Did the global financial crisis have any impact on economics degree enrolments?
- Authors: Millmow, Alex , Tuck, Jacqueline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Economic papers Vol. 30, no. 4 (2011), p. 557-567
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- Description: The Great Depression is famous for enticing a whole generation of young men and women into studying economics especially in Britain and America and even in this country. What then of the great financial turbulence caused by the subprime crisis? Did it provoke an increase in student interest in economics? Or perhaps the relatively milder traverse Australia has enjoyed over the past three years has meant that student interest was not ignited by what was happening overseas. This paper scrutinises the latest enrolment data for Australia and the other Anglophone countries to ascertain whether there has been any marked increase in economics degree enrolments. [Author abstract]
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A tale of two Australian economics journals
- Authors: Millmow, Alex , Tuck, Jacqueline
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy Vol. 33, no. 2 (2014), p. 186-201
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- Description: Adelaide has made a significant contribution to Australian economics. Since 1966, the University of Adelaide and Flinders University have been the partners behind the journal Australian Economic Papers (AEP). It has been an adventurous undertaking sometimes disconcerted by financial vulnerability, which at times, threatened its very existence. After outlining the journal's history, this paper undertakes a forensic examination of the AEP, and provides a comparison with its most obvious competitor, The Economic Record (ER). Despite its bold ambitions, we find that the AEP is now Australia's second‐ranking generalist economics journal and suffering the fate of being of that genre.