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The moral economy of grades and standards

Lawrence Busch
- 01 Jul 2000 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 3, pp 273-283
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In this article, it is argued that grades and standards are part of the moral economy of the modern world, and that they both set norms for behavior and standardize (create uniformity).
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This article is published in Journal of Rural Studies.The article was published on 2000-07-01. It has received 313 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Generally Accepted Auditing Standards & Standardization.

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Feeding finance: a critical account of the shifting relationships between finance, food and farming

TL;DR: In this paper, a more nuanced account of the place of financialization in the agricultural sector is presented, examining how agriculture's emergence as an investment opportunity has reconfigured the terrain of agricultural interests and logics while creating new knowledge demands and agricultural visibilities.
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Undocumented lives : exclusion as moral injury in everyday Life

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative enquiry into the structural and moral dimensions of the exclusionary experiences endured by undocumented migrants is presented. But the focus of the study is not on the structural aspects of exclusion, but rather on the moral dimensions.
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The ‘climatism’ cartel: why climate change deniers oppose market-based mitigation policy

TL;DR: In this article, an archive of free-market environmental newsletters was analyzed for themes of economic opposition to market-based climate mitigation policies and found that climate change deniers rely upon the concept of a regulatory cartel to connect economic opposition with attacks on scientific evidence.
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Differentiated Standardization, Standardized Differentiation: The Complexity of the Global Agrifood System

TL;DR: It is argued that standardization and differentiation are both taking place simultaneously in the global agrifood system, and that analyses of the globalization of food and agriculture must begin to recognize this.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Robert D'Amico
- 20 Jun 1978 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.
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We Have Never Been Modern

Bruno Latour
TL;DR: This article argued that we are modern as long as we split our political process in two - between politics proper, and science and technology, which allowed the formidable expansion of the Western empires.
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Science in action : how to follow scientists and engineers through society

Bruno Latour
TL;DR: In this article, the quandary of the fact-builder is explored in the context of science and technology in a laboratory setting, and the model of diffusion versus translation is discussed.
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Capitalism and Freedom

TL;DR: In the classic bestseller, Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman presents his view of the proper role of competitive capitalism as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom as mentioned in this paper.
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