In this article we will argue that, despite offering free undergraduate education, the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) has become a market university. As all the other public universities in…
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The central issue studied in this essay is the meaning and implications for public policy of Nicholas Stern’s statement that “Climate change is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever…
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…Economics, (London: Anthem, 2004). And neoclassical reasons for a lack of validity where that arises are provided. Both criticisms and the judgment of their validity can be subjective or objective….
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…the overwhelming support of the public for the movement’s demands. The students’ main demands included free education and a greater involvement of the state in education. The parties of the…
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Economic theory has relatively little to say about the policy making process. One exception is Anthony Downs’ An Economic Theory of Democracy which considers possible objectives for participants in the…
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…these funds. They have argued that funds should instead that their assets will get the risk-free rate of return on US Treasury bonds and build up their funds accordingly. This…
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…of comparative advantage, is unconvincing as a complement. It is concluded that the theory of comparative advantage should be dismissed. International trade theory, by relying on this theory, risks ignoring…
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…states, and nations such as China, have a merit component to their securities laws), the concept of merit regulation is indeed largely alien to the scheme of U.S. federal securities…
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…this process of “differentiation,” the creation and maintenance of difference, is, in practice, the production of inequality, which disadvantages regional campus students as well as members of the regional faculty….
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…statistical evidence for a large number of developing countries strongly supports the hypothesis of a trickle down effect, not a bottom up effect as the best way to beat poverty….
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…in its approach to trading regimes currently in operation. In this paper we address this in terms of the arguments against the comparative advantage orthodoxy of free trade and for…
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…and rational free choice, that supports the habitus. The culture of economics is firmly held in place by symbolic violence directed at those who question the prevailing culture. The paper…
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…should be given at the end of the articles in the following style with hyperlinks wherever useful and possible. For a review of the Harvard system, see: http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Images/Selfstudy/Harvard.pdf or http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~bstahl/HarvardStyle.htm…
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…initiatives that support this resistance; Classroom/pedagogical strategies for helping students understand what’s at stake; Curricular materials exposing the corporate pressure to vocationalize and de-intellectualize the university; Labour organizing as tool…
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Email: wereditor@worldeconomicsassociation.org Jayati Ghosh, India, Jawaharlal Nehru University: jayatijnu@gmail.com John Weeks, UK, University of London: johnweeks@jweeks.org Susan Feiner, USA, University of Southern Maine: sffein@usm.maine.edu Esteban Perez Caldentey, Chile, Economic Commission for…
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…and the Bachelet Reforms in Chile César Guzmán-Concha 32 – 43 The Corporization of a Public University with Free Undergraduate Education: Endangering Autonomy at the University of Buenos Aires Cecilia…
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…tax havens, and companies are increasingly shifting profits through Bermuda, Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands and other such offshore jurisdictions. The best guesses suggest that there are approximately 60 secrecy jurisdictions,…
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