Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on the three areas of interest in institutions: policy implementation, market and supply chain organisation and management of rural resources and rural systems. The chapters cover insights on the significance of institutions on transaction costs, policy analysis, agri-environmental policies, social capital and bottom-up approaches.
Trade ReviewTwenty-eight papers, presented during the eightieth seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists held in Ghent, Belgium in September 2003, take a neo-institutional economic perspective in considering the future organization of the agro-food sector. Journal of Economic Literature, 2005.
Table of ContentsAbbreviated. Part 1: TCE, a state-of-the-art. Part 2: Policy reform, institutional determinants and outcomes. Part 3: Formalisation of the links between institutions and policy. Part 4: Institutions in policy analysis. Part 5: Market metamorphosis and chain dynamics. Part 6. Arrangements in input markets. Part 7: New institutions in agro-environmental policies and public good delivery. Part 8: Role of social capital and bottom-up approaches in rural development.
