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

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784865503321

Autore

Holmes Frederic Lawrence

Titolo

Hans Krebs . Volume I The formation of a scientific life, 1900-1933 [[electronic resource] /] / Frederic Lawrence Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1991

ISBN

0-19-770129-9

1-280-60572-3

9786610605729

0-19-536128-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (512 p.)

Collana

Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology

Disciplina

574.192092B

Soggetti

Biochemists - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Intermediary Metabolism in the First Third of the Twentieth Century; 2. Boyhood in Hildesheim; 3. Outward Movement; 4. Clinical Years; 5. The Research Apprentice; 6. Initiative and Dependence; 7. Moves Toward Autonomy; 8. Freiburg: The Foundation of a Career; 9. The Ornithine Effect; 10. The Formation of



Urea; 11. The Rewards of Success; 12. The Brief Life of a School of Intermediary Metabolism; 13. Reflections on the Formation of a Scientific Life; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The biography of one of the world's foremost biochemists, which traces his scientific career and his discoveries of the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle. The text makes use of five years of interviews with Hans Krebs, and a complete set of Krebs' key laboratory notebooks.