Perceptions Of Economics Research Articles

Unlocking the Puzzle: Exploring the Declining Interest in Economics among Faculty and Students at East Africa University's Garowe Campus

The purpose of this study is to examine the students’ perceptions of economics, identify the factors responsible for the diminished interest in economics, and determine how to create effective solutions for these problems. East Africa University's (EAU) Garowe campus, which is among the oldest in the state, has been considered the subject of this study. The study adopted basic random sampling to determine the sample size for the survey. The data in this research was collected through online surveys and interviews. The survey was given to the university students. The survey consisted of multiple-choice questions and Likert-scale responses. Participants were given enough time to fill out the survey anonymously, and 28 people responded. When the survey was fully completed, the data was then analysed using Microsoft Excel. The results of the research conducted showed that: (1) there is a lack of public awareness about the importance of this field and the career opportunities associated with it, as proven by 97% of the respondents who chose (agree and strongly agree). (2) The belief that economics is tough because of math causes some students to choose not to major in this field. This belief influences the majority of students' decisions not to pursue degrees in this field, as demonstrated by the 54% of respondents who selected (agree and strongly agree). This is a true belief that could prevent students from learning economics. (3) Economics is not a hard field of study, as proven by 64% of students who chose “no” to the statement of whether economics is a hard field of study, confirming that economics is not a difficult subject. (4) Business and economics was an interesting subject in high school, as proven by 75% of the respondents who chose (agree and strongly agree)

Assessment of Knowledge of Health Economics among Healthcare Professionals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Addressing the ongoing challenge of rising healthcare spending is crucial for ensuring the health quality of a population. At the core of healthcare systems, health professionals play a vital role in patient care and resource utilization. Despite healthcare cost concerns, health professionals often lack an understanding of health economics for optimal decision making. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to assess the knowledge of health economics among healthcare professionals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The broader goal was to identify knowledge gaps crucial for developing targeted interventions to maintain quality healthcare within the context of resource constraints. We used cross-sectional data collected from January to June 2023 and employed univariate, bivariate, and multivariable techniques for analysis. Univariate analyses were used to compare respondent proportions in socio-economic and demographic categories, bivariate analysis was used to examine the frequencies of independent variables related to the dependent variable, and a multivariate logistic regression model was used to identify the factors associated with knowledge of health economics among healthcare professionals. A total of 1056 responses were included for analysis. Approximately 35.35% of the sample possessed optimal knowledge of healthcare economics. Additionally, 58.14% of respondents considered health economics knowledge essential in their job practice, 16.95% regularly read articles on health economics, 22.06% engage in economic decision making at work, and 20.17% apply health economics techniques in their decision making. Health economics knowledge varied according to profession status, work experience, perceptions about health economics, and involvement in management tasks and decision-making processes. Generally, knowledge of health economics tended to increase with experience, positive perceptions, and engagement in administrative or management tasks. Nevertheless, knowledge of health economics is largely limited among health professionals in Saudi Arabia. Policymakers should address disparities in knowledge and perceptions of health economics through ongoing training courses and workshops. These interventions will ensure the presence of highly skilled professionals capable of implementing effective healthcare decisions and managing the increasing costs of healthcare.

The Influence of Literacy and Perceptions of Islamic Economics on Sociopreneurs in Surakarta City

Sharia principles are provisions originating from the Quran and Hadith that regulate worship and human activities in muamalah matters, which are then written in fiqh. This study aims to determine the effect of literacy and perceptions of Islamic economics on sociopreneurs in Surakarta. This type of research is called descriptive research. The data analysis method in this study used multiple linear regression with the SPSS version 25 program. The population of this study was the people of Surakarta, with a sample size of 100 respondents. Collecting data using a questionnaire with a non-probability sampling technique. The results of this study indicate that, partially based on the results of the descriptive analysis of the literacy variable (X1), it has a significance value of 0,024 < 0,05 and a tcount value of 2,597 > ttable of 1,989, and the perception variable (X2) has a significance value of 0,002 < 0,05 and a tcount value of 6,232 > ttable of 1,989. This shows that H0 is rejected, so it can be concluded that the literacy variable and perceptions of Islamic economics partially have a positive effect on the interest of the people of Surakarta to become sociopreneurs. Thus, the first hypothesis (Ha1) states that literacy and perceptions of Islamic economics have a significant positive effect on the interest of the people of Surakarta in becoming sociopreneurs. Furthermore, based on the results of the determination test (R2), it is known that the adjusted R square is 0,654. Thus, the literacy variable (X1) and perception variable (X2) of Islamic economics have a jointly positive contribution of 65% to the interest variable of the Surakarta city community to become sociopreneurs (Y). While the remaining 35% is influenced by other factors that are not included in this study.

