Marty Strange

Family Farming

A New Economic Vision, New Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Marty Strange is policy director for the Rural School and Community Trust and was a founder of the Center for Rural Affairs, now located in Lyons, Nebraska. He received Common Cause¿s Public Service Achievement Award and the Rural Sociological Society's Distinguished Service to Rural Life Award.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 136mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780803217485
• ISBN-10: 080321748X
• Artikelnr.: 23362226

Autorenporträt

Marty Strange is policy director for the Rural School and Community Trust and was a founder of the Center for Rural Affairs, now located in Lyons, Nebraska. He received Common Cause's Public Service Achievement Award and the Rural Sociological Society's Distinguished Service to Rural Life Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Bison Books Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Farm Crisis Again
Chapter 2 - Industrializing American Agriculture
Chapter 3 - Land, the Central Issue
Chapter 4 - A Tale of Three Farms
Chapter 5 - The Myth That Bigger Is Better
Chapter 6 - Chasing the Myth: Big-Farm Blues
Chapter 7 - Living the Myth
Chapter 8 - The Market Trinity: Land, Prices, and Technology
Chapter 9 - Technology: Getting Control of the Farm
Chapter 10 - Within Family Farming
What Can Be Done? Policy Choices
References
Index