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"Thisthought-provoking but accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and byexploring what exactly cheap food affords us. Detailing the numerous ways that our understanding of food has narrowed, such asits price per ounce, combination of nutrients, yield per acre, or calories, the book argues for a more contextualview of food when debating its affordability. The first edition, published in 2011, was widely praised for its innovative approach and readability.In this new edition the author brings all data and citations fully up to date. Increased coverage is given to many topics including climate change, aquaculture, financialization, BRICS countries, food-based social movements, gender and ethnic issues, critical public health and land succession. There is also greater discussion about successful cases of social change throughout all chapters,by includingnew text boxes that emphasize these morepositive messages. The author shows why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what it promises. The food produced under this regime is in fact exceedingly expensive. Many of these costs will be paid for in other ways or by future generations and cheap food today may mean expensive food tomorrow. By systematically assessing these costs the book delves into issues related, but not limited, to international development, national security, healthcare, industrial meat production, organic farming, corporate responsibility, government subsidies, food aid and global commodity markets. It is shown that exploding the myth of cheap food requires we have at our disposal a host of practices and policies. "--Provided by publisher.

Public opinion matters. It registers itself on the public consciousness, translates into politics and policy, and impels politicians to run for office and, once elected, to serve in particular ways.This is a book about opinion?not opinions. James Stimson takes the incremental, vacillating, time-trapped data points of public opinion surveys and transforms them into a conceptualization of public mood swings that can be measured and used to predict change, not just to describe it. To do so, he reaches far back in U.S. survey research and compiles the data in such a way as to allow the minutiae of attitudes toward abortion, gun control, and housing to dissolve into a portrait of national mood and change.Using sophisticated techniques of coding, statistics, and data equalization, the author has amassed an unrivaled database from which to extrapolate his findings. The results go a long way toward calibrating the folklore of political eras, and the cyclical patterns that emerge show not only the regulatory impulse of the 1960s and 1970s and the swing away from it in the 1980s; the cycles also show that we are in the midst of another major mood swing right now?what the author calls the ?unnoticed liberalism? of current American politics.Concise, suggestive, and eminently readable, Public Opinion in America is ideal for courses on public opinion, public policy, and methods, as well as for introductory courses in American government. Examples and illustrations abound, and appendixes document the measurement of policy mood from survey research marginals. This revised second edition includes updated data on public opinion and voters through the 1996 presidential election.

"For a judiciary in a democracy, dispensing justice is not only about doing justice, but also about showing that justice is being done; it is about giving reasons and creating a "culture of justification". The question becomes how to nurture such a culture. A number of liberal democratic jurisdictions have answered this question in part with the adoption of the multi-step method of evaluating the constitutionality of legislative infringements on fundamental rights widely known as Proportionality Analysis. Under Proportionality Analysis courts must engage in a structured process of reasoning. This book deals with Gender Justice and Proportionality Analysis in India. The author argues that the Supreme Court of India should consider adopting Proportionality Analysis for the adjudication of the fundamental right to sex equality in Indian courts. The book includes an analysis of Canadian and South African Proportionality Analysis and makes some suggestions on how an Indian Proportionality Analysis could be generated using this comparative investigation. Additionally, the book proposes ways of applying the effects of socio-political context on doctrine, as well as doctrine's interpretive impact on adjudicated outcomes for gender, thus making a contribution to feminist jurisprudence. Finally, the author analyses Indian gender equality jurisprudence, demonstrating the inadequacies of the current doctrinal framework for achieving the goal of substantive gender equality and suggesting ways in which an Indian Proportionality Analysis might be fashioned to address these inadequacies. A novel examination of the gender situation in India in comparative perspective, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Gender Studies, Asian and Comparative Law and South Asian studies."--Provided by publisher

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society proposed unique thinking about "freedom and equality" and "human rights" in the postwar era but could not help to come up with effective concepts for an economic analysis of that capitalism of the period. On the other hand, the régulation theory born in the 1970s is well known by its definition of postwar capitalism as Fordism, based on the elaboration of a new conceptual framework, but it soon proved unable to directly explain Japan's experience by that central concept of Fordism. Inspired by consideration of Japanese civil society and also by the regulationist framework, the author has forged new analytical concepts such as "companyism" to understand Japanese capitalism including the recent "lost decades", and he elaborates more carefully the concepts of "growth regime" and "institutional change" to grasp the dynamics of the world economy including today's neoliberal trend. The original benefits of the book consist in 1) reviving a Japanese theory of civil society in the postwar period, 2) applying the régulation theory to the analysis of contemporary Japan, and 3) offering theoretical reflections on the conception of the world economy. Consequently, the author pays special attention to the relationship between the political and the economic as well as regulationist tools and the theory of civil society's perspective. The principal message of the book is that capitalism or the market economy must be supported by a sound civil society.--

