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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: On the economic development of Canada's north west territories
  name:
    name part: Anders, Gerhard.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Chalk, Alfred
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Greenhut, Melvin L.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Hartley, H. O.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Schroeder, Melvin C.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Watson, R. L.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: theses
  genre: Academic theses.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 1972
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 189 leaves
  abstract: The Canadian government has in recent years spent up to $80 million annually to develop the North West Territories, an area of about one and quarter million square miles. No systemic study of the economic problems involved has to date been undertaken. This dissertation is an attempt to remedy this deficiency. Firstly, the problem of widespread native unemployment is considered. The study traces the way in which the high level of attenuation of private property rights prevailing in traditional native society affects the slope of indifference curves between income and leisure. It is shown to result in a negatively sloped labour supply curve. The effect of selected welfare measures among groups characterized by differently sloped indifference curves is shown to explain the behaviour of natives in the labour market. ...
  note: Ph. D. in Economic Development Texas A & M University
  subject:
    topic: Major economic development
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-181564
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    location:
      url: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  related item:
    location:
      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-181564
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 791204
    record change date: 20220103135419.0
    record identifier: in00000174918
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng