Free Markets & Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment

by John H. Walton, David Seddon, John K. Walton, et al.

Book Overview

This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic "reform" and "adjustment".
Explores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631182470
• ISBN13: 9780631182474
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"