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The Normative Analysis of Agricultural Policy: A General Framework and Review
Author(s) -
Bullock David S.,
Salhofer Klaus,
Kola Jukka
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1999.tb00896.x
Subject(s) - normative , distributive property , welfarism , economics , equity (law) , pareto principle , agriculture , public economics , set (abstract data type) , policy analysis , ranking (information retrieval) , simple (philosophy) , pareto efficiency , positive economics , computer science , political science , welfare , mathematics , operations management , public administration , epistemology , law , ecology , philosophy , machine learning , pure mathematics , market economy , biology , programming language
The paper provides a general framework of normative agricultural policy analysis within which it is possible to unify forty years of literature. It is shown that the literature has gone from examining a very small set of simple policies to a much broader set of policies that combine policy instruments simultaneously. In ranking alternative policies agricultural economists have tried to consider distributive equity. While at a glance it may seem that many different methods have been used to consider distributive equity, we show that in general all these methods can be traced back to three alternative methods based on welfarism and Pareto efficiency.