Business Cycles and Demand Fluctuations: Time-Critical Analysis and Decision Making

This chapter critically examines innovative approaches to the evaluation of a European funded project involving nine countries in the development of a virtual campus to provide training opportunities in ICT for teachers and trainers across Europe. It explores project management processes and decision-making and the impact on outcomes as well as relationships between project team members. It concludes with recommendations for the more effective use of a range of these approaches, asserting that a critical analysis of the processes of engagement is as important as the outcomes.

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Learner-Developed Case Studies on Ethics

Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design - Emerging Trends in Cyber Ethics and Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5933-7.ch007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 131-163

Author(s):

Lesley S. J. Farmer

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Decision Making ◽

Knowledge Base ◽

Case Studies ◽

Ethical Behavior ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Ethical Standards ◽

Professional Lives ◽

The Creation

This chapter explains how case studies can be used successfully in higher education to provide an authentic, interactive way to teach ethical behavior through critical analysis and decision making while addressing ethical standards and theories. The creation and choice of case studies is key for optimum learning, and can reflect both the instructor's and learners' knowledge base. The process for using this approach is explained, and examples are provided. As a result of such practice, learners support each other as they come to a deeper, co-constructed understanding of ethical behavior, and they make more links between coursework and professional lives. The instructor reviews the students' work to determine the degree of understanding and internalization of ethical concepts/applications, and to identify areas that need further instruction.

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Casing Drilling Package Reduces Overall Drilling Time: Critical Analysis of an Operation in Papua New Guinea

10.3997/2214-4609-pdb.148.iptc12539 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

A. Zreik ◽

C. Westren ◽

B. Ersan ◽

C. Jurica ◽

L. Clark

Keyword(s):

Papua New Guinea ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

New Guinea ◽

Time Critical ◽

Drilling Time ◽

Casing Drilling

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A Critical Analysis of Capitalism, Capital Accumulation and Crisis Theory in David Harvey

Arthaniti-Journal of Economic Theory and Practice ◽

10.1177/0976747920953009 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 097674792095300

Author(s):

Tanaya Majumder

Keyword(s):

Business Cycles ◽

Critical Review ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Capital Accumulation ◽

Capitalist Economy ◽

Crisis Theory ◽

Surplus Labour ◽

The One ◽

Rate Of Profit ◽

Marxist Tradition

This article is a critical review of David Harvey’s essentialist theorisation of a capitalist economy and its crisis from a class focused Marxist perspective. The first part examines Harvey’s immense contribution to the understanding of space and spatiality of capitalism within the Marxist tradition. Capital accumulation in his theorisation serves as the impresario of space and spatiality and the harbinger of capitalist crisis in general. Expanding on a class focused approach, the second part provides a critique of Harvey’s methodology and crisis theory in which the law of capital accumulation reigns supreme. Specifically, using an anti-essentialist methodology of overdetermination with class process of surplus labour as the theoretical entry point, as developed by Resnick and Wolff, I argue that no correspondence of the rate of capital accumulation with those of rate of profit and rate of class distribution can be drawn. This unpredictability renders capitalism inherently unstable, prone to business cycles whose cause cannot be reduced to any chosen causal factor such as the one reducible to capital accumulation.

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