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Lepont, Ulrike. "Façonner les politiques aux marges de l'Etat : le rôle des experts dans les réformes de la protection maladie aux Etats-Unis (1970-2010)." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014MON10066.

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Aux Etats-Unis, le nombre de think tanks, cabinets de conseil et autres centres d’expertise publique rattachés à des universités ou des fondations n’a cessé d’augmenter depuis les années 1970. A partir du cas des politiques de protection maladie, cette thèse montre le développement, à travers cette nébuleuse d’institutions, d’experts spécialisés dans un domaine d’action publique qui, sur plusieurs décennies, ont accumulé compétences, savoirs et influence et qui jouent un rôle clé dans l’élaboration des programmes et des instruments de réforme dans ce secteur. Associant une analyse microsociolo

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Wishart, William. "Underdeveloping Appalachia: Toward an Environmental Sociology of Extractive Economies." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18414.

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This dissertation uses mixed methods to examine the role of the coal industry in the reproduction of Central Appalachia as an internal periphery within the United States and the economic, ecological, and human inequalities this entails. It also analyzes the related political economy and power structure of coal in a national context. Particularly important for analysis of the region's underdevelopment are the class relations involved in unequal ecological exchange and the establishment of successive "modes of extraction." I employ a historical comparative analysis of Appalachia to evaluate B

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Stephens, Elizabeth. "United States policy towards Israel : the politics, sociology, economics & strategy of commitment." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2003. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2117/.

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The rationale for Washington's enduring and often forbearing commitment to Israel has long been a puzzle. During the Cold War it was argued that Israel, a "bastion of democracy" amidst a world of semi-authoritarian and often pro-Soviet states, was a natural ally. But the Cold War is over, and the Arab world awash with oil, a resource that is always in short supply in the US. Yet the American commitment to Israel, a small state that is largely oil free, and of little tangible economic benefit, remains. An alternative view is that the US commitment is underwritten by the Jewish lobby which exerc

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Kamwendo, Zara Thokozani. "Heuristics and biases to behavioural economics : a sociology of a psychology of error." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25831.

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This thesis is a sociological history of the making of behavioural economics. Behavioural economics is a discipline in which economists draw on psychological knowledge and approaches to understand economic behaviour. The narrative begins with the lives and work of psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in the newly established state of Israel. It then moves from the making of the so called Heuristics and Biases Programme in the 1970’s to the privately funded Behavioural Economics Program in the USA in the 1980’s. Using a blend of analysis of archival documents, published material, and

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Carmeli, Yoram. "Family and economics in an English circus 1975-1979." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283183.

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Lebaron, Frédéric. "Les économistes français entre science et politique : contribution à une sociologie de la culture économique." Paris, EHESS, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996EHES0053.

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On tente de mettre en evidence les conditions de la genese et la structure d'un champ de production culturelle particulier a une forte dependance economique et politique. Pour cela sont successivement etudies les fondements sociaux de la forma espece definie de capital scolaire, l'espace des positions des economistes francais contemporains, la reproduction de le propres, et enfin la logique de leurs prises de position scientifiques et politiques. La premiere transformation a l'ori producteurs de discours economiques en france depuis une trentaine d'annees, etudiee dans une premiere partie, est

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Gonçalves, Carlos Manuel. "Emergência e consolidação dos economistas em Portugal." Tese, Porto : [s.n.], 1998. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000066834.

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O objecto central deste trabalho circunscreve-se ao equacionamento da emergência e consolidação da profissão de economista em Portugal. De modo mais preciso, pretende-se obter respostas para uma questão global: qual a dinâmica, a forma e o encadeamento temporal que caracterizam a construção social dos economistas? Desenvolveu-se uma análise alicerçada numa abordagem construtivista sobre o social. Abordagem que induz ao estudo das profissões como construídos socio-históricos. Por outro lado, perspectivamos a construção social da profissão de economista como resultante da conjugação de plurais p

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Gonçalves, Carlos Manuel. "Emergência e consolidação dos economistas em Portugal." Doctoral thesis, Porto : [s.n.], 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/10689.

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O objecto central deste trabalho circunscreve-se ao equacionamento da emergência e consolidação da profissão de economista em Portugal. De modo mais preciso, pretende-se obter respostas para uma questão global: qual a dinâmica, a forma e o encadeamento temporal que caracterizam a construção social dos economistas? Desenvolveu-se uma análise alicerçada numa abordagem construtivista sobre o social. Abordagem que induz ao estudo das profissões como construídos socio-históricos. Por outro lado, perspectivamos a construção social da profissão de economista como resultante da conjugação de plurais p

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Brayford, Josephine Ann. "The new economics of community : local exchange and trading schemes (LETS)." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2482.