Conversion of Convensitonal Cooperatives to Improve the Islamic Economic

Purpose - This study aims to determine the influence of perceptions in terms of Islamic economics of converting cooperatives into Islamic cooperatives. Methodology/approach – This research is a quantitative descriptive type, a sample of 120 members and management of the Cooperative, research from August to October 2022, data were analyzed using validity and reliability tests and linear regression techniques. It Research findings, the results of this test obtained a tcount of 3.960 and a ttable of 1.981. The value of tcount > ttable means that there is an influence between the variables X and Y. The perceptions of members and management of cooperatives that convert Islamic cooperatives from an Islamic economic perspective have a significant effect on becoming Islamic cooperatives. Novelty/value – There are many factors that fail to convert sharia and do not develop sharia cooperatives. The novelty of this study examines the perceptions of Islamic economics in Muslim-majority areas.

Impact of achievement, skills, gender and career intentions on students' perceptions of economics in the UAE

Understanding students' opinions is of substantial benefit to higher education providers with implications on students' attrition. This study examines undergraduate business students' perceptions of economics in the United Arab Emirates. The role of a host of student-specific attributes, including academic achievement, gender, career intentions and skills accumulated during preparatory education, is assessed using the logit regression analysis. The results show that students generally have positive perceptions of economics, but they consider the course to demand more concentration and time to understand. Better knowledge of maths and having an adequate level of English significantly contribute to forming better opinions towards economics. The gender effect is slightly observed in the study of economics. The course is relevant to students of all fields of study, emphasising consensus on its function as a conduit of liberal art skills. This study calls on educators and administrators to ensure that students are adequately prepared to study economics. More importantly, students shall be exposed to an awareness campaign about the importance of economic literacy for themselves and the nation's economic development.

Impact of achievement, skills, gender and career intentions on students' perceptions of economics in the UAE

Impact of achievement, skills, gender and career intentions on students' perceptions of economics in the UAE

PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ON CONCEPTS CLINICAL ECONOMICS AND PATIENT ADVOCATE

Objective: to understand the perspective of health professionals on the concepts of Clinical Economics and Patient Advocate. Method: a qualitative study with health professionals. Data were collected in June/2017 from the question: What is your perception of the concept of Clinical Economics and Patient Advocate? Qualitative data were analyzed using the Collective Subject Discourse. Results: the speeches pointed out that it deals with innovative, challenging and applicable proposals for nursing and health care. Patient Advocate and the Clinical Economics concept can support the decisions of the health team/service managers. The ideas can enhance the integration of the teams, resolve conflicts, bring together different professional categories and mitigate the risks of legal, financial and ethical responsibilities regarding health care. Conclusion: the concepts was understood as fundamental and applicable, since the organization survive with adequate human, financial and material management.Descriptors: Nursing. Patient safety. Health economics. Patient care team.

Hubungan Persepsi tentang Pembelajaran Ekonomi dan Kemampuan Awal dengan Hasil Belajar Mata Pelajaran Ekonomi

This study aims to determine the relationship: 1) Students 'Perceptions of Economic Learning and Initial Ability and Learning Outcomes, 2) Students' Perceptions of Economic Learning and Learning Outcomes, 3) Initial Ability and Learning Outcomes. The research was conducted on students at SMA Negeri 7 Padang. This type of research is a quantitative study with a correlational method. The sampling technique used in this study was proportional random sampling with a sample of 143 students. The data used are secondary and primary data. Data collection techniques in the form of questionnaires and tests. Data analysis used descriptive and inductive analysis using normality test, linearity test, hypothesis test using person correlation test and determination coefficient test, where analysis was performed using SPSS Version 22. The results showed that 1) students' perceptions of economic learning and initial abilities had a moderate relationship with learning outcomes seen from the simultaneous contribution of 0.597 with sig 0.000 ˂ 0.05. 2) students' perceptions about economic learning and learning outcomes have a very strong relationship with the Pearson Correlation value 0.819 with Sig 0.000 ˂ 0.05. 3) initial ability with learning outcomes has a moderate relationship with the Pearson correlation value of 0.596 with sig 0.000 ˂ 0.05.Keywords : students perceptions of learning economics, initial abilities, learning outcomes

Broadening perceptions of economics in a new introductory economics sequence

The article’s authors report on a comprehensive curricular reform aimed at communicating the broad range of social issues that economists study while engaging students in active learning strategies. The reform increased interest in taking additional economics courses and majoring in economics, broadened students’ views of what economists do, and imparted more content to students. Female students earn higher grades under the revised curriculum, but no differential impact on interest in majoring in economics for female students, students of color, or first generation college students is found. Engaging students with empirical work on important social issues appeals to all students, resulting in more majors from both under- and overrepresented groups, but generates little impact on the percentage of students majoring in economics from underrepresented groups.

