Food and nutrition economics : fundamentals for health sciences
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
c2016
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Food, nutrients, and health : an overview
- 2. Food, nutrients, and health : some data
- 3. Income and the foundations
- 4. Income and the importance of substitution
- 5. Prices
- 6. Convenience and time
- 7. Information and preferences
- 8. Now or later
- 9. Insights from behavioral economics
- 10. Neuroeconomics : pointing toward a unifying framework for decision making
- 11. An overview of the food system, economic systems, and systems theory
- 12. Profit and supply for farms and firms
- 13. Production and profit beyond the farm gate
- 14. Demand and supply : prices and quantities in a competitive market
- 15. Horizontally and vertically related competitive markets
- 16. Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis