This book provides a genealogical study of Australian agricultural restructuring, focusing on the case study of wheat export market deregulation. This policy shift was implemented in 2008, ending 60 years of statutory wheat marketing. At the time, policy makers claimed that market liberalisation...

Part I. The Food and Agricultural Marketing System Overview -- 1. Evolution of Agricultural and Food Markets, Policies and Programs-Walter J. Armbruster, President Emeritus, Farm Foundation; and Ronald D. Knutson, Regents Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University -- 2. Expectations and Realities...

Chapter 1. Economic Transformation and Development Experience of Indian Punjab-An Introduction -- Section I: Understanding the Crisis of Agrarian Transition -- Chapter 2. The Role of Technological and Institutional Changes in the Growth and Transformation of Agriculture in Punjab -- Chapter 3....

The proposed book provides an assessment of an important yet controversial policy initiated by the Indian government and governments of several other developing countries. Marketing reforms, it is claimed, can be a crucial answer to solving the problem of rural poverty in agrarian economies...

The Economics of European Agriculture explains the demand and supply characteristics of agricultural markets, as well as government intervention in agriculture, with an emphasis on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan also analyses the fifth enlargement and its...

Various psychographic traits that most directly influence consumers’ private label attitudes are the focal point of Stefanie Weiss’ investigation. The author develops a comprehensive profile of psychographic predictors of attitude and identifies ways of translating these insights into...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International IFIP WG 8.9 Working Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems, CONFENIS 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in December 2016. The conference provided an international forum for the broader IFIP...

These proceedings focus on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in business communication. In detail the included scientific papers analyse and describe communication processes in the fields of sports, finance, culture, politics, brand management and corporate communications. The...

This book is the ninth volume in this series which explores the life of Nobel Price-winning economist F.A. Hayek (1899-1992). Hayek was famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism: this multi-volume biography examines the evolution of Hayek’s life and influence. In this...

F.A. von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Nobel Prize winning economist, famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism. The multi-volume Hayek: A Collaborative Biography examines the evolution of his life and influence. Two concepts of civilization revolve around power - should it be...