Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship,...

Over the last decade the link between agricultural and oil markets has reinforced after the introduction of biofuels as substitutes for gasoline and diesel. Although the literature on price transmission between these markets is prolific, research on second order moment dynamics is scant. This...

The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union (CAP) has a long tradition. After World War II, agricultural and food production in Europe was substantially weakened and unable to provide sufficient food for the domestic population. The CAP emerged from this situation, with the objectives...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction / ASHOK MISHRA, DAVIDE VIAGGI, AND SERGIO GOMEZ-Y-PALOMA -- The relationship between farm families and the structure of agriculture / MARY C. AHEARN AND WALTER ARMBRUSTER -- Influence of cap on social sustainability in Greek and Bulgarian rural areas / D....