| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Food, nutrients, and health : an overview -- Food, nutrients, and health : some data -- Income and the foundations -- Income and the importance of substitution -- Prices -- Convenience and time -- Information and preferences -- Now or later -- Insights from behavioral economics -- Neuroeconomics : pointing toward a unifying framework for decision making -- An overview of the food system, economic systems, and systems theory -- Profit and supply for farms and firms -- Production and profit beyond the farm gate -- Demand and supply : prices and quantities in a competitive market -- Horizontally and vertically related competitive markets -- Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis |
| Summary |
At the heart of most food, nutrition, and health decisions and concerns is an economic issue. Consequently, understanding some basic economics is imperative to evaluate the likely effectiveness of food and nutrition policies or interventions, especially those designed to operate through economic channels. Section I of the book provides the fundamentals of nutrition. Section II provides the fundamentals of consumer economics, from both the neo-classical and behavioral economics perspectives. Section III gives an overview of the US food system and the fundamentals of food production economics. Section IV gives the fundamentals of market analysis, including horizontally and vertically related markets. Section V gives an overview of cost effectiveness and cost benefit analysis of nutrition interventions |
| Notes |
This edition previously issued in print: 2016 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 17, 2017) |
| Subject |
Nutrition -- Economic aspects
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Food supply -- Economic aspects
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Nutrition.
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Choice (Psychology)
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Food preferences.
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Nutrition -- Evaluation.
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Diet -- economics
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Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
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Choice Behavior
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Food Industry -- economics
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Food Preferences
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Nutritional Status
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Nutrition -- Evaluation
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Nutrition
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Food preferences
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Choice (Psychology)
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Food supply -- Economic aspects
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Nutrition -- Economic aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Serrano, Elena L. (Elena Lidia), 1967- author.
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| ISBN |
9780190876609 |
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0190876603 |
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