Globalisation, agriculture and development : perspectives from the Asia-Pacific / Matthew Tonts and M.A.B. Siddique -- Australian agriculture in the global economic mosaic / Neil Argent -- Market efficiency, agriculture and prosperity in rural Australia / Bill Pritchard and Matthew Tonts --...

Since the very beginnings of economics as a science, which might be dated from Ibn Khalduns Introduction to History (1377), the challenge of making societies escape from poverty and attain some degree of prosperity has always been, and will remain, a fundamental issue. It was and it is still...