Politically portrayed as valiant family farms scratching out a living in the Jeffersonian mode, agriculture is instead the most regulated and subsidized sector of the industrial economy, deeply intertwined in environmental policies. Agricultural Policy and the Environment pulls back the wrappings that cloak U.S. agriculture and explains how and why politics has affected the traditional stewardship role played by agriculture. The stories about why this has happened are as important to understanding policy outcomes today as the stories that explain how it has evolved.
Chapter 1 List of Tables and Figures
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter
3 Introduction: Agricultural Policy and the Environment: Problems, Prospects,
and Prosperity
Chapter 4 What's So Special about the Farm?
Chapter 5
Agricultural Commons Problems and Responses: Sick Hogs at the Trough
Chapter
6 Regulating Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Internalization or
Cartelization?
Chapter 7 Legal Impediments to Transferring Agricultural Water
to Other Uses
Chapter 8 Agricultural Programs with Dubious Environmental
Benefits: The Political Economy of Ethanol
Chapter 9 Agricultural Technology
and the Precautionary Principle
Chapter 10 More Food and Environmental
Quality through Intensive Agriculture
Chapter 11 Carbon Emissions, Carbon
Sinks, and Global Warming
Chapter 12 Agriculture and the Environment: A
Thirty Year Retrospective
Chapter 13 Index
Chapter 14 About the Political
Economy Forum Series
Chapter 15 About the Contributors
Roger E. Meiners is professor of law and economics at the University of Texas at Arlington and a senior associate of PERC. Bruce Yandle is professor of economics emeritus at Clemson University and is also a senior associate of PERC.
