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The Commodity Credit Corporation, or CCC, is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture created on October 17, 1933. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6340 the day before, continued…

An agricultural subsidy is a governmental subsidy paid to farmers to supplement their income, help manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and bolster the supply of such commodities on international markets. Examples of such commodities include wheat, feed grains continued…

Agricultural policy describes a set of laws relating to domestic agriculture and imports of foreign agricultural products. Governments usually implement agricultural policies with the goal of achieving a specific outcome in the domestic agricultural product markets. Outcomes can range from guaranteed supply level, price stability, product quality, product selection, land use or employment. continued…

An agricultural marketing cooperative, also known as a farmer’s co-op, or is a cooperative business owned by farmers, to produce or (usually) store and market agricultural products. continued…

Agricultural economics applies the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock. Specific areas of study in agricultural economics include: continued…

America’s Great Depression is a treatise on the 1930s Great Depression and its root causes, written by libertarian economist and author Murray Rothbard. The first edition was published in 1963. The book is now in its fifth edition. continued…

Zur Geschichte der Handelgesellschaften im Mittelalter is a doctoral dissertation written by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist in 1889. Note that the original edition was in German and the title is actually translated as The history of commercial partnerships in the Middle Ages. continued…

Women and Economics is a book by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (also known for The Yellow Wallpaper), published in 1898. Not only was it a theoretical analysis of a male-centred culture, it was also a vivid call for women’s economic independence. continued…

Max Weber’s Wirtschaftsgeschichte (General Economic History in English) (1923) was composed by his students from lecture notes shortly after his death. In his General Economic History, Weber creates an institutional theory of the rise of capitalism in the west. continued…

In 1944 Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, a book by the mathematician John von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern. It contains a mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. continued…