Title: Agricultural policy in Western Europe and the United States /
Authors: Ingersent, K. A.; Rayner, A. J.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub.,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agriculture and state Europe, Western.; Agriculture and state United States.
Abstract: This comprehensive volume analyses the development of agricultural policy in Western Europe and the United States. The book concludes that agricultural policy in the two regions is becoming increasingly similar.
Contents: 1. Background to agricultural policy -- 2. History to 1930: development policy and trade intervention -- 3. The 1930s: economic crisis and agricultural support policies -- 4. 1940-1973: agricultural adjustment and trade interaction -- 5. 1973-1980s: agricultural expansion and the rise of trade policy issues -- 6. International policy adjustment -- 7. Policy reforms in the 1990s and the prospects for further adjustments.