DOW JONES AND W.W. NORTON INTRODUCE FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND WORLD WIDE WEB LEARNING RESOURCE; Economics in the News is first site to combine news with textbook analysis.PRINCETON, NJ--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 1996--Dow Jones Business Information Services See Information Systems. , in conjunction with W.W. Norton & Company, the publisher of trade and college books, announced a new web site, Economics in the News, available today on the World Wide Web at http://www.wwnorton.com/wsj. This new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. site, the first of its kind, offers the academic community a unique teaching resource that marries current worldwide news with economic analysis. Economics in the News presents the full text of a wide range of articles written by Wall Street Journal(R) reporters, with annotations, analyses, and descriptive graphics provided by a team of W.W. Norton's distinguished economics authors. "Professors have always used The Wall Street Journal to make the world of business understandable to students," said Josephine Ottman, director of product marketing, Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Business Information Services. "Now, using Economics in the News, professors can easily and clearly show students how theories they learn in class relate to real-life business situations." Economics in the News currently contains more than 70 annotated articles drawn from recent issues of The Wall Street Journal. New articles will be posted regularly, filling a need highlighted by Hal R. Varian, professor of economics and dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. , a Norton textbook author, and the creator of the Economics in the News concept. "Everyone who teaches economics would like to use more current events in the classroom, but the difficulty of locating, preparing, and distributing good material has been a barrier to the widespread use of news items," noted Professor Varian. "The new technology offered by the World Wide Web has allowed us to solve these problems by providing quick and efficient access to selected Wall Street Journal news stories along with links back to the Norton textbook explanations. We think that this service will make coursework more exciting and relevant for students." W. Drake McFeely, president of W.W. Norton & Company, commented, "The Wall Street Journal and Norton are the perfect match to offer Economics in the News. Norton has a distinguished line of economics books and decades of experience with anthologies. We know how to make texts useful in the classroom. The Wall Street Journal is, of course, the preeminent pre·em·i·nent or pre-em·i·nent adj. Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding. See Synonyms at dominant, noted. [Middle English, from Latin prae source of current information in the business and economics classroom. Economics in the News is, in a sense, a mini-anthology that will help students find the analytic line in news articles." Analysis of the articles in Economics in the News is provided by Jan Gerson and Erik Hurst, both of the economics department at the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , in conjunction with textbooks by Joseph Stiglitz of Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. and Hal Varian Hal Ronald Varian is a central academic in the economics of information technology and the information economy. Varian's assertion that "Technology changes. Economic laws do not." introduces a series of efforts in applying general economic principles to the information economy. . All are noted throughout the academic community for their published works, academic excellence and commitment to the learning process. Access to Economics in the News is free and links will be provided to additional Dow Jones sites, such as the Money & Investing Update(SM), and to other Norton sites. This latest Web initiative extends Dow Jones' long-standing commitment to the academic community. The company provides a broad range of educational and research resources through: - Dow Jones News/Retrieval(R), a leading electronic library of business news and information available at reduced rates to academic institutions; - Money & Investing Update, the first interactive edition of The Wall Street Journal on the World Wide Web; - The Wall Street Journal and Barron's(R) Newspaper in Education Program, a service providing college students with these publications at reduced rates when they are used in the classroom; - The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition, a tabloid newspaper for secondary school students using stories drawn from The Wall Street Journal. About W.W. Norton W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., the oldest and largest publishing house owned wholly by its employees, has been recognized for decades for its distinguished publishing programs in the trade and college areas. Norton's economics list features such titles as Joseph E. Stiglitz's Economics and Economics of the Public Sector; Hal Varian's Intermediate Microeconomics microeconomics Study of the economic behaviour of individual consumers, firms, and industries and the distribution of total production and income among them. It considers individuals both as suppliers of land, labour, and capital and as the ultimate consumers of the final and Microeconomic mi·cro·ec·o·nom·ics n. (used with a sing. verb) The study of the operations of the components of a national economy, such as individual firms, households, and consumers. Analysis; Robert E. Hall Robert E. Hall was sworn in as the eleventh Sergeant Major of the Army on October 21, 1997 and served until June 23, 2000. Hall was born in Gaffney, South Carolina, on May 31, 1947. and John B. Taylor's Macroeconomics macroeconomics Study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, level of employment of productive resources, and general behaviour of prices. ; and Edwin Mansfield's Microeconomics, Applied Microeconomics, and Managerial Economics managerial economics Application of economic principles to decision making in business firms or other management units. The basic concepts are drawn from microeconomic theory, but new tools of analysis have been added. . More information about W.W. Norton & Company can be found at http://www.wwnorton.com. About Dow Jones Dow Jones Business Information Services is the electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. arm of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. that provides business and financial news and information products, including Dow Jones News/Retrieval(R), to corporations, consumers and private investors through a variety of electronic media: computer, telephone, facsimile and radio. Dow Jones also publishes The Wall Street Journal(R) and its international editions, Barron's(R) magazine and other periodicals, electronic information services, including Dow Jones Telerate and Dow Jones Financial News Services, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones also produces business television programming internationally and video news delivered to desktop computers. More information on Dow Jones and its products can be found at http://bis.dowjones.com. 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