Policy Reform in American Agriculture
Subtitle: Analysis and Prognosis
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780226632643
Subjects: Agriculture & related industries; Central government policies; Government And Agriculture; Technology; Business / Economics / Finance; Science/Mathematics; USA; Industries - General; Business & Economics / Industries; Agriculture - General; Agriculture and state; United States
First sentence: FARM COMMODITY-SUPPORT PROGRAMS were first enacted in the United States in 1933 as one part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
Description: "Policy Reform in American Agriculture: Analysis and Prognosis is a comprehensive single-source guide to public decision making in this vital and distinctive sector of the economy. A historical analysis is used both to explain the contemporary challenges facing Congress and to build contigent predictions about the future reform directions.

Students of public policy and practitioners within the farm program arena will find theis book an essential source of insight, information, and original cross-disciplinary argument."--BOOK JACKET.