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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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Assessing the Impact of Food Safety Requirements on the Performance of Canadian Agri-Food Exporters
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impact of food safety requirements on the performance of Canadian agri-food exporters and show that food safety challenges are influenced by prior investments in the internal food safety resources as well as the implemented food safety systems within the firm.
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The negotiation of quality standards: a social interactionist approach to fruit and vegetable distribution in Argentina.
Alberto Arce,M.L. Viteri +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a social interactionist approach to the settings in which food quality standards are negotiated and used by different actors, and suggest that studies that focus on the diffusion of 'global' quality standards should not omit consideration of differential responses to these standards, even if the conditions appear relatively homogeneous.
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A New Breed of Tomato Farmers? The Effect of Transnational Supermarket Standards on Domestic Cultures of Production and Trade
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare domestic suppliers of a fresh vegetable (tomato) across two types of retailers (wet markets and supermarkets) in a lower-income developing country (Nicaragua), to better understand the effects of supermarket procurement practices in developing countries.
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Between the Farm and the Farmer’s Market: Slaughterhouses, Regulations, and Alternative Food Networks
TL;DR: The history of US Livestock and Slaughter Industries can be traced back to the 1640s-1960s as mentioned in this paper, with a focus on the concentration and consolidation of US livestock and slaughter industries.
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Metrics and public accountability, the case of species credits in the USA
TL;DR: In this article , the authors compare two contrasting cases of a widely used market-based conservation policy, namely private single conservation banks and habitat exchanges as two economic mechanisms for the production and circulation of species credits.
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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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