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The Financialization of the Business Enterprise
(2015)
of neoclassical agency theory influenced reality. The second chapter studies the diffusion of agency theory into corporate practice as an example of how theory can simultaneously be impacted by and have an impact on the world. The third chapter provides a review...
Full Employment and Development: The Case of Indian Economy
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2014)
The purpose of this study is to establish the feasibility and desirability of full
employment and price stability in India via an Employer of Last resort program. After
providing a brief historical background of the ...
The evolution of the U.S. financial architecture, asset prices, and the role of fiscal and monetary policy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-15)
In the past years there has been increasing interest in shadow banking institutions.
Economists identified the shadow banking system at the core of the 2007-2008 Global
Financial Crisis and it was a key component of the ...
The origins of money: evaluating chartalist and metallist theories in the context of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-02)
that Metallism does not withstand a historical test given the marginality of trade, both domestic and foreign, in the period when money and, subsequently, coinage emerged. A wide range of evidence - archeological, etymological, literary and numismatic...
Multifunctional Banking and Financial Fragility: What Should Banks Do?
(2015-05-22)
This dissertation traces the evolution of the U.S. banking system since the 1980s
with a specific focus on the role of the relaxation and eventual repeal of Glass-Steagall Act
(GSA) on the stability of the financial ...
The Role of Financial Markets in the Pricing of Crude Oil: An Examination of Oil Pricing through the Structural Changes of the early Twenty-first Century
(2016)
The debate over the causes of the path of the price of oil over the twenty-first century has
failed to address the method of oil pricing. The thesis guiding this dissertation is that the
crude oil pricing method ...
The Reproduction of Empire of Capital through Incursions of Capitalist Processes into Non-capitalist Processes Since 1989
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This dissertation lays out a theoretical framework for a non-capitalocentric theory of the
empire of capital since 1989. Following a complementary holistic approach, it sees the
economy as reflecting the society that ...
A Spatial Theory of School Closure: An Examination of School Closure in America
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
in shaping school closure outcomes? The econometric analysis is conducted using a multilevel model to estimate the correlation of several variables hypothesized to have a relationship to the school closure process. The random effects model estimates...
Toward a heterodox theory of the business enterprise: the Going Concern Model and the US computer industry
(2013-11-27)
This dissertation applies heterodox concepts of the social construction and allocation of
resources in the provisioning process; the organization of going concerns in societies that are
themselves going concerns; and the ...
An Original Institutionalist Approach to the Structure, Conduct, and Performance of the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Importance of Intangible Assets
(2016)
This dissertation presents an examination of the pharmaceutical industry with a
primary focus on the importance of intangible assets from the original institutional
economics perspective. This is done in three main ...
An Instrumental Approach to Full Employment: with Policy Implication
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2010)
here is an investigation of the theory of unemployment from a Keynesian perspective and a structuralist perspective. I will make an argument that these are two sides of the same coin. Using an input-output framework it will be shown how the ELR program...
Enhancing Development in the Saudi Renewable Energy Sector: A Promising Strategy for Job Creation and Economic Diversification
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Unemployment, a critical modern problem, has economic as well as social costs.
While its economic cost can be illustrated through the loss of the value of labor, its social
costs include divorce, addiction to illegal ...
Some Alternatives to Model Selection and New Approaches to Computing for the Economics. 12/6/2014
(2014)
This interdisciplinary dissertation in statistics, economics, and social science
methodology derives a methodological approach for economics from philosophical
principles, identi es barriers to its adoption, and presents ...
Development Theory and the Cold War: A Historical Analysis of Latin American Structuralism from 1930 to 1970
(2013)
Latin America has experimented with two different development strategies over the
last two centuries. First, and currently, an “outward-oriented” program based on
exports of primary commodities. Alternatively, for a few ...
Three Essays on China's Political Economy, Environmental Policy, and Green Job Guarantee
(2020)
This dissertation contributes to the study of the Chinese economy by elaborating China’s alternative economic system, examining the evolution of Chinese environmental policies, and proposing a Chinese Green Job Guarantee. Delineating China’s...