Browsing Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Department "Social Science Consortium (UMKC)"
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How Religious Narratives and Rituals Function in Constructing the Experience of Immigrants Within the Context of a Haitian Baptist Church in South Florida
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)This dissertation examines how religious narratives and rituals function in constructing the experience of immigrants within the context of a Haitian Baptist church in South Florida. The church and its contexts are ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
The Role of Catholic Social Theory in Economic Policy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)This dissertation examines Catholic Social Theory (CST) in the context of its relationship to and impact on economic policy. CST emerged formally in the latter part of the nineteenth century in response to social changes ... -
Simulating Urban Landscape Transformation: Implications for Urban Wetlands at Multiple Scales
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)Urban landscape change simulation has received increasing attention in recent times. As a result, many studies have focused on various aspects of land change simulation, ranging from uncertainty of input data to model ... -
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 ... -
Soy El Primero: First-Generation Latino/a College Students' Experiences of Acculturative Stress and Coping Response in College
(2019)First-generation Latino/a student enrollment in U.S. Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) is increasing. However, first-generation Latino/a students' ability to persist and graduate from PWIs has been and continues to ... -
Three Essays at the Intersection of Social Theory and Political Economy
(2022)This study revisits classic questions of political economy through an interdisciplinary lens, wedding the insights of modern social theory with heterodox political economy. The first chapter synthesizes the economic and ... -
Three essays on Platform Capitalism and its alternative
(2023)This dissertation delves into the intricate landscape of platform capitalism and its multifaceted relationship with labor dynamics, bringing forth a nuanced understanding of the evolving economic terrain. The first ... -
Towards a Heterodox Theory of Income Distribution
(2015)The present study seeks to examine a number of important questions in the theory of income distribution from a heterodox economic perspective, an approach to economic theory that is inherently interdisciplinary. The ... -
Unfolding Untapped Stories: A Narrative Inquiry of Teachers' Experiences of Working With Students Who Have Faced Trauma or Traumatic Events.
(2021)The purpose of this narrative inquiry is to understand the teachers’ experiences of working with students who have faced trauma or traumatic events. The number of children facing trauma exposures to violence, crime, and ... -
Urban Riparian Areas: Ecological And Streamside-Ordinance Assessments
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)Streamside protection ordinances have been established in many urbanizing areas; however, there has been a paucity of assessments of the effectiveness of such ordinances. A quantitative assessment of the ecological ... -
Urban runoff simulation and prediction: How do land use and land cover change patterning and geospatial data quality impact model outcome?
(2020)With the increase in global urbanization, satellite imagery and other types of geospatial data have been extensively used in urban landscape change research, which includes environmental modeling in order to assess the ... -
Wetland landscape dynamics and its socio-ecological implications
(2021)The dynamics on the earth landscape impact both the biotic and abiotic components. One of the abiotic components of the landscape are wetlands, whose terrestrial part is also serving as a habitat for many biotic components. ...