Henry George and Contemporary Economic Development. Edited by Stephen R. Lewis Jr Williamstown, Mass.: Economics Department, Williams College, 1985. Pp. 95. $8.50 for libraries and institutions, $5.00 for individuals.

Chapter 5 examines how Samuel P. Hayes, Jr., an early Point Four official who later helped design the Peace Corps, tried to “use” the University of Michigan to establish a program of multidisciplinary organized research on economic development, the Center for Research on Economic Development (CRED). The resistance he encountered from university administrators and economics department colleagues suggests that traditional academic norms did not always yield completely to interdisciplinary organized research. Yet the establishment of CRED, which had parallels at the University of Chicago, Vanderbilt, and Yale, suggests the importance of economic development as a focus for organized research in the instrumental university. This chapter also provides an account of the new subfield of development economics and of the relationship between the economics discipline and the behavioral science paradigm.

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The Princeton Years, 1963-91

W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691202617.003.0009 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 240-267

Author(s):

Robert L. Tignor

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Latin America ◽

Undergraduate Teaching ◽

International Affairs ◽

Woodrow Wilson ◽

Teaching And Research ◽

Economics Department ◽

Lecture Courses ◽

Graduate Seminars ◽

Introductory Economics

This chapter describes how W. Arthur Lewis joined the faculty of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Although Lewis may well have been ailing physically when he arrived in Princeton, he plunged into his teaching and research with unusual energy. From the outset, he offered graduate seminars on economic development jointly in the Woodrow Wilson School and the economics department. The usual format that he chose was a graduate overview course on economic development followed by a team-taught seminar dealing with economic development in selected country studies. Lewis chose the continent of Africa for his country studies, while his colleagues treated the countries of Latin America and Asia. As the custom at Princeton was for all faculty to do undergraduate teaching, Lewis experimented with various undergraduate courses, even trying his hand at one of the large introductory economics lecture courses, where he was not at his best or comfortable. He eventually developed a standard undergraduate lecture course on economic development.

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CADASTRAL VALUATION EXPERTISE IMPACT AND QUALITY CONTROL ON THE RUSSIA SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Interexpo GEO-Siberia ◽

10.33764/2618-981x-2021-3-2-190-197 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 190-197

Author(s):

Anna L. Sinitsyna

Keyword(s):

Quality Control ◽

Economic Development ◽

Management Policy ◽

State University ◽

Property Relations ◽

Socio Economic Development ◽

Economics Department ◽

Conducting Research ◽

The Impact ◽

Moscow State University

Currently, the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK) Economics Department is conducting research in the framework of studying the relationships, the degree and nature and strength of influence and impact in the Russia economic and social development planes and the complex of property relations (including state cadastral valuation, regulatory regulation of valuation activities and land management policy). The study is conducted in stages and consistently on the open sources basis. The purpose of this stage is to study the impact of the examination and quality control of the state cadastral assessment (SCA) on the Russia socio-economic development over the past two decades. The tasks are to collect statistical data on SCA for the last two years, to analyze the effectiveness of SCA quality control, to develop recommendations and suggestions for improving the SCA results.

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