Farmers of the Golden Bean or Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting

Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households and the Global Coffee Economy

Author: Deborah Sick

Many of us depend on a morning cup of coffee, but we don't often think about where that coffee comes from and about the people who produced it. Farmers of the Golden Bean explores the network of local economies that connects coffee farmers with distant consumers in industrialized societies.

In Costa Rica coffee is grown primarily by small household producers who form the country's large, middle-class peasantry. In Farmers of the Golden Bean, Sick examines how these coffee-producing households in Costa Rica cope with the complexities of a globalizing world economy. The analysis of individual and collective responses to the challenges of coffee production addresses issues of gender, family cycles, formal and informal economic activities, and the world coffee market.

Sick has created a multilayered ethnography, linking relatively isolated, distant, and exotic places with major markets and metropolitan centers. Her unique, integrated analysis of household, regional, and global processes challenges previous assumptions about the nature of economic change and the sustainability of household producers in the global economy.

Illustrating her anthropological research with poignant narratives, she invites the reader into the lives of Costa Rican farmers and their families. Viewing coffee as part of people's larger efforts to build better lives, she reveals how farming families, acting together and alone, cope with their realities and their dreams in a rapidly changing, unpredictable, and often hostile world. Her ethnographic portrait of Costa Rican coffee farmers will appeal to anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and those interested in Latin American development.

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Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting

Author: Sarah E Bonner

This unique first edition is the only book on the market that delivers a contemporary synthesis of both psychology and accounting literature related to judgment and decision making.

 

Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting is structured around an innovative framework that provides a unique way of thinking about JDM projects and organizing JDM research. Developed based on many years of teaching and research on accounting JDM, this unique framework succinctly describes the key issues in accounting JDM research, enabling readers to more quickly assimilate the vast material related to those issues. The framework also provides a basis to help readers evaluate their own current JDM research ideas, as well as generate further research questions.

Table of Contents:

CHAPTER 1    Introduction to Judgment and Decision-Making Research

CHAPTER 2    JDM “Quality”

CHAPTER 3    Knowledge and Personal Involvement

CHAPTER 4    Abilities, Intrinsic Motivation, and Other Person Variables

CHAPTER 5    Cognitive Processes

CHAPTER 6    Task Variables

CHAPTER 7    Environmental Variables

CHAPTER 8    Understanding the Factors that Affect JDM Quality

CHAPTER 9    Methods for Improving JDM

CHAPTER 10    Conclusion

Index