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Agriculture, the Countryside and Land Use - An Economic Critique (Hardcover)
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Agriculture, the Countryside and Land Use - An Economic Critique (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Agriculture
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First published in 1983. How had the situation developed in which
agriculture had become such a creature of state protection, where
public money supported prosperous landowners while poor farmers
received practically nothing? Where the value of agricultural
support exceeded net farm income, and vastly exceeded the level of
support available to British Steel or British Rail? In answering
these questions John Bowers and Paul Cheshire examined the real
value of agricultural support in successive policy phases since the
Second World War, and analysed the effects this support had on
income distribution. Their thesis was that agricultural change,
including the transfer of land from traditional farmers to
institutions and corporations, was not the product of impersonal
progress, but the direct result of agricultural support policies,
resting on specious economic arguments. The authors' analysis of
this subject has inescapable relevance for the policymaker, for the
taxpayer and consumer of foodstuffs, for the urban user of the
British countryside and indeed for farmers and the farming lobby.
Agriculture, the Countryside and Land Use will be an important book
for all these groups and also for students of agriculture,
geography and economics.
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