The book chronicles the rise to fame of one Montgomery Marvin, a professor of economics who, as an academic teacher, keeps a low profile but who nevertheless is given tenure quite early in his career.

During his tenure with Shell, he completed the first part of the economics program at the London School of Economics in 1964 and he also completed a law degree at Leiden University, graduating in 1965.

A year later, at the age of 28, Sachs became a Full Professor of economics with tenure at Harvard.

In 1973 policy concerns included economics, employment, defence, energy ( fuel ) supplies, land tenure, pollution and social security, as then seen within an ecological perspective.

During Gilbert's tenure as Vice Chancellor, a Nobel prize winner in economics Joseph Stiglitz was appointed the head of the Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester, and Sir John Sulston was appointed to a chair in the Faculty of Life Sciences.

Upon completing his tenure in 1953, Laskov left the army to study philosophy, economics, and political science ( PPE ) in the United Kingdom.

Meanwhile, John Kenneth Galbraith has argued that some established economics professors simultaneously seek tenure.

A bachelor, a teetotaller, an excellent cook of spiced food, a visitor to the Calcutta Horse Racing Turf, a traditionalist at heart yet posing as a bohemian in a tongue-in-cheek style, and by any standards an eccentric, he lived a simple, modest and spartan life at his rented flat in South Calcutta, retiring in 1971 from the Life Insurance Corporation of India where he held a clerical position throughout his tenure ; this, despite his being a post-graduate in economics from the Calcutta University.

The present Federal program of vocational education began in 1917 with the passage of the Smith-Hughes Act, which provided a continuing annual appropriation of $7 million to support, on a matching basis, state-administered programs of vocational education in agriculture, trades, industrial skills and home economics.

He thus began a more in-depth study of economics in the area of institutionalism.

Starting in the 1960s, as part of the emerging field of law and economics, economists and legal scholars began to study the property rights enjoyed by tenants under the various estates, and the economic benefits and costs of the various estates.

After the brief rule of Mao's chosen successor Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping emerged as China's paramount leader, and began to shift the country towards market economics and away from ideologically driven policies.

Erhard could no longer work as a draper and began to study economics, first in Nuremberg, later in Frankfurt am Main.

It immediately preceded the first modern school, classical economics, which began with the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

As the political influence of those promoting Neoliberal stances and Globalization gained prominence during the 1970s, the advocates of Import Substitution Industrialization, Protectionism, Social Corporatism, Syndicalism, many models of Socialism and other forms of Autarky or semi-Autarky began to occupy an increasingly marginalized space in public policy circles, professional economics and elected office.

Natural resource economics as a subfield began when the main concern of researchers was the optimal commercial exploitation of natural resource stocks.

After the war, Hapgood began a twenty-year teaching career in the humanities through faculty appointments at Keystone College ( 1945 – 1947 ), Springfield College ( 1947 – 1952 ), Keene State College ( 1956 – 1966 ), and New England College ( 1966 – 1967 ), where he lectured in world and American history, anthropology, economics, and the history of science.

After a four-month-long lecture tour that ended in April 1897, Gilman began to think more deeply about sexual relationships and economics in American life, eventually completing the first draft of Women and Economics ( 1898 ).

Discouraged by the lack of official response to the land claims he was putting forward, he began an association with British Communists, who published articles he wrote in their publications. In 1932 to 1933, he briefly studied economics in Moscow at the Comintern School, KUTVU ( University of the Toilers of the East ) but left after the Soviet Union ( worried about Hitler's growing power and seeing Britain and France as potential allies ) withdrew its support for the movement against British and French colonial rule in Africa.

In 1994, he began to write more about foreign policy and economics, and moved to the op-ed page of The New York Times the following year as a foreign affairs columnist.

These studies began to justify different means of determining value — some of which influenced the theory of social capital and individual capital, that emerged in the late 1990s and, along with ecological economics, influenced modern human development theory.

According to Krugman, his interest in economics began with Asimov's Foundation novels, in which the social scientists of the future use ' Psychohistory ' to attempt to save civilization.

