GATT Negotiations and the Political Economy of Policy Reform

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. The Uruguay Round and the GATT Negotiations

   • Gordon C. Rausser

   Pages 1-33

3. Efficiency of Farm Programs and Their Trade-Distorting Effects

   • Andrew Schmitz, James Vercammen

   Pages 35-63

4. Compensation and Political Feasibility: Facilitating Welfare Improving Coalitions

   • Richard E. Just, Gordon C. Rausser, David Zilberman

   Pages 65-83

5. The Political Economy of Redistributive Policies and the Provision of Public Good in Agriculture

   • Harry de Goiter, David J. Nielson, Gordon C. Rausser

   Pages 85-106

6. Coalition Breaking and Policy Reform

   • William E. Foster, Gordon C. Rausser

   Pages 107-123

7. Public Goods and Welfare Transfer Tradeoffs

   • William E. Foster, Gordon C. Rausser

   Pages 125-144

8. Mobility, Diversification, and Sustainability of Trade Reform

   • William E. Foster, Richard Gray, Gordon C. Rausser

   Pages 145-173

9. Modeling Policy Reform in the US Wheat and Feed Grain Sectors

   • Richard E. Just, Gordon C. Rausser, David Zilberman

   Pages 175-252

10. The Determination of Technology and Commodity Policy in the US Dairy Industry

    • Harry de Goiter, David J. Nielson, Gordon C. Rausser

    Pages 253-274

11. Modeling Phased Reduction of Distortionary Policies in the US Wheat Market Under Alternative Macroeconomic Environments

    • B. Stephen Labson, Gordon C. Rausser

    Pages 275-314

12. Alternative Subsidy Reduction Paths: The Role of Fiscal and Monetary Policy Linkages

    • Pier Giorgio Ardeni, Gordon C. Rausser

    Pages 315-357

This volume is dedicated to understanding the political economy obstacles to trade reform, especially global agricultural trade reform, and how these obstacles can be surmounted. The focus is on the trade reform under the GATT negotiations. New political-economic methodologies are used to assess and evaluate the obstacles and original scholarly analyses have been designed to explain why agriculture - among so many topics - became such a significant problem in the most recent Uruguay Round of the GATT.

• Agrarpolitik
• Agricultural
• Agricultural Policymaking
• GATT Negotiations
• Gatt-Verhandlungen
• Handel
• Handelsreform
• Landwirtschaft
• Uruguay-Runde
• agriculture
• economics
• economy
• political economy
• Ökonomie
• Ökonomie und Landwirtschaft

• Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Gordon C. Rausser

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