This comprehensive volume provides an indispensable analysis of the development of agricultural policy in Western Europe and the United States.After providing a background to agricultural policy in the two regions, the authors focus on specific issues including:development policy and trade intervention up to 1930a review of the major adjustments to agricultural policy in the world depression of the 1930sagricultural adjustment and trade interaction between 1940 and 1973, including the enlargement of the EC, the formation of CAP and the foundation of GATT

This comprehensive volume provides an indispensable analysis of the development of agricultural policy in Western Europe and the United States.After providing a background to agricultural policy in the two regions, the authors focus on specific issues including:development policy and trade intervention up to 1930a review of the major adjustments to agricultural policy in the world depression of the 1930sagricultural adjustment and trade interaction between 1940 and 1973, including the enlargement of the EC, the formation of CAP and the foundation of GATT