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Network Consequences Due To Oligopolists And Oligopsonists In The Hog Industry, Pollution From Hog Production, And The Failure To Regulate Ecological Criteria, F. Gregory Hayden
Network Consequences Due To Oligopolists And Oligopsonists In The Hog Industry, Pollution From Hog Production, And The Failure To Regulate Ecological Criteria, F. Gregory Hayden
College of Business: Faculty Publications
Humans have been in a symbiotic relationship with hogs since the time humans became a species. That relationship evolved into a set of transactional (as defined by instrumentalists) processes beginning with the hunter-gatherer tribes. The network of relationships has continued to become more numerous, intense, and complex. Hogs have served in social systems with humans as societal symbols for prowess for numerous groups (with wild boars, for example, on coats of arms in Europe), as religious symbols (both positive and negative), as a source of human disease in the hog-chicken-human cycle for generating flu in Asia, and, more recently, as …
What Students Remember And Say About College Economics Years Later, Sam Allgood, William Bosshardt, Wilbert Van Der Klaauw, Michael Watts
What Students Remember And Say About College Economics Years Later, Sam Allgood, William Bosshardt, Wilbert Van Der Klaauw, Michael Watts
College of Business: Faculty Publications
In his presidential address to the American Economic Association, George Stigler (1963) offered the provocative hypothesis that students would retain very little knowledge from principles courses in economics five years or more after taking the courses. The few empirical studies that have been published on this topic generally found no or small lasting effects, at least for those who took fewer than four courses (see e.g., G. L. Bach and Phillip Saunders, 1965; Gerald J. Lynch, 1990). That raises even broader questions about the long-term effects of studying economics in college, in terms of individuals’ behavior as consumers, workers, and …