Poznań, Poland

Agri-Food Economics and Trade

Master's
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⇑Agri-Food Economics and Trade at UPP

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: puls.edu.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Agri-Food Economics and Trade the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. Global wheat prices jump after a poor harvest in a major exporting region. What do you analyse first?

2. A small food producer wants to start exporting. How can you help?

3. How comfortable are you with econometrics and working with large datasets?

4. How do you view agricultural subsidies and trade agreements?

5. Seminars and case studies will be in English, with classmates from food-exporting and food-importing countries alike. How does that sound?

6. A retailer wants to know whether shoppers will pay more for organic or local products. What do you do?

7. Would you like your thesis to examine, for example, how climate change affects food supply chains?

8. How do you feel about combining economics with knowledge of farming and food processing?

9. Where do you see yourself after graduating?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Agri-Food Economics and Trade?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Economics
Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Trade
Trade involves the transfer of goods or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. A system or network that allows trade is called a market.
Economics
In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.
Ronald Coase, The firm, the market and the law (1988) Chapter 6. A remark on "The problem of social cost" (last sentence).
Economics
To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.
C. Wright Mills, The New Men of Power (1948).
Trade
The wide chasm separating the inevitabilities of economic life from the Christian ideal ... kept the most devout groups and all those with the most consistently developed ethics far from the life of trade.
Max Weber, Sociology of Religion, pp. 219-220
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