Condemnation or glorification of luxury is a classic and recurrent question in the history of political ideas. Today … in the history of economic thought, and, more specifically, in the quarrel of luxury that occurred during the … Enlightenment. If luxury is immoral, it is not necessarily obnoxious, it participates in the circulation of wealth, maintains a …

posing the question. Many of the most important economic writers of the period (Petty, Cantillon, Hutcheson, Hume, Steuart … the relation between industry and agriculture, and the potential for development arising from their interplay. There is … agriculture and the rest of the economy explicit and, at least in principle, quantifiable played a significant role in the …

falling below the minimum support prices in the state in the recent years. This is viewed by some as an indication of surplus …. Further, it explores into the structure of rice markets and nature of surplus of rice production, and contingent conditions …

stressed in development literature. 'Agricultural surplus', defined as the physical marketed surplus of food and raw materials …The importance of an 'agricultural surplus' for the structural transformation accompanying economic growth is often …

-based strategies exemplified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). … recovery to structural transformation. This paper reviews the evolution of development theory and practice, the role of … agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved …

factors, however, are often mentioned as potential barriers to the development of agriculture in the region, including …Among the economic activities in Brazil's Midwest region, agriculture has an important role in the regional economy …, with the aim of this study to evaluate the recent situation of regional agriculture in order to identify constraints and …