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Entrepreneurship And Economic Development: A Critique Of The Theory, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Political Science Faculty Publications

This thesis is a criticism of the "entrepreneurial school" of economic development, which contends that a major cause of underdevelopment in the Third World is the poor "entrepreneurial spirit" in these areas. The entrepreneurial spirit consists of certain values and behaviour which it is presumed existed in the West at the time of its development. To test the validity of this theory empirical evidence on entrepreneurs is examined; this evidence includes historical data on the West, especially the United States and France, and twenty-one area studies of entrepreneurs in the Third World. The evidence suggests that there is little difference …

An Assessment Of The Validity Of The Unemployment Variable As A Determinant Of Changes In Money Wages In Wage-Estimation Models, James L. Jennings

Economics Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

Indiana State University Financial Report 1972, Indiana State University

Financial Reports

No abstract provided.

W. S. U'Ren And The Fight For Government Reform And The Single Tax: 1908-1912, David Elvin Lindstrom

Dissertations and Theses

In the study of Oregon politics, the importance of developments in the early twentieth century have been largely overlooked by popular historians. As a result, many have lost the perspective of the sweeping reforms that reformers presented to Oregon's electorate. Another complicating factor is that voters dealing with the issues during the period had such disparaging attitudes towards some of the reforms, that no thought was given to preserving their memory for future generations. In addition, the personal papers of W. S. U'Ren, Oregon's leading reformer, are not available. This makes perspective even more difficult. Therefore, the research problem is …

Regulation And Pricing In Public Utilities, Ann Kaiser

Master's Essays (1922 - )

The following paper is a study of the regulation and pricing of public utilities in the United States. A study of all the different ways to determine price in each public utility would amount to an undertaking of enormous proportions.

Book Review. The Effectiveness Of International Decisions And Foreign Development Lending -- Legal Aspects, A. A. Fatouros

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem In The Multi-Commodity Case, Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Faculty Scholarship

Ronald Jones, in his seminal paper (1957) on Heckscher-Ohlin theory, has argued that, for the case of two countries, two factors, and several commodities, the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem would remain valid in the following weak sense: "Ordering the commodities with respect to the capital-labor ratios employed in production is to rank them in order of comparative advantage. Demand conditions merely determine the dividing line between exports and imports; it is not possible to break the chain of comparative advantage by exporting, say, the third and fifth commodities and importing the fourth when they are ranked by factor intensity" (p. 85).

It …

On Models Of Commercial Fishing: The Traditional Literature Needs No Defenders, Vernon L. Smith

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

Examines the models of commercial fishing. Representation of the variable K as a measure of crowding externality in the cost function; Change of the degree of fishing pressure without changing the variable K; Modification of the output of firms by varying the inputs.

Executive Appraisal: Fact Or Fantasy, Daniel John Urban

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Evaluation of every employee by his superior at some time or another is a fact of life today. These appraisals take many different forms and serve an endless array of purposes. This paper was undertaken to see how well these appraisals, evaluations, ratings, and reviews actually serve the purpose for which they were created. All systems reviewed contained faults whether inherent in the system itself or in the application and administration of the system. The main faults were the using of readily available material whether or not it bore any relation to what was trying to be measured and the …

A Theory Of Household Behavior Under Uncertainty, John Heineke, M. K. Block

Economics

In this paper we are concerned with the effects of uncertainty on household decisions. In particular we are interested in the response of a single economic agent's factor allocations to "changes in the amount of uncertainty" with which the agent's beliefs regarding his income are held. For problems of choice under uncertainty the recent work of Arrow [1], Sandmo [9, 10, 11], Leland [5, 6], Stiglitz [12], and others clearly testifies to the power of the expected utility hypothesis as an analytical framework. In what follows two models are examined in which the agent is assumed to be confronting a …

Determinants Of Residential Housing Starts, S. Christopher Baird

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Regulation Q And The Stance Of Monetary Policy, Paul John Plath

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Advertising On Inter-Industry Growth Rates, Norman K. Plummer

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

State Of New Mexico Economic Development Profile: Farmington, New Mexico Development Department, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

BBER Publications

The economic report for the community of Farmington in the state of New Mexico provides data on several sections including but not limited to, tourism, education, labor, population and housing.

State Of New Mexico Economic Development Profile: Las Vegas, Lordsburg, Los Alamos, Los Lunas, Loving, And Lovington, New Mexico Development Department, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

BBER Publications

The economic report for the communities of Las Vegas, Lordsburg, Los Alamos, Los Lunas, Loving, and Lovington in the state of New Mexico provides data on several sections including but not limited to, tourism, education, labor, population and housing.

Review Of "Coexistence And Commerce: Guidelines For Transactions Between East And West" By S. Pisar, Frederic L. Pryor

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Import Controls On Foreign Oil: Tariff Or Quota?, George A. Hay

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

During the recent deliberation of the Cabinet Task Force on Oil Import Controls, considerable attention was devoted to the question whether, regardless of the level of imports which should be allowed, the control should take the form of a quota or a tariff. Occasionally reference was made to a well-known equivalence theorem which holds that when there is perfect competition in the product market a tariff will generate a volume of imports which, if alternatively set as a quota, produces an identical discrepancy between foreign and domestic prices. Therefore, other than the transfer of revenues from quota holders to the …

The Commercial Development Of Ante-Bellum Elizabeth City, Wayne H. Payne

History Theses & Dissertations

Abstract unavailable.

