ECON 304 - Food, Hunger, and Sustainable Agriculture

3 Credits

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A multidisciplinary approach to examining the modern industrial food system that challenges conventional economic theories of food consumption, production, and distribution. Focus is put on how insights from psychology and neuroscience contribute to our understanding of eating choices. Insights from economic theories of imperfect competition and monopoly are employed to aid understanding of how production and distribution of food is actually managed. Structural and policy reforms of the food system are considered.

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