Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything (13 page)

18. Trudie Knijn, “Marketization and the Struggling Logics of (Home) Care in the Netherlands.” In
Care Work: Gender, Class, and the Welfare State
. Edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer (New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 232-248.

19. Mary Pipher, “In Praise of Hometowns.” In
Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-First Century
. Edited by Juliet B. Schor and Betsy Taylor (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002).

20. The link between mobility and economic development is discussed in the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s
Mobility for Development: Facts and Trends
, September 2007. For example, North Americans travelled 40 miles a day on average (mostly by car and plane) in 2007, compared to seven miles for Brazilians (by car and bus), and 3 miles for Tanzanians (by foot, bus, and bicycle).

21. F. M. Deutsch,
Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), quoted in Lotte Bailyn, Robert Drago, and Thomas A. Kochan,
Integrating Work and Family Life: A Holistic Approach
, A Report of the Sloan Work-Family Policy Network
(2002); Nancy Folbre,
The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values
(New York: New Press, 2001).

22. Tom Peters introduces “The Brand Called You” in
Fast Company
10 (1997).

23. Fritz Pappenheim discusses Ferdinand Tonies’
Gesellschaft
versus
Gemeinschaft
in “Alienation in American Society,”
Monthly Review
June (2000).

24. Social entrepreneurship is described by Johanna Mair and Ignasi Marti, “Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Source of Explanation, Prediction, and Delight,”
Journal of World Business
41(2006): 36-44; and by Thomas Reis and Stephanie Clohesy,
Unleashing New Resources and Entrepreneurship for the Common Good
(Battle Creek, Michigan: Kellogg Foundation, 1999).

25. Gregory Dees warns nonprofits about the risks of becoming business-oriented in “Enterprising Nonprofits,”
Harvard Business Review
, January (1998): 54-67; John Catford, “Social Entrepreneurs are Vital for Health Promotion — but They Need Supportive Environments Too,”
Health Promotion International
13 (1998): 95-97.

26. The quote about thousands of organizations in the U.S. experimenting with market-based approaches to social problems appears in Thomas Reis and Stephanie Clohesy’s
Unleashing New Resources and Entrepreneurship for the Common Good
(Battle Creek, Michigan: Kellogg Foundation, 1999).

27. Kurt Aschermann, “The Ten Commandments of Cause-Related Marketing,”
Cause Marketing Forum
, www.causemarketingforum.com, undated.

28. Ben Gose, “A Revolution was Ventured, But What Did It Gain?”
Chronicle of Philanthropy
15 (2003): 6-9.

29. Ibid.

30. Angela M. Eikenberry, and Jodie Drapal Kluver explain what the nonprofit sector used to be about in “The Marketization of the Nonprofit Sector: Civil Society at Risk?”
Public Administration Review
64 (2004): 132-140.

31. An argument for economic growth preceding social and spiritual wealth is found in Thomas Reis and Stephanie Clohesy’s
Unleashing New Resources and Entrepreneurship for the Common Good
(Battle Creek, Michigan: Kellogg Foundation, 1999).

32. For more on the environment and the economy, see Mark Sagoff,
The Economy of the Earth
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008); Gretchen C. Daily,
Nature’s Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems
(Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997); Harold A. Mooney and Paul R. Ehrlich, “Ecosystem Services: A Fragmentary History,” in
Nature’s Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems
. Edited by Gretchen C. Daily (Washington, DC: Island Press; 1997), pp. 11-19.

33. The detailed descriptions of what goods and services are provided to us by the earth’s ecosystems is from the National Geographic website,
Our Relationship With Nature, A Fragile System Sustains Us: Nature Reveals Its True Value,
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/ecosystem-and-conservation.html, undated.

34. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) report that came out of the meeting of the G8+5 Environment Ministers in Germany in 2007 is discussed by National Geographic in “Ecosystem Investments Could Yield Trillions of Dollars in Benefits, Study Finds,”
NATGEO Newswatch
, November 13, 2009. The TEEB report is available at www.teebweb.org.

