Charles Hoffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3870627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Hoffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffman |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Arizona University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5700-6903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A new approach to a wicked problem
Food insecurity is a complex societal problem that disproportionately impacts households with children and those led by minoritized populations, with negative impacts on health across the life course. System to Achieve Food Equity adapted the learning systems model, used to address similarly complex problems, to tackle food insecurity at a neighborhood level. SAFE, born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, leverages a family-centered, community-based, c…
The Mother of Combines”
In 1887, Canada was in a fervour over so-called “combines,” a term used to cover price-fixing schemes, pool agreements, trusts, and other cartel arrangements. The public debate led to the passage in 1889 of the Anti-Combines Act , the world’s first modern competition statute, enacted a year prior to the United States’ Sherman Antitrust Act . But while Canada acted before its neighbour to the south, the United States was omnipresent in the Canadia…
Brotherly Love
The People Who Discovered Columbus
For the Lucayan Arawaks of the Caribbean, the year 1492 marked the beginning of the end: the first people contacted by Christopher Columbus were the first extinguished. Within 30 years, a population of perhaps 80,000 had declined to, at most, a few refugees. Clearing new ground in the study of prehistoric societies, Keegan argues that a different perspective on the past provides an accurate portrait of a culture that became extinct almost 500 yea…
Archeology
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Undermining fathers
Undermining fathers
Urban Population Growth in China and the USSR
In the June 1978 issue of Monthly Review, Hans Blumenfeld, in his critique of Larry Sawers' article, "Urban Planning in the Soviet Union," appearing in the March 1977 issue, concludes that "the evidence shows clearly that China has been less successful than the Soviet Union and the European socialist countries in limiting the growth of large cities and encouraging small ones." This inference follows a comparison of the two largest cities in the S…
Books reviewed
Frame‐Up. By Curt Gentry, New York: W. W. Norton. 1967. 477 pp. $7.50. Abraham Bisno: Union Pioneer. Foreword by Joel Seidman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1967. 244 pp. $6.50. Constitutional Politics in the Progressive Era: Child Labor and the Law. By Stephen B. Wood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1968. 320 pp. $10.00. The Academic Mind and Reform: The Influence of Richard T. Ely in American Life. By Benjamin G. Rader. Lexingt…
Work Incentive Practices and Policies in the People's Republic of China, 1953-1965
Work Incentive Practices and Policies in the People's Republic of China, 1953-1965
Books reviewed
Frame‐Up. By Curt Gentry, New York: W. W. Norton. 1967. 477 pp. $7.50. Abraham Bisno: Union Pioneer. Foreword by Joel Seidman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1967. 244 pp. $6.50. Constitutional Politics in the Progressive Era: Child Labor and the Law. By Stephen B. Wood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1968. 320 pp. $10.00. The Academic Mind and Reform: The Influence of Richard T. Ely in American Life. By Benjamin G. Rader. Lexingt…
Urban Population Growth in China and the USSR
In the June 1978 issue of Monthly Review, Hans Blumenfeld, in his critique of Larry Sawers' article, "Urban Planning in the Soviet Union," appearing in the March 1977 issue, concludes that "the evidence shows clearly that China has been less successful than the Soviet Union and the European socialist countries in limiting the growth of large cities and encouraging small ones." This inference follows a comparison of the two largest cities in the S…
Undermining fathers
Undermining fathers
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Archeology
The People Who Discovered Columbus
For the Lucayan Arawaks of the Caribbean, the year 1492 marked the beginning of the end: the first people contacted by Christopher Columbus were the first extinguished. Within 30 years, a population of perhaps 80,000 had declined to, at most, a few refugees. Clearing new ground in the study of prehistoric societies, Keegan argues that a different perspective on the past provides an accurate portrait of a culture that became extinct almost 500 yea…
Brotherly Love
The Mother of Combines”
In 1887, Canada was in a fervour over so-called “combines,” a term used to cover price-fixing schemes, pool agreements, trusts, and other cartel arrangements. The public debate led to the passage in 1889 of the Anti-Combines Act , the world’s first modern competition statute, enacted a year prior to the United States’ Sherman Antitrust Act . But while Canada acted before its neighbour to the south, the United States was omnipresent in the Canadia…
A new approach to a wicked problem
Food insecurity is a complex societal problem that disproportionately impacts households with children and those led by minoritized populations, with negative impacts on health across the life course. System to Achieve Food Equity adapted the learning systems model, used to address similarly complex problems, to tackle food insecurity at a neighborhood level. SAFE, born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, leverages a family-centered, community-based, c…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · American History and Culture (2 works)