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Agricultural policy, agribusiness, and rent-seeking behavior
xxviii, 516 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
The second edition of the groundbreaking Agricultural policy, agribusiness, and rent-seeking behaviour expands upon its original analysis of the economic policies that affect agriculture and agribusiness. Widening their lens to include information on the European Union, the authors continue to emphasize the role of farmers and agribusiness in the formation of policy, exploring the issues from both economic and historical perspectives.
More theoretical than the first volume in its discussions of welfare economics and the theory of public choice, the second edition also addresses the broad significance of agricultural policies such as biofuels, nutrition, multifunctionality, genetically modified organisms and multinational firms. The authors maintain and expand the empirical content to provide more practical examples suited to teaching and analyse specific problems including price and income stabilization, science policy, environmental policy and food quality and safety.
Agricultural Policy: Agriculture and Agribusiness Environments -- Agricultural Policy: Institutions and Rent-Seeking Behaviour -- Theoretical Considerations ; The Harberger Tax and Monopoly Power -- Agricultural Trade and Macroeconomic Policies -- U.S. Agricultural Policy ; 1970 U.S. Farm Bill ; The 1996 U.S. Farm Bill: Agricultural Marketing Transition Act Payments (AMTAPs) ; The 2002, and 2008 U.S. Farm Bills ; Dairy, Sugar, Tobacco, and Peanut Programs -- Canadian Agricultural Programs -- EU Agricultural Policy and REforms ; EU Cereals Policy ; EU Oilseeds Policy ; EU Sugar Policy ; EU Dairy Policy -- Insurance Mechanisms in Agriculture ; Crop Insurance in the United States and Canada -- Policy Decoupling, GATT, and the WTO -- Farmland Markets: Politics, Policy, and Urbanization -- Agricultural Productivity and R & D Policy -- The Economics of Biofuels -- Multifunctionality in Agriculture: Externalities and Non-traded Goods -- Genetically Modified Organisms -- Food Quality and Safety.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-508) and index.