Author: George Douglas Campbell Duke of ArgyllPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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The Unseen Foundations of Society
Author: George Douglas Campbell Duke of ArgyllPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Sites Unseen
Author: Scott FrickelPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610448731
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Winner of the 2020 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association From a dive bar in New Orleans to a leafy residential street in Minneapolis, many establishments and homes in cities across the nation share a troubling and largely invisible past: they were once sites of industrial manufacturers, such as plastics factories or machine shops, that likely left behind carcinogens and other hazardous industrial byproducts. In Sites Unseen, sociologists Scott Frickel and James Elliott uncover the hidden histories of these sites to show how they are regularly produced and reincorporated into urban landscapes with limited or no regulatory oversight. By revealing this legacy of our industrial past, Sites Unseen spotlights how city-making has become an ongoing process of social and environmental transformation and risk containment. To demonstrate these dynamics, Frickel and Elliott investigate four very different cities—New Orleans, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Portland, Oregon. Using original data assembled and mapped for thousands of former manufacturers’ locations dating back to the 1950s, they find that more than 90 percent of such sites have now been converted to urban amenities such as parks, homes, and storefronts with almost no environmental review. And because manufacturers tend to open plants on new, non-industrial lots rather than on lots previously occupied by other manufacturers, associated hazards continue to spread relatively unabated. As they do, residential turnover driven by gentrification and the rising costs of urban living further obscure these sites from residents and regulatory agencies alike. Frickel and Elliott show that these hidden processes have serious consequences for city-dwellers. While minority and working class neighborhoods are still more likely to attract hazardous manufacturers, rapid turnover in cities means that whites and middle-income groups also face increased risk. Since government agencies prioritize managing polluted sites that are highly visible or politically expedient, many former manufacturing sites that now have other uses remain invisible. To address these oversights, the authors advocate creating new municipal databases that identify previously undocumented manufacturing sites as potential environmental hazards. They also suggest that legislation limiting urban sprawl might reduce the flow of hazardous materials beyond certain boundaries. A wide-ranging synthesis of urban and environmental scholarship, Sites Unseen shows that creating sustainable cities requires deep engagement with industrial history as well as with the social and regulatory processes that continue to remake urban areas through time. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology.
Documents from F. Taylor Ostrander at Oxford, John R. Commons' Reasonable Value and Clarence E. Ayres' Last Course
Author: Warren J. SamuelsPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1846639069
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Describes the graduate career of F.Taylor Ostrander, notable the year spent at Oxford University. This volume also contains two documents important for the history of Institutional Economics, John R. Commons' "Reasonable Value"; and notes from Clarence E. Ayres' final course taught on institutional economics, at the University of Texas.
Foundations of a Free Society
Author: Eamonn ButlerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780255366915
Category : Economic policy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Mao's Invisible Hand
Author: Sebastian HeilmannPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Observers have been predicting the demise of China’s political system since Mao Zedong’s death over thirty years ago. The Chinese Communist state, however, seems to have become increasingly adept at responding to challenges ranging from leadership succession and popular unrest to administrative reorganization, legal institutionalization, and global economic integration. What political techniques and procedures have Chinese policymakers employed to manage the unsettling impact of the fastest sustained economic expansion in world history?As the authors of these essays demonstrate, China’s political system allows for more diverse and flexible input than would be predicted from its formal structures. Many contemporary methods of governance have their roots in techniques of policy generation and implementation dating to the revolution and early PRC—techniques that emphasize continual experimentation. China’s long revolution had given rise to this guerrilla-style decisionmaking as a way of dealing creatively with pervasive uncertainty. Thus, even in a post-revolutionary PRC, the invisible hand of Chairman Mao—tamed, tweaked, and transformed—plays an important role in China’s adaptive governance."
The Academy
Author: Handbook for Literary and Debating Societies
Author: Laurence M. GibsonPublisher:
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Category : Debates and debating
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Digest
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Catalogue of the Books in the Senior Section
Author: Johannesburg (South Africa). Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Biblioteekkatalogi
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Buckle and His Critics
Author: John Mackinnon RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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