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Desegregation at Kansas City's Central High School: Illuminating the African American student experience through oral history
(2014-07-17)
Central High School, the oldest high school in Kansas City, serves as an example of how radically education in Kansas City, Missouri, has changed over the course of the last 150 years. Beginning as part of Kansas City, ...
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 Risk of Recidivism and the Positive Achievement Change Tool Pre-Screen (PACT-PS): An Initial Validation and Basic Program Implementation Evaluation
(2014-04-02)
The juvenile justice system has long been challenged to provide security for communities, while also providing treatment and sanctioning youthful offenders. This task includes the process of determining which offenders ...
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 ...
Capitalism, ecological destruction and mainstream environmental economic theory: a radical critique
(2014-07-18)
This dissertation contributes to heterodox environmental economics by providing a
unique and thorough critique of mainstream environmental economic theory. This
dissertation draws on insights developed by radical political ...
A Post-Keynesian/Structuralist Strategy for Economic Development
(2014-04-01)
There are two distinct traditions that have widely different views on the fundamental problem of economic development. This dissertation makes a contribution to the tradition known as the Scarcity in the Midst of Plenty ...