of Economics

Review - Institute of Public Affairs;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The Fortunes of Economics Economics and its Enemies: Two Centuries of Anti-Economics by William Oliver Coleman (Palgrave-Macmillan, London, 2002, hardback, 328 pages, A$198) In this excellent work of scholarship, the Tasmanian academic William...

Ethics and Economics*: Of Value and Values

Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...This paper argues that economics and ethics should not be seen as...reciprocity. The particularity of modern economics - as opposed to traditional gift...be guaranteed. Keywords: Ethics, Economics, Reciprocity, Obligations of Solidarity...

Economics laid bare.(Book Talk; Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal...

The American Enterprise;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science By Charles...part: I don't really know much about economics. It seems like a foreign language to me. This is unfortunate, but understandable. Economics has become highly mathematical. Even...

Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession

Business History Review;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession...economic movement, Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession...essays shatter the stereotype of home economics as "glorified housekeeping," replacing...

The growing pains of behavioral law and economics

Vanderbilt Law Review;  November 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......are at the beginning of behavioral law and economics. We now see only dimly the outlines of the...young. Indeed, the conventional law and economics model, to which behavioral law and economics is, in large part, a reaction, is itself...

University economics versus Austrian economics

Ideas on Liberty;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Some time ago my wife asked me to define economics for her. "Ah," I said, sensing an opportunity...I did a Google search of university economics department Web pages to learn how they...economic departments I found defined economics as the study of how societies choose...

Dynamic Duo Bolsters BYUH Economics

Targeted News Service;  November 17, 2008 ;     589 words ......following news release: Beth HaynesThe economics department in the BYU-Hawaii College...receive a rich and invaluable knowledge of economics. Beth Haynes Beth Haynes, the macro and international economics professor at BYU-Hawaii, was born and...

The interface between law and economics and forensic economics

Journal of Legal Economics;  April 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Introduction and Brief History Law and economics has been a recognized subdiscipline in economics since before 1958. In 1958 the Journal of Law and Economics began publication. Since that time, courses in law and economics have become available...

Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics

Business History Review;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics. By Donald N. McCloskey . New York...High Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics is vintage McCloskey-witty, learned...stylish, and aimed at the heart of economics as a discipline. In this book as...

Is economics your worst nightmare? (Raising Interest Economics).

Social Education;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Is the thought of teaching economics your worst nightmare? If it is, you...may find the prospect of teaching economics unwelcome. What might explain this...grievances regarding the teaching of economics, including the following. * The content...

Your one-stop source for sound economics

Ideas on Liberty;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Economics on Trial "No dictionary of a living tongue can ever be perfect." -SAMUEL JOHNSON Walk into any bookstore and you'll usually find two or three dictionaries of economics. Like any scientific discipline, economics has its own insider terminology, schools of thought, and famous experts. If you haven't ...

Who's afraid of their economics classes? Why are students apprehensive...

American Economist;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...I. Introduction Economics can often evoke strong emotions of fear and...of majors, and the general perception of economics. Our experience suggests that students are apprehensive about economics classes. If we want to reduce some of that...

The primacy of economics: An explanation of the comparative success of...

Economic Inquiry;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...I The strong export surplus economics maintains in its trade in ideas...important indicator of the success of economics. Not much has been said about the...to other social sciences by the economics tool kit. Thus, Gary Becker, who...