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  • Fast Food/Slow Food

    The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

    de Cathy Banwell, Theodore C. Bestor, Michael L. Burton, Jane Dixon, James A. Egan, Sarah Hinde, Valerie Imbruce, Dolores Koenig, Sarah Lyon, Ty Matejowsky, Heather McIntyre, Sidney Mintz, Karen L. Nero, Heather Paxson, Jeffery Pilcher, Lois Stanford, Penny Van Esterik, Gavin Whitelaw ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • The Northridge Earthquake

    Vulnerability and Disaster

    de Robert Bolin, Lois Stanford ...
    This book provides a global view of the social effects of disaster in developed and developing countries. It focuses on the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in the US and other recent disasters to examine vulnerability and post-disaster recovery strategies. The authors also explore the ways state policy can reduce vulnerability in the future. ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Commodities and Globalization

    Anthropological Perspectives

    de Peter D. Little, Jane L. Collins, Winifred Creamer, Catherine S. Dolan, Stuart Plattner, Nicole Polier, Bruce D. Roberts, Mitchell S. Rothman0, Lois Stanford1, M Priscilla Stone2, Gabriela Vargas-Cetina3, Bob White4, Randy Ziegenhorn5 ...
    Series series Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series
    TodayOs growing fascination with flows of people, commodities, technology, capital, images and ideas across national and other boundaries poses fresh theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. Commodities offer a particularly useful window on globalization because they, unlike electronically conveyed capital, transport cultural messages. These ideological or symbolic transfers are ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

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  • The Submerged State

    How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy

    de Suzanne Mettler ...
    "Keep your government hands off my Medicare!" Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler's provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social benefits and so hostile to them in principle, even though they receive them? The Obama administration has been roundly criticized for its inability to convey how much it has accomplished for ordinary ... Leer más

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  • Institutional Change in Southeast Asia

    Edición de Fredrik Sjöholm, José Tongzon ...
    Series series European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series
    This book examines the institutional changes taking place in, and challenges facing, the region since 1997. It also describes various differences in the reform process between countries in the region. Sjöholm and Tongzon argue that the economies of southeast Asia need to reform their institutions if the previous rapid development is to continue. The institutional weaknesses have been addressed to ... Leer más

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  • The Welfare State Revisited

    Edición de José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Understanding Poverty

    Edición de Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Benabou, Dilip Mookherjee ...
    Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Privatizing Water

    Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

    de Karen Bakker ...
    Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated—and contested—in large cities ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Malaysia's Development Challenges

    Graduating from the Middle

    Edición de Hal Hill, Tham Siew Yean, Ragayah Haji Mat Zin ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    This book examines the various economic, political and developmental policy challenges that Malaysia faces in her shift from a middle income to high-income economy. This issue is of great interest to academics, policy makers and development practitioners in the developing world, particularly in middle-income economies where there is a widespread concern about the challenges of managing such a ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Institutional Pathways To Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps

    de Walton Michael; Bebbington Anthony J.; Dani Anis A.; de Haan Arjan ...
    Questions of equity and inequality have moved to the center of debates on development and poverty reduction. This reflects growing awareness that even countries with high rates of growth can experience stagnating or increasing inequality, and that inequality can itself limit the poverty reducing effects of growth. Indeed, recent work indicates that, in addition to its intrinsic value, equity ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Imperial Nature

    The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization

    de Michael Goldman ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in history when it seemed likely to fall? This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the Bank, the foundations of its achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach.Michael Goldman ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Global Land Grab

    Beyond the Hype

    de Annelies Zoomers, Mayke Kaag ...
    The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing - the large-scale acquisition of land in the global South. It is a phenomenon against which locals seem defenceless, and one about which multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, as well as civil-society organizations and action NGOs have become ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD