Agricultural structure and economic adjustment

E. Wesley and F. Peterson

Agriculture and Human Values, 1986, vol. 3, issue 4, 6-15

Abstract: There has been much discussion of changing agricultural structure in the United States. In this paper, the author reviews some of the factors contributing to structural change in the United States and describes the policies adopted by the European Community with respect to agricultural structure. The European experience with structural policies suggests that this approach is not very promising for the United States where no specific structural policies exist. The argument developed in this paper is that structural changes in agriculture are simply one example of economic adjustment in a capitalist economy, that economic adjustments are generally desirable although they are not costless, and that discussions of agricultural structure should focus on methods to alleviate the costs of adjustment rather than on efforts to prevent change. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1986

Date: 1986
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