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Subject(s)

• Agriculture—Economic aspects—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Cramer, Gail L. [Browse]
• Paudel, Krishna P. [Browse]
• Schmitz, Andrew [Browse]

Series

Routledge International Handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

This Handbook offers an up-to-date collection of research on agricultural economics. Drawing together scholarship from experts at the top of their profession and from around the world, this collection provides new insights into the area of agricultural economics.The Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics explores a broad variety of topics including welfare economics, econometrics, agribusiness, and consumer economics. This wide range reflects the way in which agricultural economics encompasses a large sector of any economy, and the chapters present both an introduction to the subjects as well as the methodology, statistical background, and operations research techniques needed to solve practical economic problems. In addition, food economics is given a special focus in the Handbook due to the recent emphasis on health and feeding the world population a quality diet. Furthermore, through examining these diverse topics, the authors seek to provide some indication of the direction of research in these areas and where future research endeavors may be productive.Acting as a comprehensive, up-to-date, and definitive work of reference, this Handbook will be of use to researchers, faculty, and graduate students looking to deepen their understanding of agricultural economics, agribusiness, and applied economics, and the interrelationship of those areas.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• An introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics
• Broadening the validity of welfare economics for quantitative public policy analysis
• Part 1. Food economics
• World food: new developments
• Industrial organization of the food industry: the role of buyer power
• Economic ramifications of obesity: a selective literature review
• Behavioral economics in food and agriculture
• Product quality and reputation in food and agriculture
• Food marketing in the United States
• Food from the water : fisheries and aquaculture
• The economics of antibiotics use in agriculture
• Advancements in the economics of food security
• Part 2. Environmental and resource economics
• How does climate change affect agriculture?
• Habitat conservation in agricultural landscapes
• Water quality trading
• Natural capital and ecosystem services
• Water management and economics
• Water supply and dams in agriculture
• Part 3. Trade, policy, and development
• A synopsis of trade theories and their applications
• International agricultural trade: a road map
• Use of subsidies and taxes and the reform of agricultural policy
• The political economy of agricultural and food policies
• Macroeconomic issues in agricultural economics
• Models of economic growth: application to agriculture and structural transformation
• Rural development : theory and practice
• Part 4. Methods
• Econometrics for the future
• On the evolution of agricultural econometrics
• New empirical models in consumer demand
• A survey of semiparametric regression methods used in the environmental Kuznets curve analyses
• Reconstructing deterministic economic dynamics from volatile time series data
• Agricultural development impact evaluation
• Estimating production functions
• Part 5. Production
• Role of risk and uncertainty in agriculture
• Investing in people in the twenty-first century: education, health, and migration
• The economics of biofuels
• Farm management: recent applications
• Economics of agricultural biotechnology
• Part 6. Marketing
• The financial economics of agriculture and farm management
• Futures markets and hedging
• Cooperative extension system: value to society
• Theory of cooperatives: recent developments
• Agribusiness economics and management.

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ISBN

• 1-317-22575-9
• 1-5231-3576-X
• 1-315-62335-8
• 1-317-22576-7

LCCN

2018007743

OCLC

1023826403

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