Search for dissertations about: "New Economic Criticism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words New Economic Criticism.

  1. 1. "Institutions", What Is In a Word? A Critique of the New Institutional Economics

    Author : Daniel Ankarloo; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic history; history matters as if-economic history ; hierarchy; market; capitalism; transactions costs; Institutions; property rights; Ekonomisk och social historia;

    Abstract : This thesis is a critique of the New Institutional Economics (NIE) in economic history. The focus is on explanations to the origin and development of capitalist institutions within NIE. After a methodological discussion in chapter 1 the author investigates into how well NIE succeeds in explaining capitalist institutions. READ MORE

  2. 2. Organizational resilience through crisis strategic planning

    Author : Rudrajeet Pal; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Organizational resilience; crisis strategic planning; economic crisis; Sweden; textile and clothing; small and medium -sized enterprise;

    Abstract : Resilience, in an organizational sense meaning the ability to withstand crises and disturbances, has become a keyword during the last ten years. It is associated with established activities like risk and crisis management and business continuity planning or with strategic management, but it allows for new perspectives and insights into the conditions for doing business. READ MORE

  3. 3. INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    Author : Signe Leth Gammelgaard; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; New Economic Criticism; debt; Balzac; Trollope; Zola; Huysmans; Wilde; Mirbeau; money; nineteenth-century novel; economy and literature; materialism; Marxist literary theory; semiotics; Saussure; the human body in literature.;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on prior work on parallels between language and money and argues specifically that developments in the nineteenth-century novel can be understood in terms of the contemporaneous economic history, and that the two sign systems of language and money display structural similarities in this period. READ MORE

  4. 4. In Between Cultures : Franco-American Encounters in the Work of Edith Wharton

    Author : Maria Strääf; Lars-Håkan Svensson; Kerstin W. Shands; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; American literature; capital; economic; cultural; social and symbolic; cultural encounter; Edith Wharton; hybridity; in-betweenness; mimicry; narratology; nineteenth-century literature; twentieth-century literature; otherness; women’s literature; Amerikansk litteratur; Edith Wharton; hybriditet; in-betweenness mellanskap ; kapital: ekonomiskt; kulturellt; socialt and symboliskt; kulturmöte; kvinnolitteratur; 1800-tals litteratur; 1900-tals litteratur; mimicry; narratologi; otherness ”den andre” ; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of how the American author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) in a number of novels and short stories written between 1876 and 1937 depicts cultural encounters between Americans and Europeans, mostly Frenchmen. Chiefly concerned with Fast and Loose, “The Last Asset”, Madame de Treymes, “Les Metteurs en Scène”, The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence, each of which articulates ideas relevant to the theme investigated, the thesis also contains a supplementary discussion of The Reef, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Mother’s Recompense and The Buccaneers. READ MORE

  5. 5. Swedish refugee policymaking in transition? : Czechoslovaks and Polish Jews in Sweden, 1968-1972

    Author : Łukasz Górniok; Martin Hårdstedt; Malin Thor Tureby; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sweden; Czechoslovak refugees; Polish-Jewish refugees; Cold War; 1968-1972; active foreign policy; refugee policy; multiculturalism; national security; labour market considerations;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to examine the Swedish government’s responses to the Prague Spring, the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the anti-Semitic campaigns in Poland and, first and foremost, to Czechoslovak and Polish-Jewish refugees fleeing their native countries as a result of these event during the formative period of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This has been accomplished by examining the entire process from the decision to admit the refugees in 1968, to their reception and economic integration into Swedish society during the seven-year period necessary for acquiring Swedish citizenship. READ MORE