Today we have the honor of speaking with Dr. Edward F. Stuart, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Northeastern Illinois University.
You can learn more about Dr. Stuart on the NEIU website:
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-sciences/faculty/edward-f-stuart
Dr. Stuart’s profile on The Great Courses:
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/professors/edward-f-stuart/
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Some topics that Dr. Stuart, Rick Zanotti, and Dr. Susan Nash discuss in this Life Edge episode:
– Why collective ownership in agriculture doesn’t work
– The story of how Dr. Stuart & his students happened to be in Leningrad when Gorbachev was doing some of his first speeches
– How Rick found Dr. Stuart’s class on The Great Courses
– Dr. Nash describes her experience at a recent conference in Bolivia & asks, “How can Bolivia avoid becoming the next Venezuela?”
– The importance of antitrust laws
– The lessons one can learn from Argentina’s economic history
– Sweden as an example of a socialist government that “smooths the rough edges of capitalism”
– Dr. Stuart’s prediction: the “education premium,” or the pay gap between educated and non-educated workers, will keep increasing globally, as good manual labor jobs have rapidly disappeared.
– How do we prevent an over-saturation of college students obtaining degrees that offer little job security?
– Susan thinks that curriculums, especially at the graduate level, are too rigid and having more flexible and blended educational programs might lead to more entrepreneurship
– Edward points out the benefits of enforcing a broad curriculum, which aims to achieve proficiency in a wide range of subjects.
and more!
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About today’s guest:
Dr. Edward F. Stuart is Professor – Emeritus of Economics at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, Illinois where he has been a member of the faculty since 1986. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Oklahoma specializing in International Economics and Russian and Eastern European Studies.
He teaches courses in International Economics, The Economics of the European Union,
Comparative Economic Systems, European Economic History, and Macroeconomic Theory.
For the past fifteen years Dr. Stuart has worked as a consultant to several international relocation firms and has made presentations on the histories, economic and political systems, geographies, and current events in a wide range of countries. These presentations have the objective of preparing the participants to be effective and successful professionals in the foreign countries to which they have been transferred.
Dr. Stuart has published widely in the field of economics. His last publication was “Building Regional Competitive Advantage: Lessons from U.S. Experiences for Poland and other new EU Member States.” published by Peter Lang Publishers in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Dr. Stuart has been a frequent guest on radio and television public affairs and news programs offering his analysis of current economic issues.
In April 2018, Dr. Stuart completed a video lecture course for The Great Courses entitled, ”Capitalism vs. Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems” The course contains 24 half-hour lectures on the origins and influences of the world’s major economic systems. The course is available at http://www.thegreatcourses.com.
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