Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Before the two world wars -- 1 The food weapon: milestones in the history of a concept (17th-19th centuries) -- 2 Why the wars? And how to pay for them? A comparison between Hume...

The 2008-10 financial crisis and the global recession it created is a complex phenomenon that warrants detailed examination. The various essays in this book utilise several alternative paradigms to provide a plausible explanation and a credible cure. Great detail is given to this important...