35.
Stanford Report
, “Q&A with Gretchen Daily, Woods Institute Fellow and Professor of Biological Sciences,” August 2, 2007.

36. Ibid.

37. Thomas L. Friedman,
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
(New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999).

Additional Sources

The first epigraph is from Robert Solomon’s
Love: Emotion, Myth and Metaphor
(New York: Doubleday, 1981).

The second epigraph is from Jonathan Amos’ “Study Limits Maximum Tree Height,”
BBC News
, April 21, 2004.

5. Your Community

1. See, for example, Lawrence Pratchett and Melvin Wingfield. “Petty Bureaucracy and Woolly-minded Liberalism? The Changing Ethos of Local Government Officers,”
Public Adminstration
74 (1996): 639-656.

2. See Laurence E. Lynn Jr.,
Public Management: Old and New
(New York: Routledge, 2006), for an excellent overview of the rise of New Public Management.

3. Sandford Borins, “New Public Management, North American Style.” In
New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects
. Edited by Kate McLaughlin, Stephen P. Osborne, and Ewan Ferlie (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 181-194.

4. Sandra Dawson and Charlotte Dargie, “New Public Management: A Discussion with Special Reference to UK Health.” In
New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects
. Edited by Kate McLaughlin, Stephen P. Osborne, and Ewan Ferlie (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 34-56.

5. Laurence E. Lynn Jr.,
Public Management: Old and New
(New York: Routledge, 2006); Stephen P. Osborne and Kate McLaughlin, “The New Public Management in Context.” In
New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects
. Edited by Kate McLaughlin, Stephen P. Osborne, and Ewan Ferlie (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 7-14.

6. Laurence E. Lynn Jr.,
Public Management: Old and New
(New York: Routledge, 2006); Sandra Dawson and Charlotte Dargie, “New Public Management: A Discussion with Special Reference to UK Health.” In
New Public Management: Current
Trends and Future Prospects. Edited by Kate McLaughlin, Stephen P. Osborne, and Ewan Ferlie (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 34-56.

7. Laurence E. Lynn Jr.,
Public Management: Old and New
(New York: Routledge, 2006).

8. Jane Broadbent and Richard Laughlin, “Public Service Professionals and the New Public Management: Control of the Professions in the Public Services.” In
New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects
. Edited by Kate McLaughlin, Stephen P. Osborne, and Ewan Ferlie (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 95-108.

9. Stephen P. Osborne and Kate McLaughlin describe how the jury is still out on whether or not New Public Management improves government efficiency in “The New Public Management in Context.” In
New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects
. Edited by Kate McLaughlin, Stephen P. Osborne, and Ewan Ferlie (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 7-14.

10. David D. Friedman describes efficiency as the answer to the question “What should we do?” in
Law’s Order: What Economics Has to do With Law and Why It Matters
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).

11. David Shichor,
Punishment for Profit
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995). In the Middle Ages in England, if you were a victim of a crime and wanted to do something about it, you hired a private prosecutor and paid for the prosecution yourself.

12. Ibid.

13. The reasons behind incarceration are outlined by Norval Morris and David J. Rothman in their introduction to
The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
. Edited by Norval Morris and David J. Rothman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

14. David Shichor,
Punishment for Profit
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995).

15. For more on privatized prisons, see James Austin and Garry Coventry’s report
Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons
(San Francisco, CA: National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 2001).

16. David J. Rothman describes prison labor in “Perfecting the Prison: United States, 1789-1865.” In
The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
. Edited by Norval Morris and David J. Rothman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); David Shichor,
Punishment for Profit
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995).

