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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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Getting Creative with Data: Managing Relationships and Quantitative Proof in an Indian NGO
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Small Farms and Innovation
TL;DR: Leeuwis et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a conceptual framework that could inspire innovation policies able to take into account the emerging agricultural and rural agenda, based on a comprehensive conceptualization of the innovation system.
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Embedded geographies and quality construction in Sulawesi coffee commodity chains
TL;DR: Acknowedgements and acknowledgements as discussed by the authors Table of Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5 Table 6 Table 7 Table 1.1.2.3.4.
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Requalifying markets of basic food commodities? An examination of the Round Table on Responsible Soy's implementation in Córdoba, Argentina
TL;DR: The case of RTRS makes visible some of the challenges and difficulties that emerge when markets of basic food commodities attempt to adopt the logic of quality markets as discussed by the authors, and the empirical analysis shows that RTRs aims at producing some modest transformations in the production practices of the soy sector.
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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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