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Published: 28 June 2010
...This chapter examines the issue of gender in a Maya fair trade coffee cooperative in Guatemala, with particular emphasis on women who are struggling to develop a market of their own in order to gain a modicum of financial independence through an increase in earnings. Drawing on ethnographic data...
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The Post–Civil War Economy in the South
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Thomas D. Clark
Published: 28 May 2010
... in the emergence of sophisticated systems of capitalization and distribution in the bankrupt South and how Jewish merchants served as a link between rural markets and the national economy. the South during Reconstruction Alsatian Jews Andrews Sidney Hewell J T Jews American Ades David Lexington Dry Goods...
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Published: 10 July 2015
..., and their industries show little sign of diversification and sophistication. Thus, the highly skewed structure of the Central Asian economies makes them vulnerable to volatility in the commodity markets and may hinder their future economic development. Central Asia Economic development Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Mongol...
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The Invisible Hand Holds a Gun: Law and Policy in the Lethal Regulation of Crack
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Dimitri A. Bogazianos
Published: 01 December 2011
.... Finally, the chapter explores the broad consensus among researchers that the lethal violence of the crack era was a product of the systemic features of crack markets themselves. crack laws 18 to–1 sentencing disparity Obama Barack 100 to–1 sentencing disparity simple possession Anti Drug Abuse Act...
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Published: 18 July 2017
...Emma Dabiri critiques mainstream modes of Afropolitanism as a type of imperialism of cultural consumerism capitalized upon by Western markets and as primarily concerned with commodifying “African flavored” versions of Western conventions and forms. She contemplates the alternative...
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The Cosby Show, Family Themes, and the Ascent of White Situation Comedies Abroad in the Late 1980s
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Timothy Havens
Published: 01 April 2013
...This chapter examines the worldwide phenomenon of The Cosby Show , particularly, how the growing internationalization of US syndication markets increased the variety of programs and genres traveling worldwide, along with industry explanations about why they failed or succeeded...
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Civic-izing Markets: Selling Social Profits in Public Deliberation
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Caroline W. Lee and others
Published: 30 January 2015
...This chapter examines the multilayered moralization of the public deliberation market in order to elucidate how moral values associated with politics affect the practical production of political processes. Using a multimethod field study, it looks at the production and promotion of civic spaces...
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Published: 28 February 2017
..., new cocktail recipes are far from scarce, despite the fact that these inventions can be freely copied and used by competitors. While culinary creations are regulated through informal norms, innovation in the mixological arts is driven by market strategies, in particular by cross-financing...
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Conclusion: Some Positive Thoughts about IP’s Negative Space
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Christopher Jon Sprigman
Published: 28 February 2017
... centralism market strategy authors Fagundes David formal law norms systems Oliar Dotan Perzanowski Aaron Spoo Robert Europe Germany Knockoffs brands patents trademarks European design registry Johnson Samuel Ansari Aziz Benny Jack Berle Milton Bruce Lenny C K Louis Diller Phyllis...
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Introduction: Whose News?
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Joseph E. Uscinski
Published: 03 February 2014
...This introductory chapter briefly examines the impact of market demands on the news consumed by Americans. It looks at economic markets as the source of the problem. Although journalists may not explicitly consider economics when assessing the day's events, the stories, reporters, firms, and media...
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Freedom, Responsibility, and Privatization
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Eric Macgilvray
Published: 11 December 2018
...: in analyzing liberal freedom, we aim both at identifying the conditions under which agents can properly be held responsible (termed republican freedom ), and at defining a social space within which the requirements of responsible agency may be diminished (market freedom ...
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Sharing
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Greg Goldberg
Published: 16 January 2018
... precarity of labor are rooted in a rejection of the market and of money as inimical to valued social bonds. The antisocial thesis inspires a critical interpretation of money and the market as potentially liberatory. jobs sharing economy Botsman Rachel Gansky Lisa Peers Rogers Roo What’s Mine Is Yours...
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Reconstructing Early Modern Notions of Legal Pluralism
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Richard J. Ross and Philip J. Stern
Published: 22 July 2013
... economic thinkers over who should govern markets during the period. Africa Bodin Jean Europe early modern Hobbes Thomas imperial constitution India legal pluralism “strong legal pluralism ” ralism ” millet system Ottoman Empire “weak legal pluralism ” Republic of the Hebrews Grotius Hugo...
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Published: 28 February 2017
... the way the public interacts with creative works. And it summarizes a collection of studies of individual creative communities that reveal how those assumptions overlook the capacity of creative industries for self-governance and dynamic social and market responses to the appropriation of information...
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Owning the Body: Creative Norms in the Tattoo Industry
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Aaron Perzanowski
Published: 28 February 2017
... Lebron NBA 2K16 attribution Pinterest Tumblr close knit communities shaming tactics identity Colton Charles Caleb Alberts Lew Google Mouse Mickey counterculture formal law market strategy Starry Night Van Gogh Vincent governance pirates First Amendment Hermosa Beach Noonan Judge John...
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Internet Pornography without Intellectual Property: A Study of the Online Adult Entertainment Industry
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Kate Darling
Published: 28 February 2017
... leader. pornography privacy copyright file sharing incentive theory close knit communities Bitch Queens brands registration tube sites YouTube authors litigation reputation shaming tactics clients compensation Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA market strategy Android Netflix...
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Conceptualizing the Post-Liberalization State: Intervention, Restructuring, and the Nature of State Power
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Leela Fernandes
Published: 23 January 2018
... that the neoliberal state is one that has necessarily weakened or retreated. The post-liberalization state is defined by shifting boundaries between state, market, and civil society that are contingent on the political, social, and economic circumstances within nations while also being shaped by transnational...
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Conclusion
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Ronald Weitzer
Published: 07 November 2023
...The conclusion builds on the findings reported in the book and revisits key arguments and themes. It summarizes differences between the domestic and foreign-oriented sex markets as well as differences within the latter. Although a comparative sectoral approach is uncommon in writings in this field...
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Racialized Hiring
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Laura López-Sanders
Published: 05 January 2024
... to vulnerable workers who can secure “good papers” in the black market. Hiring unauthorized Latino immigrants with “good papers,” a category that stratifies labor markets, enables employers to commoditize unauthorized immigrants, displace low-paid Black and White workers, and lure undocumented workers...
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Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability
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Matthew Archer
Published online: 19 September 2024
Published in print: 06 February 2024
... that the “commensurative impulse” of sustainability professionals is both motivated by and contributes to the depoliticization of sustainability. The focus on measuring and reporting sustainability indicators facilitates the market’s incursion into areas where the market should not be allowed to rule. Ultimately...