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Second, Tangires mentions that after displacement, wholesale farmers' markets, growers' markets, and cooperative markets sprung up in resistance to USDA efforts, sometimes directly across the street. The USDA created the Office of Markets in 1913 and hired experts in the new discipline of "agricultural economics" to apply the principles of scientific management to rationalize and consolidate markets. Many cities created comprehensive plans for urban food and "food supply markets" that leveraged a hub and spokes model, with purpose-built hubs, called "terminal markets", outside of central cities. Despite USDA expertise, cities relied on privately financed and owned markets such as railroad produce terminals and jobbing markets. [Extracted from the article]

From the title, this appears to be a book about warehousing and logistics; but Dara Orenstein's I Out of Stock i is actually a book about U.S. foreign trade zones (FTZs), a subject that allows the author to interrogate geoeconomics, capitalism, and territoriality. The currency of the warehouse system was the warehouse receipt; commodities stored in warehouses were a foundation for trading and speculation. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "The Museum of Ordinary People," by Mike Gayle, is presented.

Illinois i , even though the Supreme Court's affirmation of state warehouse regulation remains the single best-known warehouse-related event in American history. Orenstein is right to observe that foreign-trade foreign trade zones challenge conventional assumptions about national sovereignty, labor standards, and supply chains. For Orenstein, as for historians of capitalism, capitalism is a monster abstraction that no individual, group, or institution can check. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism," by Dara Orenstein, is presented.

Reviews the book "Origins and Rise of the British Distillery," by William T. Harper.

Reviews the book "The March Inland: Origins of the ILWU Warehouse Division, 1934-1938," by Harvey Schwartz.

Reviews the book "The March Inland: Origins of the ILWU Warehouse Division, 1934-1938," by Harvey Schwartz.

Reviews the book 'Gateway Cities and Other Essays,' by Leonard K. Eaton.

The article offers information on the art exhibition "...And Then It Will All Come Back to Me" featuring Trenton Doyle Hancock's paintings at the James Cohan Gallery in New York City which will start on November 1, 2012.

The article reviews the exhibition "Peekskill Project V" at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in New York through July 28, 2013.

Reviews the book "How to Optimize Your Warehouse Operations," by Art Liebeskind.