Browsing Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Department "Economics (UMKC)"
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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 ... -
Income Inequality, Household Borrowing, and the Business Cycle
(2020)Over the thirty years preceding 2008, the United States has experienced increasing income inequality while transitioning to a consumption-led economy. This dissertation investigates the foundations of the 2008 recession ... -
Institution: The Control of Social Perception—Toward a Theory of Minority-Directed Institutional Change
(2015)This dissertation seeks to make progress toward a theory of minority-directed institutional change. It begins with a review of research on urban sociology and how, despite tremendous technological and legal change, the ... -
An Instrumental Approach to Full Employment: with Policy Implication
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2010)The study proposes that in order to assure full employment, policy measures must address both Keynesian unemployment, and unemployment caused by structural and technological change. It is possible to attain full employment ... -
Labor Market Outcomes and Employment Policy
(2020)The first chapter contains an empirical analysis of labor market outcomes. Using the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages microdata, individual labor market experiences are tracked over time. Not only is the employment ... -
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 ... -
A medicare benefit expansion: inpatient clinical and economic outcomes in deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011-07-08)Background: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, (CMS) implements National Coverage Decisions (NCD) to expand access or eliminate regional reimbursement differences. Policymakers may estimate clinical and economic ... -
Modern money theory and ecological tax reform: a functional finance approach to energy conservation
(2013)This dissertation contributes to heterodox economics by developing a theoretical and policy-relevant link that will promote the conservation of energy while driving the value of the domestic currency. The analysis relies ... -
Monetary Policies for Full Employment and Price Stability in Saudi Arabia: An Endogenous Money Approach
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Despite being a relatively young and prosperous country, Saudi Arabia has recently suffered from substantial rises in unemployment. This dissertation thus examines the root causes for the rise in unemployment and limited ... -
Money, Work, and Mass Extinction: Transformational Degrowth and the Job Guarantee
(2020)This dissertation is composed of three independent essays. Each essay traces social and ecological crises to capitalist institutions and proposes how a job guarantee (JG) can be adapted to resolve them in the context of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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)Tracing the origins of money in archaic Greece (roughly 900-500 BC) and ancient Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, this thesis assesses the applicability of Chartalist and Metallist theories of money's origins. It ... -
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 ... -
The Political Economy of Agriculture and the Social Economy of Local Sustainable Agriculture in Kansas City
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)This dissertation contributes to heterodox economics by presenting a unique heterodox economics approach, utilizing aspects of heterodox surplus approach, Post Keynesian, Institutional, feminist, and ecological economics. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Pricing, price stability, and post Keynesian price theory
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-15)This dissertation contributes to heterodox microeconomics by building a comprehen- sive and coherent theoretical system for price cyclicality and stability since they are under-theorized issues in both neoclassical and ... -
The Production of Space, Place, and Food: The Ecology of Money and the Emergence of Transformative Circuits of Money Capital
(2015-08-04)This dissertation argues that Henri Lefebvre’s (1991) The Production of Space expresses a theoretical blueprint for the construction of an interdisciplinary approach to social science that integrates political economy, ... -
Racial residential segregation in the Kansas City area: a comparative study between Blacks and Hispanics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-01)There is considerable literature on racial residential segregation but there are few examples that examine similarities and differences between two ethnic groups within an urban area. Racial residential segregation among ...