A tale of three buildings: Certifying virtue in the new moral economy

American Ethnologist

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 741-752

  Brown, Michael F ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Audit Cultures; Governmentality; Leed; Modernity ; Risk Management; Sustainable architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349265321     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01282.x     Document Type: Article

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