"This eye-opening book takes a unique approach to the history of U.S. foreign policy by examining three unrelated conflicts, all of which ended tragically and resulted in the deaths of millions on both sides. By analyzing what went wrong in each case, the author uncovers a pattern of errors that should serve as a precaution for future decision makers contemplating a conflict abroad. Why did President McKinley oppose Filipino independence forces if his motivation was truly to help Filipinos overthrow Spanish domination? Why did several U.S. presidents ignore the failures of the French in Vietnam and reject peace overtures from popular revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh to bring the conflict to an early end? And how could American leaders have been so wrong about Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction and then let Iraq devolve into chaos after overthrowing the dictator? Historian David R. Contosta has sifted through official hearings, media investigations, public documents, memoirs of those for and against the conflicts, and numerous histories to uncover the answers to these questions. The common thread that links these wars from different centuries is that political leaders all too often have acted out of ignorance, arrogance, fear, and partisan gamesmanship. These lapses were compounded by the failure of the media to inform the public accurately and dispassionately. The sad result is that America has paid a high price in lost lives and tarnished national reputation. As the author notes in conclusion, if American exceptionalism is to have any meaning, then we must honestly appraise our past foreign-policy blunders to ensure wiser political action in the future"--

"The author has virtually incomparable experience in both providing trade policy advice to more than 25 countries on behalf of the World Bank and also publishing quality journal articles in most of those cases. In this volume, he focuses on his work on: (i) trade policies for countries making the transition from planned to market economies; (ii) his trade policy guideline papers for the World Bank on trade policies for poverty alleviation, uniform tariff policy, adjustment costs of trade liberalization, exchange rate overvaluation, globalization and technology transfer and rules of thumb on regional trade policies; (iii) multilateral, dynamic and environmental issues in trade policy using computable general equilibrium models; (iv) trade policy of the United States in the auto and steel industries; and (v) mathematical methods for modeling. The papers show an unusual combination of policy relevance, advice and impact, with rigor and international trade theory insights. The papers in this volume have appeared in many of the economics profession's more prestigious journals, including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, the Journal of International Economics, International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Comparative Economic, Review of International Economics, World Economy, the Southern Economic Journal, the World Bank Economic Review, the Japanese Economic Review and the Latin American Journal of Economics. In this book, the author elaborates on the articles by discussing some of the policy contexts for the requests for the work from developing and transition countries to the World Bank, the key trade theory or policy insights, policy recommendations and conclusions and the policy impacts."--Publisher's website

This book explores the intricate connection between the Single Market, characterized by the freedom of movement of goods, services, capital and labor within and across Europe, and the Digital Single Market, the virtual space that promotes freedom of movement of information and data. Both a result and catalyst of the Single Market, the Digital Single Market has become a different space from the Single Market, as the former is based on the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs), while the latter is the result of concerted actions and concessions by Member States in the European Union. The author argues that, similar to the Single Market, the Digital Single Market is an instrument, built by the influence of the Internet, which can provide a new means of socio-economic growth and development in Europe. While sharing many similar characteristics, the Single Market and the Digital Single Market diverge in important aspects, particularly with respect to policy. The research analyzes the interaction between policy actors, their influence in the European decision-making process, and their interests in order to establish a digital policy model, in comparison with market policy. Moreover, this volume considers the implementation process and the success of such initiatives under the current policy model, and puts forward policy recommendations. Ultimately, the author considers the utility of such research on digital policy, considering the current focus on migration, vulnerabilities to internal challenges (e.g., Brexit) and security threats, maintaining that the discussion of digital policies relates to an innovative vision of the European integration process and prospects for its future.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and expenditure series for the century prior to the introduction of modern national accounts. The author splices available national accounts sets over the period 1958-2015 through interpolation, as an alternative to conventional retropolation. The resulting national accounts series are linked to the historical estimates providing yearly series for GDP and its components since 1850. On the basis of new population estimates, the author derives GDP per head, decomposed into labour productivity and the amount of work per person, and placed into international perspective. With theoretical reasoning and historiographical implications, Prados de la Escosura provides a useful methodological reference work for anyone interested in national accounting. 'This book stands among the classics for the Kuznetian paradigm in empirical economics. This is the definitive study of Spain's transition to a modern economy.' -Patrick Karl O'Brien, Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony's College, the University of Oxford, UK, and Professor Emeritus of Global Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 'The definitive account of Spanish economic growth since 1850, based firmly on a magisterial reconstruction of that country's national accounts and an unrivalled knowledge of both Spanish and global economic history of the period.' -Stephen Broadberry, Professor of Economic History at Nuffield College, the University of Oxford, UK

