...Donna Zapf As dean of Duke University’s Graduate School, Craufurd Goodwin initiated the foundation of a Graduate Liberal Studies program. This essay pays tribute to his contribution to the program as an administrator and teacher over three decades. It describes Goodwin’s thoughts about graduate...

...Leigh Deneef Craufurd Goodwin’s sense that the Graduate School was not adequately preparing its doctoral students for academic careers in a variety of institutions led to both a local and a national refocusing of efforts. The local effort produced a best-selling book, The Academic’s Handbook...

... Theory: Then and Now. In On Economic Knowledge: A Sceptical Legacy . Edited by D. M. Bensusan-Butt. Canberra: Australian National University. Bowen , Howard R. 1953 . Graduate Education in Economics. American Economic Review Supplement 43.4:i-xvi, 1 -223. Brown , A. J. 1988...

...William J. Barber Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 References Bowen , Howard R. 1953 . Graduate Education in Economics. American Economic Review 43 , suppl: Part 2 ( September ): xv, 223. Doctoral Dissertations in Economics: Eighty-Eighth Annual List. 1991...

... . East Lansing: Association for Evolutionary Economics and Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Michigan State University. Schmidt , I. L. O. , and J. B. Rittaler 1989 . A Critical Evaluation of the Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis . Studies in Industrial...

.... U.S. News and World Report. 2001. America's Best Liberal Arts Colleges. www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/libartco/tier1/t1libartco.htm . Once and Future Historians: Notes from Graduate Training in Economics Derek S. Brown and Shauna Saunders Based on a True Story...

...Ted Gayer Duke University Press 2002 Bowen, H. R. 1953 . Graduate Education in Economics. American Economic Review 43.4 : 1 -223. Gordon, D. F. 1965 . The Contribution of the History of Economic Thought to the Understanding of Economic Theory, Economic History,and the History...

...Pedro Garcia Duarte The immediate postwar period witnessed not only a considerable expansion of economics graduate education in the United States but also its reformulation. Graduate education at MIT became more technical, with shorter theses on narrowly defined problems. This occurred as economics...

... vanished both from the faculty and from the graduate program around 2010. The cost of this decline to current education and scholarship is suggested at the end of the narrative. Correspondence may be addressed to Peter Temin, Department of Economics, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E18-276...

... of the mathematical economics graduate program at IMPA in 1980 by Aloisio Araujo. The article follows how the program could build strong connections to the Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia (EPGE), an important department of economics in Brazil, helping to shape recent developments in the center. The article thus...

... , K. Jowell , and S. Mulholland , 42 – 52 . Cape Town : Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town ; Johannesburg: Sunday Times . Friedman , M. 1990 . Friedman in China . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press . Friedman , M. 1994a . “ Chile...

... artifacts from courses that most often survive to the point of archival storage. An important question is just how well does the limited information in a syllabus and/ or exam reflect actual course content compared to, say, a near-stenographic set of student course notes. A casual comparison for a graduate...

.... Together with the abolition of local branches, these first two membership drives diluted the role of women in the association. In contrast, the membership drive of 1922–26 reflected a growing interest in graduate students and young instructors that somewhat increased the proportion of women among members...

... University Institute of Economics, studied with Alvin Hansen in 1941 and promoted inclusion of Keynesian material in the Nankai curriculum. Several Nankai faculty and graduate students published expositions and applications of Keynes in the early 1940s. The communist government that came to power in 1949...

...: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . Berg , Helen M. , and Marianne A. Ferber . 1983 . “ Men and Women Graduate Students .” Journal for Higher Education 54 , no. 6 : 629 – 48 . Bernard-Powers , Jane . 1992...

... of Samuelson and Robert Solow, worked to make their graduate program the most appealing in the country, and gained wide public visibility as policy-oriented scientists. Yet, beginning in the midsixties, MIT’s apparently flourishing community was increasingly challenged, internally and externally. By the early...

.... However, the nature of its change is not investigated in this article. 112  Andrej Svorenčík training, experiences, practice of economics, and personal networks that extend beyond graduate school and have led to characterizations of MIT or Chicago economists. This can be visualized through...

... from Robert Solow’s seminal neoclassical growth model of 1956 through the stabilization of growth theory in the first graduate textbooks. Correspondence may be addressed to Mauro Boianovsky, Department of Economics, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia DF, 70910-900, Brazil (e-mail: mboianovsky...

...William Darity, Jr.; Arden Kreeger We examine the history of the entry of black American graduate students into the PhD program in economics at MIT in the 1970s. The deployment of an active and aggressive affirmative action program led to the presence of a critical mass of black doctoral students...