This book examines the economic incentives for food safety in the private marketplace and how public actions have helped shape those incentives. Noted contributors analyze alternative public health protection efforts and the benefits and costs associated with these actions to understand: why an...

Books Reviewed include: Food safety and international competitiveness-the case of beef by John Spriggs and Grant Isaac; The Economics of Nature: Managing Biological Assets by G. Cornelius van Kooten and Ervin H. Bulte; The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor by Marguerite S....