Principles Textbooks Research Articles

Does the International Substitution Effect Help Explain the Slope of the Aggregate Demand Curve?

(1998). Does the International Substitution Effect Help Explain the Slope of the Aggregate Demand Curve? The Journal of Economic Education: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 358-364.

Construction of Consumption Possibility Frontiers in Principles Textbooks

(1997). Construction of Consumption Possibility Frontiers in Principles Textbooks. The Journal of Economic Education: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 76-81.

Risk Management and Insurance

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Construction of Consumption Possibility Frontiers in Principles Textbooks

Construction of Consumption Possibility Frontiers in Principles Textbooks

Basic Chemical Principles, Second Edition (Peters, Edward I.; Kowerski, Robert C.)

The second edition of the Basic Chemical Principles textbook by Peters and Kowerski shows a refinement of a method that leads beginning students into the study of chemistry.

引用分析からみた内科学教科書の特性

In this paper, two distinguished textbooks of internal medicine, Cecil Textbook of Medicine and Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine were compared on the basis of citation studies. The latest editions of the textbooks were examined; “Harrison” was the 11th ed. (1987), and “Cecil” was the 18th ed. (1988).The following results were obtained:1. Harrison had 280 contributors, and 77 (27.5%) were affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Cecil had 325 contributors, but they were not as concentrated at any one institution as in the case of Harrison.2. There were 4, 527 citations in Harrison and 4, 040 in Cecil. The proportion of journal citations to total citations was 79.1% in the case of Harrison and 76.2% in the case of Cecil.3. A list was made of the 20 most frequently cited journals. The most important journal was the N Engl J Med. This journal accounted for 10% of all citations in both textbooks. This list shows that all were U. S. journals with the exception of the Lancet.4. A list was made of the 10 most frequently cited books.5. The age of the citations is shown in Fig1. Both graphs indicate that peak age was 2-3 years. Median citation age in Harrison was 4.6 years, and in Cecil it was 4.4 years.

THE INCIDENCE OF A SPECIFIC, PER‐UNIT TAX: AN EMPHASIS ON THE LONG RUN

The treatment of tax incidence in most principles textbooks is incomplete and misleading. This anomaly results from treating tax incidence as a short‐run phenomenon. This paper briefly reviews the theory regarding tax incidence and surveys the leading textbooks in regard to their treatment of this issue. A strong recommendation is made that tax incidence—if covered in a principles text—be treated only in a long‐run context.

The Principles of Economics from Now until Then: A Response

The existence of competing macro theories is troublesome for authors, and I am certain it is unsettling to students. But the existence of competing macro paradigms is a fact of life. My philosophy as an author is that a principles textbook should accurately and fairly portray the corpus of economic thought. If there is disagreement and confusion, so be it. Indeed, the current disagreement in macroeconomics is a useful backdrop from which students can be made to understand why economics is unable to deliver the information and guidance that businesses and government demand. In particular, forecasts of inflation, employment, and aggregate output based upon alternative paradigms are conflicting and generally unreliable.' My reading of Professor Bell's paper reveals no real solution to the problem of multiple macro paradigms other than to omit them. Incidentally, my hunch is that Professor Bell is incorrect in attributing the increasing size of principles textbooks to the current disagreement over macro theory. It seems to me that the addition over the years of such topics as urban economics, radical economics, pollution, energy, public choice theory, and economic growth-not to mention thirtyor forty-page glossaries and a variety of student aids-account for most of the additional bulk.

On Teaching a Fractured Macroeconomics

It is a privilege to address the subject of high school economics education, but I must begin with a confession. My relevant experience is not large. I deeply disliked high school, perhaps more deeply than circumstances could justify. I therefore attended American high school for only two years, and did not earn a diploma. I have never taught at a high school. I have taught economics to undergraduates, but again only for two years, and principles of economics, as a teaching assistant, for only one. The University of Texas at Austin has some thirty-seven thousand undergraduates. In the year I have been there, I have so far actually met, I think, four of them-babysitters, all. met, I think, four of them-babysitters, all. I nevertheless claim to know what it is about the teaching of elementary economics that I do not like. In the introductory treatments with which I am familiar, an impulse to simplify and an aversion to controversy go hand in hand. The result is bland and dull. And the seeds are sown of a profound dissonance between the professional self-image economists try to project on one hand and what one quickly learns to be the truth about our discipline on the other. I have seen this, a little, in a cursory review of principles textbooks, which I conducted before teaming up with Robert Heilbroner to produce our own. I see it, alas, in the Framework. In microeconomics, these problems of blandness and dullness are not so serious. Granted, the assumptions are unrealistic and the concepts abstract. That is their charm. Microeconomics trains the student in deductive logic, in how, after a fashion, to think. It has elegance, rigor, even beauty. The ideas of microeconomics may be few-Joan Robinson used to say that Maynard could have learned them in twenty minutes had he tried-but there is a wonderful multiplicity of languages for the student to explore: ever more sophisticated, ever more concise algebraic, geometric, topological ways to make the same point. And there is a definiteness to the proceedings; once the assumptions are given, once the premises are accepted, either the consequences follow or they don't. Macroeconomics lacks these consolations. It is a messy, complex, illdefined subject in which terms do not have definite meanings and in which conclusions do not flow inexorably from premises. Good macroeconomists seek, not neat abstraction, but serviceable approximation of the way the

