Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-16)This study will evaluate Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd as evidence of Melville’s embrace of an historical view of the U.S. and will further analyze these novellas ...
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(2012-03-01)Dr. Elinor Ostrom gave this lecture on the commons and the theory of collective action on March 1, 2012, which was held in the Black Cultural Center and open to the public. Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom was the first, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)US-Haitian relations had a rough beginning, as the possible American recognition of Haiti became a fixed point of tension between the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans in domestic and foreign policy from 1797 to 1806. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)Spurred by its successful delivery of credit to poor borrowers in diverse areas of the developing world, joint liability lending has caught the imagination of development theorists and practitioners. Various theories have ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)In this article, benchmark Taylor rules are obtained as the solution to a dynamic programming problem in which interest rates are chosen to minimize the discounted sum of observed inflation and output variations. The ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 1998)
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(National Communication Association (U.S.), 2000-04)Through a critical reading of the mass mediated discourse that arose in the wake of the John/Joan or "twins" case, this analysis investigates contemporary iterations of gender performativity, gendered morals and feminism. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)This research examines the reaction of students at Vanderbilt University to the Vietnam War during Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency. Vanderbilt's student-run newspaper The Vanderbilt Hustler provides insight into the opinions ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
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(Johns Hopkins University Presshttp://www.press.jhu.edu/, 1975)
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)China today is a rising superpower and a major challenger to American hegemony. The industrialization and modernization that other nations achieved in centuries, China has compressed to a few decades. Indeed, all too often, ...
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(2015-01-15)
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(Vanderbilt University, 1993)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003-11)
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(Vanderbilt Universityhttp://authorities.loc.gov/, 2006-09)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2004)Sections 8(a)(3) and 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act prohibit a firm from unilaterally increasing the wage it pays the union during the negotiation of a new wage contract. To understand this regulation, we study ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-06)The weekly wage gap between black and white female workers narrowed by 15 percentage points during the 1940s. We employ a semi-parametric technique to decompose changes in the distribution of wages. We find that changes ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)In this paper, I examine the sources of wage inequality changes among prime age male workers in Brazil during the 1980's and 1990's. Inequality increased in the 1980's and decreased in the 1990's. I begin by decomposing ...