In this article we will argue that, despite offering free undergraduate education, the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) has become a market university. As all the other public universities in…
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The central issue studied in this essay is the meaning and implications for public policy of Nicholas Stern’s statement that “Climate change is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever…
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…for transfer abroad. This essay traces the metamorphosis of the state bourgeois class in Arab socialist countries, namely Egypt, Iraq and Syria, into the neoliberal/comprador class. With the exception of…
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…introduced three major education bills: the “short law” of free education, the creation of two new public universities and fifteen Centers of Technical Formation, and the reform of higher education’s…
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Using two standard cycle methodologies (Classical and Deviation Cycle) and a comprehensive sample of 83 countries worldwide, including all developing regions, we show that the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC)…
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…these funds. They have argued that funds should instead that their assets will get the risk-free rate of return on US Treasury bonds and build up their funds accordingly. This…
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…avoided large deficits. However, the current outlook on Mexico’s fiscal performance is complicated. Mounting pressures to raise expenditure, along with major changes in its composition, and structural fragilities in fiscal…
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…50 years it has become easier to get a mortgage and it has become common for people to buy homes with little down and long repayment times. The result has…
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…in its approach to trading regimes currently in operation. In this paper we address this in terms of the arguments against the comparative advantage orthodoxy of free trade and for…
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…and rational free choice, that supports the habitus. The culture of economics is firmly held in place by symbolic violence directed at those who question the prevailing culture. The paper…
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…should be given at the end of the articles in the following style with hyperlinks wherever useful and possible. For a review of the Harvard system, see: http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Images/Selfstudy/Harvard.pdf or http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~bstahl/HarvardStyle.htm…
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Email: wereditor@worldeconomicsassociation.org Jayati Ghosh, India, Jawaharlal Nehru University: jayatijnu@gmail.com John Weeks, UK, University of London: johnweeks@jweeks.org Susan Feiner, USA, University of Southern Maine: sffein@usm.maine.edu Esteban Perez Caldentey, Chile, Economic Commission for…
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…and the Bachelet Reforms in Chile César Guzmán-Concha 32 – 43 The Corporization of a Public University with Free Undergraduate Education: Endangering Autonomy at the University of Buenos Aires Cecilia…
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…and Gender Studies University of Southern Maine, Portland ME Rex McKenzie, rexmck@gmail.com Lecturer in Economics, Kingston University, London, England S. Devrim Yilmaz, s.yilmaz@kingston.ac.uk Lecturer in Economics, Kingston University, London, England…
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