scholarly journals On the problems of education of fundamental economic disciplines in Ukrainian and foreign universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Stepan Panchyshyn ◽  
Iryna Hrabynska
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Economics Students ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The University

The article outlines the objective and subjective-psychological factors of the reduction of the study of fundamental economic disciplines in Ukrainian universities in recent years. One of the reasons for this reduction in the scope, and even the displacement of these disciplines from the university curricula, was the terminological incorrectness associated with the use of the title "Economic Theory", which means rather a method or tool of economic research. The use of term "Economic Theory" as a title of fundamental economic discipline significantly narrows its subject, gives the impression of its theorizing and detachment from the real economy and doesn’t contribute to improving the competitiveness of the graduate in the labor market. The authors substantiate the expediency of including the discipline "Political Economy” in the list of compulsory courses in the master's educational programs on "Economics". Political economy is now being transformed into an interdisciplinary branch of economic knowledge, which emphasizes on distributive relations and social efficiency. Attention is focused on the importance of national economic education for achieving the effectiveness of economic policy. Teaching fundamental economic disciplines for students of non-economic specialties would help to improve the level of national economic education and therefore to make effective economic decisions. The experience of American universities in the formation and implementation of economic courses in the curricula of non-economics students and the approaches to updating the structure and content of such disciplines are analyzed. It provides broader possibilities in the study of fundamental economic disciplines and finally proves the importance of the normative economics alone with the positive one in the education process. It is concluded that the negative tendencies in the study of fundamental economic disciplines in Ukrainian universities can be neutralized via employing positive foreign experience and shaping a Ukrainian economics mainstream, which would include the scientific achievements of both Ukrainian and foreign economists.

Economics as a Public Mission

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-143
Author(s):  
Amy C. Offner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
National Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Specialized Form ◽  
National Economic Policy

This chapter focuses on John M. Hunter, the thirty-nine-year-old Illinois native who spoke as director of Colombia's first economic research center and addressed readers of one of Colombia's premier journals of economic research, the Revista del Banco de la República. It also talks about economics in Latin America. During the years after 1945, Colombian universities established freestanding economics programs where none had existed before. There had been men called economists in Colombia for decades; they were brilliant lawyers, engineers, businessmen, and politicians who made national economic policy and taught occasional courses in political economy on the side. But the crisis of the 1930s had inspired a new regard for economic expertise as a specialized form of knowledge, and Colombians set out to create a new kind of economist to steer the state. The invention of economics as an independent discipline, a nineteenth-century process in the United States and much of Europe, was thus a twentieth-century phenomenon in Latin America, born of new visions of national development and spearheaded by renowned men in business and government.

Discourse and Development of Economic Knowledge

2003 ◽  
pp. 81-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kaz
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Statistical Distribution ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Distribution Analysis ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Normative Ethic ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
Discourse Formation

Mechanisms of transformation of knowledge in economic science are considered in the article. The author analyses the sphere of labor motivation in the Soviet political economy. He demonstrates the possibilities of statistical distribution analysis in studying discourse practices, reveals stages of development and mechanisms of discourse formation in the Soviet political economy. The question about the limits of the normative ethic approach in economic research is also risen in the article.

scholarly journals INTEGRAL SOCIETY: CONTRADICTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES (IN THE MEMORY OF G.N. TSAGOLOV)

2020 ◽  
Vol 225 (5) ◽  
pp. 126-137
Author(s):  
BUZGALIN ALEKSANDER V. ◽  
◽  
KOLGANOV ANDREY I. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Social System ◽  
Real Socialism ◽  
Production Relations ◽  
Basic Production ◽  
The University ◽  
Theoretical Developments

The article describes G.N. Tsagolov’s contribution to the development of political and economic theory, first of all, the theory of that new social system which, according to the scientist and his colleagues, should replace capitalism and “real socialism” — “integrated society”. It seems that G.N. Tsagolov’s theoretical developments were based on the methodology of the University School of Political Economy, which distinguished its initial and basic production relations in each system. The nature of Russian social and economic system as oligarchic and bureaucratic capitalism is revealed and the works in which G.N. Tsagolov showed the progressiveness of Chinese, Vietnamese and similar models of economic development are distinguished.

Book Reviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-216 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Applied Economics ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Economic Ethics ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Economic Practice

Anne O. Krueger of Johns Hopkins University reviews “The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics,” edited by George F. DeMartino and Dierdre N. McCloskey. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Thirty-seven papers explore a range of questions related to the nature of ethical economic practice and the content of professional economic ethics. Papers focus on uncertainty, risk, and professional economic ethics; the ethical nature of economic practice; the ethical entailments of economic theory; ethical issues in economic research; ethical issues in applied economics; ethical issues in economic education; and looking ahead--codes of ethics.”

