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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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How market standards affect building design: The case of low energy design in commercial offices:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop existing work on building design through a focus on one important yet understudied form of regulation: market standards, which are agreed upon definitions of "necessa...
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The “Coffee Doctors”: The Language of Taste and the Rise of Rwanda's Specialty Bean Value
TL;DR: Rwanda's specialty coffee sector during the early twenty-first century has brought high-end Rwandan coffee to the shelves of coffee retailers across the United States, Europe, and Japan.
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The Roles of Standardization, Certification, and Assurance Services in Global Commerce
TL;DR: Richman et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the enforcement of business and commercial understandings and agreements, and the organization of activities within firms in the context of microeconomic theory, organizational economics, and law, especially property, contract and business entity law.
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Cultivating Market Relations – Diversification in the Danish Organic Production Sector Following Market Expansion
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how the market influences organic production by looking at the relationship between the market and producers' engagement in trust and quality building as well as farm level production strategy in the Danish organic food market.
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Reconceiving the grain heap: Margins and movements on the market floor
TL;DR: In this article, the post-harvest grain heap is reconceptualised as a critical entry point and analytic for the study of contemporary commodity markets, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in an agricultural market (mandi) in Madhya Pradesh.
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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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