1985 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Some Observations on Price Instability, Agricultural Trade Policy and the Food Consumer
Author : Christopher Ritson
Published in: Agriculture and International Relations
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.
Select sections of text to find matching patents with Artificial Intelligence. powered by
Select sections of text to find additional relevant content using AI-assisted search. powered by
The agricultural economics profession has probably devoted as much time to the study of stability as to anything else. Arguably, it was the enquiry into the behaviour of agricultural product prices during the inter-war period which first gave agricultural economics an identity separate from other branches of applied economics, and this interest has continued to the present. Further, the stability issue has impinged upon most branches of the discipline, involving the study of the impact of price uncertainty on the behaviour of farm firms and the development of farm planning techniques in the face of uncertainty; the welfare implications of resource allocation in the face of price uncertainty; explanatory models of the causes of price instability; and stabilisation policies at both a national and international level.