7 results on '"industrialization"'
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2. Friedrich List’s Critique of the Methuen Treaty
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Gabriel Frank Benzecry
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Adam Smith ,Agriculture ,England ,Friedrich List ,Industrialization ,Portugal ,Economic history and conditions ,HC10-1085 ,Economic theory. Demography ,HB1-3840 - Abstract
This article examines Friedrich List’s critique of the Methuen Treaty. The Methuen Treaty removed all restrictions on English wool entering Portugal and reaffirmed England’s commitment to import Portuguese wines at two-thirds the tariffs of French wines. Friedrich List argues that the agreement hurt Portugal’s textile industry and slowed Portugal’s economic growth. List’s critique of the Methuen Treaty is a strong representation of his resistance to Adam Smith and Jean-Baptiste Say, but it is isolated from his robust theoretical framework. One possible explanation for the discontinuity is that the knowledge problem undermines List’s theory. The lack of local data makes it difficult to conduct an accurate and straightforward policy analysis of the Methuen Treaty, making the analysis vulnerable to normative interpretations. Specifically, List’s disagreement with Adam Smith’s cosmopolitanism pushed him further away from a straightforward application of his theory.
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- 2022
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3. 'We feed the world': the political ecology of the Corn Belt's driving narrative
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Andrea Lukacs Rissing
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Agriculture ,development ,agrarian change ,narrative ,industrialization ,United States ,Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 ,Political science - Abstract
Industrial grain production occupies most of Iowa's farmland. Around the edges of corn and soybean monocultures, however, small-scale, diversified farmers establish alternative agricultural operations and sell to local markets. One narrative, "we feed the world", stretches across these two spheres; its roots lie in post-World War II geopolitics, and its contemporary iterations reflect the actions of private agricultural interest groups. As a rhetorical strategy, asserting "we feed the world" invokes neo-Malthusian fears to reposition differences in agricultural production systems within a moral framework where yield primarily determines agricultural legitimacy. This article ethnographically analyzes how this narrative intersects the lives and livelihoods of conventional and alternative farmers alike. Today, the narrative serves three functions: defending industrial agricultural systems against criticisms,justifying the pursuit of ever-higher yields on moral grounds, and gatekeeping agricultural legitimacy. Examining this discursive mechanism yields insight into the diversity of strategies through which actors within the industrial agricultural system reproduce particular land use practices in service of their own interests.
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- 2021
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4. Rasgos de la práctica de la administración en la civilización agrícola, la industrialización y la cibereconomía en mercados globales
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Nubia Barrera Silva
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Agriculture ,Industrialization ,Cybereconomy ,Technical division of labor ,Teamwork ,Social Sciences - Abstract
This article answers the question that assails the administrator: What unites the activities of the management practice of the XXI century with those of groups considered “primitive”?: Similarities build teamwork and asymmetries similar behaviors and other behaviors by differences in production methods. Objectives: (1) Rescue work group of “primitive” Gouro community solidarity, mutual support and flawless coordination of economic practices, which in turn are required in the implementation of strategies for breaking into organizations threatened by competition saturated markets and internal management based on individualism and personal fulfillment. (2) Shows the relevance of interdisciplinarity as an input to senior management in identifying problems and possible answers. Environmental threats in the environment force them to undertake interdisciplinary studies prospectively to redefine trends by area requiring resolved from the practice of management. Categories: space/ time, social division of labor; leadership, teamwork and values. The synthesis methodology. Keywords: Agriculture; Industrialization; Cybereconomy; Technical division of labor; Teamwork.
