The moral economy of grades and standards
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...…at using convention theory to enrich other approaches have been carried out in relation to global value chains (Daviron and Gibbon 2002; Daviron and Ponte forthcoming) and agro-food networks (Barham 2002; Busch 2000; Busch and Tanaka 1996; Freidberg 2003; Murdoch and Miele 1999; Murdoch et al ....
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...Marx’s analysis of capitalism examined the standardization of conditions for economic activity in a capitalist market, as well as the spread of the commodity as a standard mode of economic exchange (Marx 1867 [1977]; see also Busch 2000)....
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...Yet it is hard to see how standards can be purely good while standardization is wholly bad, given that standardization presumes the existence of standards, whereas standards cannot endure with any potency unless they are standardized across social domains (Busch 2000)....
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...To standardize transportation is inevitably to standardize the perceptions and tastes of travelers (Schivelbusch 1977); to standardize policies is to standardize those administered by them (Busch 2000)....
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...For Marx the minute division of labor is disastrous, as it alienates workers (Marx, 1964)....
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...…barter, and exchange one thing for another.a For him, market relations are to be encouraged as they have the salutory e!ect of subordinating the passions to the interests, thereby providing desired social outcomes irrespective of the motivations or behavior of individual actors (Hirschman, 1977)....
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...a For him, market relations are to be encouraged as they have the salutory e!ect of subordinating the passions to the interests, thereby providing desired social outcomes irrespective of the motivations or behavior of individual actors (Hirschman, 1977)....
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...The literature on the contemporary transformations of agriculture is voluminous (e.g., Bonanno et al., 1994; Busch et al., 1991; Buttel and Newby, 1980; Friedland et al., 1991; Goodman et al., 1987; Goodman and Watts, 1997; McMichael, 1995)....
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