Economics of American Agriculture - Evolution and Global Development

Informationen zum Autor Steven C. Blank Zusammenfassung Answers the questions: What is happening to American agriculture, and why? This book uses portfolio theory to analyze both macro- and microeconomic data that offers information on the trends in agriculture, and explains why these trends are consistent with market evolution and global economic development. Inhaltsverzeichnis I: American Agriculture and Globalization; 1: Is American Agriculture Shrinking?; 2: American Agriculture's Life Cycle; 3: Profit Patterns Across American Agriculture; 4: Agricultural Profits and Farm Household Wealth; II: The Economics of Agriculture and Global Development; 5: The Economic Food Chain of Global Development; 6: Commodities and the Profit Squeeze; 7: Technology as Catalyst and Treadmill; 8: Economic Development and the Irony of American Agriculture's Technical Progress; III: Global Agriculture's Effect on Market Evolution; 9: Farmland Values and Uses as Indicators of National Wealth; 10: International Mutual Dependence; IV: American Production Agriculture's Response; 11: Producers as Investors and Portfolio Managers; 12: Measuring Risk for Decision Making; 13: Portfolio Decision Making of Farmland Owners and Tenants; 14: Is The Market Failing Producers Who Wish to Manage Risks?; 15: Hedging With Off-Farm Income; 16: Commodity Market Evolution; 17: Regional Agriculture as a National Industry; V: American Agricultural Policy Questions; 18: The Role of American Agribusiness; 19: Is Agriculture a “Way of Life”or a Business?; 20: The Role of American Agricultural Policy

Product details

• Authors: Steven C. Blank, Blank Steven C.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2008
• EAN: 9780765622297
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-2229-7
• No. of pages: 488
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; USA, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, United States of America, USA, Agricultural science, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies