| Description |
1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The material equivalent of war -- Is there a ration card in your future? -- Fair skies -- -and not a lot to drink -- Our monthly bread -- Painful questions, elusive answers -- Slowing down with the Joneses -- Notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
"In Any Way You Slice It, Stan Cox shows that rationing is not just a quaint practice restricted to World War II memoirs and 1970s gas station lines. Instead, he persuasively argues that rationing is a vital concept for our fragile present, an era of dwindling resources and environmental crises. Any Way You Slice It takes us on a fascinating search for alternative ways of apportioning life's necessities, from the goal of "fair shares for all" during wartime in the 1940s to present-day water rationing in a Mumbai slum, from the bread shops of Cairo to the struggle for fairness in American medicine and carbon rationing on Norfolk Island in the Pacific. Cox's question: "Can we limit consumption while assuring everyone a fair share?"--Publisher's website |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rationing.
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Rationing. |
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects. |
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Consumption (Economics)
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Consumption (Economics) |
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Pricing.
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Pricing. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cox, Stan. Any way you slice it. New York : New Press, 2013 9781595588098 (DLC) 2012046015 (OCoLC)807025111 |
| ISBN |
9781595588845 (electronic book) |
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1595588841 (electronic book) |
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9781595588098 |
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1595588094 |
| Standard No. |
ebc3029038 |
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