"Rampant consumerism has inundated our planet with pollution and waste, yet attempts to create environmentally friendly forms of consumption are often co-opted by corporations. Christine Harold investigates the attachments we form to the objects we buy, keep, and discard, exploring how these...

A democracy left untended -- The equal protection clause ensures -- Placebocracy is democracy's bastard -- Capitalism is the only economic system -- The US does not have a Free Market Economy -- Corporate welfare And protectionism are -- I'll believe In Free Trade Agreements when -- The problems...

The politics and the economics -- The Industrial Revolution in Britain -- Economics and politics in 19th century America -- Politics of resistance in the 19th century -- Britain: The inter war years -- The Progressive Era in the United States -- Britain and the post-war settlement -- Politics...

Introduction : shadow governments and the remaking of the American local state / Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, and Alba Alexander -- City-building capacity and special-purpose authorities : institutions, interests, and the local state / James M. Smith -- Phantom governments : multiple-function...

Klappentext: Die Bewunderung für den schnellen Aufstieg Chinas innerhalb der globalen Wirtschaftsordnung weicht in westlichen Ländern zunehmend der Sorge vor einer autoritären Weltmacht. Heribert Dieter zeigt, wie China die Rolle der "Werkbank" überwunden hat und zunehmend...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Turning toward Things Accumulation, Attachment, and Agency -- ONE: The Dreams Stuff Is Made Of Attaching to Inanimate Objects -- TWO: On Target Aura, Affect, and the Rhetoric of Design...