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Should Global Agriculture be Liberalized?
Jean-Marc BoussardFrançoise GerardMarie-Gabrielle Piketty
出版Taylor & Francis, 2008-01-10
主題Business & Economics / International / Economics & TradeBusiness & Economics / Industries / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Industries / AgribusinessPolitical Science / International Relations / Trade & TariffsScience / Life Sciences / BotanyScience / Life Sciences / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / Agriculture / General
ISBN157808542X9781578085422
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3J8nAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I: What can be expected from the Liberalization of Agricultural Trade? -- Exploiting Natural Advantages -- Box 1: Ricardo's Parable -- Better use of Production Factors -- The Minimal Cost in a State of Technology -- Price Stabilization -- Box 2: Risk Aversion -- Box 3: The Law of Large Numbers and Market Stabilization -- II: Theoretical Criticism of Agricultural Liberalism -- Box 4: Galiani -- A Radical Criticism: Liberalism and Justice -- Another Radical Criticism: Markets and Needs -- An Apparently Incidental Criticism: do Markets Function? -- Expectation Errors and Endogenous Price Fluctuations -- Box 5: The Notion of Demand Elasticity -- Box 6: Algebraic Expressions of the Cobweb Theorem -- The Traditional Cobweb -- The "Risk Cobweb" -- III: The Test of Facts -- Brief History of Liberalism -- Price Fluctuations and Growth -- Price Fluctuations and Production -- Are Price Fluctuations Endogenous? -- Are Price Fluctuations Caused by Climate? -- IV: Designing an Economic Model for International Trade -- Production -- Box 7: The CES Function -- Box 8: "First-order Conditions" -- Consumer Demand -- Box 9: The LES Function and Consumer Behavior -- Income Determination -- International Trade -- Data Sources -- Box 10: The GTAP Database -- Dynamics: The Role of Time in the Model -- The Standard Model -- V: How can Theory and History be Introduced in a Standard Model? -- Expectation Errors -- Capital Accumulation -- Box 11: The Markowitz Model -- The Role of Firms, Banks and Financial Markets -- Illustration of Differences -- VI: A Choice of Results -- Does the Detailed Model Confirm the Results of the Three-Region Model? -- Why may Europe Benefit from Liberalization? -- Effects of Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa -- To Conclude