Regulating Agriculture (Critical Perspectives on Rural Change, Band 5) - Hardcover

 
9780471959328: Regulating Agriculture (Critical Perspectives on Rural Change, Band 5)

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Drawing on the expertise of an internationally renowned group of authors, this monograph examines the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states seeking to manage their agricultural sectors. Using examples from regions around the globe including Scandinavia, New Zealand, China and Germany, the book delves into topics as diverse as agribusiness and corporatism, regulation of agriculture, productivist paradigms, politics of agricultural change, agricultural deregulation, retailing in a regulatory state, managed versus liberalised markets, the national politics of international trade reform and principles of the GATT agreement from the agricultural perspective.

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The Editors Philip Lowe is Professor of Rural Economy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Terry Marsden is Reader in the School of Geography and Earth Resources, University of Hull Sarah Whatmore is Reader in the Department of Geography, University of Bristol

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The fifth volume in the series brings together a set of essays reflecting on the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states in seeking to manage their agricultural sectors. Drawing on different national and international viewpoints, the essays present original analyses of agricultural regulation in a comparative context. The aspects covered include the roots of the post-war food order, the roles of corporatism, agribusiness and technological change, the challenge of deregulation and environmental reforms, the introduction of market principles and mechanisms into centrally planned economies and the efforts to forge a new order in international trade.

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The fifth volume in the series brings together a set of essays reflecting on the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states in seeking to manage their agricultural sectors. Drawing on different national and international viewpoints, the essays present original analyses of agricultural regulation in a comparative context. The aspects covered include the roots of the post-war food order, the roles of corporatism, agribusiness and technological change, the challenge of deregulation and environmental reforms, the introduction of market principles and mechanisms into centrally planned economies and the efforts to forge a new order in international trade.

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ISBN 10:  1853462020 ISBN 13:  9781853462023
Verlag: David Fulton Publishers Ltd, 1994
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