The Catholic Neoconservatives at War: The Battle for Control of Catholic Just War Teaching in America

ABSTRACT There has been a small but very powerful and influential group of American Catholics who advocated for frequent America intervention around the world during the Cold War and now during the nearly twenty year long War on Terror. This group, which has proudly adopted the label ‘neoconservative’, wielded tremendous influence upon American conservative Catholic perceptions of economics, theology, sexual morality, and a host of other fields throughout the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries. One of the most powerful ‘memes’ the Catholic neoconservatives were able to convey to American conservative Catholics was the notion that it was the role of the United States (and broader NATO) military to bring about peace through the creation of a global (neo-)liberal political, economic, and cultural order. As the neoconservative movement has come to an end, it is time to examine how the Catholic neoconservative theory of just war developed, gained ascendency, but ultimately dissolved in the course of the twenty-first century.

Real Economics in Virtual Worlds: A Massively Multiplayer Online Game Case Study: Runescape

This thesis explores economic aspects of virtual worlds by focusing on a specific massively multiplayer online role-playing game, RuneScape. In particular, it examines the similarities and differences between the virtual economics and real world economics, the economic understanding of RuneScape players and the possibility of using virtual worlds as a laboratory for testing economic behavior and theory. This thesis uses a versatile methodology that includes texts, direct observation, self-reports, and other reports to investigate the research questions. Virtual economics in general and RuneScape in specific are understudied so far and this study fills a gap in the literature. The unique contributions of this thesis are: a comprehensive survey that reveals player perceptions of economics, a new equation useful for modeling money supply, and a new use of faucet-drain economy in massively multiplayer online games. The results indicate that virtual economics of RuneScape partially reflects real world economics, player perceptions of virtual and real world economy are surprisingly complex, and virtual worlds can be used to study real world economics. Game developers, players, economists, educators, researchers, and individuals who are interested in massively multiplayer online games and economy in general can benefit from this study.

Subsistence Farmers’ Knowledge in Developing Integrated Critical Pedagogy Education Curricula

Curricular innovation in the 21st century in education requires significant transformation with regards to political, economic, socio-cultural and environmental concerns such as climate change and sustainability, amongst others. A critical pedagogy approach that includes the hegemonic knowledge debates of Western and Indigenous Knowledge Systems is also integral to this transformation. This study explored the diversity of knowledge of subsistence farmers with regard to their community farming practices and how their knowledge, skills and resilience can be harnessed for education. Seven Black South African subsistence farmers near a teaching university were purposively selected for this qualitative multi-case study. Interviews with them were video-recorded and transcribed. Their experiences and perceptions of politics, economics, environmental concerns and innovations on their local farms were documented and are presented as a case-narrative history of the farmers’ backgrounds. The findings show that farmers have shown resilience with regard to issues such as water conservation, productive use of labour, pest management, local market supply and demands and indigenous knowledge in terms of ploughing, caring for, harvesting and storage of vegetables. It is recommended that local farmers’ knowledge, practices and resilience can be a source of knowledge to be integrated into education curricula. The implication of the research affords insights for opportunities and partnerships with the farming community in developing a critical pedagogy education curriculum that can be of current value in managing climate change and sustainable concerns.

The Cultural-Cognitive Mapping of Scientific Professions

Even with widespread interest, public perceptions of science remain understudied and poorly theorized by social scientists. A central issue has been the persistent assumption that publics require a base of scientific knowledge for science to have broad cultural meaning. Yet, recent advances in cultural and cognitive sociology point to alternative research programs seeking to identify how publics come to understand complex and uncertain issues, when information is incomplete and asymmetric. We use this approach to analyze data on public perceptions of how scientific different fields are from the 2006 and 2012 National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Survey. Our multivariate analyses allow us to approximate how mass publics map the social space of scientific professions, while accounting for individuals’ social location and cultural identity (e.g., race, class, gender, age, scientific sophistication, and political ideology). We then focus our attention on public perceptions of sociology and economics. Overall, we find that public perceptions, rather than being disorganized, map onto recognizable dimensions indicating how publics distinguish between scientific professions.

Підручник економіки як основа компетентнісного навчанняв ліцеї

The article deals with the main principles of the methodological system of competenceoriented teaching of economics in high school and the ways of its effective implementation in the content of a textbook. The analysis of the educational process in high school made it possible to disclose various methodological methods that form the economic competence of students with the help of educational economic information, which is contained in the textbook. The author of the article describes the elements of the methodological system that will form the economic competence of high school students through the textual and illustrative content of the textbook on economics. The article also demonstrates the guidelines for conducting economic lessons in high school and highlights the educational, cognitive and educational potential of economics through the method of competence-oriented education. Economics as a subject of study examines a methodological problem that eliminates contradictions between students’ perceptions of economics as a science with its subject of research and information on the diversity of economic and social life, and a particular subject studying complex economic skills, such as how to manage an economy, how to build their own economic activity, how to establish economic relations, etc. Economic education in modern educational institutions requires a teacher to choose a methodological system for economics education. New concepts and standards are created, in which not only content but also requirements for learning outcomes are reflected. The methodology of economics education has accumulated enough problems that require special research. Among them is the problem of updating methods, means and forms of organization of educational process. The main objective of economic education is the formation of economic thinking in students, and its result — economically grounded practical activity, determined by the level of economic competence. Competence-oriented education is also promising because, with this approach, educational activities acquire research and practical-oriented character and become the subject of assimilation itself. Pedagogical experience convinces that the key competencies are formed only in the process of gaining experience in their own activities, therefore the educational environment must be structured in such a way that high school students find themselves in situations that contribute to its formation.

