John Mcdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3735862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mcdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4499-6295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Following the Invisible Road Rules in the Field: Using ANT for CTF
Australian grain growers look to technologies of farming and cropping systems to maximise their productivity. Zero tillage cropping, variable rate inputs, soil moisture probes, and precision planting are a few practices that farmers may adopt to support their farming practices. To implement cropping technologies, and to achieve the outcomes promoted by the technological innovators, farmers need an alignment of machinery, mobile connectivity, know…
Urban America: Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth: Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth
This book will change the way Americans think about their cities. It provides a comprehensive economic and social history of urban America since 1950, covering the 29 largest urban areas of that period. Specifically, the book covers 17 cities in the Northeast, 6 in the South, and 6 in the West, decade by decade, with extensive data and historical narrative. The author divides his analysis into three periods - urban growth (1950 to 1970), urban cr…
Entrepreneurship in Wiltshire, England, almost 1,000 years ago
The relative efficiency of king's, ecclesiastical, and lay estates in D omesday E ssex, 1086
In the D omesday survey of 1086, information on the inputs and output of most production units in the E nglish economy was carefully collected by questionnaire survey and verified in court. In this paper, E ssex estate data are used to assess whether similar production functions describe production for the three major classes of production unit in the economy – king's, ecclesiastical, and lay estates. A data envelopment analysis is undertaken to …
Using least squares and tobit in second stage DEA efficiency analyses
The Life Course: A Sociological Introduction
Stephen Hunt Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 228 pp., ISBN 9781403914705, $61.00 (paperback) The notion of the life course has been resurrected in the social and health sciences to make sense o
Restorative Justice Process in Case Law
Joyce and Mahfouz: Fragmentation and the Feminine
James Joyce once wrote to a friend, “In the particular is contained the universal.” My paper is a cross-cultural thematic analysis of the short stories “Eveline,” by Joyce, and “The Answer is No” by Naguib Mahfouz. The stories, set in Dublin and Cairo, feature female protagonists who are faced with individual decisions which conflict with their sense of gender-duty, tradition, and family
Legitimating private interests: Hegemonic control over `the public interest' in National Competition Policy
National Competition Policy (NCP), legislated in Australia in 1995, has arguably been the single most consequential economic policy over the past decade. Yet it has largely escaped sociological analysis. This article investigates how the concept of the public interest in NCP has actually had the effect of legitimizing neo-liberal ideologies concerning private, individual, economic interests. Using critical policy analysis, this article examines h…
Caste, inequality and the nation-state: The impact of reservation policies in India, c. 1950–2000
Since Independence, a significant question for India has been how to manage the relationship between socio-ritual status—caste—and inequality. Initially concern in this context focused on the Untou
Teenage Births and Final Adult Height of Mothers in India, 1998–1999
This paper investigates the statistical association between teenage births and the physical growth path of these mothers. It draws on data on the height of ever-married women aged 15–49 and their birth histories collected in India’s National Family Health Survey in 1998–99, and shows that there was a negative relationship between final adult height of women and the number of births they had as teenagers. Using multiple regression analysis, it is …
Neo‐liberalism and the pathologising of public issues: The displacement of feminist service models in domestic violence support services
Using domestic violence support services as a case study, this paper examines how the ascendancy of neo‐liberalism has individualised and pathologised public issues. Four perspectives are identified that have been influential in understanding the causes of domestic violence, determining responses to it and measuring the effectiveness of support services. These four perspectives may be categorised as: (i) victim‐blaming; (ii) social movement; (iii…
Reaction of House Prices to a New Rapid Transit Line: Chicago's Midway Line, 1983–1999
This study examines the effect of the new rapid transit line from downtown Chicago to Midway Airport on single‐family house prices before and after the opening of the line. The results show that the housing market anticipated the opening of the line. House prices were being affected by proximity to the stations in the late 1980s and early 1990s—after the plans for the line were well known. The difference between the increase in the value of homes…
Power, status and marginalisation: Rural social workers and evidence‐based practice in multidisciplinary teams
The present paper examines how evidence‐based practice (EBP) is impacting on the professional status of social workers working in multidisciplinary health teams in rural Victoria. Questionnaires and interviews were used to investigate the use and perceived appropriateness of EBP and the implications for the professional status of social workers. The results indicated that social workers have the lowest levels of knowledge and application of EBP. …
Infant feeding practices and chronic child malnutrition in the Indian states of Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh
Social support or structural change? Social work theory and research on care-giving
