published_or_final_version / Political Science / Master / Master of Philosophy

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1991.

M.A. (Psychology) / Please refer to full text to view abstract

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / It is the purpose of this Thesis to analyze and examine the Institutional Economics of Rexford Guy Tugwell. Tugwell is a product of the change in economic thinking that was witnessed at the beginning of the twentieth century. Through the means of such economists as Thorstein Veblen and Simon Nelson Patten, economic thinking underwent its great reformation. The economic heterodoxy that permeated American thinking was in sharp contrast to that which had prevailed, before the turn of the century. There had come into being a greater empiricism, a more rational outlook, and a more practical application. While closing the gap between economic theory and practice, these heterodox economists provided a significant challenge to what had been known as economic orthodoxy. The Institutional Economists find their strength in the fact that their theorizing is quite relevant to the problems that face the American economy. Adopting a pragmatic outlook, relying upon cultural sciences for support, and penetrating deeply into the individual's thinking, Institutional Economists have been able to present a body of doctrine which has the public's welfare as its goal [TRUNCATED]

The economy is perhaps the central topic of political debate in the world today. Yet familiarity has obscured the concept’s novelty. Far from being a natural feature of social life, the economy has a history—in crucial respects, a surprisingly recent one. “Inventing the American Economy” considers the place of the United States in this history, exploring the intellectual, economic, and political shifts that allowed the economy to become an object of governance and a way of understanding the divisions of collective life. Offering a coherent narrative of a history that has been addressed in more scattershot form elsewhere, centering it on the experience of the United States, and pushing the chronology into the second half of the twentieth century, this dissertation analyzes the recasting of politics brought about in the twentieth century by the rise of the social sciences, above all economics. Weaving together studies of the economists who made this transformation thinkable, the institutions that supported their work, and the novel styles of governance that became possible as a result, “Inventing the American Economy” examines the process by which an academic conceit became a cultural fact.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1964. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Includes tables. Sponsor: Floride Moore Gardner. Dissertation Committee: Miriam Goldberg, Donald McKinley, . Includes bibliographical references (leaves 154-164).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1960. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Giessen. / Cover title. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 52).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin. / Typescript (carbon copy). "The writings of John R. Commons chronologically arranged, 1887-1945": leaves 479-536. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 456-46l).

Thesis (M.A.) in History--University of Maine, 2006. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-51).