This dissertation is concerned to rethink the relation between money and the state in a way that challenges both Marxist and chartalist stories about the history and nature of money and monetary phenomena. In doing so, it examines the problem of liquidity, or the question of whe…
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The purpose of the research was to train pastors in biblical financial stewardship by offering a two-day workshop for increasing their respective understanding and practice of biblical financial stewardship. Pastors have the key role to bring the significant impact on the spirit…
This study is the first attempt to systematically examine the central role of economy, money and debt in the oeuvre of Shmuel Yosef Agnon—1966 Nobel laureate in literature—by offering a reading that combines perspectives from economic theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis, narrative…
In Detroit, African Americans constitute over eighty percent of the population, and the black community has a firm grip on municipal political power in the city. But among African Americans there is still a pervasive sense of disenfranchisement at the hands of large corporate, a…
This study investigates the dynamic interactions among key aggregate macro variables in three South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries, namely, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. In particular, several monetarist's hypotheses and relative strength of supp…
This study investigates the determinants of demand for money in Bangladesh using annual observations for the period 1974-95. Partial adjustment approach and error correction approach are applied to investigate the nature of short run and long run determinants and short run dynam…
This thesis has two aims; to explore the economic notions of trust to develop a coherent understanding of trust within economics and to apply this understanding to the operation of money and banking. There has been a recent explosion of work about trust within economics but litt…
In three essays, I consider the monetary system of Somalia. The first chapter challenges the notion that positively valued fiat money cannot exist after the sovereign disappears. Economists commonly invoke sovereign powers to explain the acceptance of unbacked paper money at a p…
This dissertation traces the commodification of money in the U.S. after World War II. In 1945, all money was issued either directly by the government or, under conditions determined by the government, by commercial banks. Today, forms of money that are issued by private firms wi…
This dissertation examines the Atlantic-scale economic boom and bust economy of the 1850s and the economic origins of mass political antislavery in the U.S. Old Northwest during the boom years. The decade’s economic expansion began with the inflation of money and credit througho…
In my paper, I investigate how money is depicted and the way it plays a primary function and catalyst in its interactions with the other protagonists, how attitudes toward money manifest in the characters’ actions and reveal their characteristics, and how it contributes to the p…
“Every Man is Now in the Market” is a study of informal institutional change in medieval Liguria during the second half of the thirteenth century. Informal institutions are social rules that are enforced by commonly held values and norms, rather than by any law. The goal of this…
In this thesis, I argue how money influences election outcomes in the Texas Legislature from 2010 to 2018. I explore the political history of Texas, where scholars have long alluded to the role of wealthy elites in the political process. Using an investment theory approach, wher…
This dissertation examines the contemporary social function of Malian jelis (‘griots’), arguing that material compensation and caste status are essential to a signifying practice with profound continuing relevance. As Mande society's hereditary “masters of the word,” jelis entra…
This thesis explores the part gambling plays in an urban setting in Highland Papua New Guinea. Gambling did not exist in (what is now) Goroka Town before European contact, nor Papua New Guinea more broadly, but when I conducted fieldwork in 2009-2010 it was an inescapable part o…