The Dialectics of Competition Law: Sketching the Ordo-Austrian Approach to Antitrust

This paper explores the qualitative (deontological) approaches to the phenomenon of economic competition, synthesizing the Ordoliberal and the Austrian perceptions of antitrust economics, policy and law. It critically addresses the main normative motto of the contemporary antitrust, embedded in the ethos of consumer/total welfare, as well as the methodological reduction of competition policy to the empirical analysis. Not contesting the paramount role of economics in the realm of antitrust, it demonstrates why the phenomenon of competition cannot be narrowed down to its welfare-generating function. By comparing the regulatory mechanisms of the competitive process in the real economy and sports it depicts some potential methodological analogies, between the two realms.

The Effect of the Students’ Perceptions of High School Economics on the Selection of Economics in the Korean Scholarstic Aptitude Test

The Effect of the Students’ Perceptions of High School Economics on the Selection of Economics in the Korean Scholarstic Aptitude Test

The Dialectics of Competition Law: Sketching the Ordo-Austrian Approach to Antitrust

This paper explores the qualitative (deontological) approaches to the phenomenon of economic competition, synthesizing the Ordoliberal and the Austrian perceptions of antitrust economics, policy and law. It critically addresses the main normative motto of the contemporary antitrust, embedded in the ethos of consumer/total welfare, as well as the methodological reduction of competition policy to the empirical analysis. Not contesting the paramount role of economics in the realm of antitrust, it demonstrates why the phenomenon of competition cannot be narrowed down to its welfare-generating function. By comparing the regulatory mechanisms of the competitive process in the real economy and sports it depicts some potential methodological analogies, between the two realms.

Does Pluralism in Economics Education Make Better Educated, Happier Students? A Qualitative Analysis

This paper contributes to the debate on pluralism in the economics curriculum. Here pluralism means a diversity of theoretical perspectives. One set of pedagogical arguments for pluralism are those found in ‛liberal′ philosophy of education. To this end, the first part of the paper presents arguments for pluralism based on ‛liberal′ pedagogical arguments. The paper also notes more instrumental arguments for pluralism and the barriers to such an approach. Finally, the paper considers new primary evidence from focus groups on student perceptions of economics. This evidence shows support for the arguments that a pluralist curriculum is popular and develops cognitive capacities of criticism, comparison and analysis – exactly those argued for in (liberal) pedagogical discussion – as well as judgement, understanding and writing skills. However, pluralism as a teaching strategy may be more difficult for those delivering it.

PIH33 PREDICTION OF DEPRESSION IN LATE PREGNANCY

Many countries in the South are in deep crises. The crises have spread despair. There is a danger of forgetting altogether the South's spectacular economic and social sprint for two generations since 1950. There was no parallel in the past to this upsurge—in terms of either its pace, size or spread; or the sheer numbers of people and countries involved; or the length of the period. This essay pinpoints the main landmarks of this monumental transformation against the background of the North's advance in the 19th century, and post-1950 perceptions of development economics. It pays tribute to the transformation in the hope that the lessons still to be distilled from it will forge the future strategies to build upon the South's strengths and overcome its weaknesses.

Predicting Happiness among Centenarians

Background: Happiness is believed to evolve from the comparison of current circumstances relative to past achievement. However, gerontological literature on happiness in extreme old age has been limited. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine how perceptions of health, social provisions, and economics link past satisfaction with life to current feelings of happiness among persons living to 100 years of age and beyond. Methods: A total of 158 centenarians from the Georgia Centenarian Study were included to conduct the investigation. Items reflecting congruence and happiness from the Life Satisfaction Index were used to evaluate a model of happiness. Pathways between congruence, perceived economic security, subjective health, perceived social provisions, and happiness were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results: Congruence emerged as a key predictor of happiness. Furthermore, congruence predicted perceived economic security and subjective health, whereas perceived economic security had a strong influence on subjective health status. Conclusion: It appears that past satisfaction with life influences how centenarians frame subjective evaluations of health status and economic security. Furthermore, past satisfaction with life is directly associated with present happiness. This presents implications relative to understanding how perception of resources may enhance quality of life among persons who live exceptionally long lives.