Food Security and Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard

by C. Peter Timmer

Book Overview

In countries that have managed to confront and cope with the challenges of food insecurity over the past two centuries, markets have done the heavy lifting. Markets serve as the arena for allocating society's scarce resources to meet the virtually unlimited needs and desires of consumers: no other mechanism can efficiently signal fluctuations in scarcity and abundance, the cost of labor, or the value of commodities. But markets fail at tasks that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224515
• ISBN13: 9780812224511
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"