Migration in an Era of Restriction and Recession: Sending and Receiving Nations in a Changing Global Environment (Immigrants and Minorities, Politics and Policy) PDF
We live in an age of global migration. The number of immigrants worldwide is large and growing. At the same time, public and political reactions against immigrants have grown in the US, the UK, Canada, and other traditional and non-traditional receiving nations. In response to this trend, this book assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars to better understand two dimensions of contemporary immigration policy – a growing enforcement and restriction regime in receiving nations, and the …
Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice, and Politics
Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice, and Politics PDF
David Goodman, E. Melanie DuPuis, Michael K. Goodman, “Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice, and Politics”
English | ISBN: 0415671469, 0415747694 | 2011 | 321 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Farmers’ markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods – how have these once novel, “alternative” foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of “alternative worlds” built on ethics of su…
John Kenneth Galbraith His Life, His Politics, His Economics
John Kenneth Galbraith His Life, His Politics, His Economics
The life and times of America’s most celebrated economist, assessing his lessons-and warnings-for us today
John Kenneth Galbraith’s books-among them The Affluent Society and American Capitalism-are famous for good reason. Written by a scholar renowned for energetic political engagement and irrepressible wit, they are models of provocative good sense that warn prophetically of the dangers of deregulated markets, war in Asia, corporate greed, and stock-market bubbles. Galbraith’s work has a…
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