Agricultural economics
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Bibliographic Information
Agricultural economics
Prentice Hall, c2004
2nd ed
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For one-semester, introductory courses in Agricultural Economics or Environmental Economics.
This innovative text provides a broad view of the food system, with its emphasis on the links among financial institutions, the macroeconomy, world markets, government programs, farms, agribusinesses, food marketing, and the environment. Taking a macro-to-micro approach, the text introduces "high interest" topics students can relate to first, using them to capture student interest before introducing microeconomics topics. It illustrates the six economic concepts which form the foundation of the economist's decision-making process including supply and demand, opportunity cost, diminishing returns, marginality, measuring costs and returns, and the externalities of transactions. Presented in a non-threatening conceptual framework, the material covered in this text maintains a strong attachment to the application of agricultural economics to the real world.
Table of Contents
1. The Food Industry.
2. Introduction to Agricultural Economics.
3. Introduction to Market Price Determination.
4. Financial Markets.
5. Money and Financial Intermediaries.
6. Monetary Policy.
7. The Circular Flow of Income.
8. Fiscal Policy.
9. International Trade.
10. Agricultural Policy.
11. The Firm as a Production Unit.
12. Costs and Optimal Output Levels.
13. Firm Supply and the Market.
14. Imperfect Competition and Government Regulation.
15. The Theory of Consumer Behavior.
16. The Concept of Elasticity.
17. Food Marketing: From Stable to Table.
18. Futures Markets.
19. Farm Service Sector.
20. Investment Analysis.
21. Environmental Policy and Market Failure.
22. The Malthusian Dilemma.
23. Economic Development and Food.
Glossary.
Index.
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