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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source

Escaping the Gift Economy

Journal of Consumer Research, 2009
Researchers have analyzed the dark side of the gift, but they have remained blind to what it implies about the market. Drawing on the experiences of a group of informants who participated in an ethnographical study of house moving in Montreal, Canada, this article provides significant evidence that the unattractiveness of the gift economy can incite ...
exaly   +2 more sources

The NHS gift economy is in peril

BMJ, 2012
Those who regard the NHS as a gift economy feel betrayed by the current emphasis on the interests of for-profit businesses in government health policy, says Iona Heath, writing in a personal ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Gift Economy

2011
The 'gift economy' might seem like a crazy anarchist delusion, yet I believe that sooner or later we will see that it is the only thing that will actually work. In this chapter I present a sociologist's view of contemporary relations between people and with nature and how I became drawn to the utopian model of the gift economy.
openaire   +1 more source

ECONOMIES OF SCARCITY AND ACQUISITION, ECONOMIES OF GIFT AND THANKSGIVING

Humanomics, 1991
Mainstream economics has long prided itself to be an empirical “science”, at least in aspiration if not yet in practice. Yet, some of the most elementary, commonplace premises of the discipline are flatly contradicted by the empirical findings of cultural anthropology. Karl Polanyi made this point:
openaire   +1 more source

A Lesson in the Gift Economy

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2020
Anthony L, Back   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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