Hungry Capital : The Financialization of Food
by Russi, Luigi
Description
Over the past thirty years, the ability of global finance to affect aspects of everyday life has been increasing at an unprecedented rate. The world of food bears vivid testimony to this tendency, through the scars opened by the 2008 world food price crisis, the iron fist of retailing giants that occupy the supply chain and the unsustainable ecological footprint left behind by global production networks. Hungry Capital offers a rigorous analysis of the influence that financial imperatives exert on the food economy at different levels: from the direct use of edible commodities as an object of speculation to the complex food chains set up by manufacturers and supermarkets. It argues that the circular compulsion to build profits upon profits that global finance injects into the world of food restructures the basic nurturing relationship between man and nature into a streamlined process from which value has to be mined. The end result is a monstrous Leviathan that holds together while - at every step - risks to crumble.
- Over the past thirty years, the ability of global finance to affect aspects of everyday life has been increasing at an unprecedented rate. The world of food bears vivid testimony to this tendency, through the scars opened by the 2008 world food price crisis, the iron fist of retailing giants that occupy the supply chain and the unsustainable ecological footprint left behind by global production networks. Hungry Capital offers a rigorous analysis of the influence that financial imperatives exert on the food economy at different levels: from the direct use of edible commodities as an object of speculation to the complex food chains set up by manufacturers and supermarkets. It argues that the circular compulsion to build profits upon profits that global finance injects into the world of food restructures the basic nurturing relationship between man and nature into a streamlined process from which value has to be mined. The end result is a monstrous Leviathan that holds together while - at every step - risks to crumble.
APA Citation (style guide)
Russi, L. (2013). Hungry Capital: The Financialization of Food. John Hunt Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Russi, Luigi. 2013. Hungry Capital: The Financialization of Food. John Hunt Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Russi, Luigi, Hungry Capital: The Financialization of Food. John Hunt Publishing, 2013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Russi, Luigi. Hungry Capital: The Financialization of Food. John Hunt Publishing, 2013.
Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2010. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published.
Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Loading...
LEADER | 01883nam a22003251a 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | 1000274780 | ||
003 | ENKI | ||
007 | cr un#---uuuuu | ||
008 | 140727s 2013 | s 00| | eng | ||
020 | |a 9781780997704 |c $9.99 | ||
024 | 1 | |a | |
035 | |a 1000274780 | ||
041 | |a eng | ||
100 | 1 | |a Russi, Luigi |e author | |
210 | 1 | |a Hungry Capital | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Hungry Capital |b The Financialization of Food |
260 | 3 | |b John Hunt Publishing |c 2013 | |
300 | |a 173 | ||
337 | |a ebook | ||
516 | |a epub | ||
520 | 3 | |a Over the past thirty years, the ability of global finance to affect aspects of everyday life has been increasing at an unprecedented rate. The world of food bears vivid testimony to this tendency, through the scars opened by the 2008 world food price crisis, the iron fist of retailing giants that occupy the supply chain and the unsustainable ecological footprint left behind by global production networks. Hungry Capital offers a rigorous analysis of the influence that financial imperatives exert on the food economy at different levels: from the direct use of edible commodities as an object of speculation to the complex food chains set up by manufacturers and supermarkets. It argues that the circular compulsion to build profits upon profits that global finance injects into the world of food restructures the basic nurturing relationship between man and nature into a streamlined process from which value has to be mined. The end result is a monstrous Leviathan that holds together while - at every step - risks to crumble. | |
562 | |e 1 | ||
592 | |a 9781780997704.jpg | ||
650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance. |2 bisacsh. | |
650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food. |2 bisacsh. | |
650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization. |2 bisacsh. | |
650 | 0 | |a Finance. | |
650 | 0 | |a Agriculture. | |
650 | 0 | |a Globalization. | |
998 | |b 072714_rowman |