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American agriculture in the twentieth century : how it flourished and what it cost

Title: American agriculture in the twentieth century : how it flourished and what it cost / Bruce L. Gardner.
Author: Gardner, Bruce L.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.

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x, 388 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"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 behind 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 government played an overall role in American agriculture that is fairly viewed as a triumph of democracy."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-378) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Technology -- 3. Farms -- 4. Farm Communities -- 5. Markets -- 6. Government I: Public Investment and Regulation -- 7. Government II: Commodity and Trade Policy -- 8. Explanations -- 9. Regions and States -- 10. Counties -- 11. Findings and Policy Implications.

ISBN

0674007484 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001059350

OCLC

ocm49332469
SCSB-4296653

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Columbia University Libraries