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A Contrast of the Classical and Institutional Theories of Production and Waste (open access)

A Contrast of the Classical and Institutional Theories of Production and Waste

The purpose of this thesis is to study the writings of two schools of economic thought to bring out the theories of production, resources, and waste of resources involved and compare and contrast them.
Date: 1948
Creator: Burns, Thornton E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Basic Elements Necessary for Permanent World Peace (open access)

Basic Elements Necessary for Permanent World Peace

The purpose of this study is to make a survey of the efforts that have been made to secure world peace and to present some basic elements necessary in any workable world peace organization. Stress will be placed not on military power or economic difficulties but on the fundamental human relationships of mankind.
Date: 1947
Creator: Mitchell, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growth and Urbanization of the Texas Population, 1940-1950 (open access)

Growth and Urbanization of the Texas Population, 1940-1950

It is the purpose of this thesis to consider the growth and urbanization of the Texas population since 1880, with primary emphasis on changes which took place during the decade from 1940-1950. The problem involved, therefore, in the second part of this study is to determine the amount of urbanization which took place in Texas during the 1940-1950 decade, to determine the variations among the several regions and "size groups" of cities, and to describe some of the factors related to such increases and variations.
Date: August 1951
Creator: Boulter, Oscar H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Demographic Trends in Texas, 1900 to 1950 (open access)

Demographic Trends in Texas, 1900 to 1950

The primary purpose of this thesis is a description of some of the major changes which the population of Texas has undergone, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. Other approaches are possible. For example, it is both possible and important to develop the relationship of population change to social problems. However, it is not the purpose of this thesis to investigate these relationships. It is the purpose here to view the population problem in almost entirely a factual sense, basing observations and interpretations on strictly demographic data.
Date: August 1955
Creator: Pace, James Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
The History of the B-K Electric Cooperative, Inc. Seymour, Texas (open access)

The History of the B-K Electric Cooperative, Inc. Seymour, Texas

This study examines the history and growth of the B-K Electric Cooperative in Seymour Texas, as well as its economic impact on the surrounding rural areas.
Date: August 1955
Creator: Minick, Robert Arthur
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison and Analysis of Western and Chinese Views of the Economic History of China (open access)

A Comparison and Analysis of Western and Chinese Views of the Economic History of China

The purpose of the present study is to compare and to analyze the responses of two opposing groups of writers to the following questions. First, did a capitalistic stage of development occur in China? Second, what factors or conditions are responsible for the retardation or absence of capitalism? One group of writers is composed of Western social scientists, and the other of Chinese Communist writers.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Leung, Kwok-wing
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adam Smith Revisited (open access)

Adam Smith Revisited

This study represents an interpretation of Adam Smith's attitude toward a commercial society based upon natural liberty. In developing the thesis that the two works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations, are logically consistent, it is necessary to establish the reason of reasons why Adam Smith embraced a commercial society based upon the "obvious and simple system of natural liberty." It will be established that he embraced such as system because it allowed the maximum accumulation of capital, which is the manifestation of being truly virtuous as developed in his Moral Sentiments. To go one step further, it will be seen that, so far as Smith is concerned, it is the rising bourgeoisie, the manufacturers and artificers, which is truly virtuous, i.e., accumulates capital.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Roden, Peyton Foster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Market Power in the Common Market (open access)

Market Power in the Common Market

This study involved an analysis of the competitive philosophy and market structures of the European Economic Community. The investigation was concerned with market power both within the EEC itself and between the EEC and its eighteen African Associates. Although the present Association is in part a vestige of the colonial era, its economic nature is closely related to the economic nature of the EEC. It was the object of this study to define these characteristics, showing how they evolved from forces concomitant with postwar recovery and integration.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Bays, Carson W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Theory of Distributive Justice: John Bates Clark and C. E. Ayres (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Theory of Distributive Justice: John Bates Clark and C. E. Ayres

The purpose of the present thesis, then, is to find answers to the following specific set of questions: According to Clark and Ayres, a) On what basis should the income of society be distributed? b) Are the conditions under which this goal may be achieved those which actually prevail at the present time? c) If not, what action must be taken to assure that they will prevail in the future?
Date: January 1969
Creator: Smith, G. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (open access)

Some Activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Much of the United Nations' work toward achieving its aim of improving economic and social conditions for the people of the world is carried out by specialized inter-governmental agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is such a specialized agency. It is the purpose of this study to explore what the author believes to be some of the more important projects of FAO as it attempts to achieve its objectives.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Raabe, Alois O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Descriptive Study of Selected Characteristics of Aged First Admissions to a Private Psychiatric Hospital 1959-1963 (open access)

A Descriptive Study of Selected Characteristics of Aged First Admissions to a Private Psychiatric Hospital 1959-1963

The purpose of this thesis is to provide a descriptive study of psychiatric and social variables related to aged first admissions to a private psychiatric hospital in the calendar years 1959 through 1963. The study also seeks to determine what, if any, relationship exists between background characteristics of the patients and their diagnoses. Finally, the diagnosis of the patient is compared with a series of patient outcome variables to determine the relationship, if any, between diagnosis and selected recovery variables. Due to the nature of the data used, the emphasis of the thesis is upon describing relationships rather than testing hypotheses.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Smith, Joseph Clair
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Professionalized Bureaucracy: A Study of Conflict and Accomodation of Organizational Models in Three Social Work Agencies (open access)