An Empirical Test Of Linder's Trade Hypothesis, James Norman Carnes

Economics Theses & Dissertations

Attempts have been made recently to empirically test several theories of the basis of international trade. These efforts have been concentrated mainly on the empirical testing of the Heckscher-Ohlin and the classical international trade theorems. The results so obtained are both complementary and conflicting. Although a greater degree of empirical relevance has been observed in the Ricardian model than in the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem, so far no sophisticated effort appears to have been made at the empirical testing of Linder's trade hypothesis.

Linder's thesis is that a country cannot achieve comparative cost advantage in that line of production for which there …

Local Government Finance: A Projection For North Logan, Utah, J. Mark Campbell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study was developed to determine the future fiscal condition of a small rural municipality, North Logan, Utah. An effort was made to determine whether or not present revenue sources would be able to keep pace with future expenditures at the local government level by projecting North Logan, Utah's, revenues and expenditures for 1975 and 1980.

North Logan, Utah, should not have an "expenditure-revenue gap" within the next 10 years. At this time, it would appear that because of the construction growth and sales tax proportional increases, both due to large population increases, North Logan should have sufficient revenue to …

Federal Reserve Lending To Commercial Banks: Effects On Financial Market Stability And Monetary Control, David Allen Simantel

Dissertations and Theses

The Federal Reserve has proposed a change in its method of administering the discount window. This paper looks at the effects of this proposal on monetary control and on the money markets, assuming that banks base their behavior on profit maximization over the long run.

First, the reserve supply process is postulated. The conditions under which borrowing from the Federal Reserve will improve or reduce monetary control are stated. Second, the primary reserve adjustment process is formulated to show how primary reserve adjustment can affect rates in the money market. Finally arguments are set forth to show how borrowed reserves …

Indiana State University Financial Report 1971, Indiana State University

Financial Reports

No abstract provided.

Optimal Trade Policies And Non-Economic Objectives In Models Involving Imported Materials, Inter-Industry Flows And Nontraded Goods, Augustine H. H. Tan

Research Collection School Of Economics

In a recent paper in this Review, J. Bhagwati and T. N. Srinivasan investigated the question of optimal policies required to attain non-economic objectives like ensuring minimum production and employment levels in particular industries as well as preventing excess importation and consumption of some goods. The framework of Bhagwati Srinivasan's analysis is the traditional trade model. In this note we consider three alternative models which allow for inter-industry linkages, the use of imported intermediate goods and non-traded goods. In addition to the non-economic objectives analyzed by Bhagwati-Srinivasan these models allow distinction between maintaining net and gross production levels as well …

Rigid Pricing Policies And Profit Maximization, John Heineke

Economics

In this paper we present a model of a profit maximizing firm in which one price is set for the entire multiperiod planning horizon. One of the consequences of such a pricing policy, if one employs widely used assumptions about demand and cost functions, is a decision rule for choosing the optimal price which may be interpreted as the "full -cost" pricing equation of much recent controversy. The significance of this result lies in the fact that full-cost pricing and profit maximization have often been held to be inconsistent. In addition, this model integrates the pricing decision with the other …

Controllable Determinants Of Residential Housing Starts, Jeffrey W. Wiese

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Book Review. Foreign Investment: France -- A Case Study By Robert B. Dickie, A. A. Fatouros

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Regards To A Friend, A. A. Fatouros

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The Computer And The Mud Hut: Notes On Multinational Enterprise In Developing Countries, A. A. Fatouros

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Two Keynesian Models Of Simultaneous Inflation And Unemployment: Comment, Craig Macphee

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

In his article J. Kirker Stephens demonstrates the possibility of simultaneous inflation and unemployment in a simple Keynesian model by relaxing the assumption of labor hornogeneity. As he correctly points out, most graphical and algebraic presentations of Keynesian models have not been used before lo illustrate this empirically important phenomenon. On the other hand, Professor Stephens does not explain how the problem has been analyzed before, albeit verbally, in the traditional Keynesian framework. Consequently, it may riot be readily apparent that complicating this framework with the assumption of diversified labor violates a venerable methodological rule: pluralites non est ponenda sine …

Economic Sophistication In Nineteenth Century Congressional Tariff Debates, Richard C. Edwards

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

One of the most controversial economic issues confronting the American public during the nineteenth century was that of protection. The plea for a protective tariff had been raised as soon as the First Congress met in 1789. The issue was sharply debated off and on throughout the nineteenth century but never finally resolved. There is now a large literature relating the outcome of this issue to the economic and political interests of various involved groups.

Little effort has been made, however, to assess the impact of the tariff on economic growth, employment, and the dispersion of new technology. Nor has …