Browsing by Author "Hartley, James"
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Are All the Fairies Dead? Fairy Tales and Place in Victorian Realism
Hakala, Marjorie (2011-02-16)This thesis examines the role played by fairy tales and folklore in the settings and geographical imagination of five Victorian novels: Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," George Eliot's "Silas Marner" and "Felix Holt," ... -
China's Trade with Sub Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Growth-inducing Structural Change
Kareli, Rusudan (2012-07-19)In my research project, I analyze the impact of the rapidly growing trade relations between Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and China on SSA's development prospects, as trade is one of the most important channels through which ... -
Educational and Geographic Spillovers of Higher Education in the Developing World: Case Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Erbabian, Maddison (2020-07-06)Education is often a means to intergenerational mobility, but it still remains inaccessible to many people in much of the developing world. Higher education institutions directly affect the higher education level of the ... -
The Effects of Minimum Wages on Poverty in the United States, 2008-2013
Kass, Tobey (2016-05-12)This econometric study examines the effect of minimum wage increases on poverty and public program participation using individual-level data from the 2008 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), ... -
A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
Kaur, Simran (2022-07-05)Economists use Gross Domestic Product as a marker of the growth and success of a country but fail to consider that the people who constitute an economy are more than just machines built for labor. What is the meaning of ... -
Is Elegance Useful? Rationality in the Dynamic and Optimal Economic Model
Gongadze, Tea (2013-05-10)The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the development of the macroeconomic models in perspective and analyze recent models dominating the economics theory along with discussing a new dynamic model which considers all ... -
It's About Time: Rethinking Fairness and Justice for Women in the Economy
Ahmed, Maniza (2016-06-20)In American households, it is mostly women — as mothers, wives, elder daughters, grandmothers, or domestic workers — who do the work required to maintain and increase the wellbeing of everyone in the home. Their unpaid ... -
A Multi-Period Theoretical Model of Prosocial Behavior
Ursu, Raluca (2011-02-16)Classical economic theory argues that individuals are rational and will use their income for their own advantage and advancement. However, charitable giving as well as giving in dictator game experiments cannot be completely ... -
Rethinking Money: A Survey on Economic Theories of Money
Li, Annetta Y. (2016-05-26)Money is a tool people deal with on a daily basis. It is also an important instrument for governments to manage their functions. But despite the familiarity, probably few people could tell exactly what money is, or how it ... -
Socio-economic Feasibility of Renewable Energy Technologies in Rural Bangladesh
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Suffering, Self-Creation and Survival: Victimized Children in the Novels of Charles Dickens
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Tongue-Tied in America: The Decline of Foreign Language Education in an Age of Globalization
Bussiere, Katherine (2013-06-19)In the United States the ratio of modern foreign language enrollments to total course enrollments in higher education today is half of what it was in the sixties. The Modern Language Association (MLA) reported in 2009 that ...