Speculative Harvests: Financialization, Food, and Agriculture

by Clapp Jennifer, Jennifer Clapp, S. Ryan Isakson

In Speculative Harvests, Clapp and Isakson investigate the evolving relationship between the agrifood and financial sectors, paying particular attention to how the contemporary process of financialization is reshaping agrarian development and food systems. Understood as the growing prevalence of financial actors, markets, motives and profits in an economy, financialization is a defining feature of modern-day capitalism that is reconfiguring the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773630237
• ISBN13: 9781773630236
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"