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Research into LETS has concentrated on the structural, economic and political dimensions of LETS involvement. In this context, LETS have often been portrayed as a solution to the problem of social exclusion. This thesis, however, suggests that involvement in LETS is more to do with communal sociability, and consequently has devoted attention to the ways in which community was created and maintained through LETS involvement. The thesis reports on a study of the communal activities of members from Kingsbridge and Yeovil LETS. The analyses are based on data derived from a questionnaire survey, se

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Ma, Lawrence K. "Gratitude and prosociality : a behavioural economics and psychometric perspective." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39203/.

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We feel gratitude—a positive emotion upon receiving an undeserved benefit which is attributable to the givers’ benevolent intent (Watkins, 2007, 2014). Meanwhile, indebtedness symbolises an unpleasant mental state which is also triggered by benefit receipts (Greenberg, 1980). Theories and empirical evidence in the literature have highlighted how gratitude and indebtedness each relates to prosociality (or sanctioning), and importantly, how via different routes these two constructs will elicit cooperativeness. Nonetheless, there is still a gap in the literature on how gratitude and indebtedness

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Button, Kirsty Allen. "Household economies of low-income, African female-headed households in Khayelitsha: intergenerational support, negotiation and conflict." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22841.

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Low-income, African female-headed households represent a large segment of households in South Africa. Despite this, little is known about how financial and non-financial resources are provided, controlled and used within these households. Less is known about how these dynamics shape intergenerational relationships and positions of power within female-headed households. This thesis aims to contribute to a better understanding of these issues by examining how the household economies of fourteen low-income, African female-headed households in Khayelitsha operated on a day-to-day basis. It also so

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Clark, Brian Christopher. "Economics Majors are from Mars...Modeling Major Choice and the Gender Gap for Economics at Miami." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1272056844.

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Gesser, Chad. "Neoliberalism and NAFTA: A Case Study of the Coffee Commodity System and Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico." TopSCHOLAR®, 1997. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/778.

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In the Western Hemisphere global capitalism and regional trading blocks have become more pronounced with the passing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). I examine the impacts of the neoliberal changes prior to and after the implementation of NAFTA in the community of Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico. World-systems analysis is the theoretical outline. The global commodity chains approach is used to examine the coffee commodity system that links the United States and Mexico. This thesis includes qualitative and quantitative data that were developed from fieldwork research in Mexico and

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Chan, Penny Yan Yan. "The economic role of Szechwan in Sung times (A.D. 960-1279): The case of the tea and horse exchange." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185331.

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This is an historical survey of the economic role of Szechwan during Sung times (A.D. 960-1279). The tea and horse exchange was taken as a case to test the thesis that the economic policies implemented in Szechwan by the Sung government were a means to strengthen its defensive power. Although this is not an exploratory study on the role of the tea and horse exchange during Sung times, this study attempts to present its operation in a new and realistic perspective. Modern Western and Chinese scholars share the viewpoint that the expansion of the Sung to Szechwan was based upon an imperialistic

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Brislen, Lilian. "IN THE BUTTERNUT BIG TIME: FOOD HUBS, FARMERS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY AGRO-FOOD ECONOMIES." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/sociology_etds/34.

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Food hubs, a new model of values-based agro-food enterprise, are promoted by their advocates as a means to simultaneously improve the livelihoods of small and mid-sized farmers, increase the social and environmental sustainability of the food system, and supply the ever increasing consumer demand for health, local food. Noting the contradictions embedded in the promise of simultaneously generating both social values and economic value, this study explores how goals of promoting positive social, economic, or environmental change are achieved and/or inhibited when implemented though marketbased

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Passewitz, Gregory R. "Social Exchange Theory and Volunteer Organizations: Patterns of Participation in Four Environmental/Natural Resource Organizations." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392653996.

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Bensouda, Mhamed. "The impact of policy changes on irrigated agriculture in Morocco: the case of Tadla." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1412936215.

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Hill, Nicolette. "If It Isn't Broke, Don't Fix It - Evidence of Financial Socialization of Children." Thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10260182.

