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- Entropic Considerations of Efficiency in the West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil Futures Market.
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- Sagul, Ryan, Yuhn, Ky-hyang, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Economics
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For the last fifty years, the efficient market hypothesis has been the central pillar of economic thought and touted by all, despite Sanford Grossman’ and Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz’ objection in 1980. Andrew Lo updated the efficient market hypothesis in 2004 to reconcile irrational human behavior and cold, calculating automatons. This thesis utilizes 33 years of oil futures, GARCH regressions, and the Jensen-Shannon informational criteria to provide extensive empirical objections to...
Show moreFor the last fifty years, the efficient market hypothesis has been the central pillar of economic thought and touted by all, despite Sanford Grossman’ and Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz’ objection in 1980. Andrew Lo updated the efficient market hypothesis in 2004 to reconcile irrational human behavior and cold, calculating automatons. This thesis utilizes 33 years of oil futures, GARCH regressions, and the Jensen-Shannon informational criteria to provide extensive empirical objections to informational efficiency. The results demonstrate continuously inefficient oil future markets which exhibit decreased informational efficiency during recessionary periods, advocating the adaptive market hypothesis over the efficient market hypothesis.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004730, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004730
- Subject Headings
- Capital market -- Psychological aspects, Energy industries -- Risk management, Financial risk management -- Mathematical models, Futures, Investment analysis, Petroleum industry and trade -- Economic aspects, Stocks -- Mathematical models
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- Document (PDF)
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- Living Capital: Situating Animals within Capitalist Modes of Production in Science Fiction.
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- Cervone, Skye, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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This study addresses the relationship between animals and capitalism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3, and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. These texts and their authors attempted to change the conversation surrounding animals and imagine alternatives to traditional thinking surrounding animal subjectivity. Despite their intentions, however, the authors fail to depict non-exploitative relationships with animals within...
Show moreThis study addresses the relationship between animals and capitalism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3, and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. These texts and their authors attempted to change the conversation surrounding animals and imagine alternatives to traditional thinking surrounding animal subjectivity. Despite their intentions, however, the authors fail to depict non-exploitative relationships with animals within capitalist systems, suggesting an inherently exploitative relationship between animals and biopolitical capitalism.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013364
- Subject Headings
- Animals, Capitalism, Atwood, Margaret, 1939- MaddAddam trilogy, Quitely, Frank, 1968-, Dick, Philip K Do androids dream of electric sheep?, Science fiction
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- Document (PDF)
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- Offshoring and wage convergence.
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- Brigida, Matthew David., Florida Atlantic University, Yuhn, Ky-hyang
- Abstract/Description
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The recent advances in communication technology are changing the structure of the labor market in the United States. Jobs, which previously had to be done in the United States, can now be done offshore and thus American companies can take advantage of the wage differentials between countries. To see the potential effects that such a structural change may have on economic growth, we first examine the 19th century convergence between Europe and the New World countries. Thereafter we introduce a...
Show moreThe recent advances in communication technology are changing the structure of the labor market in the United States. Jobs, which previously had to be done in the United States, can now be done offshore and thus American companies can take advantage of the wage differentials between countries. To see the potential effects that such a structural change may have on economic growth, we first examine the 19th century convergence between Europe and the New World countries. Thereafter we introduce a model of economic growth that will take into account a particular aspect of present day offshoring. Many of the workers being brought into the United States labor market are highly skilled. After this, we introduce Skill-Biased Technological Change and look at how it may be affected by offshoring.
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- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13125
- Subject Headings
- Convergence--19th century, Wages--Effect of technological innovations on, Human capital--Econometric models, Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on
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- Document (PDF)
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- Measured impact of federal government policies as determined by stock market capital values for selected industries.
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- Fuller, Edward E., Florida Atlantic University, deHaven-Smith, Lance
- Abstract/Description
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Government policies can reduce or increase wealth. Some governmental actions are explicit, such as the collection of taxes or fees. The effects of other actions are less apparent, such as safety regulations or meat inspection standards. Specific governmental policies were matched to related industry groups who would seem affected by the action. The stock values for each of the industrial groups were analyzed using a time series methodology. The data for the investigation came from the actual...