17. U.S. prisoners per capita in 1992: 455, compared to South Africa’s 332, Canada’s 109, and Sweden’s 61. Norval Morris, “The Contemporary Prison: 1965-Present.” In
The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
. Edited by Norval Morris and David J. Rothman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

18. The justifications for prison privatization are described by David Shichor in
Punishment for Profit
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995).

19. Ibid.

20. James Austin and Garry Coventry,
Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons
(San Francisco, CA: National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 2001); David Shichor,
Punishment for Profit
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995).

21. For more on the debatable success of privatized prisons and lower wages and benefits paid to staff, see James Austin and Garry Coventry’s
Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons
(San Francisco, CA: National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 2001). Overtime is particularly burdensome because of high staff turnover. California prison guards, for example, averaged $57,000 a year in base pay in 2005; with overtime pay, 2,400 guards made over $100,000, and the highest paid correctional guard made $187,000. (Steve Schmidt, “Prison Guards Lock Up Bundle in OT Pay,”
San Diego Union Tribune
, February 28, 2006.)

22. Gary Paulsen, in an author profile compiled by ipl2, http://www.ipl.org/div/askauthor/paulsen.html.

23. Isaac Asimov,
I. Asimov, a Memoir
(New York: Doubleday, 1994).

24. Oliver Garceau,
The Public Library in the Political Process
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1949).

25. Ronald McCabe,
Civic Librarianship: Renewing the Social Mission of the Public Library
(Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001).

26. For more on libraries and their role in a democratic society, see Molly Raphael, “Why Do Libraries Matter in the 21st Century?” In
Perspectives, Insights & Priorities: 17 Leaders Speak Freely of Librarianship
. Edited by Norman Horrocks (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005), pp. 115-122; Ed D’Angelo,
Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library
(Duluth, MN: Library Juice Press, 2006).

27. The statement by the Boston Public Library trustees is cited by John N. Berry III, “Election 2004: The Library Fails Again.” In
Perspectives, Insights & Priorities: 17 Leaders Speak Freely of Librarianship
. Edited by Norman Horrocks (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005), pp. 13-18.

28. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, “UNESCO Public Library Manifesto.”

29. For more on the library, the public good, and society, see Michael Gorman, “Library Values in a Changing World.” In
Perspectives, Insights & Priorities: 17 Leaders Speak Freely of Librarianship
. Edited by Norman Horrocks (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005), pp. 55-62; Evelyn M. Campbell, Suzanne Duncan, Sonal Rastogi, and Joan Wilson, “The Future is Now: Will Public Libraries Survive?” In
Reinvention of the Public Library for the 21st Century.
Edited by William L. Whitesides Sr., (Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1998), pp. 180-204.

30. Samuel E. Trosow and Kirsti Nilsen,
Constraining Public Libraries: The World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Trade in Services
(Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006).

31. Herbert I. Schiller, Culture, Inc. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989); Michael Gorman, “Library Values in a Changing World.” In
Perspectives, Insights & Priorities: 17 Leaders Speak Freely of Librarianship
. Edited by Norman Horrocks (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005), pp. 55-62.

32. American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom, “The Freedom to Read Statement.”

33. The ALA keeps an annual list of the most challenged books in library collections. Leigh S. Estabrook, “A Virtuous Profession.” In
Perspectives, Insights & Priorities: 17 Leaders Speak Freely of Librarianship
. Edited by Norman Horrocks (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005), pp. 43-48; Ann K. Symons, “The More Things Change, the More Things Remain the Same.” In
Perspectives, Insights & Priorities: 17 Leaders Speak Freely of Librarianship
. Edited by Norman Horrocks (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005), pp. 123-130. This is why many librarians were against the United States’ 2001 Patriot Act.

34. Herbert I. Schiller describes how libraries create information resources that markets don’t in
Culture, Inc
. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).

35. Camila Alire, “The Library Professional.” In
Perspectives, Insights & Priorities: 17 Leaders Speak Freely of Librarianship
. Edited by Norman Horrocks (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005), pp. 55-62.