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The anti-chain store movement and the politics of consumption [PDF]
, 2008 This essay examines the anti-chain store movement of the 1920s and 1930s in order to contribute to debates about the origins and nature of modern US consumer politics.
Scroop, Daniel
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Colston E. Warne Lecture: Is it Time for Another Round of Consumer Protection? The Lessons of Twentieth-Century U.S. History [PDF]
, 2013 The first year of Barack Obama's presidency has returned consumer issues to center stage, with several contentious struggles over consumer protection. This moment can be viewed as a fourth wave of the twentieth-century consumer movement, and a comparison
Cohen, Lizabeth
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Alvin Weinberg and the promotion of the technological fix [PDF]
, 2018 The term “technological fix”, coined by technologist/administrator Alvin Weinberg in 1965, vaunted engineering innovation as a generic tool for circumventing problems commonly conceived as social, political or cultural.
Johnston, Sean F.
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Technological parables and iconic illustrations: American technocracy and the rhetoric of the technological fix [PDF]
, 2016 This paper traces the role of American technocrats in popularizing the notion later dubbed the “technological fix”. Channeled by their long-term “chief”, Howard Scott, their claim was that technology always provides the most effective solution to modern ...
Johnston, Sean F.
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Welfare, Dialectic, and Mediation in Corporate Law [PDF]
, 2005 Bill Klein extends an idealistic and progressive invitation with the Criteria for Good Laws of Business Association (the Criteria). The structure of our debates, he says, prevents us from joining the issue.
Bratton, William W
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Spartan Daily, April 24, 1989 [PDF]
, 1989 Volume 92, Issue 55https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/7845/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Spartan Daily, April 20, 1989 [PDF]
, 1989 Volume 92, Issue 53https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/7843/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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A faded passion? Estes Kefauver and the senate subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper I examine the U.S. Senate subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly (1957-1963), chaired by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver. I assess the persistence into the postwar years of the antimonopoly critique of bigness that had animated the ...
Scroop, D.
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Spartan Daily, October 8, 1984 [PDF]
, 1984 Volume 83, Issue 27https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/7213/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Spartan Daily, November 12, 1999 [PDF]
, 1999 Volume 113, Issue 53https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9482/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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