Farmers are business managers and as such they must understand the law or they are likely to fall foul of it. This especially applies to contract law, with which they deal constantly. Contract law is made up of the common law – as the courts have decided it – and statute law- as...

Assessments of access to healthful food frequently use GIS to measure the distance and concentration of food outlets relative to where residents live. These descriptive approaches do not account for food shopping behavior, which may vary based on the attributes of food shoppers and their...

Erikson links intergroup violence to the fashion communities train their members to see themselves and otherness. The result of role learning or identity formation is regrettably but typically 'pseudospeciation', a tendency to see one's own group as something more than human while deni grating...

This Companion takes stock of the trajectory, achievements, shortcomings and prospects of Marxist political economy. It reflects the contributors’ shared commitment to bringing the methods, theories and concepts of Marx himself to bear across a wide range of topics and perspectives, and...

Many consumers use alternative financial service providers (AFSPs)—such as check cashing outlets, payday lenders, and pawnshops—to conduct some of their financial transactions. However, the fees for these services tend to be higher than those charged at mainstream financial institutions. One...