The Politics of Food Prices

Paul Streeten
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Chapter 3 in The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development, 1989, pp 61-71 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The politics of food pricing is concerned with two sets of questions: first, what interests and pressures lie behind current policies of market intervention and the generation of political resources, particularly those that do not appear sensible from an economic point of view; second, what changes in political pressures can lead to reform?

Keywords: Food Price; Invisible Hand; Rural Sector; Supply Response; Joint Gain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10277-8_3

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