Power and the Analysis of the Food System

Valeria Sodano ()

Department of Economics University of Siena from Department of Economics, University of Siena

Abstract: This paper stresses that in order to understand the current restructuring processes in the food system it is necessary to take explicitly into account the role of power as a driving organizational force. Agricultural economics, drawing pervasively on the walrasian model, has mainly analysed power in the form of market and bargaining power. Stemming from different definitions of power, the paper focuses on some definitions suggested by the new institutional economics and the network theory, showing their relevance to the analysis of the food market

Keywords: power; scale-free networks; new institutional economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 L66 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-com and nep-net
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