Should Global Agriculture be Liberalized?: Theories, Models and Realities

by Jean-MarcBoussard (Author), Françoise Gerard (Author), Marie - Gabrielle Piketty (Author)

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  2008

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  According to standard economic theory and modelling, liberalizing agriculture will result in important welfare gains. Because of price volatility, an alternative model, based in general disequilibrium in the Wicksellian tradition, provides much less optimistic conclusions, actually supported by the evolution of the world agricultural system.