Simon M Fass
Biographic Data
| ID | 5990767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon M Fass |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fass |
| SIGNATURE | FASS S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9611-6320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political Economy in Haiti
This important study introduces the conceptual premise that families, like firms, analyze their circumstances, make decisions, and pursue courses of action on the basis of what they perceive to be the most efficient methods for producing and reproducing survival. Combining this premise with an extraordinary assemblage of facts gleaned over the period of a decade from the streets, markets and homes of Port-au-Prince, the author weaves a tapestry o…
Le logement des ultra-pauvres
Il est particulièrement difficile de définir des politiques et programmes de logement efficaces lorsqu'on s'adresse à deux catégories particulières de la population : les ultra-pauvres et les gens qui travaillent pour leur propre compte. Dans certaines villes du Tiers monde telles que Port-au-Prince, ces groupes constituent une partie importante de la population. Pour les ultra-pauvres, les conditions de logement sont fonction du prix des denrées…
Fast food in development
Innovations in the Struggle for Self-Reliance
Theory suggests that the process by which traditional societies become more self-reliant involves entrepreneurship in experimenting with different ways to move from known to unknown forms of economic activity. Innovative projects in the United States indicate that Hmong refugees are in the midst of such a movement. Progress to date has been slow and difficult, but the very fact that the projects exist and that participants in many of them are lea…
Innovations in the Struggle for Self-Reliance
Simon Fass, Innovations in the Struggle for Self-Reliance: The Hmong Experience in the United States, The International Migration Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Refugees: Issues and Directions (Summer, 1986), pp. 351-380
Through a Glass Darkly
Through a Glass Darkly
As the ongoing debate among philosophers and social scientists suggests, interpretation of cause and effect in human action is often extremely difficult. Especially complicated for the policy analyst is the problem of determining whether causal relationships are inferred from the evidence or imputed to it. This dilemma characterizes certain types of government activity in which distinctions between policy and implementation, between decisions and…
Applied Methods of Regional Analysis
Development assistance
Water and Politics
Innovations in the Struggle for Self-Reliance
Simon Fass, Innovations in the Struggle for Self-Reliance: The Hmong Experience in the United States, The International Migration Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Refugees: Issues and Directions (Summer, 1986), pp. 351-380
Fast food in development
Innovations in the Struggle for Self-Reliance
Theory suggests that the process by which traditional societies become more self-reliant involves entrepreneurship in experimenting with different ways to move from known to unknown forms of economic activity. Innovative projects in the United States indicate that Hmong refugees are in the midst of such a movement. Progress to date has been slow and difficult, but the very fact that the projects exist and that participants in many of them are lea…
Through a Glass Darkly
As the ongoing debate among philosophers and social scientists suggests, interpretation of cause and effect in human action is often extremely difficult. Especially complicated for the policy analyst is the problem of determining whether causal relationships are inferred from the evidence or imputed to it. This dilemma characterizes certain types of government activity in which distinctions between policy and implementation, between decisions and…
Water and Politics
Development assistance
Through a Glass Darkly
Through a Glass Darkly
As the ongoing debate among philosophers and social scientists suggests, interpretation of cause and effect in human action is often extremely difficult. Especially complicated for the policy analyst is the problem of determining whether causal relationships are inferred from the evidence or imputed to it. This dilemma characterizes certain types of government activity in which distinctions between policy and implementation, between decisions and…
Applied Methods of Regional Analysis
Innovations in the Struggle for Self-Reliance
Theory suggests that the process by which traditional societies become more self-reliant involves entrepreneurship in experimenting with different ways to move from known to unknown forms of economic activity. Innovative projects in the United States indicate that Hmong refugees are in the midst of such a movement. Progress to date has been slow and difficult, but the very fact that the projects exist and that participants in many of them are lea…
Innovations in the Struggle for Self-Reliance
Simon Fass, Innovations in the Struggle for Self-Reliance: The Hmong Experience in the United States, The International Migration Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Refugees: Issues and Directions (Summer, 1986), pp. 351-380
Fast food in development
Le logement des ultra-pauvres
Il est particulièrement difficile de définir des politiques et programmes de logement efficaces lorsqu'on s'adresse à deux catégories particulières de la population : les ultra-pauvres et les gens qui travaillent pour leur propre compte. Dans certaines villes du Tiers monde telles que Port-au-Prince, ces groupes constituent une partie importante de la population. Pour les ultra-pauvres, les conditions de logement sont fonction du prix des denrées…
Political Economy in Haiti
This important study introduces the conceptual premise that families, like firms, analyze their circumstances, make decisions, and pursue courses of action on the basis of what they perceive to be the most efficient methods for producing and reproducing survival. Combining this premise with an extraordinary assemblage of facts gleaned over the period of a decade from the streets, markets and homes of Port-au-Prince, the author weaves a tapestry o…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Business (2 works)