Textbook of Surgery, Principles, and Practice

Textbook of Surgery, Principles, and Practice

Price Earnings Ratios: A Prospect

by Robert W. Mayer 'N DISCUSSIONS of the probable future trend of price earnings ratios these days, little or no attention seems to be given to an aspect which might prove to be of considerable moment. Anyone who talks with both young men and middle-aged or older men about their conceptions of the financial futtire of the country must surely notice a considerable difference their attitudes. This is not itself remarkable. Youth tends to be more optimistic than age about almost everything. Furthermore, as the more pessimistic older men pass from the scene their places are taken by young men grown older and less optimistic, so that the net effect of the passage of time on the prospects of the populace as a whole is practically nil. The financial prospect, however, is different. Young men with few exceptions do indeed have an optimistic conception of the financial future, being confident that our institutions and policies have made financial disaster a thing of the past. Barring nuclear holocaust, they look upon the future as a veritable Stairway to Heaven. Many men past fifty are not so sure, being old enough to remember the equally confident assurances of the middle nineteen twenties. This is what makes the present financial prospect different. As these older men-who probably own a disproportionately large share of the outstanding securities and whose attitudes may therefore exert a disproportionate influence on the market-pass from the scene, ownership of their securities will shift to a younger generation who do not have their reason for becoming skeptical as they grow older. The net effect, it would seem, should produce a significant increase price earnings ratios. In order to check on the validity of his impression that a significant proportion of older men do have a view markedly different (from younger men's view) of the financial future, the writer recently conducted a small survey of opinion on the matter. His sample was not chosen scientifically, but it did include several groups aggregating a sizeable number of men of widely ranging ages who could be presumed to have given the matter some thought and who probably could be enticed into responding by appealing to their curiosity about what the others might respond. A questionnaire was formulated and copies sent to 130 fellow members of the faculty of the College of Commerce and Business Administration the University of Illinois at Urbana, to 32 senior and graduate student members of a Securities Analysis class the College, to 219 fellow members of the Champaign-Urbana Kiwanis Club (business and professional men), and to 48 fellow members of the Chicago Financial Writers Association-429 total. The recipients were promised a report on the responses. An overwhelming majority 4 out of 5-of the respondents aged fifty and under estimated the chances of financial catastrophe within the next twenty years at less than 40%, while a m.ajority-almost 3 out of 5-of those over fifty estimated the chances at 40% or more. These figures seem to confirm the writer's initial impression. Furthermore, the very high proportion of young faculty members who estimated the chances at less than 40% suggests that their confidence may be an important source of their students' confidence the efficacy of our institutions and policies averting financial disaster. It is a rare textbook or teacher of economic principles, money and banking, or business finance that so much as hints at any financial expectation more adverse than a diminution the rate of growth, although occasionally a teacher is startled by a student's suggestion that one day there might be elected a national administration and a Congressional majority determined to try achieving full employment without creeping inflation. Even the most conservative of security analysis textbooks, whose first two editions devoted a long section to bitterly ironic treatment of the New Era Theory of the nineteen twenties, toned down the subject considerably its third and fourth editions.* Among academic people it is simply not considered in to have serious apprehensions about the financial future, and the scholar who does have them is looked upon by his colleagues as a sort of troglodyte. Father Time is now removing with increasing rapidity men whom the traumatic disillusionment of 1929 left a residue of cynicism about expectations of perpetual growth. As the market is freed from the drag of their doubts during the next decade or so, price earnings ratios may soar to heights that would make the present ones seem timid and unimaginative. +

Textbook of the Principles and Practice of Nursing

Textbook of the Principles and Practice of Nursing

American pharmacy. Textbook of pharmaceutical principles, processes and preparations. 4th ed. Edited by Rufus A. Lyman and Joseph B. Sprowls. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1955. xvii + 478 pp. 18.5 × 26 cm. Price $9.75, and Textbook of Pharmaceutical Compounding and Dispensing. 2nd ed. Edited by Rufus A. Lyman and Joseph B. Sprowls. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1955.

American pharmacy. Textbook of pharmaceutical principles, processes and preparations. 4th ed. Edited by Rufus A. Lyman and Joseph B. Sprowls. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1955. xvii + 478 pp. 18.5 × 26 cm. Price $9.75, and Textbook of Pharmaceutical Compounding and Dispensing. 2nd ed. Edited by Rufus A. Lyman and Joseph B. Sprowls. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1955.

Methods of Teaching Current EventsCurrent-Events Instruction: A Textbook of Principles and Plans. Reginald Stevens Kimball

Previous articleNext article No AccessEducational WritingsMethods of Teaching Current Events Current-Events Instruction: A Textbook of Principles and Plans. Reginald Stevens Kimball Eric Oscar MayEric Oscar May Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 37, Number 8Oct., 1929 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/438913 Views: 1Total views on this site Journal History This article was published in The School Review (1893-1979), which is continued by the American Journal of Education (1979-present). PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Text-Book of the Principles and Practice of Nursing

Text-Book of the Principles and Practice of Nursing

State School Administration--A Textbook of Principles.

State School Administration--A Textbook of Principles.

State School Administration: A Textbook of Principles. Ellwood P. Cubberley

Previous articleNext article No AccessEducational WritingsState School Administration: A Textbook of Principles. Ellwood P. Cubberley I. N. EdwardsI. N. Edwards Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Elementary School Journal Volume 28, Number 2Oct., 1927 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/456019 Views: 2Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

A Textbook of Principles of Human Geography

A Textbook of Principles of Human Geography

(1) Coal, and the Prevention of Explosions and Fires in Mines (2) Safety in Coal Mines a Text-book of Fundamental Principles for Firemen and other Workers in Mines

(1) Coal, and the Prevention of Explosions and Fires in Mines (2) Safety in Coal Mines a Text-book of Fundamental Principles for Firemen and other Workers in Mines

Text-Book of the Principles of Animal Histology.

Text-Book of the Principles of Animal Histology.