Description: This book covers both the economics and politics behind the last 70 years of farm programs in the United States. Orden (agriculture and applied economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute), Paarlberg (political science, Wellesley College), and Roe (applied economics and political economy, U. of Minnesota) review the successes and failures of traditional policies, and discuss the economic arguments for their liberalization or elimination. Significant space is dedicated to examining the results of the Uruguay Round multilateral GATT negotiations (1986-1993) and the farming program redesign legislated by the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996.

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