Since 1980, national and international research knowledge on carers and care-giving has been accumulating. However, the theoretical bases of this research are usually unstated and implicit. Theory is vital in shaping social work research programs and types of social work intervention. This paper examines and critiques the social work theories influencing published social work research on care-giving. A search of key social work journals from 1980…
Long-Term Change in Indian Health
I There is a paucity of comprehensive and systematic evidence of long-term changes in Indian health. Estimates of long-term change in death rates for the entire population do exist, but not for specific socio-economic groups within the popu- lation.r Neither is there adequate evidence on the incidence of disease and on nutritional intake for these various socio-economic groups. There do exist, how- ever, anthropometric data on adult height and we…
Skills, Origins and Literacy: A Comparison of the Bounty Immigrants into New South Wales in 1841, With the Convicts Resident in The Colony
In 1841, some 20,000 assisted immigrants arrived in New South Wales (including the province of Port Phillip) augmenting the existing population by approximately 15 per cent. Most of the European population consisted of convicts or ex‐convicts. The characteristics of the bounty immigrants who landed in 1841 have been analysed by McDonald and Richards, while a sample of approximately 20,000 convicts transported to New South Wales have been analysed…
Contestability and social justice: The limits of competitive tendering of welfare services
This paper critically analyses competitive tendering as a model for the provision of welfare services. Competitive tendering, driven by National Competition Policy and other imperatives for greater efficiency and a smaller public sector, is now used extensively by governments to fund welfare services. However, the suitability of this funding model to welfare services generally, and specifically welfare services in non-metropolitan areas, can be c…
Contestability and social justice: The limits of competitive tendering of welfare services
This paper critically analyses competitive tendering as a model for the provision of welfare services. Competitive tendering, driven by National Competition Policy and other imperatives for greater efficiency and a smaller public sector, is now used extensively by governments to fund welfare services. However, the suitability of this funding model to welfare services generally, and specifically welfare services in non-metropolitan areas, can be c…
Mortality and Voyage Length in the Middle Passage Revisited
Change in the stature of North Indians from British Rule to early independence
Article Change in the stature of North Indians from British Rule to early independence was published on June 1, 2000 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 41, issue 1)
The geographic and social origins of Indian indentured labourers in Mauritius, Natal, Fiji, Guyana and Jamaica
(1998). The geographic and social origins of Indian indentured labourers in Mauritius, Natal, Fiji, Guyana and Jamaica. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 21, Across The Kala Pani: Indian Overseas Migration and Settlement, pp. 39-71
The Great Emigration of 1841: Recruitment for New South Wales in British Emigration Fields
In 1841 the colony of New South Wales offered an unprecedented number of heavily subsidised passages to British emigrants. It sought specific categories particularly single young women domestic servants and agricultural labourers. The colony preferred English and Scottish rural immigrants....While the influence of the selection criteria as well as local factors was pronounced this paper argues that the recruitment also expressed the changing prop…
The Heights and Economic Well-Being of North Indians under British Rule
The incidence of divorce within cohorts of American marriages contracted since the civil war
The proportion of marriages that end in divorce can be estimated from vital registration or from census data. The former source suggests considerably higher levels of divorce than does the latter. A new series, combining the two sources, is presented for annual marriage cohorts back to 1867. Actual experience to 1970 is traced and a projection beyond that point is made for cohorts with incomplete divorce histories. The cohort divorce series moves…
Neo‐liberalism and the pathologising of public issues: The displacement of feminist service models in domestic violence support services
Using domestic violence support services as a case study, this paper examines how the ascendancy of neo‐liberalism has individualised and pathologised public issues. Four perspectives are identified that have been influential in understanding the causes of domestic violence, determining responses to it and measuring the effectiveness of support services. These four perspectives may be categorised as: (i) victim‐blaming; (ii) social movement; (iii…
Trends in the Economic Well-Being of South Indians under British Rule: The Anthropometric Evidence
Power, status and marginalisation: Rural social workers and evidence‐based practice in multidisciplinary teams
The present paper examines how evidence‐based practice (EBP) is impacting on the professional status of social workers working in multidisciplinary health teams in rural Victoria. Questionnaires and interviews were used to investigate the use and perceived appropriateness of EBP and the implications for the professional status of social workers. The results indicated that social workers have the lowest levels of knowledge and application of EBP. …
Mortality on immigrant voyages to Australia in the 19th century
The Determinants of Manorial Income in Domesday England: Evidence from Essex
Despite its wealth of economic data, Domesday Book, complied almost nine hundred years ago, has been surprisingly neglacted by quantitative economic historians. In analyzing one of the central issues in Domesday book—namely the relationship between manorial resurces and income—we here provide a first step in the attempt to redress the balance, by employing recently developed statistical techiniques. The result of the analysis constitutes strong g…
