{"product_id":"regulating-agriculture-isbn-9780471959328","title":"Regulating Agriculture","description":"Drawing on the expertise of an internationally renowned group of authors, this monograph examines the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states seeking to manage their agricultural sectors. Using examples from regions around the globe including Scandinavia, New Zealand, China and Germany, the book delves into topics as diverse as agribusiness and corporatism, regulation of agriculture, productivist paradigms, politics of agricultural change, agricultural deregulation, retailing in a regulatory state, managed versus liberalised markets, the national politics of international trade reform and principles of the GATT agreement from the agricultural perspective. Changing Regulatory Orders: The Analysis of the Economic Governanceof Agriculture (P. Lowe, et al.).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Agriculture and Corporatism in Scandinavia (F. Just).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Challenging the Productivist Paradigm: Organic Farming and thePolitics of Agricultural Change (T. Clunies-Ross \u0026amp; G.Cox).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Technological Change in the Regulation of Agriculture (E.Hawkins).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Retailing, the Food System and the Regulatory State (A. Flynn, etal.).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Agricultural Deregulation: The Case of New Zealand (P. Cloke \u0026amp;R. Le Heron).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From State Control to a Managed or Liberalised Market: Dilemmas inthe Reform of the Grain Price System in China (P. Zong).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The National Politics of International Trade Reform: The Case ofGermany (G. Hendriks).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e GATT, Global Regulation and the Construction of a New HegemonicOrder (P. McMichael). The Editors Philip Lowe is Professor of Rural Economy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Terry Marsden is Reader in the School of Geography and Earth Resources, University of Hull Sarah Whatmore is Reader in the Department of Geography, University of Bristol The fifth volume in the series brings together a set of essays reflecting on the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states in seeking to manage their agricultural sectors. Drawing on different national and international viewpoints, the essays present original analyses of agricultural regulation in a comparative context. The aspects covered include the roots of the post-war food order, the roles of corporatism, agribusiness and technological change, the challenge of deregulation and environmental reforms, the introduction of market principles and mechanisms into centrally planned economies and the efforts to forge a new order in international trade.","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989930852581,"sku":"NP9780471959328","price":460.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780471959328.jpg?v=1761785951","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/regulating-agriculture-isbn-9780471959328","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}