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The secret financial life of food : from commodities markets to supermarkets
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Title
The secret financial life of food : from commodities markets to supermarkets / Kara Newman.
ISBN
9780231527347 (ebook) :
Publication
[New York] : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 13, 2015).
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Summary
An investigation into commodities trading, this text looks at how market conditions can influence what we eat & drink. Beginning in the marketplaces of ancient Rome, Kara Newman traces the growing commodification of food across the ages to the present day & the enormously influential Chicago Merchantile Exchange.
Variant and related titles
Columbia scholarship online.
Other formats
Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 05, 2016
Series
Arts and traditions of the table
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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