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<p> This study examines the role of financial socialization in low-income Hispanic households in order to determine if there was evidence of the transmission of values about behaviors such a saving and searching for the cheapest price from parent to child. This aim was achieved by generating measures for time and goods socialization and by making the assumption that when a parent and child share analogous financial attitudes, this provides evidence for the presence of financial socialization. A failure to match indicates otherwise. The empirical results from multinomial logit and probit models

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Cruz, Dulce Márcia. "A RBS em Santa Catarina : estrategias politicas, economicas e culturais na conquista do mercado televisivo regional." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1994. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/76086.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-16T07:12:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2016-01-08T19:08:35Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 94317.pdf: 9545549 bytes, checksum: 6db7d44d33ea018b816a9675bffe315d (MD5)<br>Nesta dissertação analisamos as estratégias políticas, econômicas e culturais que levaram a Rede Brasil Sul de Comunicações, a RBS, da família gaúcha Sirotsky, a conquistar a liderança entre as emissoras de televisão catarinense, entre 1979 e 1992. Como estratégia de implemen

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Ross, Lauren Marie. "The Institutionalization of Homeownership in Emerging Economies: A Case Study of Peru." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/402180.

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Sociology<br>Ph.D.<br>This dissertation explores the ways in which housing markets based on mortgage-backed homeownership develop in an emerging economy. This is a case study of the institutions, actors, and financial practices at play. It contributes to the debates in the areas of the financialization of housing, the production of urban space, and economic globalization. I focus on developments in Peru from 1990-2014. During this period Peru’s national government implemented the country’s first major housing policy, which focused solely on the provision of homeownership and more specifically,

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Biscouto, Eduardo Luiz. "Neoliberalismo e regulação de mercado, uma análise a partir da nova sociologia econômica." Florianópolis, SC, 2007. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/90246.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia Política.<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-23T07:38:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 242824.pdf: 2299925 bytes, checksum: 2102d58f298513e380d959a0eb4c7549 (MD5)<br>O objetivo deste trabalho é fazer uma análise da utilização da sociologia como instrumento de exame dos fenômenos econômicos. A discussão sobre a regulação de mercado perpassa não somente questões práticas, mas também teóricas. Ao longo dos últimos duzentos e cinqüenta anos, o ambiente

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Visconti, Virginia A. "Parents' wishes and children's choices an ethnographic study of rural household economies and formal schooling in a northern Vietnamese commune /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3240039.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Anthropology and School of Education, 2006.<br>"Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 16, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-10, Section: A, page: 3877. Adviser: Thomas A. Schwandt.

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Frerichs, Sabine. "What Is the 'Social' in Behavioural Economics? The Methodological Underpinnings of Governance by Nudges." Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5710/1/Frerichs_2018_What%2Dis%2Dthe%2DSocial%2Din%2DBE_submitted%2Dversion.pdf.

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Behavioural economics builds on psychology rather than on sociology, and on cognitive science rather than the science of culture. The same is true for new behavioural scholarship in the legal discipline, whether this is referred to as 'behavioural law and economics' or 'law and the behavioural sciences'. The result of a one-sided definition of a more realist research agenda in legal scholarship is an impoverished understanding of the 'social'. In Thaler and Sunstein's famous concept of nudging, social conformity appears as a property of the individual, which can be instrumentalized by social n

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Dourado, Ivan Penteado. "Economias solidárias: três niveis de representação e multiplos sentidos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10923/1922.

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Silva, Cristiane Rodrigues Vianna. "A dinamica da produção tecnologica : integrando as analises da sociologia e da economia." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/286852.

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Orientador: Lea Maria Leme Strini Velho<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociencias<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T02:53:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_CristianeRodriguesVianna_M.pdf: 690900 bytes, checksum: 0750b89fc5a21b50fd369cbbded19566 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007<br>Resumo: A proposta dessa dissertação vai ao encontro do reconhecimento recente por parte dos autores das mais diversas tendências de que os enfoques disciplinares para tratar a produção do conhecimento em ciência e tecnologia, em geral, e a mudança tecnológica

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Teele, Langan Dawn. "The logic of women's enfranc|-isement| A comparative study of the United States, France, and the United Kingdom." Thesis, Yale University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3663657.

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<p> A broad-based franchise - that is, an inclusive policy for who elects leaders - is fundamental to the spirit of democracy in the twenty-first century. Yet the world's earliest democratic constitutions in Europe and the Americas either made no provision for women's participation, or explicitly prohibited it in their founding documents. Women were barred from the franchise even in those countries that went the furthest in guaranteeing men political equality, such as France and the United States. Things began to change in the 189os, when women around the world began to vote alongside men. Wha

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Davidson, Zachary P. "Political identification of STEM workers in the US." Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10161306.

