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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Social Efficiency"”.
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Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal Liability Insurance (Environmental Economics)
This thesis examines the social efficiency of nuclear power when the risks of accidental releases of spent fuel radionuclides from a spent fuel disposal facility are considered. The analysis consists of two major parts. First, a theoretical economic model of the use of nuclear power including the …
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Optimal Freight Service Quality and Implications for Economic Analysis, Inventory-Theoretic Shipper Cost Functions and Run-Through Train Operations
… does not include payments to the carrier. This social efficiency criterion, termed "quality efficiency", is addressed via three research foci.
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Reconceiving curriculum: an historical approach
… a society, thereby offering an intellectual and social history that is highly selective. Wittgenstein’s concept of “language-games” offers curricularists a way to re-include some of these stories. The concept of curriculum emerges at the end of the Renaissance from Peter Ramus’s refinement of the …
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Hyperpedagogy: Intersections among poststructuralist hypertext theory, critical inquiry, and social justice pedagogies
Hyperpedagogy seeks to actualize social justice pedagogies and poststructuralist theorizing in digitally enhanced and online learning environments. Hyperpedagogy offers ways to incorporate transactional pedagogies into digital curricula so that learners throughout the United States' pluralistic …
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Faculty Perceptions Of The Purpose And Value Of General Education: A Comparison Between The Liberal Arts And Health Professions
… equality and health professions through social efficiency.</p>
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Parallel Progressivist Orientations: Exploring the Meanings of Progressive Education in Two Ontario Journals, The School and The Canadian School Journal, 1919-1942
… developmental psychology; the second concerned social efficiency and industrial order; the third concerned social meliorism and cooperation. Hence, I draw not only on three different domains of progressivist rhetoric, but also on three distinct orientations to reform. What emerges is a …
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"It's Like Professional Food": Sustaining Urban Educators Through Service-Learning
… and practices that emphasize competition and social efficiency rather than more holistic understandings of education as a civic and social good. Findings show how and why urban educators’ professional and personal commitments are intertwined with beliefs about social justice and democracy. …
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Three essays on economics of rehypothecation
… choices of rehypothecation may not achieve a socially optimal outcome. The direction of the conflict between the objectives of the intermediary and social efficiency depends on haircuts of the contract between the intermediary and the borrower; if the contract involves over-collateralization, …
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Essays on auctions, contests, and games
… I then suggest simple design changes to improve social surplus but find that many of these socially beneficial design changes would in fact reduce DOD profits. Chapter 2, which is joint with James Roberts and Andrew Sweeting, studies the benefits of regulating entry into procurement auctions, …