The political economy of agricultural : price distortions / edited by Kym Anderson ; contributors Robert H. Bates, David Blandford, Steven Block, Olivier Cadot, Johanna Croser, Pushan Dutt, Andres F. Garcia, Kishore Gawande, Bernard Hoekman, Timothy Josling, William A. Masters, Devashish Mitra, John V. C. Nye, Marcelo Olarreaga, Alessandro Olper, David Orden, Valentina Raimondi, Gordon C. Rausser, Gérard Roland, Scott Rozelle, Damiano Sandri, Johan F.M. Swinnen, Jeanne Tschopp, Ernesto Valenzuela ; foreword Justin Yifu Lin ; preface Kym Anderson.

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by Justin Yifu Lin, xix Preface, xxi Abbreviations and Acronyms, xxiii I. Introduction -- 1. Understanding Government Interventions in Agricultural Markets / Kym Anderson, 3 -- 2. Agricultural Distortion Patterns since the 1950s: What Needs Explaining? / Kym Anderson, Johanna Croser, Damiano Sandri, and Ernesto Valenzuela, 25 -- II. Conceptual frameworks and historical origins -- 3. Political Economy of Agricultural Distortions: The Literature to Date / Johan F. M. Swinnen, 81 -- 4. Special Interests versus the Public Interest in Policy Determination / Gordon C. Rausser and Gerard Roland, 105 -- 5. Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1899: Agricultural Trade Policies, Alcohol Taxes and War / John V. C. Nye, 126 -- 6. Agricultural Protection Growth in Europe, 1870-1969 / Johan F. M. Swinnen, 141 -- 7. Determinants of United States Farm Policies / David Orden, David Blandford, and Timothy Josling, 162 -- 8. Agricultural Distortions in the Transition Economies of Asia and Europe / Scott Rozelle and Johan F. M. Swinnen, 191 -- III. Political econometrics: the past fifty years -- 9. Agricultural Price Distortions and Stabilization / William A. Masters and Andres F. Garcia, 215 -- 10. Why Governments Tax or Subsidize Agricultural Trade / Kishore Gawande and Bernard Hoekman, 241 -- 11. Impacts of Ideology, Inequality, Lobbying, and Public Finance / Pushan Dutt and Devashish Mitra, 278 -- 12. Agricultural Trade Interventions in Africa / Robert H. Bates and Steven Block, 304 -- 13. Trade Agreements and Trade Barrier Volatility / Olivier Cadot, Marcelo Olarreaga, and Jeanne Tschopp, 332 -- 14. Constitutional Rules and Agricultural Policy Outcomes / Alessandro Olper and Valentina Raimondi, 358 -- Appendix: Coverage and Distribution of Assistance across Countries and Products, 1955-2007 / Kym Anderson and Johanna Croser, 393 -- Index, 427.