Hazlitt started his career at The Wall Street Journal as secretary to the managing editor when he was still a teenager, and his interest in the field of economics began while working there.

The Center began operations in 1987 with no office or full-time staff, but formally opened offices in Midland in 1988 with its first president, Lawrence W. Reed, an economist, writer, and speaker who had chaired the economics department at Northwood University.

Some service began to return as the airline industry's economics improved in 2005 and 2006.

Trained in law, economics and political science, he began his political career in 1945, during Francisco Franco's dictatorship.

Similarly, companies that paid to have AOL host their information or early online stores began to develop their own web sites, putting further stress on the economics of the online industry.

During this time Downer began to be talked of as a possible leader, and in May 1994 he succeeded John Hewson as leader of the Liberal party after defeating the Professor of economics in a leadership ballot ,( Hewson inteneded to resign if the Coalition lost 1993 election and continued on regardless ).

The following year he began working towards a PhD ( again in economics, at the Australian National University ), which reached the opposite conclusion.

She began her career as an economics researcher for the Shadow Chancellor John Smith in 1990 before working in Arkansas for Democratic Presidential candidate Bill Clinton in 1992.

In 1905, Leroy Burns Smith began his affiliation with Cal Poly as an instructor in English, history and economics.

In 1918 she began her years of study in economics and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

One of the greatest obstacles to the achievement of this goal is the lack of trained men and women with the skill to teach the young and assist in the operation of development projects -- men and women with the capacity to cope with the demands of swiftly evolving economics, and with the dedication to put that capacity to work in the villages, the mountains, the towns and the factories of dozens of struggling nations.

that obligations of status that were inconsistent with the new politics and the new economics be done away with.

Barbara Borland of Tigard took top senior individual home economics honors with a demonstration called filbert hats.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

After graduating with a degree in economics and finance from Bentley College in 1993, she studied cooking in Europe.

In economics, regulatory arbitrage ( sometimes, tax arbitrage ) may be used to refer to situations when a company can choose a nominal place of business with a regulatory, legal or tax regime with lower costs.

Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

However, in more recent years, since the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, with the increasing influence of Monetarist schools of thought in the 1980s, and particularly in the face of large sustained trade imbalances, these concerns — and particularly concerns about the destabilising effects of large trade surpluses — have largely disappeared from mainstream economics discourse and Keynes ' insights have slipped from view.

The phase between the Baroque and the rise of the Classical, with its broad mixture of competing ideas and attempts to unify the different demands of taste, economics and " worldview ", goes by many names.

Historically, in Socialist systems collectivist economics were carried to their furthest extreme, with a minimum of private ownership and a maximum of planned economy.

Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science ( e. g., chemistry and physics ), and life sciences ( e. g., biology, microbiology and biochemistry ) with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms.

Often this involves stressing what are now conservative views of free-market economics and belief in individual responsibility, with social liberal views on defence of civil rights, environmentalism and support for a limited welfare state.

Smith's economics was carried into practice in the 19th century with the lowering of tariffs in the 1820s, the repeal of the Poor Relief Act, that had restricted the mobility of labour, in 1834, and the end of the rule of the East India Company over India in 1858.

Also famous as a prose stylist, Hume pioneered the essay as a literary genre and engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith ( who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy ), James Boswell, Joseph Butler, and Thomas Reid.

** Fractional dynamics, studies the dynamics with integrations and differentiations of fractional orders ( in physics, economics, and related fields )

Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States and 49th Governor of New York, graduated cum laude from Dartmouth with a degree in economics in 1930.

Other broad distinctions include those between positive economics ( describing " what is ") and normative economics ( advocating " what ought to be "); between economic theory and applied economics ; between rational and behavioral economics ; and between mainstream economics ( more " orthodox " and dealing with the " rationality-individualism-equilibrium nexus ") and heterodox economics ( more " radical " and dealing with the " institutions-history-social structure nexus ").