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<p> The world is increasingly moving toward a technology- and information-based economy. With this change, a growing occupational category involves working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). What is the political identification of STEM workers? Quantitative work has shown that professionals, in general, are moving toward the Democratic Party (see, e.g. Hout, Brooks, and Manza 1995); but a qualitative interview-based study suggested that STEM workers, specifically, may be more conservative than others (Zussman 1985). The primary purpose of this study is to bring quanti

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Barfels, Sarah. "Status Attainment Among Children of Single Mothers: The Roles of Parenting and Economics." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1314109596.

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Combes, Clément. "La pratique des séries télévisées : une sociologie de l'activité spectatorielle." Phd thesis, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, 2013. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00873713.

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Que signifie aimer une " série télé " aujourd'hui ? Ou, selon une formulation plus pragmatiste, que font faire les séries à leurs spectateurs ? Pour répondre à ces questions, cette thèse invite à se démarquer du paradigme de la réception - lequel fournit la majorité des études sur le sujet - et explorer les ressorts et contours de la pratique des séries. Il s'agit d'étudier les activités concrètes dans lesquelles s'engagent les amateurs, la façon dont se tissent leur attachement aux séries, les ingrédients de ce tissage, les appuis et prises matériels, techniques et relationnels de cet attache

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Kampelmann, Stephan. "The socio-economics of pay rules." Thesis, Lille 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LIL12001/document.

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Cette dissertation s'attache à l'étude des inégalités de salaire dans la société capitaliste contemporaine, phénomène qui conjugue des enjeux politiques conséquents avec une crispation des débats entre les différentes écoles de pensées. Il y est défendu la thèse selon laquelle les inégalités de salaire sont le résultat de règles socialement construites qui ne peuvent pas être exclusivement attribuées aux intérêts du capitalisme rationnel. La partie empirique se focalise sur les inégalités entre les catégories professionnelles et applique des méthodes économétriques à des microdonnées diachroni

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Kollmann, Hans. "Rezension: Christoph Köck (Hrsg.) (2001). Reisebilder. Produktion und Reproduktion touristischer Wahrnehmung (Münchner Beiträge zur Volkskunde, Band 29). Münster: Waxmann, 242 Seiten, 28 Abbildungen und Fotos, ISBN 3-8309-1047-9." Institut für Qualitative Forschung, 2002. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5624/1/804%2D2503%2D1%2DPB.pdf.

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In diesem Sammelband geht es um ein Potpourri kulturwissenschaftlicher, oder im traditionellen Sprachgebrauch: volkskundlicher Aufsätze, die sich mit dem Thema Reisen beschäftigen. Auf den ersten Blick ohne einen konsistenten Zusammenhang oder eine strukturgebende Klammer, ergibt sich im zweiten Blick ein Aufriss der Mühen der Kulturwissenschaft, mit dem Themenbereich Reisen - Tourismus - Reisewahrnehmungen umzugehen. Von hierher wirken einige Aufsätze amüsant, einige sind interessant, da sie kohärentere Einsichten bieten.

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Lobo, Sanchez Ysbelet Del Valle. "A construção sociocultural da ciencia a partir da sua produção : a sociologia na Venezuela e a "Revista Venezolana de Ciencias Economicas y Sociales"." [s.n.], 2003. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/287003.

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Orientador: Maria Conceição da Costa<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociencias<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T17:24:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LoboSanchez_YsbeletDelValle_M.pdf: 5247576 bytes, checksum: d192f062b9ca4f735a7b322641fa70f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003<br>Resumo: Durante as ultimas décadas, os diferentes enfoques na área dos Estudos Sociais da Ciência apontam uma nova identidade para esta área, e em conseqüência para a visão "epistemológicamente especial" da ciência. A imagem unidirecional, socialmente desinteressad

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Pezold, Matthew. "The Role of Bridging and Linking Social Capital in Household Wealth| A Case Study of Two Livelihoods in Treasure Beach, Jamaica." Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13850744.

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<p> The Caribbean is a developing region of the world that has struggled to overcome corrupt governmental programs and agencies. Poverty and crime are commonplace, and a strong distrust of government is often present. With that said, this research undertook a comparative case study of twenty fishers and twenty farmers in a unique Jamaican costal community. Extensive qualitative and quantitative research analyzed the role of bridging and linking social capital in contributing to household wealth variations.</p><p> Contextual nuances revealed that the use of social capital varies by occupation

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Karuppusamy, Sadasivan. "The determinants and trends in household energy consumption in United States during 2001-2009." Thesis, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3607575.

