Product Description: This volume covers the variety of issues lying at the intersection of the modern theory of industrial organization and the more traditional agricultural economies. Issues examined include the organization of agriculture and its mechanisms, and the extent of market power in agri-food industries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Economics has much to do with incentives--not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save. Although Adam Smith amply confirmed this more than two hundred years ago in his analysis of sharecropping contracts, only in recent decades has a theory begun to emerge to place the topic at the heart of economic thinking...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)