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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Economic control"”.
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Economic control and urban growth.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Colonial Policing in Nigeria: British Tactics of Economic Control and the Hypocrisy of Order, 1900-1930
… the police’s lesser-known role in regulating economic activities through threats and collective punishments. Additionally, the research highlights how Britain, as a capitalist empire, reflected its culture of racial superiority through the organization and operations of its police force. As a …
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The Green Table: Gambling Casinos, Capitalist Culture, and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… produced new claims of elite political and economic control and a willingness to use leisure activities like gambling to legitimize positions of power. The tension between this emerging ruling class and the radical social mobility on display at casinos helped define the unique mixture of …
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Studies of the toxicity and phytotoxicity of two soil applied granulated systemic insecticides
Control of aphids on agricultural crops can be obtained by various cultural practices, but insecticides figure prominently in most programmes aimed at obtaining economic control of aphid species which are persistent virus vectors. A recent advance in insecticide formulations has been the …
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The economic effects of surface transport deregulation
… during the regulatory transition. In general, economic regulation has led to net social benefits. This thesis will discuss the origin of transportation regulation and the forces for regulatory reform. The effects of the removal of economic control are assessed. It also examines the issues …
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Decentralized utilization incentives in electronic cash
… Incentives to utilize resource may stimulate economic growth. However, the asymmetry of economic control and potential abuses of power implicit in centralized systems may be undesirable. An electronic cash design may be able to create resource utilization incentives via decentralized …
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The effectiveness of rabbit control on selected North Canterbury farms
… aspects of the effectiveness of present rabbit control practices and organization. The text reviews the introduction and establishment of the rabbit in New Zealand and describes the rabbit's status as an agricultural pest. The history of rabbit control policy and methods are discussed with …
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Resource nationalism in Southern Africa : ethnic control and political ideology
… have played. It explores whether minority ethnic economic control is more important than political ideology in driving calls for nationalisation of mining. For each country case, I set out a detailed historical analysis of the political and policy provisions made since independence from colonial …
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The Potosi-Cobija route: archaeology of colonial transportation in the south Central Andes
… is used to discuss the modern European imperial economic control of peripheral regions. In the case of the Spanish Empire, the characteristics of mercantilism and expectations about imperialism suggested a centralized control over the flow of silver to Spain, an important reorganization of …
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Beyond the Biological: William Beebe, the Bronx Zoo, and U.S. Biological Field Stations in British Guiana
… how these early field stations were tied to the economic desires of U.S. businessmen working in British Guiana during what Greg Grandin and other historians have called the “second conquest” of Latin America by U.S. industrialists. The onslaught of U.S. corporate entities operating in South …
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Productivity and competition in the U.S. trucking industry since deregulation
… regulatory structure that had exercised broad economic control over the industry for over four decades. Changes in the industry were swift and extensive. This thesis returns to the transformational period encompassing the deregulatory and post-deregulatory years. Using the Motor Carrier Annual …
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British Foreign Policy Under Canning
… America, helping to ensure a century of British economic control of the region. The final crisis centered on the Greek uprising against their Ottoman rulers. Canning remained neutral for much of the conflict. Yet when Russia seemed on the verge of war, Canning worked to intervene with Russia and …
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British Foreign Policy Under Canning
… America, helping to ensure a century of British economic control of the region. The final crisis centered on the Greek uprising against their Ottoman rulers. Canning remained neutral for much of the conflict. Yet when Russia seemed on the verge of war, Canning worked to intervene with Russia and …
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Impact of Ethnic Conflict on Development: A Case Study of Guyana
… framework, from the dominant political and economic theories, for explaining the feeble and relatively slow pace of development of an ethnically divided, resource rich country.</p> <p>The study, using primary and secondary sources, empirical evidence, and interpretive analysis, examines the …
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Remote Control: Art, Technology, and the Politics of Distance (1966-1972)
… Happenings in Berlin and Buenos Aires: remote control promised thrills as postwar artists experimented with technologies of distance. Focused on the half-decade between 1966 and 1972, this thesis intervenes in the history of art and technology to argue that a desire to activate the supposedly …
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The revenge of the Bantamese : factors for change in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 1930-1978
… During most of that time, he had been in control of the economic destiny of the Cocos Malays of Horne Island. The Australian media had called him the "King of Cocos", but his political authority over the Islanders had been eroded over several years by the increasing involvement of the …
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The revenge of the Bantamese : factors for change in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 1930-1978
… During most of that time, he had been in control of the economic destiny of the Cocos Malays of Horne Island. The Australian media had called him the "King of Cocos", but his political authority over the Islanders had been eroded over several years by the increasing involvement of the …
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The mirror and the square : a study of ideology within contemporary art systems with special reference to the American avant-garde in the period 1933-1953
… artists as well as a form of ideological control. This control was vested in what has been called the specifics of patronage and is reflected in the establishment of the Arts Council in Britain and the private art museums in the United States. Changes in the art market have meant that, …
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Ezekiel 26 as a Case Study for Interpreting Problematic Prophecy
… against Tyre was successful in reducing Tyre’s economic control over the Levant, thus judging Tyre for its economic exploitation of Israel in the wake of Jerusalem’s destruction, even if Tyre’s destruction did not occur in literal accordance with the prophet’s words. Alternate abstract: Esta …
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