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050	0	0	_aHD1447 _b.P65 2010
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245	0	4	_aThe political economy of agricultural price distortions / _cedited by Kym Anderson.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (xxiv, 439 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aI. Introduction. Understanding government interventions in agricultural markets / Kym Anderson -- Agricultural distortion patterns since the 1950s: what needs explaining / Kym Anderson [and others] -- II. Conceptual frameworks and historical origins. Political economy of agricultural distortions: the literature to date / Johan F.M. Swinnen -- Special interests versus the public interest in policy determination / Gordon C. Rausser, Gérard Roland -- Anglo-French trade, 1689-1899: agricultural trade policies, alcohol taxes and war / John V.C. Nye -- Agricultural protection growth in Europe, 1870-1969 / Johan F.M. Swinnen -- Determinants of United States farm policies / David Orden, David Blandford, Timothy Josling -- Agricultural distortions in the transition economies of Asia and Europe / Scott Rozelle, Johan F.M. Swinnen -- III. Political econometrics : the past fifty years. Agricultural price distortions and stabilization / William A. Masters, Andres F. Garcia -- Why governments tax or subsidize agricultural trade / Kishore Gawande, Bernard Hoekman -- Impacts of ideology, inequality, lobbying and public finance / Pushan Dutt, Devashish Mitra -- Agricultural trade interventions in Africa / Robert H. Bates, Steven Block -- Trade agreements and trade barrier volatility / Olivier Cadot, Marcelo Olarreaga, Jeanne Tschopp -- Constitutional rules and agricultural policy outcomes / Alessandro Olper, Valentina Raimondi -- Appendix: Coverage and distribution of assistance across countries and products, 1955-2007 / Kym Anderson, Johanna Croser.
520			_aDespite numerous policy reforms since the 1980s, farm product prices remain heavily distorted in both high-income and developing countries. This book seeks to improve our understanding of why societies adopted these policies, and why some but not other countries have undertaken reforms. Drawing on recent developments in political economy theories and in the generation of empirical measures of the extent of price distortions, the present volume provides both analytical narratives of the historical origins of agricultural protectionism in various parts of the world and a set of political econometric analyses aimed at explaining the patterns of distortions that have emerged over the past five decades. These new studies shed much light on the forces affecting incentives and those facing farmers in the course of national and global economic and political development. They also show how those distortions might change in the future.
650		0	_aAgricultural prices.
650		0	_aAgriculture and state.
650		0	_aAgricultural subsidies.
650		0	_aAgriculture _xEconomic aspects.
700	1		_aAnderson, Kym, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521763233
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511778964
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