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives - ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In this book, the author identifies multiple intersections between Blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-Black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials - early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films - the author attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the twinned genealogies of Blackness and transness, this book follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved Black women by J. Marion Sims, the 'father of American gynecology, ' to the negation of Blackness that makes transnormativity possible. Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among Blacks living in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of 'cross dressing' and canonical Black literary works that express Black men's access to the "female within," this book concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993, a fact omitted from the film Boys Don't Cry out of narrative convenience. Reconstructing these theoretical and historical trajectories furthers our imaginative capacities to conceive more livable Black and trans worlds. -- Provided by publisher

This book explores the intricate connection between the Single Market, characterized by the freedom of movement of goods, services, capital and labor within and across Europe, and the Digital Single Market, the virtual space that promotes freedom of movement of information and data. Both a result and catalyst of the Single Market, the Digital Single Market has become a different space from the Single Market, as the former is based on the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs), while the latter is the result of concerted actions and concessions by Member States in the European Union. The author argues that, similar to the Single Market, the Digital Single Market is an instrument, built by the influence of the Internet, which can provide a new means of socio-economic growth and development in Europe. While sharing many similar characteristics, the Single Market and the Digital Single Market diverge in important aspects, particularly with respect to policy. The research analyzes the interaction between policy actors, their influence in the European decision-making process, and their interests in order to establish a digital policy model, in comparison with market policy. Moreover, this volume considers the implementation process and the success of such initiatives under the current policy model, and puts forward policy recommendations. Ultimately, the author considers the utility of such research on digital policy, considering the current focus on migration, vulnerabilities to internal challenges (e.g., Brexit) and security threats, maintaining that the discussion of digital policies relates to an innovative vision of the European integration process and prospects for its future.--

"In response to the complexity of the corporate environment and competition, companies are seeking a new organizational set to maintain their competitive advantage. Various empirical studies have been conducted which demonstrate firms' abilities to increase value through network creation. From a lender's point of view, a member of a network deserves more attention and a better rating because it is seen as innovative in pursuing internationalization and overcoming a size gap and any capital shortage. This book provides the conceptual and operational tools for understanding the mechanisms for assigning a rating to a network of companies. In it, the author explores the rating systems of corporate networks and analyses the link between rating and an enterprise network. The first part of the book investigates the criteria for the classification of networks and the methods and types of inter-company connections. The second part of the book configures possible paths of rating assignments in relation to the quantification of a corporate network. The third part of the book addresses practical guidelines for quantifying the award-network and proposes possible ways of rating assignment. Finally, the author offers insight and practical guidelines for the quantification of the "premium network", examining the real worth of network rating to a corporation. This book offers theoretical and practical insight into a topic of significance to anyone with an interest in credit and risk management, banking, accounting and finance. It is an excellent source of research for students and teachers alike, and a valuable reference work for undergraduate, post-graduate and PhD students in relevant subjects"--

Intro -- More Praise for Dreamland -- Half Title -- Dedication -- By the Same Author -- Title Page -- Contents -- Maps -- Time Line -- Preface: Portsmouth, Ohio -- Introduction -- Part I -- Enrique -- Dr. Jick's Letter -- All from the Same Town -- Liberace in Appalachia -- The Adman -- Enrique Begins -- The Molecule -- Delivered Like Pizza -- Enrique Alone -- The Poppy -- Easier than Sugarcane -- Just a Phone Call Away -- Enrique Adrift -- Searching for the Holy Grail -- The Pain -- Pain and the Pro Wrestler -- The Man Comes -- The Revolution -- All About the 501s -- The Landmark Study -- Enrique Redeemed -- We Realized This Is Corporate -- Purdue -- The Man and the Nayarit -- Swing with OxyContin -- The Man at Home -- What's OxyContin? -- Smack Clans in the Sanctuary -- Liberace Shows the Way -- The Man in the Heartland -- Bodies Are the Key to the Case -- Enrique on Top -- Heroin Like Hamburgers -- Tar Pit -- Part II -- Two-Thousand-Year-Old Questions -- Collision: Ground Zero -- Canaries in Coal Mines -- Fifty, Hundred Cases a Month -- Junkie Kingdom in Dreamland -- A Criminal Case -- "Took Over the OxyContin Belt" -- The Final Convenience -- A Tidal Wave Forming -- Pentecostal Piety, Fierce Scratches -- "We Was Carrying the Epidemic" -- More Cases Than Car Crashes -- A Pro Wrestler's Legacy -- Great Time to Be a Heroin Dealer -- The Criminal Case -- Part III -- "Now It's Your Neighbor's Kid" -- Like Cigarette Executives -- No Scarface, No Kingpins -- A Parent's Soul Pain -- Part IV -- America -- The Treatment Is You -- The Internet of Dope -- Nobody Can Do It Alone -- Part V -- Up from the Rubble -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Source Notes -- Index -- Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic -- A Note on the Author -- Copyright.

