The Political Economy of the Common Agricultural Policy: Coordinated Capitalism or Bureaucratic Monster?

ISBN-13: 9780367858209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 116 str.

Fernando Collantes

Opis

What is the balance of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy more than half a century after its birth? This book proposes that the issue with the CAP is not a generic problem of coordinating capitalism, but instead a more specific problem of low-quality coordination.

Spis treści

IntroductionChapter 1: The “European model of agriculture" on trialChapter 2: What is the CAP about?Chapter 3: The monster mythChapter 4: An even greater myth: coordinated agrarian capitalismChapter 5: The political back roomEpilogue: A story to be continued?

O autorze

Fernando Collantes is an Associate Professor of Socio-Economic History at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He has published widely on rural development and food systems from a historical perspective. He currently serves as a trustee of the Spanish Economic History Association.