Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Economic Science"”.
-
Collaboration networks in economic science
… received little attention in academia, least in Economics where patterns of informal collaboration differ from that of natural sciences. Social informal collaboration, the provision of direct feedback, gives rise to a social network. This thesis examines this network. The analysis focuses on the …
-
A Critical analysis of the secondary school economic science curruculum
The economic sciences curriculum is supposed to equip learners with skills that would be readily recognised and acceptable to the corporate world. Yet it became obvious from the high unemployment rate of leamers with economic science background that the expected skills were less developed than …
-
Reinterpreting The Moral Economy – Building on the Economic Possibilities of Selflessness
… communities with shared values and practices of economic justice. Its reinterpreted form, which this dissertation has arrived at, reflects a social system realising the economic potential of selflessness, which economies above subsistence levels, and at any scale, have the capacity to evolve …
-
Empiricism versus apriorism in macroeconomic research : is the current research paradigm of economics inherently incapable of predicting recessions
… the crisis has raised the question of whether economics, as it is practiced today is capable of fulfilling its objectives of providing economic stability and growth. The basic premises of economic science, as well as the models used to describe macroeconomics and international trade have been …
-
L'azione economica tra etica e neurobiologia
… debate over the conflict between ethics and economics is often described as an epochal issue, an expression of present-day fragility, resulting from the implosion of the development model, which has characterised western society. The debate, however, exposes a paradox. Whilst, on the one …
-
Shadow Standards and the Logic of Costs: Care, Stewardship, and Data in U.S. Community Health
… into compliance. Through the lens of political economic, science and technology studies, and critical medical anthropologies, I identified how reimbursement models and government funding requirements redesigned under the 2010 Affordable Care Act obligate health care providers to reframe the care …
-
Ecological Regionalism: A Synthesis of Ecological Economics and Organicist Regionalism
To realize visions of regional ecological and economic sustainability—extant the ecological economics literature—a unified understanding and philosophy of the region is needed. Additionally, this philosophy needs to be institutionally informed; i.e. aware of the social structures that contribute to …
-
Do Perceptions of Inequality Negatively Affect Interpersonal Trust?
… and find that individual perceptions of socio-economic rank deviate from this measure of objective wealth. In line with the general conclusions in the literature, I find that perceived inequality has a negative effect on interpersonal trust and that individuals who believe that their living …
-
Firm-size and wages: a case study of the manufacturing sector in Zimbabwe
It has long been argued in the mainstream literature that workers in large firms earn higher wages than those in smaller firms. This phenomenon is recognised as an important puzzle that explains wage disparities in labour markets. This thesis analyses the link between firm size and wages in the …
-
Economic Measurement of Consumers and Firms: A Model Consistent Approach
… espoused as a guiding principle to balance the science and art of economic modelling. Striking a delicate balance between the theory and art of modelling is examined as a way to promote economics as a social science. This is accomplished by looking at more traditional approaches to economics, …
-
What we see through the scarcity lens
Economics today faces intense criticism for its supposedly flawed foundations and empirical failings. A popular strategy used to rebut these criticisms is to more tightly circumscribe the explanatory aims of the subject. Economists are, on this view, only trying to describe a specific part of the …
-
Contract Theory Framework for Wireless Networking
… are service providers in need of performing economic analysis on how to ensure third parties' cooperation or attract end-users. In the other way round, third parties or end-users need to evaluate the economic benefits of cooperating or using the services from different service providers. …
-
Un nuevo marco conceptual para el análisis electoral
… "underdeveloped" (Lijphart, 1985). The Political Science thinks this underdevelopment has been overcome thanks to certain contributions (Taagepera 1989 and Lijphart 1994, specially). In my opinion, the problem still persists. The reason is that all the academic contributions assume, probably …
-
THE ECONOMICS DISCIPLINE AND PROFESSION AND U.S. POWER IN CHILE (1930s-1990s)
This dissertation examines the development of the economics discipline and profession in Chile from the 1930s to the 1990s, shedding light on the intersections between state behavior, foreign and economic policies, university influence and the academic knowledge they produced, and non-governmental …
-
Fiscal Sovereignty: Reconfigurations of Value and Citizenship in Post-Financial Crisis Argentina
… individualism shared by neo-classical economic science and Anglo-American citizenship theory, and the relational and recursive nature of monetary value, which exceeds, and cannot be encompassed by, the languages of market exchange and the social contract. The first chapter is a …
-
Felsővezetők diszpozición keresztül módosítható a gazdálkodási gyakorlat - újraszocializáció révén az implicit öko-fenntarthatóság felé = Business Practice can be Changed via the Dispositions of Executives: Re-socialization towards Implicit Eco-sustainability
… – beyond the rules preferred by mainstream economic science – seem to describe business reality equally well. These regularities are the dispositions, as well as the history and the experiences of a community. I have used narrative interviews to detect (interpret) dispositions belonging to …
-
Extreme Terres of Anthropocene
… how the great environmental, social, and economic changes the entire Earth System is undergoing are manifested in borderline contexts. Therefore, most ordinary human landscapes cannot be attributed to a single person. No one can be labelled for the responsibility of creating most ordinary …