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The moral economy of grades and standards
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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).About:
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.read more
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Markets, religion, regulation: Kosher, halal and Hindu vegetarianism in global perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore religious economies and markets at three interrelated levels of the social scale: state and non-state regulation, the marketplace and consumers, and compare the similarities and differences between kosher, halal and Hindu vegetarian practices.
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Shaping the aquaculture sustainability assemblage: Revealing the rule-making behind the rules
Elizabeth Havice,Alastair Iles +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-sponsored multi-stakeholder aquaculture dialogues, an unusually open and participatory experiment in green rule-making.
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Climate change, markets and standards: the case of financial accounting
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine unresolved attempts since 2005 to develop financial accounting standards for greenhouse gas emission allowances, and explore the role of standards within markets, and provide a welcome avenue for thinking afresh about the relationship between climate change and standards.
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Transnational multi-stakeholder sustainability standards and biofuels: understanding standards processes
TL;DR: The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) is a high profile transnational multi-stakeholder initiative to ensure the sustainability of the production of biofuels.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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
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
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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