1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910131223703321

Autore

Parizeau Jacques

Titolo

Les post-keynésiens et la politique économique contemporaine / / Jacques Parizeau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicoutimi : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2007

ISBN

1-4123-5815-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (27 pages)

Collana

Classiques des sciences sociales

Disciplina

330.971

Soggetti

Canada Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Prolongements et transformations de la théorie keynésienne : la Théorie Générale du financement de la guerre sans inflation - fiscalité et politique économique : effets des travaux empiriques sur l'évolution de la théorie - les spécifications outrancières ----2. À la recherche d'une politique applicable : les difficultés d'application d'un programme anticipé - les difficultés de prévisions des effets - l'adultération de la théorie au contrôle de la pratique ----3. Les post-keynésiens et l'économie internationale : les travaux de Joan Ro-binson - les études empiriques et leur conclusion sur l'élasticité - la fin des illusions : Orcutt 4. Le retour au classicisme monétaire.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955808603321

Autore

Schneider Daniel <1959 January 3->

Titolo

Hybrid nature : sewage treatment and the contradictions of the industrial ecosystem / / Daniel Schneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , ©2011

ISBN

9780262312509

0262312506

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Urban and industrial environments

Disciplina

628.3

Soggetti

Sewage - Purification - Biological treatment - History

Industrial ecology - Philosophy

Contradiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Natural vs. Artificial: "The Right Way to Dispose of Town Sewage" -- Land Treatment as the Right and Natural Way to Dispose of Sewage -- Naturalizing Biology -- "Nature's Own Methods" -- Contesting the Natural -- Rejecting Bacteria -- Industrializing Biology -- Activated Sludge -- Creating an Ecosystem -- Industrializing the Ecosystem -- 2 Public vs. Private: "Nature Must Be Circumvented" -- The Septic Tank Syndicate -- Activated Sludge Inc. -- Patents and Professionals -- Sewage and the Public Interest -- Public Research -- Monopolizing Natural Processes -- "The Chaos of Pure Science and Natural Processes" -- The Rise of Private Industrial Research -- 3 Craft vs. Science: "Be an Operator, Not a Valve Turner" -- Process Control -- Process Control in Sewage Treatment -- "Skilled Control of the Process Will Be Essential" -- "A Living System" -- An "Unsavoury" Occupation -- "If Only We Could Measure It" -- The Visible and the Invisible -- Complexity and Alienation -- 4 Profit vs. Purification: "Sewage Is Something to Be Got Rid Of" -- The "Search for 'El Dorado' in the Cities' Sewers" -- Crossness and Barking -- "A Mischievous Error" -- The Rise of Biological Treatment -- Profit and Purification in America -- Milwaukee and "Sewer Socialism" -- Milorganite® -- "Plus Values" -- "A Fancy Name...Helps a Lot" -- "We Are a Sanitary Facility" -- 5 The



Contradictions Continue: Sewage Treatment since the Clean Water Act -- Profit vs. Purification -- Craft vs. Science -- Public vs. Private -- Natural vs. Artificial -- Biological Sewage Treatment in the Twenty-first Century -- 6 From Sewage to Biotech: "What We Have before Us Is an Industrial Product" -- Biotechnology and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem -- The Expanding Industrial Ecosystem.

Hybridizing Sewage, Biotechnology, and Nature -- 7 Conclusion: The Living Machine® -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Natural vs. Artificial -- 2 Public vs. Private -- 3 Craft vs. Science -- 4 Profit vs. Purification -- 5 The Contradictions Continue -- 6 From Sewage to Biotech -- 7 Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Urban and Industrial Environments Series.

Sommario/riassunto

A history of of the industrial ecosystem that focuses on the biological sewage treatment plant as an early example.