Although all economic activities take place in sectors, economists often devote little attention to differences between and characteristics of sectors. This book tries to show that mesoeconomics, the economic exploration of sectors and...

This open access book applies for the first time emerging concepts of socioeconomics to analyse an economic sector, namely agriculture. It considers the rational choices of all actors in the system (just as agricultural economists do)...

Mountain agriculture is a socially and culturally unique system, but also a regionally important economic sector. In a globalising world, it is clear that fertile areas on all continents will always be used to produce large quantities of...

Es gibt viele Bücher auf dem Markt, die uns erklären, warum wir aufhören sollten, Fleisch zu produzieren und zu essen. Dieses Buch dagegen erklärt, warum wir aufhören werden, Fleisch zu produzieren und zu essen. Und was sich dadurch in...