In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates. This is due to their profound implications for rural development, local sustainability, and bio-economics. This edited collection discusses what the main determinants...

1. Introduction -- 2. Consumer Demand: Theory -- 3. Consumer Demand: Separability and Commodity Aggregation -- 4. Consumer Demand: Empirical Analysis I -- 5. Consumer Demand: Empirical Analysis II -- 6. Quality, Heterogeneous Goods, and Cross Section Demand -- 7. Derived Demand, Marketing...

Part I: The changing size of second-round effects -- 1. Introduction. 2. Policy implications of ERPT and ongoing debates -- 3. Second round effects, exchange rate depreciation, inflation and average wage settlements -- 4. Second round effects, remuneration per worker, exchange rate depreciation...

1.Italian Economics and Fascism: an Institutional View -- 2. Economists and the Fascist Regime: A Painful Continuity? -- 3 The Persistence of Tradition: The Economists in the Law Faculties and in the Higher Institutes of Business Studies (1922 – 1943) -- 4.The Faculties of Political Sciences...

1. Introduction -- 2. History of Concepts and Principles -- 3. Contemporary Institutional and Evolutionary Concepts and Principles -- 4. Global Coronavirus Pandemic Crisis -- 5. Climate Change -- 6. Corruption -- 7. Artificial General Intelligence and Autonomous Humanoid Robotics -- 8. Policy...

Part 1: Themes in Oxford Economics -- Chapter 1: Oxford’s Contributions to Econometrics -- Chapter 2: Development Economics at Oxford, 1950–2020 -- Chapter 3: Oxford’s Contributions to Industrial Economics from the 1920s to the 1980s -- Chapter 4: Economic History at Oxford, 1860–2020 --...

Introduction -- Chapter 1: What Is the “Right to Own Things”: Intellectual Property Law -- Chapter 2: What Are Appropriate Rules for Adjusting Interests in a Company: Corporate Law -- Chapter 3: What Are the Rules for Fair Competition: Antitrust Law -- Chapter 4: What Are the Desirable Rules...

Einleitung - Wie dieses Buch entstand und was es leisten soll -- Wirtschaft, Gerechtigkeit und Ethik -- Wirtschaften und Religion -- Wirtschaften als „richtiges" Handeln: Management -- Wirtschaftliche Techniken -- Wirtschaft und Staat -- Ökonomische Klassik, Neoklassik und Makroökonomie. -...

Introduction (Bruno S. Frey and Christoph A. Schaltegger) -- Christine Benesch recommends “Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion” by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke (Christine Bensch) -- Matthias Benz recommends “The Political Economy of Government...

1. Introduction -- 2. Bioeconomy Economics and Policy -- 3. European Integration: A Historical Overview -- 4. European Agriculture and the Bioeconomy: A Historical Overview -- 5. EU Institutions and Decision Making Processes -- 6. EU Budgetary Politics and Its Implications for the Bioeconomy --...