Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 224
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Trim: 5¾ x 9
978-0-7425-2769-0 • Paperback • April 2003 • $60.00 • (£46.00)
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.
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