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Any Way You Slice It
Stan Cox
The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing
New Press
May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
336 pages
ISBN: 1595588094
EAN: 9781595588098
Kindle: B00B3M3AX8
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Non-Fiction
Rationing: it’s a word—and idea—that people often loathe and
fear. Health care expert Henry Aaron has compared mentioning
the possibility of rationing to “shouting an obscenity in
church.” Yet societies in fact ration food, water, medical
care, and fuel all the time, with those who can pay the most
getting the most. As Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya
Sen has said, the results can be “thoroughly unequal and
nasty.”
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?
The author of Losing Our Cool, the
much debated and widely acclaimed examination of
air-conditioning’s many impacts, here turns his attention to
the politically explosive topic of how we share our planet’s
resources.
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