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GEIST; Issue 02 April 2010
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Philosophy, 2010-04-25)
"I always wanted to be historical" : The Crack-Up of the Self from the Outside
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-29)
Density profiles of dark matter halos
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2010-04)
The Perils of Patriarchy
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-29)
Tracking patriarchal control through three Hitchcock films: North By Northwest, Notorious, and Rear Window.
"That's Leaving It Pretty Much Up To Jane": Gendered Citizenship, Explicit Feminism, And Implicit Racism In The 1922 Cable Act
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
In 1922, Congress passed the Cable Act, which allowed women who married foreigners eligible for naturalization to retain their U.S. citizenship. However, women who married aliens racially excluded from the naturalization ...
Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
Studies of early U.S. growth traditionally have emphasized real-sector explanations for an acceleration that by many accounts became detectable between 1815 and 1840. Interestingly, the establishment of the nation's basic ...
Dynamics in a Transactions-Based Monetary Growth Model
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
This paper examines the dynamic properties of a monetary endogenous growth model in which money is introduced into the system via a transactions-cost technology. A monetary equilibrium that either satisfires the Friedman ...
Pennies from eBay: the Determinants of Price in Online Auctions
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the determinants of prices in online auctions for collectible one-cent coins at the eBay Web site. Our initial dataset consists of over 20,000 auctions which took place during ...
Bidding Behavior and Decision Costs in Field Experiments
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
Whether rationality of economic behavior increases with expected payoffs and decreases with the cognitive cost it takes to formulate an optimal strategy remains an open question. We explore these issues with field data, ...
Isolated and Proximate Illiteracy And Why these Concepts Matter in Measuring Literacy and Designing Education Programmes
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
Traditionally, a society's literacy has been measured by the 'literacy rate' or the percent of the adult population that is literate. The present paper maintains that the distribution on literates across households also ...