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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Distribution, inflation, and public industrial enterprises

Publication Date
1991-September-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Bilginsoy, Cihan
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

A Kaleckian model, featuring the complementarity of the public and private sectors and administered pricing of public-sector products, is developed to examine the impact of public enterprises on income distribution between the state, capital, and labor. Public-sector mark-up and relative...

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Inflation, growth, and import bottlenecks in the Turkish manufacturing sector

Publication Date
1989-November-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Bilginsoy, Cihan
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper argues that, in economies heavily dependent on imported inputs, the responsiveness of price and output to cost and demand factors are altered by foreign exchange bottlenecks if the government resorts to nonmarket allocation of import licenses. A model...

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Quesnay's Tableau Economique: An expository note

Publication Date
1991-September-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Bilginsoy, Cihan
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

Francois Quesney's Tableau is reformulated as a two-sector linear system. Stationary state interclass exchanges are described by a sequential accounting Tableau of real and monetary holdings of each class at each step of the circulation process. A diagrammatic framework is...

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Transgender Gynecology: The Construction of Medical Knowledge and Health Social Movements as Catalysts for Change

Publication Date
2023-April-21
Authors
Oppenheim, Hannah
Department or Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This thesis examines the current state of routine transgender gynecologic care, highlighting patient discomfort and distrust of healthcare providers, particularly during the gynecological exam. I discuss how the construction of medical knowledge, including the makeup of the medical field, sources...

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