Plowshares & Pork Barrels: The Political Economy of Agriculture by Pasour, E. C.

Plowshares & Pork Barrels: The Political Economy of Agriculture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780945999034)

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Plowshares & Pork Barrels: The Political Economy of Agriculture by Pasour, E. C.

Plowshares & Pork Barrels: The Political Economy of Agriculture

$22.95
Plowshares & Pork Barrels: The Political Economy of Agriculture by Pasour, E. C.

Plowshares & Pork Barrels: The Political Economy of Agriculture

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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Plowshares & Pork Barrels provides the historical and economic context necessary to make sense of U.S. agricultural policy and examines possible market-based alternatives that could benefit consumers and ensure the advancement of American agriculture in an increasingly interdependent global economy.

Established in 1860, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has grown without cease and is now the most entrenched of all federal agencies. The Farm Bills signed by Presidents Bill Clinton in 1996 and George W. Bush in 2002 only served to further expand this byzantine system. Economists are nearly unanimous in their denunciation of this wasteful and pernicious web of politics. Subsidies for not growing crops are so notorious that they have been the object of biting political satire since their introduction in the 1930s. However, few books have critically analyzed government farm programs in their entirety like Plowshares & Pork Barrels.

Author: E. C. Pasour,Randall R. Rucker
ISBN-10: 0945999038
ISBN-13: 9780945999034
Publisher: Independent Institute
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2005
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.30d
By E. C. Pasour
By E. C. Pasour
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E. C. Pasour, Jr., is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Agriculture and the State: Market Processes and Bureaucracy and has contributed to numerous books including Agriculture and Energy (W. Lockeretz, ed.), and Economy, Society and Public Policy (C. Pope and L. Wimmer, eds.).

Randal R. Rucker is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. A contributor to numerous scholarly volumes, Professor Rucker is the author of many technical studies on natural resource and environmental issues.

Bruce L. Gardner (1942-2008), a graduate of the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago, was Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park and Interim Dean, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland. He was a Senior Staff Economist on the Presidents Council of Economic Advisors and Assistant Secretary for Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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