Price support for farm products through import restrictions still represents the main instrument for raising farm sector incomes within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Community (EC). The objective of this paper is first to analyze the effects of the traditional price policy...

The dominance and persistency of family farms in industrialized nonsocialist countries can only be explained by the theory that farm households organize agricultural and household production, and also very often off-farm employment, efficiently. The organizational unity of farms and households...

Farms are seen and analyzed by contemporary agricultural economics as firms producing farm products only. Although most farms in western countries are managed by farm families, the economics and economic implications of family farms as the dominant institution in agriculture are neglected almost...

"In literature of agricultural economics the view is frequently held that the structural change in the agricultural sector, in particular in the form of adjustment in the size and structure of the labour stock, follows economic determining factors to only a very limited extent, and therefore...

[fre] II existe en Allemagne une tradition de recherche en économie rurale depuis le XVIIIe siècle. Cette activité, qui a toujours été liée à l'enseignement universitaire, a pris un nouvel essor vers 1920 avec la redécouverte de la théorie économique néo-classique. Cette école,...

"In literature of agricultural economics the view is frequently held that the structural change in the agricultural sector, in particular in the form of adjustment in the size and structure of the labour stock, follows economic determining factors to only a very limited extent, and therefore...