Show moreGovernment policies can reduce or increase wealth. Some governmental actions are explicit, such as the collection of taxes or fees. The effects of other actions are less apparent, such as safety regulations or meat inspection standards. Specific governmental policies were matched to related industry groups who would seem affected by the action. The stock values for each of the industrial groups were analyzed using a time series methodology. The data for the investigation came from the actual stock prices at weekly checkpoints over a two year period. Each group has a total stock value and the matching Dow Jones Industrial Average for each time period. Forecast values are compared to actual values for the critical periods previous to and following the pronouncement of the policy. The results are compared on a case by case basis within each industry, and an aggregate conclusion was drawn based on all five industries. Overall, the short term outcome reflected stock market reaction which caused most values to decrease from the news. Long term values were restored for the most part in relation to the total stock market behavior as represented by the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The intent of the research was to measure wealth changes as a result of governmental policy pronouncements. The capital values of the stock market provided a means of measuring wealth. While this paper did not intend to provide investment insight, one can conclude that short term downturns from some governmental policies are short term in nature. A savvy investor may be able to outperform the market average using such downturns as a strategic investment point.
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- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12396
- Subject Headings
- Capital market--United States, Stock exchanges--United States, Industrial policy--United States, United States--Economic policy, Corporations--United States
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Effects of Social Structure on Individual Actions: a Social Cognition and Social Structure Approach.
- Creator
- Knoche, Harry "Trip", Castrogiovanni, Gary J., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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This study examines the effects of epistemic motives and individual social structure (strength of social ties) on individual actions. lt has been suggested that the informal structure of relations that develops within firms affects the actions of individuals e effects of both epistemic motives and social structure are considered. The findings of this study suggest that information about the epistemic motives of employees can provide insight into the fonnation of the individual social...
Show moreThis study examines the effects of epistemic motives and individual social structure (strength of social ties) on individual actions. lt has been suggested that the informal structure of relations that develops within firms affects the actions of individuals e effects of both epistemic motives and social structure are considered. The findings of this study suggest that information about the epistemic motives of employees can provide insight into the fonnation of the individual social structures and the intrinsic desire of employees to take interdependent or independent actions. The effects of epistemic motives and individual social structure on individual actions, the organizing process and the formulation and implementation of strategies are discussed.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000309
- Subject Headings
- Motivation (Psychology)--Social aspects, Social networks--Psychological aspects, Social capital (Sociology), Managerial economics, Economics--Moral and ethical aspects
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- Document (PDF)
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- More social capital please!: a study of a Brazilian immigrant community.
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- Esteves, Jessica., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Researchers who study Brazilian immigrants in the United States have noted a lack of camaraderie and social networks among Brazilians. Based on recent research conducted in Broward County, Florida, Manuel Vâasquez argues that while there are clear structural impediments to community formation among Brazilian immigrants, Brazilians do form social networks. This thesis examines the survey and ethnographic data from Vâasquez's sample to test a series of hypotheses about which factors impact...
Show moreResearchers who study Brazilian immigrants in the United States have noted a lack of camaraderie and social networks among Brazilians. Based on recent research conducted in Broward County, Florida, Manuel Vâasquez argues that while there are clear structural impediments to community formation among Brazilian immigrants, Brazilians do form social networks. This thesis examines the survey and ethnographic data from Vâasquez's sample to test a series of hypotheses about which factors impact levels of social capital and the potential for network creation and mobilization among Brazilian immigrants. Analysis of the data suggests that religious participation and levels of perceived discrimination are correlated with higher levels of social capital in this sample. For a group of immigrants characterized by a lack of collective solidarity and facing an increasingly hostile economic and social climate, religious organizations may be essential locales for achieving sufficient social capital for social, economic, and political integration.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3335017
- Subject Headings
- Social capital (Sociology), Infrastructure (Economics), Social networks, Brazilian Americans, Social conditions, Brazilian Americans, Cultural assimilation, Brazilian Americans, Ethnic identity, Emigration and immigration
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The spirit of the age : its tendencies to a change that is not reform : speeches of Senators Bond, Fuller, Coffin and Bokee, in State Senate.
