This paper presents a model of economic behavior that explicates the phenomenon known as“orderly marketing,” which was a main objective of the Marketing Orders agricultural programintroduced early in the New Deal. Recent analyses of marketing orders start with an implicitassumption that...

This paper presents a model of economic behavior that explicates the phenomenon known as “orderly marketing,†which was a main objective of the Marketing Orders agricultural program introduced early in the New Deal. Recent analyses of marketing orders start with an implicit assumption...