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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Heterodox"”.
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Towards a Heterodox Theory of Income Distribution
… in the theory of income distribution from a heterodox economic perspective, an approach to economic theory that is inherently interdisciplinary. The primary questions concern the Cambridge critique of orthodox economics, the classical/Marxian theory of wage determination, a synthesis of …
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A Heterodox Analysis of International Exchange and Employment Policies
… The aim of this thesis is to analyze three heterodox approaches to the international trade, exchange rates, prices and employment policies, and try to find a path to the solution of the refugee crisis. The Institutional and Post-Keynesian approaches, the Modern Monetary Theory and the …
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The Social Movement World(s) of UK Heterodox Economics: Constitution, Aims and Practices
… grounded, social-scientific account of UK heterodox economics. It does so by addressing three central questions: (1) How is UK heterodox economics constituted in discourse and in practice? (2) What does UK heterodox economics aim to achieve? and (3) How do these aspirations translate into …
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Location Choice, Linkages and the Spatial Economy: Essays on Theory, Evidence and Heterodox Assessment
The essays in this dissertation represent theoretical and empirical contributions to urban economics and regional science, focusing on the growing importance of nonmarket interactions. There is increasing evidence that the process of globalization is rendering the world "spiky" rather than "flat". …
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Medical and professional homoeopathy in the UK: a study of tensions in a heterodox healthcare profession
Homoeopathic practitioners in the United Kingdom can be divided into two groups,those with medical qualifications and those without, professional homoeopaths. This study examines these two groups to discover how they practise homoeopathy and why. Also examined are any tensions that may exist, both …
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Pricing, price stability, and post Keynesian price theory
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 heterodox microeconomics. In par- ticular, it develops an empirically grounded …
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A Quack on Trial: Advertising and Education in Missouri's Medical Marketplace, 1850--1890
… Galen Bishop was a successful heterodox physician who utilized advertising to attract patients from across the state. Both professional association membership and entrepreneurial advertising were strategic reactions to an increasingly competitive market economy for medical …
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The making of a new South African craft : township craft and development discourse in post-apartheid Cape Town
… practices in Cape Town's craft scene. A heterodox research design is adopted, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's ideas on cultural production, notions of authenticity, representation and the modern/traditional dichotomy as well as thoughts on the making of a New South African identity. This is …
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Issues of identity and individuality in quantum mechanics
… In Chapter 7, I investigate and build on recent heterodox proposals by Ghirardi, Marinatto and Weber about the most natural concept of entanglement, and by Zanardi about the idea of a natural decomposition of an assembly. In Chapter 8, I appraise the first of my two heterodox proposals for the …
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Chaucer’s Lists and the Parson’s Priests: Heresy, Censorship, and The Parson's Tale
… elsewhere in the <em>Canterbury Tales</em> and heterodox features of the sermon itself. The Parson’s soteriology—the theology of how to attain salvation—invites consideration of the sermon’s potential influence from the contemporary heretical movement known as Lollardy, including the theology of …
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UN FILOSOFO TRA I DOMENICANI. FILOSOFIA, TEOLOGIA E CONTESTI INTELLETTUALI IN ROLANDO DA CREMONA
… of philosophy against heresies and forms of heterodox thought.
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The political economy of co-ordination challenges in the National Health Service: a postpositivist evaluation of diabetes policy and governance
… by combining postpositivist policy analysis with heterodox political economy. Postpositivist policy analysis recognises that policy problems are often contested, that choices between policy options can involve significant trade-offs and that knowledge of policy options is itself dispersed and …
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Institutions, the State, and Economic Development: An Analysis and Evaluation of Ha-Joon Chang's Critique of the Dominant Discourse and His Thoughts on State-Led Development Theory
… them, are the primary driver of economic growth. Heterodox economists, led by prominent author and economist Ha-Joon Chang, acknowledge institutions play an important role in inducing economic activity but challenge the notion institutions are the <em>primary</em> driver of development. They argue …
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Systems Economics: Bringing complexity into post-Keynesian economics to address the 21st Century’s problems
… economic growth. However, current mainstream and heterodox economic theories have proved ineffective at understanding the key mechanisms involved in growth. This thesis builds on three existing strands of heterodox theory to develop a framework for macroeconomic analysis that is aimed specifically …
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Defending Christianity in China: the Jesuit defense of Christianity in the lettres edifiantes et Curieuses & Ruijianlu in relation to the Yongzheng proscription of 1724
… 1724 imperial edict proscribed the religion as a heterodox cult. The Jesuits' strategy is traceable to Matteo Ricci's early missionary approach of accommodation to Chinese culture, which aimed to prove grounds for a Confucian-Christian synthesis based upon complementary points between Christian …
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Nala as Nara, Raja, & Yudhisthira: Masculinity, Kingship, & Dharmic Suffering in the Nalopakhyana
… to the rise and popularity of contemporary, heterodox ascetic movements such as Buddhism. I further argue that Nala provides valuable insights into how such strategies were used to invert and redeploy ascetic ideals of suffering and salvation, most notably in the character of Yudhisthira. To …
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Government Bailouts : from the perspective of the Austrian School
… economic prosperity from the perspective of the heterodox Austrian School of economics. Proponents of the school see economics as the science of the logical implications which can be inferred from the ultimate given of human action. They also object to use of broad economic aggregates such as GDP …
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Phenomenological Pragmatism: Freedom as the Immanent Transcendence of Desire in John Dewey
… It offers a constructive criticism and a new heterodox phenomenological method based on the works of John Dewey, Thomas Alexander, and Victor Kestenbaum.
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The Role of Private International Financial Capital Flows in Support of Development for Emerging Market Countries
… thesis explores the perspectives of orthodox and heterodox economists on the impact of international financial capital flows from both a theoretical as well as empirical perspective. The pace of financial globalization and innovation challenges institutions and policymakers in increasingly complex …
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Employment generation programs and long term development- the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
… been taken including Marxian, post colonial and heterodox economic approaches like Keynesian and Kaleckian economics.
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