Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by publication year
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The Contradiction of Concentration A Critical Evaluation of Australian Merger Law
Published 2009-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The political economy of the Clean Development Mechanism
Published 2010-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
In credit we trust?: An analysis of US households and their consumption of credit from 1950-2007 through the lens of financialization
Published 2010-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Income distribution, growth and social-welfare: towards an economic solution to the growth-equality trade-off problem
Published 2011-01-01This thesis assesses the social-welfare implications of modifications to the post transfer distribution of income, in the context of welfare maximising policy design. Both the inequality-distributional efficiency and ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Risk, Competition and Credit Cards: The Financialisation of Australian Households
Published 2011-04-04Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Political Economy of Corruption Indexes
Published 2011-10-10Corruption indexes, such as the Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index and the World Bank’s Control of Corruption indicator, have played a pivotal role in focusing global attention on corruption. Since ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Debate on Excess Capacity, Issues of Competition and Time
Published 2011-10-17There has been a great deal of soul-‐searching in the economic community over the past few years. Economists of varying stripes have begun to question the academic and business paradigm which is the orthodox approach to ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Vouchers Reconsidered - The marketisation of education and prospects for social democratic reform
Published 2012-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
'Never had it so good'? The Concealed Costs of Financial Exposure
Published 2012-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Aid-for-Trade: the Way Forward for Development?
Published 2012-01-01The failure to eradicate poverty through trade-induced economic growth over a number of decades raises questions about the latest initiative: Aid-for-trade. After examining whether the initiative signifies a new paradigm ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Money for Nothing, Re-thinking Women's Empowerment and the Accomplishments of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh
Published 2012-01-01Microfinance Institutions often claim that microfinance is useful not only in alleviating poverty but also as a development tool which empowers women. The impacts of microfinance on empowerment have been studied by many, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Freedom and Faith in Neoliberal Capitalism: The Fantasy of the American Dream
Published 2012-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Labour Standards and Workers' Rights in the 'Global Factory'
Published 2013-10-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Value is an Institution. The Empire of Value, ontology, and the methodology of economics as a social science
Published 2013-10-16Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Workfare, neoliberalism and the welfare state. Towards a historical materialist analysis of Australian workfare
Published 2013-10-24Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Poverty Reduction and Governance in the African Periphery: A critical analysis of the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction Strategy in the political economies of sub-Saharan Africa
Published 2014-10-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Animals in Capital: A Marxist Perspective on the Use of Other Animals in Capitalist Commodity Production
Published 2015-10-01Open AccessThesis, Honours