The Professionalized Bureaucracy: A Study of Conflict and Accomodation of Organizational Models in Three Social Work Agencies

The purpose of this research is to determine whether or not meaningful differences exist along these dimensions in the manner in which social workers view their work role, and whether or not any such differences are related to the bureaucratic and professional nature of the agencies and their employees. The analysis will attempt to define the points at which the bureaucratic organization conflicts with professional patterns of organization and attempt to discover the mode of accommodation which results from these conflicts.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Wedel, Janet M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Recent Developments in the Sociological Perspective of Socialization (open access)

Some Recent Developments in the Sociological Perspective of Socialization

The primary significance of this inquiry is as a contribution to the continuing effort to categorize socialization studies and thereby to make more useful the accumulation of empirical knowledge in the field. This thesis presents a summary of sociological studies of socialization in the 1960's. It reviews articles published between January 1, 1960 and December 31, 1967.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Vlahon, Steven R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Result of the Taft-Hartley Closed Shop Ban (open access)

The Result of the Taft-Hartley Closed Shop Ban

This thesis discusses the history of the closed shop as a form of union security and the changes that arose with the passage of the Taft-Hartley Law in 1947 which declared the closed shop illegal and morally reprehensible.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Qvale, Frederick Gromann
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Economic and Psychosocial Impact of Industrial Injuries (open access)

The Economic and Psychosocial Impact of Industrial Injuries

This thesis investigates the economic and psychological impact of industrial injuries and their history.
Date: May 1955
Creator: Weeks, Leonard Christopher
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Case Study of Union Organizing Strategies (open access)

A Case Study of Union Organizing Strategies

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of a union organizational campaign among a group of women garment workers. The union that conducted the organizing drive was the International Ladies' Garment Worker's Union. The employees involved in the campaign were employed by the Russell-Newman Manufacturing Company in the North Texas community of Denton.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Oliver, John H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Consumer Protection in Texas (open access)

Consumer Protection in Texas

In the study, as a whole, the purpose is to present the major laws for consumer protection in Texas in the existing economy and determine the extent to which they meet consumer protection standards and where they fail to meet such standards.
Date: May 1965
Creator: Mangum, James N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ludwig Erhard's German Neo-Liberalism (open access)

Ludwig Erhard's German Neo-Liberalism

The purpose of this study was to determine the major causes of German revival as well as reasons for their radical changes from Postwar Socialism to the acceptance of a basically free market economy, and also to determine the effects of neo-liberalism on the rapid recovery.
Date: May 1965
Creator: Walter, John P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Bracero Programs (open access)

The Bracero Programs

The bracero programs of the 1942-1964 period have been the subject of a large amount of controversy. One side insists that foreign workers are necessary to the production of the nation's food and fiber while the other is just as certain that native workers will do the work required when paid a reasonable wage. This thesis will attempt to explore the principal issues involved in the controversy.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Allen, Donald C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of a Sample of County Welfare Families with a Record of Pregnancy Causing Increases in Welfare Expenditures (open access)

An Analysis of a Sample of County Welfare Families with a Record of Pregnancy Causing Increases in Welfare Expenditures

This is a study of families that had pregnancies while they were recipients or potential recipients of public assistance.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Hollingsworth, Bruce Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Descriptive Study of Selected Characteristics of Adolescent First Admissions to a Private Psychiatric Hospital 1959-1963 (open access)

A Descriptive Study of Selected Characteristics of Adolescent First Admissions to a Private Psychiatric Hospital 1959-1963

The purpose of this research is to provide a descriptive study of selected social and psychiatric characteristics of adolescent first admissions to a private psychiatric hospital and an analysis of some of the inter-relationships among social, ecological, demographic and psychiatric variables selected for study.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Wulfe, Geraldine Rita
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Employment Act of 1946: Original Intent Versus Current Interpretation, The Forces Underlying the Modification and the Implications thereof (open access)

The Employment Act of 1946: Original Intent Versus Current Interpretation, The Forces Underlying the Modification and the Implications thereof

There appears to be a vacillation from the original intent of the Employment Act of 1946. It was originally intended to serve as a tool whereby the smoothing and the easing of cyclical fluctuations of the business cycle could be facilitated. It now seems as though this tool has become one which is being used to correct those structural weaknesses which exist in the economy.
Date: January 1962
Creator: Reasoner, Harrell Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Selected Dichotomous Typologies in Modern Social Theory (open access)

A Study of Selected Dichotomous Typologies in Modern Social Theory

It is the purpose of this thesis to examine systematically the theories of selected sociologists and anthropologists with the end in view of determining whether or not or to what degree the various dichotomies are valid and useful. In addition to specific criticisms of doctrines peculiar to individual theorists, an attempt will be made to answer the following questions: What are the theoretical sources from which the dichotomies of types of social life in modern sociological and anthropological theory are derived? Are the dichotomies based upon legitimate contrasts which can be demonstrated empirically? To what extent do the value orientations of the theorists bias their results? How valuable are the dichotomies as guides to empirical investigation? To what extent do the dichotomous theories contribute to an understanding of the causes and directions of social change?
Date: August 1952
Creator: Middleton, Russell
System: The UNT Digital Library
Secondary Economic Education in North Texas (open access)

Secondary Economic Education in North Texas

There has been a great deal of discussion about the adequacy or inadequacy of economic education and the amount of economic illiteracy in the United States.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Perry, William A.
System: The UNT Digital Library