Political Economy of Agricultural Price Distortions (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Anderson, Kym

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Produktbeschreibung

Despite numerous policy reforms since the 1980s, farm product prices remain heavily distorted in both high-income and developing countries. This book seeks to improve our understanding of why societies adopted these policies, and why some but not other countries have undertaken reforms. Drawing on recent developments in political economy theories and in the generation of empirical measures of the extent of price distortions, the present volume provides both analytical narratives of the historical origins of agricultural protectionism in various parts of the world and a set of political econometric analyses aimed at explaining the patterns of distortions that have emerged over the past five decades. These new studies shed much light on the forces affecting incentives and those facing farmers in the course of national and global economic and political development. They also show how those distortions might change in the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139036702
• Artikelnr.: 38273198

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Understanding government interventions in
agricultural markets Kym Anderson; 2. Agricultural distortion patterns
since the 1950s: what needs explaining Kym Anderson, Johanna Croser,
Damiano Sandri and Ernesto Valenzuela; Part II. Conceptual Frameworks and
Historical Origins: 3. Political economy of agricultural distortions: the
literature to date Johan Swinnen; 4. Special interests versus the public
interest in policy determination Gordon Rausser and Gérard Roland; 5.
Anglo-French trade, 1689-1899: agricultural trade policies, alcohol taxes
and war John Nye; 6. Agricultural protection growth in Europe, 1870-1969
Johan Swinnen; 7. Determinants of farm policies in the United States,
1996-2008 David Orden, David Blandford and Tim Josling; 8. Agricultural
distortions in the transition economies of Asia and Europe Scott Rozelle
and Johan Swinnen; Part III. Political Econometrics: The Past Fifty Years:
9. Agricultural price distortions and stabilization Will Masters and Andres
Garcia; 10. Which governments tax or subsidize agricultural trade? Kishore
Gawande and Bernard Hoekman; 11. Impacts of ideology, inequality, lobbying
and public finance Pushan Dutt and Devashish Mitra; 12. Agricultural trade
interventions in Africa Robert Bates and Steven Block; 13. Do trade
agreements reduce the volatility of agricultural assistance rates? Olivier
Cadot, Marcelo Olarreaga and Jeanne Tschopp; 14. Constitutional rules and
agricultural policy outcomes Alessandro Olper and Valentina Raimondi;
Appendix. Coverage and distribution of assistance across countries and
products, 1955-2007 Kym Anderson and Johanna Croser.