MS or MA: Stands for Masters of Science and Masters of Arts, respectively. These are the traditional degrees given by colleges of arts and sciences in the United States. Generally, a master's degree is not sufficient to be licensed as a psychologist, although some states and Canadian provinces do allow it.
The computer and computer-like semiconductor devices used in automation are the most significant productivity improving technologies developed in the final decades of the twentieth century; however, their contribution to overall productivity growth was disappointing.
Richard E. Caves*. Once upon a time, study of the effects of mergers was clearly the. province of specialists in industrial organization. But then, following. two upheavals, this turf was lost. The first change was the shift (in the. United States; less in other industrial countries) toward diversifying.