The economics of chocolate / edited by Mara P. Squicciarini and Johan Swinnen.
2016
HD9200.A2 E26 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
The economics of chocolate / edited by Mara P. Squicciarini and Johan Swinnen.
ISBN
9780198726449 (hardcover)
0198726449 (hardcover)
0198726449 (hardcover)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
xxvi, 478 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
HD9200.A2 E26 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.1/7374
Summary
This book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate. While the main approach is economic analysis, there are important contributions from other disciplines, including psychology, history, government, nutrition, and geography. The chapters are organized around several themes, including the history of cocoa and chocolate - from cocoa drinks in the Maya empire to the growing sales of Belgian chocolates in China; how governments have used cocoa and chocolate as a source of tax revenue and have regulated chocolate (and defined it by law) to protect consumers' health from fraud and industries from competition; how the poor cocoa producers in developing countries are linked through trade and multinational companies with rich consumers in industrialized countries; and how the rise of consumption in emerging markets (China, India, and Africa) is causing a major boom in global demand and prices, and a potential shortage of the world's chocolate.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Economics of chocolate.
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