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- 2015
5. La evolución del paisaje en el término municipal de Onda entre los siglos XIX y XX: análisis desde un prisma histórico-ambiental
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Ten Manuel, Miguel, Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Història, Geografia i Art, and Balboa Navarro, Imilcy
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Transformació ,Bachelor's Degree in History and Heritage ,Ground use ,Grau en Història i Patrimoni ,Agricultura ,Uso del suelo ,Transformación ,Agriculture ,Environmental history ,Industrialization ,Industrialización ,Ús del sòl ,Transformation ,Historia ambiental ,Industrialització ,Grado en Historia y Patrimonio - Abstract
Treball final de Grau en Història i Patrimoni. Codi: HP1036. Curs acadèmic 2015-2016 Entre los siglos XIX y XX tuvo lugar una evolución socioeconómica que se proyectó a nivel territorial en la localidad de Onda sustentada en dos pilares: de un lado, la evolución de la agricultura, y del otro, el desarrollo e implantación de una industria cerámica que acabaría siendo muy potente. Ambos sectores se vieron condicionados por una serie de factores socioeconómicos y políticos, así como por el medio físico en el que se encuentra la localidad y por la tecnificación que se introdujo paulatinamente. El presente trabajo trata de analizar este proceso de cambio desde un punto de vista histórico-ambiental, atendiendo a las consecuencias sociales y paisajísticas que de él se desprenden. Entre els segles XIX i XX va tindre lloc una evolució socioeconòmica que es va projectar a nivell territorial en la localitat d'Onda sustentada en dos pilars: d'un costat, l'evolució de l'agricultura, i de l'altre, el desenvolupament i implantació d'una indústria ceràmica que acabaria sent molt potent. Tots dos sectors es van veure condicionats per una sèrie de factors socioeconòmics i polítics, així com pel mig físic en el qual es troba la localitat i per la tecnificació que es va introduir gradualment. El present treball tracta d'analitzar aquest procés de canvi des d'un punt de vista històric-ambiental, atenent a les conseqüències socials i paisatgístiques que d'ell es desprenen. Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there was a socio-economic evolution which screened at the territorial level in the town of Onda based on two pillars : first , the development of agriculture, and the other , the development and implementation of a ceramic industry it would become very powerful. Both sectors were conditioned by a number of socioeconomic and political factors, as well as the physical environment in which the locality and the modernization that is gradually introduced. This paper attempts to analyze this process of change from a historical - environmental perspective, taking into account the social and landscape consequences arising from it.
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- 2016
6. El avance agrícola en la región : sus consecuencias
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Forjan, Horacio Jose and Manso, Marina Lucrecia
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Diversificación ,Agricultura ,Diversification ,Agriculture ,Industrialization ,Barrow, Buenos Aires ,Industrialización - Abstract
El aumento de la actividad agrícola y la producción de granos han sido una constante en los últimos años en la región de influencia de la CEI Barrow EEA Barrow Fil: Forjan, Horacio Jose. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Barrow; Argentina Fil: Manso, Marina Lucrecia. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Barrow; Argentina
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- 2015
7. Ribesalbes, a tour of different processing projects
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Medall Chiva, Ivan
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petroleum oil ,pebbles ,the twelve Apostles ,industrialization ,secano ,dryland ,ceramics ,cerámica ,los Doce Apóstoles ,irrigation ,mines bituminous ,industrialización ,agricultura ,minas de betuminoso ,aceite de petróleo ,regadío ,rocalla ,agriculture - Abstract
Los actuales modelos económicos premian a aquellas actividades promovidas por jóvenes que más tarde califican de emprendedoras. Históricamente, en Ribesalbes, municipio de La Plana Baixa de Castelló, se han desarrollado los mismos sectores económicos que en otros municipios, pero no todos han llegado a la industrialización. Si la agricultura ha sido el pilar de muchas sociedades, aquí nos encontramos con un caso peculiar. En Ribesalbes la agricultura para sus habitantes es un complemento a las actividades primordiales. En dicha localidad podemos situar ejemplos de negocios que son difíciles de encontrar en muchos otros municipios de les comarques de Castelló y del País Valencià. Leyendo el artículo podremos conocer como en su término hay minas de aceite de petróleo, explotadas en primera instancia por los ingleses, o como sus propios habitantes desarrollan una manufactura hasta industrializarla, este será el caso de los Doce Apóstoles. Current economic models reward those activities promoted by young entrepreneurs Grading later. Historically, in Ribesalbes, municipality of La Plana Baixa de Castelló, have developed the same economic sectors in other municipalities, but not all have come to industrialization. If agriculture has been the mainstay of many societies, here we find a peculiar case. In Ribesalbes agriculture for its inhabitants is a complement to the core business. In this town we can locate examples of businesses that are hard to find in many others municipalities in them comarques of Castelló and the Valencian Country. Reading the article as we know there are mines in his term petroleum oil, exploited first by the British, or as its own inhabitants develop a manufacturing to industrialize, this will be the case of the twelve Apostles.
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- 2013
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