By Laura Tropp. When the faculty at my college voted to add in a general education requirement to incorporate issues of race and ethnicity, I saw it as an opportunity to have my Motherhood class fit into this requirement; I could use this as a chance to make the class not just about motherhood issues but about understanding them within the lenses of race, class, and identity. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Economic theory tells us that each country and person should find what it is that they are best at and focus on doing that. This theory of “comparative advantage” has been on my mind recently as I have watched my daughter excel at things that seem impossible to many around her. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. I discovered early in this sabbatical that I needed to learn more Game Theory in order to be able to write coherently about the ways it relates to the workings of the nonprofit sector. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. It is often the case that, when modeling choices involving leisure and working for pay, economists model leisure as the amount of time left over after one has chosen the number of hours to work. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. There is an idea in Economics that discusses where firms will “place” their products, both physically and in terms of small differences in those products. Often described as “ice cream vendors on the beach” it does not necessarily deal with ice cream or beaches, but can be seen in clusters of similar businesses, such as gas stations or fast food restaurants, or even in types of cereal that tend to group themselves by tastes. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. In the Internet Law and Policy class I am currently teaching, this week we talked about consumer privacy. We began with an overview of the five areas of U.S. privacy law: Constitutional Privacy; Government Surveillance; Information Privacy; Privacy Torts; and Administrative Law Privacy (e.g. Banking, Consumer Bureau and Federal Trade Commission). Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Res ipsa loquitur, this point speaks for itself. True, we have a geographically expansive country. But also true is there is no reasonable excuse for allowing whole sectors of that expanse or populations of people to be marginalized in what everyone knows is the gateway to education, the workplace, politics and culture of U.S. and global society writ large. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Notwithstanding different platforms and personalities that distinguish your campaigns, you all seem to be missing a critical component: The Internet. Allow me to make the case. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. It is with pleasure that I introduce a unique, new information management and cybersecurity program hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst: Trust, Assurance and Cybersecurity Certificate Program. Read more...
By Alex Usher. A few weeks ago, the Times Higher Education published a ranking of “top attractors of industry funds”. It’s actually just a re-packaging of data from its major fall rankings exercise – “industry dollars per professors” is one of its thirteen indicators and this is just that indicator published as a standalone ranking. Read more...
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