perspectives are utilized within this analysis: neoclassical economics, including agency costs, information costs, moral hazard and … analysis of the psychological & economic aspects, and new sections dealing with the commodities trade sector …

"The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia … to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic. For most of history, humans did without refined sugar …. Granulated sugar was first produced in India around the sixth century BC, yet for almost 2,500 years afterward sugar remained …

signals, we show that the release of more precise public information about future rates lowers the informativeness of market …. However, when the increase in precision of public information is sufficiently large, uncertainty is unambiguously reduced. …

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … inhabitated by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade requires imperfectly observed bilateral investments and one group has to form … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since confict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals …

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … inhabitated by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade requires imperfectly observed bilateral investments and one group has to form … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since conflict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals …