Author: Federal Reserve Bank of AtlantaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prices
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Monthly Review - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Author: Federal Reserve Bank of AtlantaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prices
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Monthly Review
Author: Federal Reserve Bank of AtlantaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: The American Economic Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Includes the Hand book of the American Economic Association.
The Case against Education
Author: Bryan CaplanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691201439
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Why we need to stop wasting public funds on education Despite being immensely popular—and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. Now with a new afterword by Bryan Caplan, this explosive book argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skills but to signal the qualities of a good employee. Learn why students hunt for easy As only to forget most of what they learn after the final exam, why decades of growing access to education have not resulted in better jobs for average workers, how employers reward workers for costly schooling they rarely ever use, and why cutting education spending is the best remedy. Romantic notions about education being "good for the soul" must yield to careful research and common sense—The Case against Education points the way.
The National union catalog, 1968-1972
Author: Louisiana Business Review
Author: The Shadow of a Dream
Author: Peter A. CoclanisPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195072677
Category : Charleston (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Coclanis here charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years, his study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effect of various factors on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History
Author: Robert WhaplesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415677041
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The aim of The Handbook of Modern Economic History will be to introduce readers to the key approaches and findings of economic historians who study the modern world. Modern economic history blends two approaches ' Cliometrics (which focuses on measuring economic variables and explicitly testing theories about the historical performance and development of the economy, as exemplified by the approach of Robert Fogel) and the New Institutional Economics (which focuses on how social, cultural, legal and organizational norms and rules shape ...