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<p> Objective: The focus of this study is a broad examination of household energy consumption for appliance use, space heating, space cooling, and water heating in United States over the period 2001-2009 using Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) from the years 2001 and 2009. Methods: Linear Regression Analysis is used to identfy determinants of household energy consumption for each of the end uses. Regression based decomposition analysis is used to identify trends in residential energy consumption for each of the end uses. Results: The study identified current determinants of househ

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Roe, Sara Hill. "How Is the Concept of Flourishing Centrally Compelling in a Move toward Sustainability? A Case Study of the Aeolian Islands." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10684814.

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<p> This dissertation explores the role of the concept of flourishing as it moves toward sustainability by examining a theoretical case study of the Aeolian Islands, and in particular, the island of Lipari. Lipari is challenged by four core problems: lack of potable water, lack of collaboration on policymaking, lack of a shared vision, and lack of a sustainable economy. Each core problem is evaluated as a set of complex and interrelated systems. Through this analysis, the leading qualities associated with a flourishing society are explored to determine the potential levers that would be most e

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Castro, Débora Cardia de [UNESP]. "Sociologia aplicada: a experiência dos intelectuais do Dieese e do Cesit." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/98995.

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Plantin, Jason M. "Complicity in the wire transfer process a cause for increased money laundering." Thesis, Utica College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1564626.

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<p> There are conservative estimates that the amount of money laundered each year is anywhere between 2 and 5 percent of the annual gross domestic product of the world economy. That figure in dollars is between $800 billion and $2 trillion in U.S. dollars. Research has shown that the majority of money that is laundered across the globe either enters the United States or comes from the United States. It can be argued that the use of wire transfers is the preferred method used by criminals to move their funds. By using wire transfers it is more difficult for those tasked with prevention and inve

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Noury, Abdul Ghafar. "Essays on Economics of political Behavior." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211488.

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Cosic, Hana. "Essays in behavioural economics." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAB023/document.

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Pourquoi prend-on ou non des risques ? Pourquoi ne recycle-t-on pas davantage ? En situation d'incertitude, quels prix immobiliers peut-on anticiper ? Pour d'éventuelles explications et pronostics concernant ces questions, les principes d'économie comportementale peuvent être invoqués. L'économie comportementale (CE) est l'association de la psychologie et de l'économie ayant pour but de donner une explication aux comportements observés sur les marchés, comportements humains faisant preuve de rationalité limitée et de raisonnements complexes (Mullainathan et Thaler, 2000). L'étude de l'économie

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Sarnikar, Supriya. "Empirical essays on network effects in markets." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289819.

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This dissertation examines the impact of network effects in two settings--the computer software markets and self-employment decisions by individuals. Although there have been strong developments on the theory of network effects, relatively little empirical work has been done to examine their importance. The first part of this dissertation focuses on network effects in the market for computer software. It has been hypothesized that the presence of network effects in this market might often lead to lock-in of an inferior technology. An indirect test of this hypothesis is devised by taking advant

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Glicoes, Jonathan. "Renewable portfolio standards| An analysis of net job impacts." Thesis, Georgetown University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1543836.

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<p> Renewable portfolio standards have been widely adopted by the many states due in large part to their broad political appeal. Of particular note is the significance that labor market impacts have played in the rhetoric for adopting renewable portfolio standards--they are commonly touted and perceived as net job creating policies. No robust analysis has yet been performed to assess the effectiveness of renewable portfolio standards in achieving this policy goal, however. </p><p> Through regression analysis that directly accounts for previously unconsidered selection biases, this work seek

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Dickinson, David Lewis 1967. "Labor supply and effort levels of individuals and groups in experimental settings." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289389.

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This dissertation explores on-the-job leisure choice in individual labor supply environments and in work teams. The individual static labor supply theory implies that income-compensated wage increases will increase hours of work--positive substitution effects on work hours. While positive substitution effects are the testable implication of the theory, numerous empirical studies estimate negative substitution effects and therefore question the empirically validity of that model. I present a framework for the individual labor supply decision that theoretically explains negative substitution eff

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Jenkins, Stuart Takiar. "Intergenerational Effects of Early Health and Human Capital." Thesis, Northwestern University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3705276.

