Three Decades After James Street’s “The Institutionalist Theory of Economic Development”: What Does Institutional Approach to Economic Development Mean Today?

James Street’s article, “The Institutionalist Theory of Economic Development,” (1987) is a masterpiece of institutionalist research on economic development. The thirty-year anniversary of its publishing is an invitation to review what the institutional approach to economic development means today. This article, therefore, aims to present a historical survey of works published in the Journal of Economic Issues (JEI) on economic development.     

财经类高校实施通识教育若干问题探析

针对当前我国高等教育中普遍出现的重专业教育、轻通识教育的现象,并结合财经类高校的实际,探讨了在财经类高校推行通识教育的必要性和紧迫性。在此基础上,又分析了财经类高校实施通识教育所面临的困境,最后提出了在财经类高校语境下推进通识教育的若干建议。     

演化经济学的方法和主题特征及其演变——一种以另类教规理论为例的解释

以赖纳特和张夏准等人为代表的另类教规理论是演化经济学的新兴流派之一,文章在对演化经济学的历史比较与回溯、异质性与分类、时空特定性、能动性与结构等方法与主题特征进行阐述的同时,以另类教规理论为样本,对其主要观点、政策主张和分析方法进行剖析,以探讨演化经济学的发展。     

William James's psychological pragmatism: habit, belief and purposive human behaviour

Modern institutional economists look to pragmatism for: (1)an evolutionary philosophy of knowledge; and (2) a foundationof a theory of human nature. These two elements are combinedin William James, who was both a philosopher of pragmatism anda pioneering experimental psychologist. The author shows firsthow William James added psychological depth to the pragmatictradition as it was left by C. S. Peirce, and offers a reconciliationof their respective theories of truth. The second part of theessay explores James's views on psychology, concentrating onthe relation to pragmatic philosophy and the question of habit.The last section compares this to human nature as seen in modernevolutionary biology, in brain science and in the philosophyof rationality in the social sciences.     

Regulation and the cost of childcare

Female labour market choices depend on the availability, affordability and quality of childcare. In this article, we evaluate different regulatory measures and their effect on both the quality and the cost of childcare. First, we analyse data on regulations and costs to estimate the effect of regulatory measures on the cost of childcare. Next, we summarize the existing literature on the effect of regulation on childcare quality. We find that regulation intended to improve quality often focuses on easily observable measures of the care environment that do not necessarily affect the quality of care but that do increase the cost. Thus, we find that the regulatory environment could be improved by eliminating costly measures that do not affect quality of care.     

On science and reform: the parable of the new economics, 1960s–1970s

The article considers Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, James Tobin, Walter Heller, and Arthur Okun qua political economists. The focus is on their combination of a faith in economic science and a passionate public spirit. The article aims to substantiate two related arguments. The first is that these “new economists” were public intellectuals, regularly addressing public opinion, and engaging with the major economic and social issues of the times; the second is that their value judgements gained the upper hand over scientific discourse when they were confronted with the 1970s inflation.     

Reply to Frederic Lee's Comment on “The Citation Impact of Feminist Economics”

Abstract

This essay is a response to “A Comment on the Citation Impact of Feminist Economics,” by Frederic Lee, which appears in this issue ofFeminist Economics.

Frederic Lee's comment is a valuable addition to our understanding of the intellectual interactions between feminist economics and other schools of heterodox thought, and demonstrates how much can be learned by studying citation patterns.     

独立学院数码钢琴集体课的教学与教育初探

数码钢琴集体课是传统钢琴教学与现代高新科技（计算机技术、光电技术、数字处理技术、音频采样技术）相结合而发展起来的一门新型教学方式,以学习钢琴弹奏为基本目的,采用＂一对多＂集体课的授课方式,以渗透乐理、视唱练耳、和声编配、简易作曲、即兴伴奏等为教学内容的全新学习途径。它的产生丰富了钢琴教学手段、改革了授课形式、完善了教学内容,不仅是对传统＂一对一＂教学的补充,更是钢琴教育在方法和思想上的一个突破。     

经济管理类专业《管理信息系统》课程的教学改革研究

针对当前经济管理类专业学生《管理信息系统》教学实践中存在的整体教学效果不尽理想的现状,提出采取根据专业特点合理定位教学目标、规划教学内容、采取灵活多样的教学方法和建立科学透明的考核方式等措施进行教学改革,以便改善《管理信息系统》课程的教学效果。     

民族地区高等院校区域经济学教学方法探讨

民族地区高校经济学专业普遍开设有区域经济学课程,在其教学过程中存在着教材选择与补充的问题、师资力量弱、教法与考核简单、缺乏实践教学,应结合实际科学设置课程,着力补充教材实践案例提高学生学习的积极性、建立一支结构合理的师资队伍、加大现代化教学硬件设施的投入,努力改进教学方法、加大实践教学的力度,不断提高教学质量,培养民族地区经济和社会发展的适应型人才。     

Professional Developments and Opportunities

Surveys in 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010 investigated teaching and assessment methods in different undergraduate courses. In this article, the authors offer basic results from the 2010 survey. “Chalk and talk” remains the dominant teaching style, but there were drops in mean (although not median) values for those pedagogies and some growth in the use of other methods, including class discussion and computer-generated displays. More instructors provided students with problem sets and class notes, and computer lab assignments were increasingly common in econometrics and statistics courses. Experiments are occasionally used in introductory courses but almost never used in other courses. Calculus is not viewed as important by a majority of instructors in any courses but is considered more important in intermediate theory and statistics and econometrics courses.