"For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very … restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate … a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world's production of those …

"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional … sector policies are generated without a formal model of global markets or even price elasticity estimates. "--World Bank web …

At the close of the Second World War, when industrialized nations faced serious trade and financial imbalances …

Depression a watershed period in the history of the American economy? This volume organizes twelve scholars' responses into four …, and the changing international economy. The central focus across the chapters is the well-known alternations to national … economy, while not omitting reference to the 1930s. The essays consider whether New Deal-style legislation continues to …