Local and regional procurement (LRP) relative to global food aid deliveries saw a sharp increase from 8% in 2001 to a historical high of nearly 30% in 2011. Despite this growing importance, relatively little is known about the LRP impacts on local market prices, household welfar…
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This dissertation argues for the existence of a highly commercialized and industrializing economy during the Umayyad period (661–750 C.E.), with unprecedented levels of trade and production localized in cities of Bilād al-Shām (Greater Syria). It also seeks to demonstrate that t…
Why do states vary in their responses to the multifaceted competitive pressures of globalization? Why, in particular, do some states accept a measure of economic loss in exchange for cultural gain? How much autonomous control do they retain in the cultural domain? This dissertat…
Coral reefs are among the most interesting ecosystems on this planet. Located mostly in developing countries they are often prime examples of renewable resource exploitation under open access property rights regimes. Such resources will almost inevitably be depleted over time. T…
This thesis develops a 'human economy' approach to understanding economic life that elucidates the social nature of economic reason. It explores deep structural changes in financial capitalism through the emergence of the sustainability paradigm in institutional investment, whic…
Through a study of the history and performance of successive military regimes, this thesis examines the role of military governments in economic development, particularly the creation of a market-enabling environment in Nigeria. The key question underlying this research is: did …
International finance is often understood to be a rational practice, taking place within an autonomous, coherent and clearly bounded structure. This thesis questions the naturalness implied by such understandings of the international financial system. It argues that the continge…
This dissertation is an ethnographic investigation of the restructuring of the Malaysian capital market in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, showing how the calculative practices of financial experts intersect with the global financial regime, reformatting …
In the past few decades, numerous countries around the world have gone through a process of political liberalization. These political liberalizations have occurred contemporaneously with increasing trade integration among countries around the world. This dissertation examines th…
This dissertation focuses on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and its applicability in China and Chinese culture. The primary goal is to examine the critical success factors (CSFs) to successfully implement U.S. CRM solutions in Chinese markets. The research questions focu…
This dissertation looks at the relationship between agro-food markets, social networks and welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economists have long recognized the importance of information for the efficient functioning of markets. Due to limited or costly information, excess price di…
This dissertation explores the relationship between empire-building and economic change during the formative process of the Qin Empire. It employs transmitted and excavated textual materials as well as archaeological evidence to reconstruct institutions and practices of surplus …
Financial markets occupy a privileged place in the global economy and wield a large and growing influence on public policy and collective decision-making. The developing finance subfields of climate and sustainable finance situate financial markets as both the principal problem …
This dissertation examines how eighteenth century thinkers Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant defended the value of free markets. It reconstructs their defense of liberal economic reforms, including free trade (domestic and foreign) and the deregulation of…
This dissertation examines the impact of network effects in two settings—the computer software markets and self-employment decisions by individuals. Although there have been strong developments on the theory of network effects, relatively little empirical work has been done to e…
This dissertation critically examines competing views of man and nature in mainstream, or "neoclassical," economic theory and Islamic economics. Ironically, the contemporary literature in Islamic economics often uncritically adopts the key philosophical presuppositions of neocla…