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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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Global supply chains and networking: A critical perspective on learning challenges in the New Zealand dairy and sheepmeat commodity chains
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Regulation of chemicals in children's products: How U.S. and EU regulation impacts small markets
Maya Negev,Tamar Berman,Shay Reicher,Simona A. Balan,Anna Soehl,Shula Goulden,Ruti Ardi,Yaniv Shammai,Laura Hadar,Arlene Blum,Miriam Diamond +10 more
TL;DR: This paper compared chemical regulations in children's products in the U.S., EU and Israel, and conducted in-depth interviews with diverse stakeholders in the Israeli product standardization process, concluding with policy recommendations for Israel which have relevance for other small markets.
A Social Life for Carbon?: Commodification, Markets and Care. , Kings College London.: Working Paper 36
Emily Boyd,Michael K. Goodman +1 more
TL;DR: In the USA, Cap and trade was turned into shouts of ‘Cap and Tax!’ by the likes of Sarah Palin, her fellow Mama Grizzlies and other Tea Party minions, in conjunction with a rather compliant US media.
Supermarkets and private standards : unintended consequences of the audit ritual
Stephen S. Davey,Carol Richards +1 more
TL;DR: In a case study of the Australian retail supermarket duopoly and the proprietary standards required for market access, the authors foregrounded retailers as standard owners and their role in third-party auditing and certification.
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Fairtrade bananas in the Caribbean: Towards a moral economy of recognition
Marisa Wilson,Peter Jackson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of Fair Trade bananas in the Windward Islands is presented, highlighting the historical and geographical, material and symbolic, gendered and generational ways that food producers in the Global South (in this case, banana farmers in St Vincent and the Grenadines) may be counterposed to ‘responsible’ consumers in the United Kingdom.
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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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