What is agricultural policy and why does it exist? -- Economic concepts applied to agricultural and food policy -- Who makes agricultural policy and how is it made? -- A brief history of agricultural policy -- Early twentieth-century agricultural legislation -- McNary-Haugens and the permanent legislation to the 1950's -- The 1960s to mid-1980s, a transition to modern farm bills -- Planting flexibility and direct payments, 1985-96 -- Agricultural legislation in the twenty-first century -- International trade, is it the future of US agricultural policy? -- The Agricultural Act of 2014 -- Future agricultural policy.
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Routledge textbooks in environmental and agricultural economics ; 13
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