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  | | Standards(Reprint) Recipes for Reality (Infrastructures) by Lawrence Busch, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Paul N. Edwards Paperback, 402 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52505-3, ISBN: 0-262-52505-4 "Standards are the means by which we construct realities. There are established standards for professional accreditation, the environment, consumer products, animal welfare, the acceptable stress for highway bridges, healthcare, education -- for almost everything. We are surrounded by a vast array of standards, many of which we take for granted but each of which has been and ..." |
 | | Handbook of the International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food(Reprint) (Handbooks of Research on International Political Economy series) by Alessandro Bonanno, Lawrence Busch Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2016 by Edward Elgar Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-78643-497-5, ISBN: 1-78643-497-0 "Large- scale socio-economic, political and structural changes characterize contemporary agriculture and food today. This Handbook provides an essential overview to help readers understand the future evolution of agri-food through an analysis of the economy in key regions around the world. Along with chapters that investigate agri-food in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Oceania, the book includes contributions that cover t ..." |
 | | From Columbus to ConAgra(1st Edition) The Globalization of Agriculture and Food by Alessandro Bonanno, Lawrence Busch, Enzo Mingione, Lourdes Gouveia, William H. Friedland, William Friedland Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1994 by University Press Of Kansas ISBN-13: 978-0-7006-0661-0, ISBN: 0-7006-0661-0 "The Chinese gooseberry was a minor fruit until New Zealanders, tagging it with a catchier name, began an aggressive global marketing campaign. Soon, transplanted to Italy, France, Spain, Chile, and California, the fuzzy little fruit with the bright green interior was known the world round and the kiwi production war was on. Globalization of food is not a new phenomenon. Columbus and his contemporaries helped open worldwide trade routes ..." |
 | | The Knowledge for Sale(1st Edition) The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education (Infrastructures) by Lawrence Busch, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Paul N. Edwards Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2017 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03607-8, ISBN: 0-262-03607-X "How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this. A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less immediate market value. Every other kind ..." |
 | | Plants, Power and Profit(Illustrated) Social, Economic and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies by Lawrence Busch, William B. Lacy, Jeffrey Burkhardt, Laura R. Lacy Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1991 by Blackwell Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-55786-088-0, ISBN: 1-55786-088-2 "This book provides an assessment of the economic, social, political and environmental effects of plant biotechnology. The authors begin with an examination of current research, and conclude that while investment in the field is growing, it is being increasingly dominated by a small number of multinational corporations in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Japanese experts predict that by 2000, profits from such plants will amou ..." |
 | | Science and Agricultural Development(Good condition. No dust jacket. 188pp. ISBN 086598) by Lawrence Busch Hardcover, 188 Pages, Published 1981 by Roman & Allanheld ISBN-13: 978-0-86598-022-8, ISBN: 0-86598-022-5 "To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com." |
 | | Universities in the Age of Corporate Science The UC Berkeley-Novartis Controversy by Alan P. Rudy, Dawn Coppin, Jason Konefal, Toby Ten Eyck, Craig Harris, Bradley T. Shaw, Lawrence Busch Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Temple University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-533-2, ISBN: 1-59213-533-1 "As a result of widespread financial pressures, U.S. research universities increasingly stress the pursuit of funding beyond that available from government grants and contracts. Concomitantly, recent legal changes have encouraged universities to develop closer ties to the private business sector. This book represents the most thorough review ever undertaken of a major collaboration between industry and academe. A professional evaluation ..." |
 | | The Eclipse of Morality(1st Edition) Science, State, and Market (Sociological Imagination & Structural Change Series) by Lawrence Busch Paperback, 219 Pages, Published 2000 by Aldine Transaction ISBN-13: 978-0-202-30622-3, ISBN: 0-202-30622-4 " Using the works of Bacon, Hobbes, and Adam Smith as well as historical examples drawn from the last two centuries, Busch shows how the ideas initially proposed by these thinkers became reified as scientism, statism, and marketism-- systems of belief that a single mode of ordering could solve the riddle of society, and thereby supplant moral responsibility. Busch contrasts this approach with concrete examples of successful attempts to ..." |
 | | Standards Recipes for Reality (Infrastructures) by Lawrence Busch Hardcover, 402 Pages, Published 2011 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01638-4, ISBN: 0-262-01638-9 "Standards are the means by which we construct realities. There are established standards for professional accreditation, the environment, consumer products, animal welfare, the acceptable stress for highway bridges, healthcare, education--for almost everything. We are surrounded by a vast array of standards, many of which we take for granted but each of which has been a ..." |
 | | Handbook of the International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food (Handbooks of Research on International Political Economy series) by Lawrence Busch, Alessandro Bonanno, Alessandro Bonnano Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2015 by Edward Elgar Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-78254-825-6, ISBN: 1-78254-825-4 "'This Handbook makes an important contribution to agrifood studies. Departing from more generalized analyses of globalization and neo-liberalism we are presented with a rich range of country level and thematic studies by highly respected authors. In this way, common trends are subjected to the detailed scrutiny of individual Nation States both in the North and the South, unwrapping the heterogeneous forces at work in each. The thematic ..." |
