Economics as a Social Science By Piet Keizer Utrecht School of Economics Utrecht University July 2008 1 Content 1. The Character of Modern Science 2. Genesis and Development of Economics as a Social Science 3. Multidisciplinary Economics‚ an Introduction 4. Some Basic Sociology for Economists 5. Appendix Answers to test questions 2 Preface This reader is an attempt to define economics as a social science. In the first place‚ economics is a science. In the second place‚ economics
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Knowledge is very powerful. We decide whether we want to know something or not. I disagree with the statement that the lack of knowledge can’t hurt you. The true knowledge often hurts; however it doesn’t mean that lack of it can’t hurt. Why can lack of knowledge be harmful and hurt us? Let’s start from a simple fact like not studying for a test or a quiz may or will result in a bad grade. Not knowing the material that we are studying can and will hurt us. General knowledge in a society is very important
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FIN5PMT Faculty of Business‚ Economics and Law FIN5PMT Faculty of Business‚ Economics and Law Key learning outcomes • Summarize the function of strategic asset allocation in portfolio management Topic 2 Asset Allocation Presented by: Dr. Jing Zhao Department of Finance • Di Discuss the role of strategic asset allocation in relation to h l f i ll i i l i exposures to systematic risk • Compare and contrast strategic and tactical asset allocation • Appraise the importance of asset
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to Clarisse’s question: “Have you ever read any of the books you burn?” 5. What do Clarisse and Montag argue about? What does Clarisse tell Montag that firemen used to do? 6. Explain the significance of Clarisse’s speech about “blurs.” Why are billboards 200 feet long? 7. Why was Clarisse’s uncle arrested? What does this indicate about the society in which they live? 8. What question finally offends Montag? 9. What does his encounter
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8/30/12 “Do They Really Think Differently” Mark Prensky Summary With the changing of society through technology‚ it is hypothesized that Digital Native’s (current generation that has grown up on technology) brains are physically different than other generations due to the stimuli they received growing up on technology. It was previously believed that your brain could not be physically changed after about the age of three. But through studies and research it has been proven differently.
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Decomposing Portfolio Value-at-Risk: A General Analysis Winfried G. Hallerbach *) Associate Professor‚ Department of Finance Erasmus University Rotterdam POB 1738‚ NL-3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands phone: +31.10.408 1290 facsimile: +31.10.408 9165 e-mail: hallerbach@few.eur.nl http://www.few.eur.nl/few/people/hallerbach/ final version: October 15‚ 2002 forthcoming in The Journal of Risk 5/2‚ Febr. 2003 *) I’d like to thank Michiel de Pooter and Haikun Ning for excellent programming
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* How does e-mail benefit an organization? Why might an organization want to limit how an employee uses e-mail during work hours? What is an e-mail’s path once it leaves an organization? Companies have increased productivity‚ decreased costs and found new marketing methods using email to attract new customers and keep previous ones up to date on product changes‚ information sales etc. This helps a work group to communicate to each other affectively and easily keeping all party’s up to date. The
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Ap Stats: 76% of Naperville students have been alcohol free in the last 30 days. Mr. Baird believes that AP stats students are different. Write the hypothesis statements for his belief. Assume a= .1 Some of his students take a random sample of students and comes with a 90% CI of (.80‚ .90) Based on these results‚ what will the results of Mr. Baird’s test be? Explain. H0: p=.76 Ha=p=/=.76 Your answer should include: Reference that a 90% Confidence interval corresponds to a 2 sided test
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The question of whether or not computers think is one that is discussed by many philosophers. I believe this question is useful because it is something that decades ago would not have been important. Computers are machines that have not always been around‚ and through technological advancements have become far more complex than those in the past believed could happen. I for one never believed that we would have machines that could give us answers to math problems that seemed unlikely to answer in
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