Mortality and Voyage Length in the Middle Passage Revisited
Some situational determinants of hypothesis-testing strategies
A time series approach to forecasting Australian total live-births
The relationship between classical demographic deterministic forecasting models, stochastic structural econometric models and time series models is discussed. Final equation autoregressive moving average (ARMA) models for Australian total live-births are constructed. Particular attention is given to the problem of transforming the time series to stationarity (and Gaussianity) and the properties of the forecasts are analyzed. Final form transfer f…
Passenger fares on sailing vessels to Australia in the nineteenth century
The Suitability of Domesday Book for Cliometric Analysis
T he comment by Hamshere on our Domesday tax assessment article raises a number of methodological and historical issues concerning the suitability of Domesday Book for cliometric analysis.2 Hamshere's main methodological point is that the nature of the Domesday data imposes many limitations upon the use of statistical techniques and that the resulting conclusions, particularly those derived from multiple regression techniques, must be treated wit…
Were the Tax Assessments of Domesday England Artificial? The Case of Essex
The Life Course: A Sociological Introduction
Stephen Hunt Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 228 pp., ISBN 9781403914705, $61.00 (paperback) The notion of the life course has been resurrected in the social and health sciences to make sense o
Long-Term Change in Indian Health
I There is a paucity of comprehensive and systematic evidence of long-term changes in Indian health. Estimates of long-term change in death rates for the entire population do exist, but not for specific socio-economic groups within the popu- lation.r Neither is there adequate evidence on the incidence of disease and on nutritional intake for these various socio-economic groups. There do exist, how- ever, anthropometric data on adult height and we…
Contestability and social justice: The limits of competitive tendering of welfare services
This paper critically analyses competitive tendering as a model for the provision of welfare services. Competitive tendering, driven by National Competition Policy and other imperatives for greater efficiency and a smaller public sector, is now used extensively by governments to fund welfare services. However, the suitability of this funding model to welfare services generally, and specifically welfare services in non-metropolitan areas, can be c…
The geographic and social origins of Indian indentured labourers in Mauritius, Natal, Fiji, Guyana and Jamaica
(1998). The geographic and social origins of Indian indentured labourers in Mauritius, Natal, Fiji, Guyana and Jamaica. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 21, Across The Kala Pani: Indian Overseas Migration and Settlement, pp. 39-71
The Great Emigration of 1841: Recruitment for New South Wales in British Emigration Fields
In 1841 the colony of New South Wales offered an unprecedented number of heavily subsidised passages to British emigrants. It sought specific categories particularly single young women domestic servants and agricultural labourers. The colony preferred English and Scottish rural immigrants....While the influence of the selection criteria as well as local factors was pronounced this paper argues that the recruitment also expressed the changing prop…
The Heights and Economic Well-Being of North Indians under British Rule
Contestability and social justice: The limits of competitive tendering of welfare services
This paper critically analyses competitive tendering as a model for the provision of welfare services. Competitive tendering, driven by National Competition Policy and other imperatives for greater efficiency and a smaller public sector, is now used extensively by governments to fund welfare services. However, the suitability of this funding model to welfare services generally, and specifically welfare services in non-metropolitan areas, can be c…
Following the Invisible Road Rules in the Field: Using ANT for CTF
Australian grain growers look to technologies of farming and cropping systems to maximise their productivity. Zero tillage cropping, variable rate inputs, soil moisture probes, and precision planting are a few practices that farmers may adopt to support their farming practices. To implement cropping technologies, and to achieve the outcomes promoted by the technological innovators, farmers need an alignment of machinery, mobile connectivity, know…
Legitimating private interests: Hegemonic control over `the public interest' in National Competition Policy
National Competition Policy (NCP), legislated in Australia in 1995, has arguably been the single most consequential economic policy over the past decade. Yet it has largely escaped sociological analysis. This article investigates how the concept of the public interest in NCP has actually had the effect of legitimizing neo-liberal ideologies concerning private, individual, economic interests. Using critical policy analysis, this article examines h…
Caste, inequality and the nation-state: The impact of reservation policies in India, c. 1950–2000
Since Independence, a significant question for India has been how to manage the relationship between socio-ritual status—caste—and inequality. Initially concern in this context focused on the Untou
Social support or structural change? Social work theory and research on care-giving
Since 1980, national and international research knowledge on carers and care-giving has been accumulating. However, the theoretical bases of this research are usually unstated and implicit. Theory is vital in shaping social work research programs and types of social work intervention. This paper examines and critiques the social work theories influencing published social work research on care-giving. A search of key social work journals from 1980…