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- New York (State) Legislature Senate, Van Benthuysen, C. (Charles) 1817-1881
- Abstract/Description
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Contains speeches in the Senate of the State of New York: opposing the separate legal status of women, favoring the death penalty, and opposing homestead exemptions for debtors. FAU copy with printed paper wrappers, side stiched with brown cord.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb14f19
- Subject Headings
- Capital punishment -- United States -- States, Debtor and creditor -- United States -- States, Exemption (Law) -- United States -- States, Homestead law -- United States -- States, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Women -- Legal status, laws, etc -- United States -- States
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- E-book
- Title
- Placaat.
- Creator
- Holland en West Friesland (Netherlands) Staten., Scheltus, Isaac 1739-1799
- Abstract/Description
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On the regulation concerning the levy of the tax of twice the one hundredth penny to pay for the war. Text begins: De Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, allen den geenen die desen zullen zien of hooren leezen, salut: doen te weeten: dat vermits ... alle goede poogingen ... om in deeze ... dagen, de strictste onzydigheid tusschen de oorlogende mogendheeden te bewaaren, echter op het onverwagtste door de bestuurders der Fransche natie is aangevallen ...Printed marginalia. Imprint from...
Show moreOn the regulation concerning the levy of the tax of twice the one hundredth penny to pay for the war. Text begins: De Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, allen den geenen die desen zullen zien of hooren leezen, salut: doen te weeten: dat vermits ... alle goede poogingen ... om in deeze ... dagen, de strictste onzydigheid tusschen de oorlogende mogendheeden te bewaaren, echter op het onverwagtste door de bestuurders der Fransche natie is aangevallen ...Printed marginalia. Imprint from colophon. Armorial head-piece (arms of Holland and West-Friesland); woodcut factotum initial (with the lion of Holland).
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb12f11
- Subject Headings
- Capital levy -- Netherlands -- Holland (Province) -- Early works to 1800, Netherlands -- History -- 1714-1795 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Netherlands -- Holland (Province) -- Early works to 1800
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- E-book
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- Ordonnantie, waar op binnen Holland en Westvriesland ten behoeven van de gemeenen zaak,.
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- Holland en West Friesland (Netherlands) Staten.
- Abstract/Description
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volgens consent van 'sLands Staaten, by collecte zal geheven worden den impost op het beestiaal.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb12f3
- Subject Headings
- Capital levy -- Netherlands -- Holland (Province) -- Early works to 1800, Netherlands -- History -- 1714-1795 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Netherlands -- Holland (Province) -- Early works to 1800
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- E-book
- Title
- Soil of misfortune: Education, poverty, and race in a rural south Florida community.
- Creator
- Gonzalez, Juan Carlos., Florida Atlantic University, Kirsch, Max H.
- Abstract/Description
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This dissertation addresses the structural components of education in the United States and how they have hindered the ability of a community's black and brown children to obtain the knowledge and resources needed to succeed and adapt to the changing circumstances of their region and beyond. It will do so through a case study of a small community in the American South, where the failure of education to provide access to the American dream has been clearly demonstrated in persistent poverty...
