Gardner documents both the economic difficulties that have confronted farmers and the technological and economic transformations that have lifted them from relative poverty to economic parity with the nonfarm population. He provides a detailed analysis of the causes of these trends, with emphasis on the role of government action. He reviews how commodity support programs, driven by interest-group politics, have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to little purpose. Nonetheless, Gardner concludes that by reconciling competing economic interests while fostering productivity growth and economic integration of the farm and nonfarm economies, the overall twentieth-century role of government in American agriculture is fairly viewed as a triumph of democracy.
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Gardner documents both the economic difficulties that have confronted farmers and the technological and economic transformations that have lifted them from relative poverty to economic parity with the nonfarm population. He provides a detailed analysis of the causes of these trends, with emphasis on the role of government action. He reviews how commodity support programs, driven by interest-group politics, have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to little purpose. Nonetheless, Gardner concludes that by reconciling competing economic interests while fostering productivity growth and economic integration of the farm and nonfarm economies, the overall twentieth-century role of government in American agriculture is fairly viewed as a triumph of democracy.
Imprint | Harvard University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | March 2006 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | March 2006 |
Authors | Bruce L. Gardner |
Dimensions | 227 x 146 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 400 |
Edition | New Ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-01989-8 |
Barcode | 9780674019898 |
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LSN | 0-674-01989-X |