Liberal arts or business: Does the location of the economics department alter the major?

Journal of Economic Education

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 18-35

  Dean, David H ^a,b   Dolan, Robert C ^a,b  

^a Department of economics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Business schools; Economics curriculum

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035579698     PISSN: 00220485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220480109595167     Document Type: Article

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