The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance. A Sustainable Solution
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scattered throughout the book, but work is needed in order to assemble them into a single consistent framework for MNEs. Nonetheless, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in investigating the recent trends in globalisation of agrifood sectors. It is a good reference for any agribusiness manager and is especially useful for any student involved in an agribusiness degree programme. It is also a good reference for any scholar involved in agribusiness research. ´ Remy Lambert ´ ´ Universite Laval, Quebec remy.lambert@eac.ulaval.ca doi:10.1093/eurrag/jbl023 Advance Access Publication 18 December 2006 Willard W. Cochrane University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska and London, 2003. ISBN: 0-8032-1529-0, 154 pp., Illus, Price: $35 (cloth). Willard W. Cochrane has been engaged in the farm policy debate as an academic scholar and in government since the 1940s, and served as advisor to President Kennedy on agricultural policy issues in the early 1960s. This book contains chapters written in the 1950s and 60s as well as recently constructed farm policy proposals applied to modern agriculture. The ï¬rst three essays, from the 1950s, are familiar topics to any economist who has studied agricultural policy and outline principles why farm surpluses occur, the technology treadmill and efforts