The Economics of Chocolate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198833406)

Mara P. Squicciarini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University and a research affiliate at the CEPR, the Dondena Research Center, IGIER, and LICOS. She received a BSc in Economics from Bocconi University, a joint MSc in Economics from Bocconi University and Université catholique de Louvain, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Leuven. She has also been a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University and Visiting Researcher at Stanford University and at UCLA. Her research has appeared in journals such as Science, Nature, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics and has been profiled in media outlets such as The Economist, The Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Freakonomics.

Johan Swinnen is Professor of Economics and Director of the LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at the University of Leuven; a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University; and President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and of The Beeronomics Society. He has published widely on global food security, political economy, institutional reform, trade, global value chains, and product standards. His books include Quality Standards, Value Chains and International Development (CUP, 2015), Political Power and Economic Policy (CUP, 2011), The Economics of Beer (OUP, 2011), and From Marx and Mao to the Market (OUP, 2006).