Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century

by Tweeten, Luther G.; Thompson, Stanley R.; Johnson, D. Gale

• ISBN13: 9780813808994
• ISBN10: 0813808995
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Agricultural policy reform has become a very hot topic. Over the next couple of years we will see the funding for these programs being hotly debated. The thesis of this book is that a better-informed public is essential to bring rationality to farm policy. This book provides telling evidence that markets work, that competent commercial farmers will earn returns on their resources as high as those earned elsewhere in the absence of income transfer to farmers.

Author Biography

Luther G. Tweeten is Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Marketing, Policy, and Trade, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, Columbus. An internationally acclaimed agricultural policy economist, Tweeten is the author/co-author of eight books and over 500 journal articles and published papers.

Stanley R. Thompson is the editor of Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Foreward	ix
D. Gale Johnson
Preface	xi
Farm Commodity Programs: Essential Safety Net or Corporate Welfare?	1	(34)
Luther Tweeten
Agricultural Policy: Pre- and Post-FAIR Act Comparisons	35	(20)
Bruce L. Gardner
The Content of Farm Policy in the Twenty-first Century	55	(15)
David Orden
An Empirical Analysis of the Farm Problem: Comparability in Rates of Return	70	(21)
Jeffrey W. Hopkins
Mitchell Morehart
Income Variability of U.S. Crop Farms and Public Policy	91	(18)
Carl Zulauf
Crop Insurance: Inherent Problems and Innovative Solutions	109	(18)
Shiva S. Makki
Impact of Agribusiness Market Power on Farmers	127	(19)
Suresh Persaud
Luther Tweeten
Do Farmers Receive Huge Rents for Small Lobbying Efforts?	146	(14)
David Bullock
Jay S. Coggins
Coalitions and Competitiveness: Why Has the Sugar Program Been Resilient?	160	(24)
Charles B. Moss
Andrew Schmitz
Ben Hill Griffin Jr.
Farmland Is Not Just for Farming Any More: The Policy Trends	184	(20)
Lawrence W. Libby
C. William Swank
Kuznets Curves For Environmental Degradation and Resource Depletion	204	(27)
Aref A. Hervani
Luther Tweeten
Food Security, Trade, and Agricultural Commodity Policy	231	(14)
Daniel A. Sumner
Frank H. Buck Jr.
Competing Paradigms in the OECD and Their Impact on the WTO Agricultural Talks	245	(20)
Tim Josling
The Changing Economics of Agriculture and the Environment	265	(21)
David E. Ervin
Frank Casey
Rational Policy Processes for a Pluralistic World	286	(16)
Alan Randall
Index	302