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Human Development As the Expansion of Work Capability: An Examination of Vietnam
(2020)
capability is dependent on individual educational attainment, the economic, social, and educational resources of the individual’s family, and the dynamics of capital. The dissertation calls for new formulas of human development measurement, for practical...
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...
Pediatric Lead Poisoning and The Built Environment in Kansas City, Missouri 2000-2013
(2021)
This study examines relationships between pediatric lead poisoning and the built environment. Focusing on Kansas City, Missouri between the years 2000 and 2013 this dissertation informs policy options and identifies under-explored lines of inquiry...
The Relationship Between Economic Growth and Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption Growth in Net Energy-Importing Emerging Economies
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This dissertation investigates the relationship between economic growth and fossil
fuel energy consumption through three interrelated chapters—each of which addresses a
facet of the relationship. The first chapter ...
Local Food and Economic Development
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
This dissertation examines the potential of local food as an economic development strategy in the United States. Using an interdisciplinary approach it traces the development of the local food movement within the broader ...
The historical transformation of indigenous and colonial institutions of Central Mexico: monetary and production systems
(2013)
Based on a critical analysis of the mainstream development discourse, the subaltern's
history, and hybrid theoretical models, this dissertation is focused on studying the
transformation of the Pre-Hispanic state and the ...
Exchange Rate Policy In Development Theories: To Fix Or To Float In The Case Of Nepal
(2014)
Nepalese currency is pegged with Indian currency since 1960s. Three basic
characteristics of Nepal-India relations have gone into the process of adjustment of exchange
rates (a) high trade openness with India, (b) high ...
A Spatial Theory of School Closure: An Examination of School Closure in America
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
This dissertation seeks to uncover the primary factors associated with public school closure in the United States during the five year period 2007 – 2012. Specifically, it addresses three questions related to school closures. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
The Political Economy of the Pacific Northwest: A Surplus Approach
(2015)
The dissertation is comprised of three independent essays. Each essay examines the process of qualitative change in the provisioning process from a different
vantage, while remaining fixed in relation to the Columbia ...