Michael Perelman, On globalization, economics, and the history of food crises

By politics | Published: October 27, 2010
Michael Perelman is a prolific and compelling scholar of contemporary economics and politics who teaches at California State University in Chico.  He has published 19 books on a wide variety of topics.  Graduating with a degree in agricultural economics, questions of the global inequalities of food production and distribution, both past and present, led Perelman’s [...]
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Max Haiven, Food, finance, crisis, catalyst: global capitalism and the revolutionary value of food sovereignty

By politics | Published: November 3, 2009
I. The problem, once again… At risk of being obviously unfashionable or unfashonably obvious, the problem with food in the world today is capitalism. Particularly, it is a form of capitalism that imposes uniquely local but ubiquitously global forms of market sovereignty over more and more aspects of our lives. Food, which names the spectre [...]
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