Suggests that the study of marketing margins can provide a useful indication of the efficiency with which a food commodity is produced and distributed, or the extent to which weaknesses within a marketing system are producing undesirable effects on incomes of producers/distributers or on prices...

Reviews some of the important changes that have occurred during the 1970s in the UK food market. Consider the marketing implications of these changes. Reveals that, although the total food market has not grown very much, there have been important changes in the structure of demand, which it...

This paper offers an account of how individuals act as agents when we employ a narrative approach to explaining their personal identities. It applies Korsgaard's idea of a “reflective structure of consciousness” to provide foundations for a richer account of the individual economic agent,...

This paper is concerned with the growth of unemployment in Europe in the late 70s and early 80s. Unemployment has risen to double digit rates in many countries, rates which are not considered likely to fall much in the rest of the 80s. A theory--'the disease'--is expounded, with empirical...

A study of the origin and development of great business combinations and of their relation to the authority of the state