The fields of Economics and Agricultural and Resource Economics are dominated by financial models that focus on relationships among a broad range of financials such a inflation, economic growth, debt, stock market, portfolios, and so on. This can be dated to Alfred Hayek and with even greater vigor to Milton Friedman. These emphases replace political economy which has dominated Economics sinnce the studies of the ancients through Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and even von Mises. The field is dominated by increasingly esoteric modeling of the relationships without any ties to dynamics outside of financials. Thus, any effort to make the discipline multidisciplinary as it was for centuries is ignored or quashed. The financials of economics matter to only one class of people other than economists--the extremely wealthy.What matters to the world is the DISTRIBUTION of finances to the not-wealthy. The wealthyy are a fraction of the US and world population. Yet Econoics serves at their behest, Indeed the Paucity of Ecoomics is the Paucity of the world. My work examines the sources of inequality, non-wealth, for ruraal and urban populations. For a dcade I examined how "gentrification" in its modern form channels land and wealthy to urban elites. Recently i have treating it through Industrial agriculture and land grabbing of US farms as well as the land of the third world. My theoretical approach is socio-economics, with a global lens.Global environment and the distribution of control of resources fashion national economic well-being as well as dometic polity (democracy, or autocracy). Economics and political control determine the advance of the military and the military complex declared by "Ike"around 6 decades ago. Together national strenghts in economics, politics, military and culture form webs of power between every nation in the world and further fashion their fate. Particularly they impact all of society's most important instututions (family, church, governance systems, money and banking, These in turn affect the form of urban and rural governance,as well as the structure of agriculture. Industrial Agriculture is very productive, yielding over 130% of global food needs. The needs are inequitably met.The 2,200 billionaires of the world, alongside what is argued to be 20,000 millionnaires of the world,essentially determine the lifechances of the 8 billion+ population of the world. They determine on the national level where food surplus will travel within nations, whther it is channelled into state silos, to areas with traversible roads, to populations who support the state as opposed to those who are attemptiong to overthrow it, and so on.
When I first proposed this logic i knew only of the related work of economist Stiglitz. After the original publication of my work (but doubless NOT due to it) the world Bank adopted a logic that was nearly identical to the arguments above. it has become part of the core work of the French economist Piketty. i have collected a dataset on 172 countries and I am examining the impacts of theorized variable on food security and on the environment, which i have not touched on here. However, I will next year.