Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health is aimed at advanced undergrads, graduate students and general readers with a professional or personal interest in the topic.

Friedman School Professor Co-Authors Open Access Textbook
Earlier this year, Friedman School Professor Will Masters and Friedman alumna Amelia Finaret, now an Associate Professor of Global Health and Economics at Allegheny College, published an open access textbook entitled Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health.
The book is based on Will’s course for which Amelia served as a teaching assistant during her doctoral studies at Friedman, and is freely available to all through a grant to the Friedman School from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In the five months since publication last May, the book has attracted over 100,000 chapter accesses at the publisher’s website.
Each chapter provides in-depth detail behind one week of his Friedman School course, which is offered every semester either online or in person. The first six chapters provide a gentle introduction to how economic principles can be used to explain and predict crop and livestock production, consumer behavior, market outcomes and the effects of government policies, programs or community interventions. The second set of six chapters explore the food system using rich data visualization of changes and patterns in the U.S. and worldwide, with links to authoritative sources of updated information. Online users can search inside the book and read freely with any device, and paperback copies are also available wherever books are sold.
Masters and Finaret maintain a teaching blog and resource website where you can find more details about the book, which has been featured in symposium sessions at professional conferences in the U.S. and India, and been the subject of several podcast interviews. Tune in below to a recent episode of Norbert Wilson's Leading Voices in Food podcast for an illuminating conversation with Masters and Finaret.