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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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New markets and their supporting institutions : opportunities and constraints for demand growth
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the opportunities and challenges posed for developing countries from evolving markets for higher-value agricultural and food products, highlighting the evolution of high-value markets for nontraditional exports and the performance of developing countries at an aggregate level.
Values in Knowledge Organization Standards: A Value Analysis of Resource Description and Access (RDA)
TL;DR: The ways in which standards and their enactments serve to mediate key community values are revealed, demonstrating the integral nature of values in standards, and position value analysis as a useful methodology in the critical study of standards in all domains.
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A practice-centered analysis of environmental accounting standards: integrating agriculture into carbon governance
Steven A. Wolf,Ritwick Ghosh +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a practice-centered, ethnomethodological approach to study the creation of an accounting protocol for nitrous oxide emissions from corn production, an effort within the broader project of enlisting agriculture in carbon markets, finding that efforts to create a far-reaching, rigorous, and efficient standard were frustrated by lack of data, contestation of knowledge claims, and the challenges of collapsing realworld heterogeneity into a model and a set of tidy decision rules.
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The moral economy of civic food networks in Manchester
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an analysis of "civic food networks" in the city of Manchester using the idea of the "moral economy" and its various conceptualizations, both within and beyond agri-food studies.
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Public and Private Agri-Environmental Regulation in Post-Socialist Economies: Evidence from the Serbian Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Sector.
TL;DR: In this paper, the implementation and enforcement of public and private environmental regulation in the Serbian Fresh Fruit and Vegetable (FFV) sector was analyzed using primary survey data and interview evidence.
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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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