"Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its third edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, and agribusiness sectors. This key text introduces economic principles in a succinct and...

Introduction to the economics of agriculture -- The economics of production -- The costs of production -- Profit maximization -- Optimal input selection -- Optimal output selection -- Consumer choices -- Supply -- Demand -- Markets -- Government policies -- The competitive firm -- Market power...

"Growing a Sustainable City? offers a critical analysis of the development of urban agriculture policies and their role in making post-industrial cities more sustainable. Christina Rosan and Hamil Pearsall's intriguing and illuminating case study of Philadelphia reveals how growing in the city...

"Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its fourth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, and agribusiness sectors. This key text introduces economic principles in a succinct and...

Introduction to the economics of agriculture -- The economics of production -- The costs of production -- Profit maximization -- Optimal input selection -- Optimal output selection -- Consumer choices -- Supply and demand -- Markets -- The competitive firm -- Market power -- Agriculture and the...

Introduction: agriculture between state and market -- The early battles lost: reaching for regulation, 1920-1932 -- Winning supply management: a new deal for agriculture, 1933-1945 -- Shifting agricultural coalitions: sliding back toward the free market, 1945-1975 -- The decline of the South:...