Agricultural Marketing and Price Analysis offers versatility by covering a wide range of topics that include both traditional economic theory and organizational economics.

The book offers a contemporary treatment of all the core agricultural price analyses and marketing topics. It also covers organization economics, such as tacit colusion and empirical price analysis using regression, and consumer research.

Contents

Welcome to Economics and Price Analysis

1. About Economics
2. Basic Price Analysis: Supply and Demand
3. Advanced Price Analysis: Mastering Supply and Demand
4. Advanced Price Analysis: Imperfect Competition

Understanding Agricultural Prices and Markets

5. Agricultural Prices
6. The Food Marketing Channel
7. Empirical Agricultural Price Analysis
8. International Agricultural Trade

Agribusiness Marketing Strategies

9. Managing Price through Futures Markets
10. Strategic Price Setting
11. Creative Pricing Schemes
12. Conducting Consumer Research

Supplemental Topics

13. The Firm as a Price Taker
14. Government in Agriculture
15. Agriculture and Society

Index

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