1st Edition

The Costs of the Common Agricultural Policy

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1982. Considerable public controversy surrounded the large amount of public expenditure devoted to agriculture under the European Community’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There were serious disputes over how the farm support system operated and how it was financed. This book describes the CAP situation and summarises previous attempts to assess some of the economic and... Read more

List of Tables;  List of Figures;  Acknowledgements;  1. Agriculture: The Pillar and the Problem of CAP  2. The Common Agricultural Policy  3. An Economic Framework  4. Survey and Synthesis of Previous Work  5. A Market/Budget Model of the Cap  6. Policy Comparisons  7. Commodity Effects of Policy Alternatives  8. Country Effects of Policy Alternatives  9. Distributional Effects and Policy Efficiency  10. Conclusions;  Index

Biography

Allan E. Buckwell, David R. Harvey, Kenneth J. Thomson, Kevin A. Parton