Show moreThis dissertation addresses the structural components of education in the United States and how they have hindered the ability of a community's black and brown children to obtain the knowledge and resources needed to succeed and adapt to the changing circumstances of their region and beyond. It will do so through a case study of a small community in the American South, where the failure of education to provide access to the American dream has been clearly demonstrated in persistent poverty and lack of opportunity available to its residents. Belle Glade, Florida is a rural community centrally located within the Everglades Agricultural Area. Fifty years after the historic 1954 Brown vs. Board decision, which outlawed school segregation and the separate but equal claims of Plessy vs. Ferguson, little has changed in this poor rural community. This study shows that this community, rather than representing an isolated case, is reflective of many small non-metro communities of the American South. Though integration initially intended to balance the great disparity that existed between the schools for black children and schools for white children in regards to facilities, materials, and curriculum, in Belle Glade and throughout the South those same disparities still exist today. This study argues that current state education policies, modeled after the federal government's "No Child Left Behind Plan," are a veneer for a separate and unequal educational policy and practice in the state of Florida. It seeks to explore and document why this has occurred, and place this case study within the larger context of structural inequalities on the local, national and global levels. How is it that the "freest nation in the world" with the largest gross national product has yet to fulfill its most fundamental promise to this community---equal opportunity and access to quality education? Thus, this dissertation asks why regardless of the policies, plans, curricula and tests the district and state adopt, at times with the best of intentions, nothing seems to improve the conditions of these black citizens? More importantly, when these issues are addressed, who speaks, under what conditions and for whom?
Show less - Date Issued
- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12161
- Subject Headings
- Social capital (Sociology)--United States, Segregation in education--Florida--Belle Glade, African Americans--Education--History--20th century, Educational change--Florida--Belle Glade, Race relations in school management--Florida, Discrimination in education--Florida
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- Document (PDF)
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- Publicatie op de heffinge van den vyftigsten penning. Gearresteerd den 21. october 1795.
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- Utrecht (Netherlands : Province) Staten
- Abstract/Description
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Issued by the representatives of Utrecht. Dated and signed at end: "Utrecht den 21. October 1795... G.A. Visscher... Jb. van Haeften." Seal of the Staten van Utrecht below title with motto: Concordia res parvae crescunt; woodcut initial.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb12f18
- Subject Headings
- Capital levy -- Netherlands -- Utrecht (Province) -- Early works to 1800, Law -- Netherlands -- Utrecht -- Early works to 1800, Netherlands -- History -- 1714-1795 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Taxation -- Netherlands -- Utrecht (Province) -- Early works to 1800, Utrecht (Netherlands : Province) -- Politics and government -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800
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- E-book
- Title
- From Farm to Market: The Political Economy of the Antebellum American West.
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- Salcito, Matthew, Engle, Stephen D., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis examines the dynamic change the market revolution had on social and cultural institutions in the American West. Specifically, it investigates how market forces influenced rural life patterns for farmers, urban mercantile culture and regional commercial interests. Davenport, Iowa is the focus for the narrative’s hinge, as this midsized western marketplace represented a link between its farmers and the regional markets in Chicago. This project uses wheat and the prairie region in...
Show moreThis thesis examines the dynamic change the market revolution had on social and cultural institutions in the American West. Specifically, it investigates how market forces influenced rural life patterns for farmers, urban mercantile culture and regional commercial interests. Davenport, Iowa is the focus for the narrative’s hinge, as this midsized western marketplace represented a link between its farmers and the regional markets in Chicago. This project uses wheat and the prairie region in antebellum Iowa and Illinois as a case study and examines the cultural and social development of farmers and merchants in the marketplace. Following wheat from farm to market, both locally and regionally, helps to explain how Americans understood the commodity at each economic level. Time and place were central to the American West's economic, social, and cultural development and this thesis considers just a moment in its history. A intersect of rural, agricultural, technological, and environmental histories are at the project's core, but it also attempts to make sense of frontier capitalism and the ramifications it had on farming and the grain industry. The market revolution gradually influenced and shaped the nation’s agricultural economy and the people that preformed its labor and production.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004630, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004630
- Subject Headings
- West (U.S.)--History., West (U.S.)--Historiography., West (U.S.)--Social conditions--19th century., United States--Economic conditions--To 1865., United States--Civilization--1783-1865., Capitalism--United States--Social aspects--History.
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- Document (PDF)
