Food Economics : Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health /

Food Economics provides a unified introduction to the economics of agricultural production, business decisions, consumer behavior, and the government policies that shape our food system. This open access textbook begins with economic principles derived using graphical techniques to explain and predi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Masters, William A. (Author), Finaret, Amelia B. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:	1st ed. 2024.
Series:	Palgrave Textbooks in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy,
Subjects:	Agriculture > Economic aspects. Medical economics. Medical policy. Nutrition . Agricultural Economics. Health Economics. Health Policy. Nutrition. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Individual choices: explaining food consumption and production
Chapter 3: Societal outcomes: predicting food market prices and quantities
Chapter 4: Social welfare: evaluating change in food market outcomes
Chapter 5: Market power: when innovation, scale economies or policy choices create imperfect competition
Chapter 6: Collective action: government policies and other social choices
Chapter 7: Poverty and risk: variation among people and over time
Chapter 8: Psychology and decision-making: behavioral economics in the food system
Chapter 9: Food in the macroeconomy: the whole is more than the sum of its parts
Chapter 10: International development: systemic change over time
Chapter 11: The world food system: trade, storage and processing within and between countries
Chapter 12: The future of food: new technology, resource constraints and induced innovation.