Distributional analysis is employed to assess the ethical acceptability of agricultural policy along plurastic moral criteria. Using 1999 micro-data from USDA ARMS survey and the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, we discuss policy performance (measured as the effect of direct...

The historical role of agriculture in economic geography and recent conceptual developments – including multifunctionalagriculture (MFA), the new economic geography, amenity-driven growth, and the “world is flat” and “creative class” hypotheses – areexamined, and recent empirical...

The historical role of agriculture in economic geography and recent conceptual developments – including multifunctional agriculture (MFA), the new economic geography, amenity-driven growth, and the “world is flat†and “creative class†hypotheses – are examined,...