"In response to the complexity of the corporate environment and competition, companies are seeking a new organizational set to maintain their competitive advantage. Various empirical studies have been conducted which demonstrate firms' abilities to increase value through network creation. From a lender's point of view, a member of a network deserves more attention and a better rating because it is seen as innovative in pursuing internationalization and overcoming a size gap and any capital shortage. This book provides the conceptual and operational tools for understanding the mechanisms for assigning a rating to a network of companies. In it, the author explores the rating systems of corporate networks and analyses the link between rating and an enterprise network. The first part of the book investigates the criteria for the classification of networks and the methods and types of inter-company connections. The second part of the book configures possible paths of rating assignments in relation to the quantification of a corporate network. The third part of the book addresses practical guidelines for quantifying the award-network and proposes possible ways of rating assignment. Finally, the author offers insight and practical guidelines for the quantification of the "premium network", examining the real worth of network rating to a corporation. This book offers theoretical and practical insight into a topic of significance to anyone with an interest in credit and risk management, banking, accounting and finance. It is an excellent source of research for students and teachers alike, and a valuable reference work for undergraduate, post-graduate and PhD students in relevant subjects"--

"Daniel Malachuk has written a powerful book. Placing the Transcendentalists squarely within the Augustinian tradition, he provides a compelling reading of Fuller, Emerson and Thoreau, demonstrating not only their often-underappreciated originality but also their significant challenge to the main currents of American liberal democratic theory. All students of Transcendentalism, American political thought, and contemporary liberalism will gain from this deeply researched and philosophically provocative study."-Bob Pepperman Taylor, author of America's Bachelor Uncle: Thoreau and the American Polity "Daniel Malachuk's Two Cities significantly advances the revisionary trend that has remade Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau into influential political figures in the United States. His perceptive analysis of The Conduct of Life is particularly illuminating in its description of Emerson's constantly evolving thought, and his reading furthers the ongoing recovery of Emerson's long-neglected later works. Through Two Cities, we are able to see more distinctly the drama of the Transcendentalists' struggle with the theory and practice of democracy in the turbulent American nineteenth century."-David M. Robinson, author of Emerson and the Conduct of Life "Daniel Malachuk sets himself against the idea that democracy is the only possible setting for the individualism of moral perfection. He shows how Emerson, Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller all try to defend the supposedly indispensable role of democracy for nurturing moral perfection, despite their unremitting criticisms of the slavery, greed, and vulgarity of antebellum democracy in America. But the truth comes breaking through in these writers. The morally self-perfecting individual can emerge only in rare moments, not of solitude, but of friendship and companionship, and in defiance of the surrounding society and

"This book examines the attitudes of political, military and non-state actors towards the idea of a UN Emergency Peace Service, and the issues that might affect support of the establishment of this service in both theory and practice. The United Nations Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) is a civil society-led idea to establish a permanent UN peacekeeping service to improve UN peace operations as well as to operationalise the emerging norm of the 'responsibility to protect' civilians from atrocity crimes. The UNEPS proposal has received limited support. The author argues that interest in, and support for, the UNEPS proposal is determined by government perceptions that such a service would erode state sovereignty, the extent to which the principles of the proposal are consistent with actors' views on the world and perceptions on whether UNEPS will realistically be capable of contributing to the workings of the UN and regional peacekeeping systems in areas that are seen to be deficient. The book makes a case for localising the UNEPS proposal and the author suggests that UNEPS' architects might consider developing a less ambitious proposal as a first step to creating a rapidly deployable service with the mandate to prevent atrocity crimes. It examines various alternatives towards this end and concludes that, because the UNEPS proposal is intricately linked to the UN, trust in the world organisation is an essential ingredient in generating support for the idea. It argues that a central way of achieving this is to ensure that the values and priorities of a wide range of stakeholders are seen to be represented in the organisation's structure and workings"--