1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965625503321

Autore

Mikulak Michael

Titolo

The politics of the pantry : stories, food, and social change / / Michael Mikulak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013

ISBN

9780773590182

0773590188

9780773590175

077359017X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Classificazione

LB 17000

Disciplina

394.1/2

Soggetti

Food - Social aspects

Food - Political aspects

Food writing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Telling Stories with Food -- The Nature of Capitalism: How Green Can We Grow? -- Storied Food and the Transparent Meal: Writing the Foodshed -- The Foodshed Memoir: The Enchantment of Place -- Conclusion: A Gardener's Utopia.

Sommario/riassunto

"What's for dinner?" has always been a complicated question. The locavore movement has politicized food and challenged us to rethink the answer in new and radical ways. These days, questions about where our food comes from have moved beyond 100-mile-dieters into the mainstream. Celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Alice Waters, alternative food gurus such as Michael Pollan, and numerous other popular and academic commentators have all talked about the importance of understanding the sources and transformation of food on a human scale. In The Politics of the Pantry, Michael Mikulak interrogates these narratives - what he calls "storied food" - in food culture. As with any story, however, it is important to ask: who is telling it? Who is the audience? What assumptions are being made? Mikulak examines competing narratives of food, pleasure, sustainability, and value that have emerged from the growing sustainable food movement as well as



food's past and present relationship to environmentalism in order to understand the potential and the limits of food politics. He also considers whether or not sustainable food practices can address questions about health, environmental sustainability, and local economic development, while at the same time articulating an ethical globalization. An innovative blend of academic analysis, poetic celebration, and autobiography, The Politics of the Pantry provides anyone interested in the future of food and the emergence of a green economy with a better understanding of how what we eat is transforming the world.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959022903321

Autore

Bulir Ales

Titolo

The Maastricht Inflation Criterion : : How Unpleasant Is Purgatory? / / Ales Bulir, Jaromír Hurník

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

9786613829146

9781462366958

1462366953

9781452708775

1452708770

9781283516693

1283516691

9781451909203

1451909209

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (43 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

HurníkJaromír

Soggetti

Deflation (Finance) - European Union countries

Inflation (Finance) - European Union countries

Currency

Deflation

Disinflation

Economic theory

Exchange rates

Foreign Exchange

Foreign exchange

Inflation

Institutions and the Macroeconomy

Macroeconomics



Macroeconomics: Production

Output gap

Price Level

Prices

Production and Operations Management

Production

Structural reforms

European Union countries Economic conditions

European Union countries Economic policy

Hungary

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"June 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. INFLATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION""; ""III. HOW COSTLY CAN DISINFLATION BE AND WHY?""; ""IV. POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

The Maastricht inflation criterion, designed in the early 1990s to bring "high-inflation" EU countries in line with "low-inflation" countries prior to the introduction of the euro, poses challenges for both new EU member countries and the European Central Bank. While the criterion has positively influenced the public stance toward low inflation, it has biased the choice of the disinflation strategy toward short-run, fiat measures-rather than adopting structural reforms with longer-term benefits-with unpleasant consequences for the efficiency of the eurozone transmission mechanism. The criterion is also unnecessarily tight for new member countries as it mainly reflects cyclical developments.