Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics and Social Science, 1960. / MIT copy bound with: A collective bargaining model / by George Lermer [1960] / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 57). / by Howard L. Rosenthal. / B.S.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics and Social Science, 1963. / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references. / The first essay is concerned with evaluating a stream of utility which extends into the infinite future. In it are derived sufficient conditions on a preference ordering to permit the definition of a continuous utility function as well as, the implications of various axiom sets with respect to preferences in the timing of utility. In the second essay, the time profiles of various economic variables in a neoclassical model are related to two indices of technical change, characterizing the rate and bias of this change. These relationships are used to discuss sufficient conditions for exponential growth and the movement over time of the factor-price frontier. In the third essay is derived the optimal growth path for a model described by T. N. Srinivasan, which has fixed coefficients but many types of capital goods. / by Peter Arthur Diamond. / Ph.D.

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics and Social Science, 1965. / MIT Institute Archives copy bound with: Bohmer, Peter George. Disparities between income per worker in agriculture and income per worker in industry (1965). / "June 1965." / Includes bibliographcial references (leaves 68-69). / by Charles Jay Gitomer. / B.S.

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics and Social Science, 1960. / MIT copy bound with: A collective bargaining model / by George Lermer [1960] / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 18). / by Michael Simkowitz. / B.S.

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics and Social Science, 1964 / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-235). / by Eduardo García D'Acuña. / Ph. D. / Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics and Social Science

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics and Social Science, 1962 / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references. Includes bibliographical references. / by Muhammed Akhlaqur Rahman. / Ph. D. / Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics and Social Science

Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics and Social Science, 1964 / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-60). / by Robert B. Eyestone. / B.S. / B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics and Social Science

Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics and Social Science, 1965 / B.S. / B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics and Social Science

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / Seeking to contribute clarity in understanding the essential characteristics of social science, the thesis this essay defends is that the legitimacy of "social science" as a distinct patterned activity oriented to attaining objective knowledge of humanity depends upon the recognition of its characteristic set of phenomena and that this set is comprised of meaningful behavior; this set was isolated by Max Weber in his major theoretical work and is the central subject matter of his empirical studies. Weber's approach and view is compared with that of the contemporary Chicago historian William H. Sewell, Jr.; specifically, examination of Sewell's view on the nature of the "social" leverages the importance of Weber's concept of "action" underlying "social action" and draws attention to the elemental importance of "action" for social science. Chapter 1 discusses science seen as a "social institution." In this context, the goal or end of "social science" is examined, and a discussion of Geertz' concept "cultural system" is introduced so as to offer clarity concerning the value of the concept of "social institution." Delineating the "social" for "social science" is argued to be essential for the testing of social scientific theories grounded in empirical phenomena. Chapter 2 engages Sewell's approach to the question of the "social" with a view toward the status of his response as an ontological claim and examines his definition of "semiotic practices." A theoretical discussion of the concepts of "action" and "social action" rooted in Weber's Economy and Society provides the framework for Chapter 3, and a discussion of the importance of explanation and understanding in Weber's view is developed. The central argument here is that the concept of "action" is elemental to Weber's approach. Chapter 4 looks forward and discusses the convergence of thought between Sewell and Max Weber and argues that the merits of this view are suggestive for contemporary scholarship. / 2999-01-01