Free markets & food riots : the politics of global adjustment / / John Walton & David Seddon
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| Autore: |
Walton John <1937->
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| Titolo: |
Free markets & food riots : the politics of global adjustment / / John Walton & David Seddon
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, UK ; ; Cambridge, Mass., : Blackwell, 1994 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (398 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.4 |
| 339.5/09172/4 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Developing countries |
| Free trade - Developing countries | |
| Social conflict - Developing countries | |
| Capitalism - Developing countries | |
| Post-communism - Europe, Eastern | |
| Economic history - 1971-1990 | |
| Economic history - 1990- | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Developing countries Economic conditions |
| Altri autori: |
SeddonDavid
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-365) and index. |
| 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 |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Free markets and foot riots |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Free markets & food riots |
| ISBN: | 1-281-84075-0 |
| 9786611840754 | |
| 0-470-71296-1 | |
| 0-470-71271-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910876985103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in urban and social change.