...This chapter talks about media franchising in relation to social networks and other digital environments that have reorganized the contemporary production of culture. Franchising comes into question when faced with new media technologies that apparently put the tools of production in consumer hands...

... that meet human needs. With massive productive capacities that it is already having difficulty matching to consumers, capitalism may enter a long era of deflation. Capital Historical perspective on capital Jameson Frederic Limits Engels Friedrich Historicism Kautsky Karl Marx Karl Nietzsche...

...This chapter describes the life histories of particular citizen consumers who struggled to obtain care from the privatized health system under the MMA. It argues that the aspirations of neoliberal health policies never managed to transform patients into calculating, health-seeking consumers...

...This chapter examines the role of quality measurement within market-based health policies. Quantifying quality is supposed to unite regulators, health plans, and health care consumers in a circuit of constant improvement. Additionally, the production of quality data is important in the Medicare...

...This chapter explores the contradicting nature of private companies with regards to protecting their beneficiaries, highlighting that the companies themselves violate one's rights through their complaints system. In a market-based health care system, consumers are supposed to express...

... advocacy. It then stresses the need for commitment laws to respect human dignity, which simply means asking the patient for feedback upon discharge, and for mental health providers to collaborate with empowered, self-advocating consumers and advocates towards a recovery-oriented, evidence-based, documented...

... genius but is understood as a collective affair. Finally, this introduction attends to fashion and beauty in its innumerable material and immaterial forms, beyond characterizations of Asians and Asian diasporic subjects as simply laborers or consumers. China Through the Looking Glass...

... consumers of health information, calculating risks to their children while balancing them against other priorities. Yet while all women found themselves judged against the risk-avoidant paradigm, the consequences of failing to measure up were not borne equally. Middle- and upper-class white women often...

...This chapter explores two of the most popular explanations of environmental degradation currently found in environmental and public-policy circles: environmental economics and consumer-oriented environmentalism. According to the consumer sovereignty argument, consumers are the main drivers...

...Contrary to the history, traditions, and science discussed above, the Roberts Court has been undermining democracy, from its consistent preference for business and corporate interests over individuals, consumers, and employees, to its handling of the Bill of Rights, elections, guns, classrooms...

... people positioned within a globalized political-economy and a compelling universe of advertising interact locally with these tiny polished rocks? This book draws on 12 months of fieldwork with diamond consumers in New York City as well as an analysis of the iconic De Beers campaign that promised romance...

... leads to a more business-friendly way to conduct government regulation in the context of contracting out government services to private firms. Choice on the other hand is thought to be what health care consumers want and value above all else—choice in their doctors, treatments, and insurance plans...

..., it explores whether fair trade creates the kind of transparent, reciprocal relationships between producers and consumers described in much fair trade advocacy. It also discusses the practical limits of certification-dependent strategies within a neoliberal context in which many states have abandoned...

...This chapter explores the meanings that roasters and consumers in North America ascribe to fair trade relationships by focusing on “relationship coffees” in Mexico. More specifically, it analyzes the complex interplay of structure and agency, as well as ideas about structure and agency, within...

..., and cut flowers. Fair trade proponents often argue that the initiative integrates geographically and culturally distant producers, consumers, and distributors into a single global partnership based on shared values and goals, but research among fair trade coffee producers in Mexico and the buyers...

... that led to the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which generally prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933, as well as a series of local, state, and national laws that first regulated and then punished both the sellers and the consumers of a variety of substances, including...