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Agricultural Policy Debate: A Survey *
Author(s) -
EDWARDS GEOFF W.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1987.tb00645.x
Subject(s) - subsidy , inefficiency , economics , futures contract , agriculture , tariff , consumption (sociology) , stabilization policy , agricultural policy , public economics , compensation (psychology) , capital (architecture) , economic policy , international economics , macroeconomics , market economy , finance , monetary policy , archaeology , sociology , psychoanalysis , biology , ecology , social science , psychology , history
A survey is provided of writings between 1978 and 1985 on or directly relevant to Australian agricultural policy. The areas covered are: background and overview; industry policy, including tariff compensation, home consumption price schemes. quotas, input subsidies and futures trading by marketing boards; stabilization; adjustment and the capital market; and macroeconomics and agriculture. An increasingly critical approach has been taken in identifying sources of inefficiency in agriculture and in considering ways of reducing them. Private interest explanations of policy descisions have received serious study and macroeconomic issues have received increasing attention .