Search Results for interdisciplinary research

...” was then shaped during the fifties, one influenced by the demands of engineers, scientists, and business students, and somewhat eclipsed by the promising interdisciplinary research programs emerging in the newly founded Center for International Studies. During the sixties, MIT economists instantiated the vision...

.... Originally, economists had a prominent place within the institution. The so-called realist economists endorsed an empirical and interdisciplinary approach and rejected mathematical and abstract approaches. Yet, in the past fifty years or so, most EHESS economists have conducted model-oriented research...

.... Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 technological change Rockefeller Foundation W. Rupert Maclaurin Paul Samuelson linear model Massachusetts Institute of Technology interdisciplinary research Reference RFP , Rockefeller Foundation FA386-1.1, Series 224.S, Box 6, MIT...

... highly theoretical, the paper was anchored in actual examples of fishing rights revisions. In 1980, Vincent took a leave of absence to join a project at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University in Germany. Lin arranged a sabbatical to accompany him. The year in Germany would...

...Heath Pearson Melville Herskovits's work in economic anthropology, published between 1926 and 1952, sought to give the subdiscipline both a name and a characteristic mode of inquiry. The name stuck, but his methodological proposals were ultimately rejected by nearly all researchers in the field...

... that accompanied the rapid growth of metropolitan areas, such as Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle, raised novel questions in local public finance for researchers before a knowledge community existed to credit their work. For Tiebout, it stimulated his collaboration with Vincent Ostrom and Robert Warren and later...

..., and Mark Solovey. The last of these contributions is from a 1990 masters thesis in history and deals with the history of the SSRL, Orcutt’s eventual frustration with Wisconsin, and the more general institutional impediments to large- scale interdisciplinary research. Other essays deal with social...

... Ostroms died in 2012, their workshop continues to operate on the Indiana campus as an interdisciplinary research center, now overseen by McGinnis. In their introduction, Lemke and Tarko identify three distinguishing features of the Bloomington school of political economy: (1) a willingness to learn...

... and research should be oriented toward clients needs. Efforts to embed the new interdisciplinary war sci- ence into a university structure did not raise the status of economics as a discipline within the university, but it created new institutional spaces that nurtured theoretical, epistemological...

... sciences scientific nature and their actual position at the NSF. As indicated by the difficult integration of the social sciences in a new NSF program called Interdisciplinary Research Relevant to Problems of Our Society (IRRPOS), when it came to defining the practical effectiveness of basic social...

... (Ostrom and Ostrom 1977 ). Figure 4. Superposition of deprivation costs and decision-making costs (Ostrom and Ostrom 1977). A transformative period in Ostrom's theoretical inclinations seems to have come in the early 1980s. In 1981, she spent a year at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research...

... mathematical background such as UCLA numerical analyst Charles Tompkins and MIT psychologist Alex Bavelas, who in turn introduced him to MIT experimental mathema- tician Duncan Luce. His 1955–56 visit to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), the interdisciplinary research...

..., if not interdisciplinary, research. As Katz aptly observed, “For the economists to accept the hum- bling status of epistemological parity with the other social sciences repre- sented a dramatic challenge to the intellectual history of the discipline.” Yet, “an intellectual modus vivendi came to be achieved between...

..., the mortality, changes in the size and age of the stock, and the environmental conditions affecting the biomass. Warming him- self would have undoubtedly participated had an interdisciplinary research project been initiated.15 However, the potential was not explored, and a genuine bioeconomic analysis...

... Illinois research, since the underlying philosophies were close. Both were based on empirical and interdisciplinary approaches to economics, with mathe- matics as the essential language. Their aim was to find an appropriate, more realistic, definition of rationality in terms of a “rational...

... progress in the discipline, with Adam Smith being the catalyst for a spirited, interdisciplinary con- versation. Further, the study provides evidence for rejecting the efficient market model in the case of Smith over the time period studied, suggest- ing that progress in the social sciences may to some...

...: Fiscal Year 1964–1965 .” Solovey M . 1993 . “ Guy Orcutt and the Social Systems Research Institute: Interdisciplinary Troubles .” In Economists at Wisconsin: 1892–1992 , edited by Lampman R. J. , 178 – 88 . Madison : Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System...

... of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs . Washington, D.C. : George-town University . GLS. ca . 1983 . “ Duke to Offer Interdisciplinary Master’s Degree in New Program .” Undated press release . GLSA . Schwartz Richard . 1997 . “ Research and Liberal Learning .” In Values...

... analysis as inevitably reductionist simply because it is dominated by an orthodoxy which is irretrievably so. (308) This conclusion captures the tone of their critique. They believe that the best approach is to be found in a political economy that is broad-based and interdisciplinary...

... analysis as inevitably reductionist simply because it is dominated by an orthodoxy which is irretrievably so. (308) This conclusion captures the tone of their critique. They believe that the best approach is to be found in a political economy that is broad-based and interdisciplinary...