University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2010. Major: Polical Science. Advisor: John Roy Freeman. 1 computer file (PDF(); v, 169 pages, appendices A-B.

This paper analyzes the relationship between divided government and real per capita gross state product in U.S. states using a panel study of data from all of the contiguous U.S. states, except Nebraska, for the period of 1990 to 2007. Some literature can be found on the relationship between...

If you have ever driven by a street, typically not in a very wealthy neighborhood, where a store front displayed signs with words like "Instant cash!," "No Credit Check," "First loan free," then you likely witnessed the marketing of a product called a payday loan. Payday loans are a form of a...

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Master of Arts

Over Antipode?s 40 years our role as academics has dramatically changed. We have been pushed to adopt the stance of experimental researchers open to what can be learned from current events and to recognize our role in bringing new realities into being. Faced with the daunting prospect of global...

In this paper I investigate an initiative that promotes systemic change: the Transition Model, which emerged from Totnes Transition Town in the UK in 2006. This model is premised on the need for communities to build resilience in the face of climate change and peak oil. It provides a framework...

Total fertility rates have been falling across the world, with a majority of the world's countries and population now below generational replacement rate. Contrary to the initial assumption that women are merely delaying child-birth, in some advanced industrial countries the sub-replacement...

Thirty years ago, in April 1975, Milton Friedman, came to Australia to declare that the world economic situation manifestly unsound.[1] Friedman asserted on that trip what Michael Kalecki predicted in his 1943 article would be the response of ?captains of industry? to Keynesian macroeconomic...

This paper combines W.E.G. Salter's analysis of capital-embodied technical change with Kalecki's analysis of financing investment from retained profits to provide a Post Keynesian model of investment with process innovation, which is applied to data from Australian manufacturing industries. The...