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Provides a refreshingly irreverent and insightful view of US farm programmes, clearly separating political rhetoric from economic reality. Analysing the effect of price supports, marketing orders, credit and export subsidies, and other programmes, Pasour shows how they especially hurt the small farmer and victimise the public at large. This comprehensive book exposes current farm policies as responsible for the high and rising cost of food, the decline of America's competitiveness in the world, and the widening destruction of the environment. Agriculture and the State sets forth how only through abolishing the gravy train of farm subsides and other special privileges will the American consumer find relief and agriculture in the US achieve significant economic progress.

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"""The time has come for Pasour's easy-to-read book on the economics and politics of agriculture."" -- Theodore W. Schultz, late Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, University of Chicago. ""The book will make an excellent textbook for agricultural economics and should be required reading for all social science majors."" -- Clifton B. Luttrell, Editor Emeritus, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review. ""This skillful, readable and comprehensive book is an unapologetic, well-written argument to limit government in all aspects of agriculture."" -- American Journal of Agriculture Economics. ""Comprehensive in its coverage and rich in descriptive detail. One can learn a great deal from Agriculture and the State."" -- B. Delworth Gardnet, professor of economics, Brigham Young University. ""Agriculture and the State is informative and provocative. Pasour cuts through the complexity of U.S. farm policy."" -- Lee J. Alston, professor of economics, University of Illinois."

The time has come for Pasour's easy-to-read book on the economics and politics of agriculture. -- Theodore W. Schultz, late Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, University of Chicago. The book will make an excellent textbook for agricultural economics and should be required reading for all social science majors. -- Clifton B. Luttrell, Editor Emeritus, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review. This skillful, readable and comprehensive book is an unapologetic, well-written argument to limit government in all aspects of agriculture. -- American Journal of Agriculture Economics. Comprehensive in its coverage and rich in descriptive detail. One can learn a great deal from Agriculture and the State. -- B. Delworth Gardnet, professor of economics, Brigham Young University. Agriculture and the State is informative and provocative. Pasour cuts through the complexity of U.S. farm policy. -- Lee J. Alston, professor of economics, University of Illinois.

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E. C. Pasour, Jr., is a professor of economics and business at North Carolina State University.

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