However, some simple and powerful theoretical knowledge does exist; here one has just to mention the discussions on methodological individualism and collectivism, on open and closed societies, and last but not least Hayek's ideas on spontaneous order which delivers an appropriate explanation for...

The task of writing a reliable and convincing paper on this topic is a very uneasy one because it is threefold: one has to know at least a bit about the agricultural sector, biology (or more precisely ecology), and about the sometimes beneficial but often distorting consequences of human...