As a public policy objective in Japan, food security shifted from one that had near consensus support after World War 11 to one that caused deep political divisions among a variety of groups and political actors. Japan continues to reconcile levels of commodity self-sufficiency with a variety of...

As wine economist Mike Veseth peels away layer after layer of the money-taste-wine relationship he discovers the wine buyer's biggest mistake and learns how to avoid it, enlists in the "restaurant wars" and toasts anything but Champagne. His engaging and enlightening book will surprise, inform,...

This paper defines the relationship between the nominal (or money) income elasticity and the real income elasticity of a tax system. Under most circumstances, the real and the nominal income elasticities differ. This difference has not been recognized by economists who rely strictly on nominal...