The Effects of Farm and Food Policy on Obesity in the United States

Julian Alston and Abigail M. Okrent ()
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Abigail M. Okrent: United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

in Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy from Palgrave Macmillan, currently edited by Chris Barrett

Date: 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-47831-3
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

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Ch 2 Obesity in America

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Ch 3 Consequences of Obesity

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Ch 4 Causes of Obesity: Individual Physiology and Consumption Choices

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Ch 5 Causes of Obesity: External Influences

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Ch 6 Role for Government: In Principle

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Ch 7 US Farm Subsidies and Obesity

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Ch 8 Agricultural R&D, Technology, and Obesity

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Ch 9 Fat Taxes and Thin Subsidies as Obesity Policy

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Ch 10 Other Food Policies as Obesity Policy

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Ch 11 Summary and Synthesis

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