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Redefining the Economy: how the 'economy' was invented 1620
… as a poor indicator of economic growth. In this thesis I argue that any proposed alternative for GDP cannot effect change, because GDP is not an indicator. Instead GDP is our definition of the economy, which I argue by presenting the history of how we have measured the economy through national …
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Candidates, the economy and voting behavior
… but related essays on political behavior. The first essay, “Candidate Evaluation and Negative Partisanship: Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election"", builds on existing literature arguing that candidates are playing more and more important roles in elections, but at the same time …
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The state and the economy in Ghana
This thesis examines Ghana's failed attempt to develop in an interpretative model of a political economy of decline. The definition of political economy in this thesis stresses the factors influencing decision-making, particularly,the conflicts and power of the interest groups controlling the …
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Air transportation in the economy of Canada
"It is my aim to show in this thesis that air transportation is an important and shining facet on our economy and it should be given wholehearted support by both the general public and government."
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A study of the economy of locomotives
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1929.
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Essays on Fertility and the Economy in Venezuela
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between fertility rates and the economy in Venezuela. In particular, it looks at the extreme fluctuations in oil revenues, Venezuela's main source of income, in the 1970s and their impact on fertility. It uses the 1998 National Survey …
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The Economy and Workplace Safety: Evidence from the Macro-Level
… to improve workplace safety, every year within the United States there remain over three million occupational injuries that occur on the job. To better understand these costly safety outcomes, I utilized a novel stressor, economic stress (Catalano & Dooley, 1983), to develop a cross-level …
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The energy transition and the economy : a system dynamics approach
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1982.
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HAYEK AND RAWLS : THE LIMIT OF STATE INTERVENTION IN THE ECONOMY
This thesis aims to compare the views of Hayek and Rawls on the question of the limit of proper state intervention in the economy. Their views are often thought to be totally different and hence incompatible. In comparing and contrasting their views, it is found that while it is true that Hayek and …
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The Economy of Preventive Maintenance of Concrete Bridges Due to Corrosion
<p>The current practice for physical evaluation and delayed maintenance of deteriorated concrete bridge is fundamentally wrong. This research presents a new approach for the evaluation of the condition states of steel reinforced concrete bridge members, which is based on their chemical conditions …
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Crime and the economy of makeshifts: Kent and Oxfordshire 1830-1885
This thesis examines the link between legislative reforms, crime and the makeshift strategies that the poor used to support their households in the Medway basin and rural districts in north Oxfordshire between 1830 and 1885. In short, this thesis considers whether the poor relied on different …
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The Impact of Minimum Wage Legislation on The Economy of Mississippi
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T19:31:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6500799.pdf: 13007728 bytes, checksum: cc0279f6d41ad0de0b65bde99ea3c9b8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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Feeding Rome : innovation in the economy of the Roman grain supply
Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History Section, May, 2020
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The role of mining in the economy of South West Africa/ Namibia
While compiling the national accounts for SWA/Namibia over the past seven years my interest was drawn to the overwhelming impact mining has on the country's overall economic activity. This tempted me to make a study of the contribution of mining to the economic development of SWA/Namibia. This …
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Commerce and coexistence: Muslims in the economy and society of Norman Sicily.
Sicily in the eleventh and twelfth centuries had a Muslim population under the control of Latin Christian conquerors. This dissertation aims to assess the economic role that these Muslims played in Norman Sicily, and how that economic role tied them into the society of Norman Sicily in general. …
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Corporate social responsibility in all sectors of the economy: towards responsible macrobehaviour
… Social Responsibility in all Sectors of the Economy’ wants to show that CSR should be practiced in all the sectors of the economy and not only in large corporations. The ‘all’ in the title is intended to say that CSR should be extended to public administration whose social responsibility …
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Measurement of the Credit Card Augmented Monetary Service Flows in the Economy
… and demand deposit. Microeconomic aggregation theory and index number theory measure service flows and thereby provide a theoretical basis to aggregate jointly over credit card services and monetary services to produce our new Augmented Divisia Monetary Aggregates. Whether services are produced …
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