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" Agricultural Economics and Policy : "
K Burger
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718512
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b538201
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K Burger
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Agricultural Economics and Policy : : Essays in Honour of Prof. Jan de Veer.\ K Burger
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Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2014
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Developments in agricultural economics.
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(226 pages).
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044459955X
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: 9780444599551
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Front Cover; Agricultural Economics and Policy: International Challenges for the Nineties; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Preface; JAN DE VEER; CHAPTER 1. ECONOMY-WIDE COSTS OF FARM-SUPPORT POLICIES IN THE MAJOR INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES; 1. Introduction; 2. A taxonomy of economy-wide effects of farm support policies; 3. The evolution of agricultural policies in the US and the EC; 4. How to minimize economy-wide costs of farm policies; 5. Summary; References; CHAPTER 2. AGRICULTURAL TRADE LIBERALISATION AND INSTABILITY IN WORLD CEREAL MARKETS; 1. Introduction. 2. The current thinking on the impact of agricultural trade liberalisation on price and production instability3. A general theoretical model of national cereal excess supply; 4. Price and Production Fluctuations; 5. Discussion and empirical implications; References; CHAPTER 3. SECTORAL POLICIES AND THE MICROLEVEL DECISION MAKING; 1. Introduction; 2. Micro economics or macro economics: not a question of measurement units; 3. Micro economics at the basis of any economic finding; 4. Concluding remarks; References; Notes; CHAPTER 4. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND THE ART OF POLICY MAKING. 1. Introduction2. The new political economy; 3. The role of agricultural economists; 4. Application to recent agricultural policy debates; 5. Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 5. AGRICULTURE IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS; 1. Introduction; 2. GATT rules and agriculture; 3. Agriculture in past GATT rounds ; 4. Alternative approaches to dealing with agriculture in the GATT; 5. Conclusions; References; Notes:; CHAPTER 6. REFORMING THE CAP: REDUCING TRADE DISTORTION; References; Notes; CHAPTER 7. EC-US AGRICULTURAL TRADE RELATIONS: DO POLITICAL COMPROMISES EXIST?; 1. Introduction. 2. Three paradoxes in the EC-US agricultural trade conflict3. Political weights of commodity groups in the EC and the US; 4. Feasible compromises between the EC and the US; 5. Summary --;Conclusions; References; Notes; CHAPTER 8. EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND "1992"; 1. Introduction; 2. Some Theory; 3. The Common Agricultural Policy and Economic Integration; 4. Empirical Evidence; 5. Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 9. AGRICULTURE AND STRUCTURAL POLICY; 1. The meaning of "structure"; 2. The importance of structure to agriculture. 3. The impact of the market on the agricultural industry4. The development of structural policy in the EC; 5. The Changing Policy Environment; 6. Some options for structural policy in the future; References; Annex; Notes; CHAPTER 10. AGRICULTURE AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION; 1. Some definitions and elementary considerations; 2. Economic linkages of the farms and farm families; 3. Agricultural associations and agricultural government institutions: their impact on economic integration; 4. Cooperatives and similar organisations; 5. A more complex view: agribusiness; References. CHAPTER 11. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS --;DISPLACED AND SUPERFLUOUS?
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International challenges in agricultural economics for the nineties will come from a redirection of the EC policy, stimulated by GATT negotiations, the opening towards Eastern Europe and environmental considerations, from a production oriented policy towards rural policy, aiming at protecting vulnerable regions, maintaining a rural population, curtailing production in the West and fostering it in the East, and aiming at the provision of environmentally desirable output. This book focusses on developments that are bound to dominate the discussion of agricultural economics and policy in t.
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Agricultural subsidies.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
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Agriculture and state.
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J Post
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K Burger
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M De Groot
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V Zachariasse
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