 | | Handbook of the International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food by Alessandro Bonanno, Lawrence Busch 392 Pages, Published 2015 by Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78254-826-3, ISBN: 1-78254-826-2 "Etxezarreta,. Jordi. Rosell. and. Lourdes. Viladomiu. INTRODUCTION. In order to understand the changes that have taken place in Spanish agriculture, as with any other economic sector, it is important to consider two aspects beforehand: the objectives towards which it is directed and the perspective adopted by the analyst . The evolution of the agricultural sector can be analyzed from several perspectives and with different objective ..." |
 | | The Eclipse of Morality Science, State, and Market (Sociological Imagination & Structural Change Series) by Lawrence Busch Pasta Dura, 219 Pages, Published 2000 by Aldine De Gruyter ISBN-13: 978-0-202-30621-6, ISBN: 0-202-30621-6 " Using the works of Bacon, Hobbes, and Adam Smith as well as historical examples drawn from the last two centuries, Busch shows how the ideas initially proposed by these thinkers became reified as scientism, statism, and marketism-- systems of belief that a single mode of ordering could solve the riddle of society, and thereby supplant moral responsibility. Busch contrasts this approach with concrete examples of successful attempts to ..." |
 | | The Eclipse of Morality Science, State, and Market by Lawrence Busch 219 Pages, Published 2000 by Transaction Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-202-36959-4, ISBN: 0-202-36959-5 "Science, State, and Market Lawrence Busch. as they diffused ... Thus, if I am going to make a case at all, it must be far more subtle than that. Instead ... the spatial, temporal, and social standpoint of the person making the claim. This is not to say ..." |
 | | Plants, Power and Profit Social, Economic and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies by Lawrence Busch, William B. Lacy, Jeffrey Burkhardt Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1990 by Blackwell Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-631-16366-4, ISBN: 0-631-16366-2 |
 | | From Columbus to ConAgra The Globalization of Agriculture and Food by Alessandro Bonanno, Lawrence Busch, Enzo Mingione, Lourdes Gouveia, William H. Friedland, William Friedland Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1994 by University Press Of Kansas ISBN-13: 978-0-7006-0660-3, ISBN: 0-7006-0660-2 "Combines current theory on globalisation of food with case studies to discuss the changing agricultural and food system in the era of ConAgra and other large transnational corporations. This volume looks at the operations of these corporate giants and examines the winners and losers." |
 | | Agricultural Standards The Shape of the Global Food and Fiber System (The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics) by Jim Bingen, Lawrence Busch Hardcover, 259 Pages, Published 2006 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-3983-6, ISBN: 1-4020-3983-2 "Food and agricultural standards have recently risen to the top of both national and international agendas. Popular concerns about the power of the World Trade Organization focus on the intertwined relationships between environmental protection, labor and human rights, and the standards used to produce and supply our food and fiber globally. In the developing world, agricultural grades and standards are an imp ..." |
 | | Making Nature, Shaping Culture(1st Edition) Plant Biodiversity in Global Context (Our Sustainable Future) by Etc. Lawrence Busch, William B. Lacy, Jeffrey Burkhardt, Douglas Hemken, Timothy Koponen, Jubel Moraga-Rojel, Jose Silva Hardcover, 261 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-1256-5, ISBN: 0-8032-1256-9 "For ages, farmers have domesticated plant varieties, while scientists have “made” nature through hybridization and other processes. This give and take—mediated through negotiations, persuasion, the marketplace, and even coercion—has resulted in what we call “nature” and has led to a homogenization of plant crops. Yet homogenization has led to new problems: genetic vulnerability, and the lack of systems to maintain plant germplasm of var ..." |
 | | Infrastructures Ser. The Knowledge for Sale : The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education by Lawrence Busch 176 Pages, Published 2017 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-33946-9, ISBN: 0-262-33946-3 "Romanyshyn, Robert D. 1989. Technology as Symptom and Dream. New York: Routledge. Rose, Nikolas, and Peter Miller. 1992. Political Power beyond the State: Problematics of Government. British Journal of Sociology 43 (2): 173–205. Rougier, Louis. 1939a. “Allocution du Professor Louis Rougier.” In Le Colloque Walter Lippmann, edited by Travaux du Centre International d'Etudes Pour la Rénovation du Libéralisme, 13–20. Paris: Librairie ..." |
 | | Knowledge for Sale The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education (Infrastructures) by Busch, Lawrence Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2023 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-54926-4, ISBN: 0-262-54926-3 "In Knowledge for Sale, Lawrence Busch challenges this market-driven approach. The rationale for the current thinking, Busch explains, comes from neoliberal economics, which calls for reorganizing society around the needs of the market." |
 | | Standards Recipes for Reality by Lawrence Busch 402 Pages, Published 2011 by Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-29785-1, ISBN: 0-262-29785-X "1984. New York: Signet Classic. Parfomak, Paul W. 2004. Guarding America: Security Guards and U.S. Critical Infrastructure Protection. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service. Pargman, Daniel, and Jacob Palme. 2009. ASCII Imperialism. In Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life, ed. M. Lampland and S. L. Star, 177–199. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Park, ..." |
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