"Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country's recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of...

This textbook addresses the core issues facing economists concerning price determination in commodity markets, especially food and agricultural commodities. This book hones in on the conceptual basis of the various relationships, with special emphasis on market interrelationships, both...

Karl Christian Führer untersucht erstmals die Entstehung der modernen, auf Höchstleistungen ausgerichteten Landwirtschaft in Westdeutschland von 1950-1990. Sein Buch beschreibt eingehend, dass die Entwicklung hoch effizienter Produktionsmethoden eine Reaktion der Bauern auf sich stark...

"This radical new reading of the eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population exposes his narrow understanding of food production by examining subsistence activities such as hunting, herding, and gardening. In broadening our conception of human...