AGRI-FOOD ECONOMICS AND LAW

Learning Objectives

• AGRICULTURAL and FOOD ECONOMICS

  This course intends to provide students with the fundamental rules of the economic system and, in particular, of the agri-food system. In the microeconomic context, we will study the behavior of households and of enterprises, and the role of the market in the determination of the good / product price. As part of the Macroeconomics course aims to illustrate the essential concepts of the national accounts (GDP, payment balance, etc.), foreign trade policies, fiscal policies. Economic -finance perturbation System.

• LEGISLAZIONE ALIMENTARE

  give the basics on the law in general and investigate the logic of food law for the deterrence purpose (to protection of health), those market- control (for the protection of market competition and transparency) and the most private law goal (to protect consumers and small entrepreneurs against the large-scale enterprises)

Detailed Course Content

• AGRICULTURAL and FOOD ECONOMICS

  General notions. Political economy / Economic policy. Goods and Needs economicis. Elementary and aggregated units. Economic system. Agrifood system. Consumer behavior theory. Utility theory: cardinal and ordinal. Demand theory. The production and the costs theory. Market:perfect market and Imperfect markets. Free competition; Oligopoly; Monopoly; Bilateral monopoly; Monopolistic competition. Production factors markets. The national income; the income distribution. The commercial policy. International organizations. European Union. The balance of trade and balance of payments.

• LEGISLAZIONE ALIMENTARE

  The course offers some basics on the right, the force of law, law enforcement, the relationship between the powers of the state. In particular, however, the course will offer some guidance on the key regulations governing the production and distribution of foods and will have regard to the following profiles: protection of the health and food security; protection of trademarks and brands; protection of the weaker parties in the food market

Textbook Information

• AGRICULTURAL and FOOD ECONOMICS

  Istituzioni di economia di MESSORI F., CLUEB, Bologna

  Principi di economia per l'impresa di Gregory Mankiw N, Taylor M.P. Ashwin A., Zanichelli

  Economia politica di GILIBERT A., Lattes"

  Introduzione all'economia agroalimentare, MALASSIS L., GHERSI G.. Consultable at the Library V. Patuelli. - Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment, Street S. Sofia, 98/100, Catania