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<p> This dissertation examines the intergenerational effects of maternal early health, the intergenerational effects of maternal education and the distributional effects of school size. </p><p> Chapter 1 is an introduction that summarizes the contributions made in this dissertation. Chapter 2 examines a new question with important implications: Does a mother's early health affect her child's human capital development? My coauthor and I use two extremely different and established methodologies to identify variation in mothers' early health: variation in early life disease environment and var

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Poe, Abby Kelly. "Economic farm subsidy incidences in the presence of Bertrand competitors of complementary factors of production| A theoretical and experimental approach." Thesis, Mississippi State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1562932.

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<p> The identification of factors contributing to the farmers' non-retention of subsidy dollars is key in identifying the impact of the subsidy within and across the sector. Relaxing the assumption of perfect competition, amongst input suppliers, allows for an analysis of two upstream of complementary goods. Because it is the case that the farmers are price takers for some inputs (seed) and may negotiate over the price of others (land), I assume the upstream input providers are more akin to Bertrand competition. General findings, from the theoretical and experimental results, indicate upstream

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Harris, David P. Forstater Mathew. "Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, Peter Kropotkin, and Catholic Social Teaching on work, wages, and the role of technology." Diss., UMK access, 2008.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Economics and Social Science Consortium. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2008.<br>"A dissertation in economics and the social science consortium." Advisor: Mathew Forstater. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 6, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-193). Online version of the print edition.

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Herbaux, Denis. "On the economics of interpersonal relationships: three essays on social capital, social norms and social identity." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210211.

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For decades, economic theories have been mostly based on rational choices made by selfish individuals to maximize their utility, while sociology spent a lot of efforts describing the environment of individuals and explaining how this environment shapes theirs decisions. However, the last thirty years have seen many sociological concepts appear in the economic literature. For example, behavioral economics introduces things such as envy or altruism in economic theories. Other notions such as social capital, social norms, trust or community became more and more present in economic papers. The obj

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Filho, Luiz Carlos Beduschi. "Sociedade, natureza e reforma agrária: assentamentos rurais e unidades de conservação na região do Pontal do Paranapanema\"." Universidade de São Paulo, 2002. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/90/90131/tde-25112011-092349/.

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As famílias assentadas na Gleba Ribeirão Bonito, que vivem ao lado do Parque Estadual do Morro do Diabo, estão, ao contrário do que se poderia esperar, contribuindo, através de projetos articulados por uma rede de organizações, para a conservação dos recursos naturais desta Unidade de Conservação. A dissertação explora os fatores que têm condicionado tal realidade, fundamentando-se nas contribuições teóricas da economia das instituições e da sociologia ambiental. A conclusão é que está em processo de construção, na região do Pontal do Paranapanema, uma nova instituição que pode contribuir para

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Anton, Eugene J. "Economic mobility behaviors due to earned income tax credit policy| A case study of a southern California population." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3603299.

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<p> The purpose of this study was to understand earned income tax credit (EITC) policy influences on the development of economic mobility for individuals receiving EITC. Policymakers have declared that improving the economic mobility of low-wage workers a major objective of the EITC. This study addressed identifying factors that contribute to economic mobility, and testing the punctuated equilibrium theory to determine whether exogenous forces influence EITC policymakers' decisions. </p><p> Utilizing the survey data of 2,252 EITC respondents from the Legal Aid Society of Orange County, Cal

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Miller, Samuel. "Adult Children's Information Deficiencies and Risk Aversion Regarding LTCI Purchase for Elderly Parents| A Multi Case Study." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3641469.

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<p> <b>Long-term care</b> is the greatest uninsured risk facing the American public today. The failure to plan for long-term care has had a serious, and often devastating, impact on families that are thrust into the role of caregiver to an elderly parent. The failure to plan for long-term care also has very serious consequences for society, which, through public programs such as Medicaid, pays for a huge and unsustainable portion of long-term care supports and services. The impact of the failure to plan for long-term care is becoming more devastating due to the confluence of several factors. P

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Ramos, Jose Gabriel. "Estimating the effect of poverty on violent crime." Thesis, The University of North Dakota, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1567103.

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<p> I examine the effect of poverty on violent crime in the United States during the years between 2000 and 2012. My analysis contributes to the literature by utilizing state-level poverty rates as the main variable of interest, and directly studying its effect on violent crime rates. I use panel data and a group (state) and time fixed effects estimation method in the study. The results confirm prior research that concludes that poverty does not have a significant effect on violent crime.</p>

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