Ted P. Schmidt

The Political Economy of Food and Finance (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the financialization process in commodity futures markets which transformed commodities into an asset class. Incorporated into the portfolio decisions of investors, commodity prices now behave like all asset prices, becoming more volatile and subject to periodic bubbles. As commodity prices were driven higher in the 2000s, farmland became more valuable, setting off a global land grab by investors, nations, and corporations. More recently, under the financialization food regime, slow growth and low returns encouraged merger activity driven by private equity firms, with food industry corporations as prime targets, leading to increased industry concentration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317561354
• Artikelnr.: 44473160

Autorenporträt

Ted P. Schmidt is Associate Professor of Economics & Finance at SUNY Buffalo State, New York, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Food and Finance 2. Financialization: There and Back Again
3. Setting the Table 4. The Financialization Process in Commodity Futures
Markets 5. The Speculation Debate 6. Private Equity Bought the Farm: The
Impact of Financialization 7. Food and Finance Policy 8. The Global Food
Chain Reaction