June 7, 2012 — People shouldn’t have to choose between a single-family house and a walkable neighborhood. Both are found in neighborhoods all over the United States, and there’s no reason why they...view
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Advertising, Alternative models, Housing
June 6, 2012 — “The world splits” between two types of neighborhoods, Christopher Leinberger, a researcher on cities and a “smart growth” developer, recently told Remapping Debate. On the one hand,...view
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Alternative models, Pensions
Apr. 18, 2012 — Public and private pension funds in the United States collectively have trillions of dollars in combined assets. They own more than a third of all domestic equity, with stakes in most...view
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Alternative models, Economy, Education
Mar. 21, 2012 — Despite the economic meltdown of 2008, the pre-existing, one-sided model of economics education has remained almost entirely intact. Several factors explain the lack of change, but...view
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Alternative models, Economy, Education
Mar. 8, 2012 — Remapping Debate recently reported on some of the ways that critics of the current model of economics education in the United States believe that undergraduate programs can reform...view
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Alternative models, Economy, Education
Mar. 7, 2012 — Tens of thousands of undergraduate students will take an introductory course in economics — often called “principles” courses — during any given year. Few of the students in these...view
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Alternative models, Economy, Education
Feb. 22, 2012 — Although the foundational assumptions of neoclassical or “mainstream” economics are often presented to students as akin to “scientific fact,” those assumptions, as Remapping Debate...view
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Alternative models, Economy, Education
Feb. 8, 2012 — In Part 1 of Remapping Debate’s series on undergraduate economics education, we reported on how the discipline has been dominated by neoclassical economics, a school of thought...view
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Alternative models, Economy, Education
Feb. 8, 2012 — In early November of last year, several dozen students walked out of an introductory microeconomics course at Harvard University taught by N. Gregory Mankiw, a former economic adviser...view
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Alternative models, Labor
A tale of two systems, in which we contrasted the way that German automakers operate in terms of labor relations in the United States with how they operate in Germany brought a substantial reader...view