1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144128303321

Autore

Walton John K

Titolo

Free Markets and Food Riots [[electronic resource] ] : The Politics of Global Adjustment

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008

ISBN

1-281-84075-0

9786611840754

0-470-71296-1

0-470-71271-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Collana

Studies in urban and social change Free markets & food riots

Altri autori (Persone)

SeddonDavid

Disciplina

303.4

339.5/09172/4

Soggetti

Structural adjustment (Economic policy)

Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - 1971-1990 - Developing countries

Free trade - 1990- - Developing countries

Social conflict - Developing countries

Capitalism - Developing countries

Post-communism - Europe, Eastern

Economic history

Business & Economics

Economic History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Free Markets & Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; 1 Global Adjustment; 2 Food Riots Past and Present; Part II Case Studies; 3 Fighting for Survival: Women's Responses to Austerity Programs; 4 Latin America: Popular Protest and the State; 5 Economic Adjustment and Democratization in Africa; 6 The Middle East and North Africa; 7 The Asian Debt Crisis: Structural Adjustment and Popular Protest in India; 8 Explaining Sri Lanka's Exceptionalism: Popular Responses to Welfarism



and the "Open Economy"

9 The Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern EuropePart III Conclusion; 10 Debt Crisis and Democratic Transition; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic ""reform"" and ""adjustment"". Explores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the 'IMF Riots' that have affected so many debtor nations since the mid-1970sArgues that modern austerity protests, like the class

2.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIORMS2787250

Autore

Gross, Jurgen H.

Titolo

Spettrometria di massa / Jürgen H. Gross ; coordinamento e revisione di Enrico Davoli e Claudio Medana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli, : EdiSES, ©2016

Titolo uniforme

Mass spectrometry : a textbook

ISBN

9788879599078

Descrizione fisica

XXI, 755 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

543.65

Soggetti

Spettrometria di massa

Collocazione

BCA       SC. TECNOL              294

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Nella prefaz.: con il patrocinio di Italian mass spectrometry society (Imass) ; la sezione Problemi e soluzione è stata omessa dalla versione cartacea, è disponibile liberamente in inglese su http://www.ms-textbook.com.