The Institutional Base of the Stockholm School: The Political Economy Club (1917–1951)

1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf G.H. Henriksson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
List Type ◽  
John Maynard Keynes ◽  
Student Union ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Subject

On October 1, 1936 the Stockholm economists hosted a very distinguished guest, John Maynard Keynes. Homeward bound from a visit to the Soviet Union, Keynes appeared at the Political Economy Club. The minutes, as recorded by Ingvar Svennilson, relate:1.At the invitation of the club, Mr. J.M. Keynes lectured at the Institute of Social Science on the subject “My grounds for departure from orthodox economic traditions.” The lecture was arranged with support from J.H. Palme's fund for economic education and economic research. Some 100 persons attended the lecture.2.Following the lecture, the club arranged a dinner at the student union building. In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Keynes, the dinner was attended by: the chairman Professor Ohlin, Miss Kock, Messrs. Björ, Böök, Cederwall, Dahlgren, Hammarskjöld, Helger, Johansson, Lagercrantz (guest), Lundberg, Myrdal, Rothlieb, Rooth, Suoviranta (Finland, guest) and Wigforss, as well as the undersigned. After dinner there was a discussion that continued until midnight.

scholarly journals Inter-subject communications in the learning of mathematics

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-464
Author(s):  
D. Abdukhalikova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Weight Training ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Training Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Culture ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Training

This article describes the study of mathematics inter-subject communication in institutes, where the need to pay special attention to the relationship of mathematics with other subjects, especially with the basics of economic knowledge. Inter-subject communication is raised to a higher level of scientific weight training process, providing multifaceted influence on the personality of students, ensuring unity of education, educational and developmental functions. So much attention in institutes for economic education is primarily due to the fact that economic knowledge defined by renowned economists who can teach economic theory necessary for the formation of the economic way of thinking and economic culture of the students. Besides knowledge form the basis of economic education and training student. Influence of inter-subject communications so broadly that it covers the area of teaching all disciplines affects the curriculum, programs and textbooks, beyond the narrowly defined as training, affecting the formation of the world students. So, there is every reason to believe inter-subject communication one of the principles of didactics.

Reflections on Applying Economic Theory in Social and Economic Research

2009 ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
I. Frolov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Intermediate Level ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Relative Autonomy ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Applied Researcher ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

The article considers some methodological aspects of interaction between economic theory and applied economic research. It is shown that to use theoretical conceptions and principles directly in applied studies does not make sense since one always needs specific forms of knowledge as an intermediate level. The reason for relative autonomy of theoretical and applied economic knowledge is that a theoretician and an applied researcher face different types of entities in cognition and entertain different types of practice.

Nikolay Sieber in the history of prerevolutionary Russian economic thought

2018 ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
L. D. Shirokorad
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Organic Synthesis ◽  
Marginal Utility ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Three Stages

This article shows how representatives of various theoretical currents in economics at different times in history interpreted the efforts of Nikolay Sieber in defending and developing Marxian economic theory and assessed his legacy and role in forming the Marxist school in Russian political economy. The article defines three stages in this process: publication of Sieber’s work dedicated to the analysis of the first volume of Marx’s Das Kapital and criticism of it by Russian opponents of Marxian economic theory; assessment of Sieber’s work by the narodniks, “Legal Marxists”, Georgiy Plekhanov, and Vladimir Lenin; the decline in interest in Sieber in light of the growing tendency towards an “organic synthesis” of the theory of marginal utility and the Marxist social viewpoint.

Jean Tirole: The political economy of corporate finance (On the book by J. Tirole “The theory of corporate finance”)

2017 ◽  
pp. 128-141
Author(s):  
N. Ranneva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Corporate Finance ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutional Economic ◽  
New Type ◽  
Finance Theory ◽  
Empirical Material

The present article undertakes a critical review of the new book of Jean Tirole, the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, “The theory of cor- porate finance”, which has recently been published in Russian. The book makes a real contribution to the profession by summarizing the whole field of corporate finance and bringing together a big body of research developed over the last thirty years. By simplifying modeling, using unified analytical apparatus, undertaking reinterpretation of many previously received results, and structuring the material in original way Tirole achieves a necessary unity and simplicity in exposition of extremely heterogeneous theoretical and empirical material. The book integrates the new institutional economic theory into classical corporate finance theory and by doing so contributes to making a new type of textbook, which is quite on time and is likely to become essential reading for all graduate students in corporate finance and microeconomics and for everyone interested in these disciplines.

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