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The politics of food supply : U.S. agricultural policy in the world economy /

This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they have affected the formulation and application of ag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Winders, William, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: agriculture between state and market
  • The early battles lost: reaching for regulation, 1920-1932
  • Winning supply management: a new deal for agriculture, 1933-1945
  • Shifting agricultural coalitions: sliding back toward the free market, 1945-1975
  • The decline of the South: changing power within U.S. agriculture, 1945-1975
  • Agriculture and the changing world economy: the U.S. food regime, 1945-1990
  • The 1996 FAIR Act: changing U.S. agricultural policy
  • Epilogue. After FAIR : a new departure?