Agricultural policy for the 21st century / edited by Luther Tweeten and Stanley R. Thompson ; foreword by D. Gale Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tweeten, Luther G.

Thompson, Stanley R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and state--United States.

Agriculture and state.

United States.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Agricultural policy for the twenty-first century

Place of Publication:

Ames : Iowa State Press, 2002.

Summary:

Authored by leaders in the agricultural economics profession, this timely book analyzes present and past policy to give readers insight into policy rationale and trends, and suggests remedies to ease taxpayer concerns. Agricultural policy can be reformed to address problems of instability, family farm loss, soil conservation, and water quality at far less than the current expense to taxpayers.

Designed for use as a reference, a book of readings, or a text supplement, Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century will educate students of agricultural commodity and resource policy, professors, government employees and officials, and informed laypersons and enable them to take an educated stance in the era of agricultural policy reform to come.

Contents:

Farm commodity programs: essential safety net or corporate welfare? / Luther Tweeten

Agricultural policy: pre- and post-FAIR Act comparisons / Bruce L. Gardner

The content of farm policy in the twenty-first century / David Orden

An empirical analysis of the farm problem: comparability in rates of return / Jeffrey W. Hopkins, Mitchell Morehart

Income variability of U.S. crop farms and public policy / Carl Zulauf

Crop insurance: inherent problems and innovative solutions / Shiva S. Makki

Impact of agribusiness market power on farmers / Suresh Persaud, Luther Tweeten

Do farmers receive huge rents for small lobbying efforts? / David Bullock, Jay S. Coggins

Coalitions and competitiveness: why has the sugar program been resilient? / Charles B. Moss, Andrew Schmitz

Farmland is not just for farming any more: the policy trends / Lawrence W. Libby

Kuznets curves for environmental degradation and resource depletion / Aref A. Hervani, Luther Tweeten

Food security, trade, and agricultural commodity policy / Daniel A. Sumner

Competing paradigms in the OECD and their impact on the WTO agricultural talks / Tim Josling

The changing economics of agriculture and the environment / David E. Ervin, Frank Casey

Rational policy processes for a pluralistic world / Alan Randall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813808995

OCLC:

48662478