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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Economic organization"”.
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A study on the theory of international economic organization
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics and Engineering, 1951.
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Economic organization of public education in the United States
… to ascertain the relationship between structural organization and the output of public education in the fifty states. Three features of the SDEs' structure--method of selecting its members, hierarchy of divisions within the bureaucracy, and the degree of state centralization of financing--form a …
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The Economic Organization of Early Camelid Pastoralism in the Andean Highlands of Bolivia
… understanding the characteristics of its basic economic organization. The goal of this dissertation is to improve current understanding of the nature and development of early camelid pastoralism in the Andean highlands by testing a set of hypotheses related to the economic organization of the …
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The Mississippian Occupation of The Upper Kaskaskia Valley: Problems in Culture History and Economic Organization (Illinois, Ceramics)
… and studies of site distributions suggested an economic and settlement pattern which differed from the typical Middle Mississippi pattern. Hunting was focused on deer and elk with only minor use of fish and waterfowl. Maize agriculture was practiced at both sites, but no remains of beans or …
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The residual control roles of cooperative board of directors : a preliminary comparative analysis
The governance of economic organizations is complex. The theoretical and empirical literature on organizational governance implies that one form of governance mechanism functions the same for all economic organization, regardless of structure. This dissertation examines how the boards of directors, …
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Regional wage inequality in the United States furniture industry
… is strongly influenced by factors related to economic organization, and moderately influenced by labor market characteristics, urbanization, and product type; however, region provides the single best estimate of wages. Dividing the sample into South and non-South subsamples and constructing …
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An empirical study of ethnic linkages in Kenyan rural-urban migration
… labor-intensive techniques and traditional economic organization kept productivity low—and relocating it in an industrial setting, where capital could raise its productivity. Reflecting this perspective, observers of the pre-Independence African experience concentrated primarily on the issue …
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Essays on the law and economics of public institutions
… consists of three chapters on the legal and economic organization of large-scale public institutions. Each chapter uses the tools of applied microeconomics in order to explore how the legal and organizational structure of public institutions affects the behavior of actors inside and outside …
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Homo Oeconomicus Romanus
This study examines how economic activity and structures in the Roman Empire can be understood beyond modern economic models. It argues that concepts such as homo oeconomicus or purely market-centered approaches do not adequately capture the complexity of ancient economies. Instead, it emphasizes …
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Of First Principles & Organic Laws
… to the founding of the country and its political organization. Works concerning the foundation of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, the American War for Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the men involved in these events and creating these documents, are …
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Within and Against the Market: The Guatemalan Campesino Movement under Neoliberal Peace
… to neoliberalism, due to the political-economic context laid by the end of armed conflict. Second, a tally of land access in the post-conflict period suggests that the amount of land won through agrarian struggles such as historical land claims, rural labour disputes, and land …
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Prosperity and decline under the Qing : Yangzhou and its hinterland, 1644-1810
… with identifying the physical, social and economic characteristics of a particular Chinese city, Yangzhou, and with examining the nature of the relationship between this city and its hinterland. These questions are considered within the time frame provided by the growth and decline of …
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Prosperity and decline under the Qing : Yangzhou and its hinterland, 1644-1810
… with identifying the physical, social and economic characteristics of a particular Chinese city, Yangzhou, and with examining the nature of the relationship between this city and its hinterland. These questions are considered within the time frame provided by the growth and decline of …
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Gardens Are for Cash, Grain Is for Life: The Social Organization of Parallel Production Processes in a Rural Bamana Village (Mali)
… I present a case study of the social organization of agriculture in a rural Bamana community in central Mali. Research was conducted during 1992 and 1993-94 on the Manding Plateau. Using qualitative and quantitative data, I document a situation in which village residents use one …
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A discursive historical approach (DHA) to understanding South Africa's leadership aspirations in Africa: state exceptionalism and foreign policy under Mandela and Mbeki
… articulating the nations' model of political and economic organization as something worth exporting elsewhere. At often times, this influences the states' actions in Africa by creating a leadership-orientated foreign policy demeanour.
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The Afar Caravan Route: Insights into Aksumite (50 BCE-CE 900) Trade and Exchange from the Low Deserts to the North Ethiopian Plateau
… trade in subsistence commodities and the organization of trading networks. The restricted distribution of resources, ecological setting, and organizational requirements of the Afar Trade Route presented early Ethiopian agriculturalists and pastoralists with a unique set of options for …
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Self-Organizing Mechanisms for Task Allocation in a Knowledge-Based Economy
… the use of knowledge and technologies to produce economic benefits. Hence knowledge is both tool and raw material (people’s skill) for producing some kind of product or service. In this kind of environment economic organization is undergoing several changes. For example authority relations are …
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Reciprocal Technologies: Enabling the Reciprocal Exchange of Voice in Small-Scale Farming Communities through the Transformation of Information and Communications Technologies
… this dissertation is as follows: The hegemony of economic behaviors, which stands as a cornerstone of neoliberal capitalism, constitutes the latest stage of a historical process in which the voices of small-scale farmers seem to have been progressively and systematically silenced, their …