Babies at Risk on Immigrant Voyages to Australia in the Nineteenth Century
Mortality of Indian Labour on Ocean Voyages, 1843-1917
Press, Radio, Films
This selective survey endeavors to summarize leading events, situations, and research in the various fields of communications that particularly concern problems of public opinion formation and of control, freedom and censorship. The period covered extends from April through June 1940
Films
Journal Article Films Get access JOHN McDONALD JOHN McDONALD Editor Film NewsNew York City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 1941, Pages 127–129, https://doi.org/10.1086/265475 Published: 01 March 1941
Blood Lead Determinations as a Health Department Laboratory Service
Blood Lead Determinations as a Health Department Laboratory Service Emanuel Kaplan, and John M. McDonald CopyRight*Read before the Industrial Hygiene Section of the American Public Health Association at the Seventieth Annual Meeting in Atlantic City, N. J., October 15, 1941. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.32.5.481 Published Online: August 29, 2011
On the relation between savings, distribution and inflation
A model of inflation, distribution and savings analysed by Thirlwall is evaluated. We replace the Kaldor saving function, instead following Pasinetti, where capitalists’ and workers’ savings are assumed proportional to their respective incomes. With this formulation, estimates of the inflation required to change the overall savings rate are generally larger than Thirlwall's. The magnitude of the difference is related, inter alia, to the share of …
The incidence of divorce within cohorts of American marriages contracted since the civil war
The proportion of marriages that end in divorce can be estimated from vital registration or from census data. The former source suggests considerably higher levels of divorce than does the latter. A new series, combining the two sources, is presented for annual marriage cohorts back to 1867. Actual experience to 1970 is traced and a projection beyond that point is made for cohorts with incomplete divorce histories. The cohort divorce series moves…
A time series approach to forecasting Australian total live-births
The relationship between classical demographic deterministic forecasting models, stochastic structural econometric models and time series models is discussed. Final equation autoregressive moving average (ARMA) models for Australian total live-births are constructed. Particular attention is given to the problem of transforming the time series to stationarity (and Gaussianity) and the properties of the forecasts are analyzed. Final form transfer f…
An Empirical Test of a Theory of the Urban Housing Market
An Eighteenth-Dynasty Linen in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
An Eighteenth-Dynasty Linen in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Attendances at South Australian Football Games
EDA and regression methods are used to develop models explaining attendances at Australian Rules football games in South Australia. The models are evaluated by considering their post-sample forecast performance
The Determinants of Manorial Income in Domesday England: Evidence from Essex
Despite its wealth of economic data, Domesday Book, complied almost nine hundred years ago, has been surprisingly neglacted by quantitative economic historians. In analyzing one of the central issues in Domesday book—namely the relationship between manorial resurces and income—we here provide a first step in the attempt to redress the balance, by employing recently developed statistical techiniques. The result of the analysis constitutes strong g…
Were the Tax Assessments of Domesday England Artificial? The Case of Essex
A New Model for Learning Curves, Darm
This article introduces a new model for learning curves, a displaced autoregressive model (DARM). The model has theoretical and practical advantages over both the traditional exponential learning-curve model and the exponential leaming-curve model augmented by an autoregressive disturbance process. The DARM parameters can be related to the characteristics of the learning process and are easy to estimate. DARM appears to fit the data better than t…
[A New Model for Learning Curves, Darm]: Reply
The Suitability of Domesday Book for Cliometric Analysis
T he comment by Hamshere on our Domesday tax assessment article raises a number of methodological and historical issues concerning the suitability of Domesday Book for cliometric analysis.2 Hamshere's main methodological point is that the nature of the Domesday data imposes many limitations upon the use of statistical techniques and that the resulting conclusions, particularly those derived from multiple regression techniques, must be treated wit…
Domesday Economy: A New Approach to Anglo-Norman History
Domesday Economy: A New Approach to Anglo-Norman History
Mortality on Convict Voyages to Australia, 1788–1868
During the past two decades, there has been an outpouring of research on the seaboard mortality associated with intercontinental migration during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The focus of historical interest in this linkage between mortality and migration has been the Atlantic slave trade. We now have mortality rates on voyages from various regions in Africa to various destinations in the Americas, from the late seventee…
Mortality on Convict Voyages to Australia, 1788-1868
The Cost of Shipping Convicts to Australia
Mortality of Indian Labour on Ocean Voyages, 1843-1917
Mortality on immigrant voyages to Australia in the 19th century
Some situational determinants of hypothesis-testing strategies
Fares Charged for Transporting Indian Indentured Labour to Mauritius and the West Indies, 1850–1873
Passenger fares on sailing vessels to Australia in the nineteenth century
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