Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1931. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [230]-232).

Thesis--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 378-392).

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Orientador: Reginaldo Carmello Correa de Moraes. / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T18:33:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Castro_LuizaCarnicerode_D.pdf: 6800154 bytes, checksum: d36083f86cb56e6b336827723e0772a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O trabalho tem o objetivo de refletir as relações entre o Banco Mundial e o Estado dos Estados Unidos, valendo-se do conceito de capitalista coletivo elaborado por Marx e Engels. A intenção é nos ater em dois períodos singulares da história da instituição, quando esta lidou com a questão do alívio da pobreza: durante a gestão de McNamara (1968-1980) e ao longo da década de 1990. Tais ocasiões foram igualmente especiais por terem testemunhado fortes conflitos entre o Estado dos Estados Unidos e o Banco. A nosso ver, essas divergências acusam uma autonomia da instituição em relação à Casa Branca. A analogia com o conceito de capitalista coletivo se justifica, assim, pela suposição de que o Banco se ocuparia com os interesses de longo prazo do Estado estadunidense. Este, por sua vez, tenderia a se deter nos aspectos mais imediatos de sua liderança global, sobretudo nas ocasiões de incerteza / Abstract: This research aims to investigate the relationship between the World Bank and the State of U.S.A, using the concept of "capitalist collective", by Marx and Engels. We will study two peculiar moments of the institution history, when it focused in the poverty alleviation: during the presidency of McNamara (1968-1981) and in the 1990s. These periods were also special because there was a lot of conflict between the Bank and the State of U.S.A. We believe that the cause of the conflicts may be the autonomy of the institution. The analogy with the concept of "capitalist collective" is, therefore, explained by our presumption that the Bank is responsible for the long term interests of the White House. The latter would aim her short term interests, connected with her global leadership, specially in occasions of uncertainty / Doutorado / Ciencia Politica / Mestre em Ciência Política

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

This study was an examination of businesses that became big businesses in the United States during the time period between the years of 1861 and 1890, a period of time frequently referred to as the “big business era.” The purpose of the study was to identify actions taken by businesses that enabled them to become and remain big businesses. A secondary purpose of the study was to show that these actions were explained by theories of Karl Marx and Max Weber. The results of the study showed that businesses which took specific actions were able to become and remain big businesses and these actions were explained by the theories of Marx and Weber. The results of the study demonstrate the ability of classical sociological theory to explain macro-level social change.

This study investigates the spiritual subjectivities of pastors in the Mainstream White Middle Class Evangelical Church in the context of American capitalism. The Evangelical church carries extreme amounts of power and influence in shaping the beliefs of individuals in American society. However, very little pointed research of pastors' spiritual subjectivities that guide their teachings and views in this sub-sect of church culture is present in academia. Anthropology, along with other disciplines, often focuses on dominant churches from an etic perspective of politics and power relations without fully considering the spiritual beliefs of pastors. This etic perspective can miss the deeply interwoven factors, including understanding of the Scriptures and pastors' role in their congregations, challenges associated with religious consumerist competition, and conceptualizations of church "success" that shape pastors subjectivities, and in turn help shape American Christian culture. Pastors navigate the tension between the broader capitalistic social forces and their spiritual and Biblical beliefs as many pastors of the church aim to change the unquestioned adherence to these ideals. Building on my seven years of experience as a pastor in the Orlando area and drawing on current research with a group of Evangelical pastors, I demonstrate in this study that although capitalistic social forces shape many ideals of individuals in the American Evangelical church culture, understanding pastors' spiritual subjectivities is crucial when investigating the influence of the church in America.

This thesis examines the dynamic change the market revolution had on social and cultural institutions in the American West. Specifically, it investigates how market forces influenced rural life patterns for farmers, urban mercantile culture and regional commercial interests. Davenport, Iowa is the focus for the narrative’s hinge, as this midsized western marketplace represented a link between its farmers and the regional markets in Chicago. This project uses wheat and the prairie region in antebellum Iowa and Illinois as a case study and examines the cultural and social development of farmers and merchants in the marketplace. Following wheat from farm to market, both locally and regionally, helps to explain how Americans understood the commodity at each economic level. Time and place were central to the American West's economic, social, and cultural development and this thesis considers just a moment in its history. A intersect of rural, agricultural, technological, and environmental histories are at the project's core, but it also attempts to make sense of frontier capitalism and the ramifications it had on farming and the grain industry. The market revolution gradually influenced and shaped the nation’s agricultural economy and the people that preformed its labor and production. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This dissertation analyzes the critique of charity and philanthropy implicit in Melville’s short fiction written for periodicals between 1853 and 1856. Melville utilized narrative and tone to conceal his opposition to prevailing ideologies and manipulated narrative structures to make the reader complicit in the problematic assumptions of a market economy. Integrating close readings with critical theory, I establish that Melville was challenging the new rhetoric of philanthropy that created a moral identity for wealthy men in industrial capitalist society. Through his short fiction, Melville exposed self-serving conduct and rationalizations when they masqueraded as civic-minded responses to the needs of the community. Melville was joining a public conversation about philanthropy and civic leadership in an American society that, in its pursuit of private wealth, he believed was losing touch with the democratic and civic ideals on which the nation had been founded. Melville’s objection was not with charitable giving; rather, he objected to its use as a diversion from honest reflection on one’s responsibilities to others.