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Further Investigation Into The Role Of Education In The Demand For Health Care, Mohammad Al-Hadi Al-Bakir Al-Barazi

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation intends to examine the inconsistency prevailing in the health economics literature between theoretical predictions and empirical findings concerning the role of education in the determination of health care services. Starting from the premise that the household’s stock of health capital is a nondurable commodity which depreciates over time; that it can be augmented by investment; that the household production function for gross investment in health capital stock is homogeneous of degree one in both inputs of health care services and health care time; that a ‘factor-neutral’ education enters the production function of the household as an environmental variable …

A Study Of Household Determinants Of Migration, Paul A. Tatsch

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Throughout history, human population has been characterized by significant geographical redistribution in response to climatic changes, varying economic exigencies and other impelling factors such as slavery. While significant intercontinental movements have for the most part been culminated, the process of internal migration is a factor which continues to influence economic growth, development and change of most economic systems. It represents a dynamic adjustment process of individuals and populations to economic and social alternatives and within each system it also serves as an important means of human resource allocation and reallocation among competing geographical alternatives.

Studies of migration flows and characteristics …

The Demise Of The Dialectic: Historical Consciousness And The American Experience, Samuel Martineau

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This thesis originated out of a desire to utilize some of the basic insights of the Frankfurt school in order to analyze the significance and meaning of the structural dynamics of the American past. In doing this, I have attempted to provide some of the basic categories of Critical Theory with a concrete historical content, and I have sought to demonstrate the absolute necessity of including these categories in any historical investigation that seeks to convey the ultimate meaning of the history that it studies.

The thesis itself is divided into two parts. In part One, I present what might …

The U.S. Office Of War Information And American Public Opinion During World War Ii, 1939-1945, David Lloyd Jones

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The people who are the power entitled to say what they want, are less qualified to say how, and in what form, they are to obtain it, or in other words, public opinion can determine ends, but is less fit to examine and select means to those ends. (James Bryce, The American Commonwealth Vol. I, p. 361)

This study examines the United States government’s domestic information agencies, the formulation of information policy, and the effects of that information policy upon the nation during the Second World War. In exploring information policy and techniques, the study analyzes the epistemological axiom, “What …

A Reconsideration Of The Commercial Banking Imputation In The Official Us National Accounts, Georg Michael Mehl

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The difficulties encountered in the measurement of Gross Income and Product Originating in the commercial banking industry according to the conventions of the National Income and Product Accounts are a subset of a much larger philosophical question. This query deals with the definition and identification of the output produced by all of the so-called “tertiary” industries, of which banking is just a small part.

Over the past several decades, as the world's industrialized economies have grown and become more complex, economists have noted that an increasing proportion of Gross Product Originating (GPO) has been generated by the tertiary sector, relative …

The Role Of The Budget Bureau In Truman's Domestic Legislative Program; An Examination Of Atomic Energy Control, Military Unification, Housing, And Civil Rights, Peter E. Piccillo

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The role of the Budget Bureau in the domestic legislative program of Harry S. Truman began in the latter years of the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Long before his death, Roosevelt had lost the ability to lead Congress in the direction of liberal domestic reform legislation. He did, however, retain the power of his style, and maintained a majestic image of leadership and accomplishment. In hopes of regaining the legislative initiative after the war had been won, Roosevelt campaigned in 1944 on a platform of victory overseas and an “Economic Bill of Rights” at home. With the death of …

Thunder Without Lightning : Working Class Discontent In The United States, 1929-1937, Robert S. Mcelvaine

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

In nature, thunder cannot exist without lightning. In the political realm, however, the two are separable. Rumblings of discontent can, and often do, occur without the firebolt of revolution.

The depression of the 1930s was a decade of thunder on the left in the United States. The working class became increasingly conscious of itself and discontented with the existing socio-economic system. The peals were always there, and they often reached crescendos. Yet the full force of the tempest never broke upon America in the thirties. The pages that follow explore the thundering and seek to explain how Franklin D. Roosevelt …

The Ten American Painters: Definition And Reassessment, Kenneth Coy Haley

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

In 1897 three artists, John Twachtman, Childe Hassam and Julian Alden Weir, decided to leave the established Society of American Artists in New York. This small group was to serve as a core of a larger organization later named the "Ten American Painters. "(Fig. 1). Wishing to hold independent exhibitions in New York several other painters were asked to join. These men included Edward Simmons, Willard Metcalf, Edmund Tarbell, Joseph DeCamp, Frank Benson, Thomas Dewing, Robert Reid and Abbott Thayer. Thayer first agreed to join but later changed his mind. The New York Times, however, was unaware of his …

Agricultural Policy-Making In The Eisenhower Administration, David Miller Tiffany

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation traces agricultural policy—making during the Eisenhower Administration. Four specific goals are involved. First, by providing a general review of the Eisenhower farm programs, this work continues the efforts of many scholars to provide a collection of monographs tracing American agricultural policy. Since several of the programs put into operation during the Eisenhower Administration differed substantially from those of previous years, a somewhat detailed examination of these new programs is justified. Second, this study investigates the procedures followed by the Eisenhower Administration in developing its farm policy: these reveal a good deal about the operations of the Administration, as …