"Mainstream economics offers a perspective on the gift which is constructed around exchange, axioms of self-interest, instrumental rationality and utility-maximisation - concepts that predominate within conventional forms of economic analysis. Recognising the gift as an example of social...

List of contributors -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: industrialisation and socialisation of agriculture, towards new regimes -- Novel approaches and theories of global agri-economies -- The ambivalent capitalist socialisation of agriculture -- Regulation...