The fundamental contradictions between the United States and the European Community in the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations lie in the foundations of their respective agricultural policies. Their proposals call for a reduction of agricultural price supports, tariffication of...

The decision-making process in the European Community was analyzed using a model of the political economy of agricultural policy making within a public choice framework. The November 1989 session of the Agriculture Council was used to illustrate Community institutions as a locus of bargain and...

The rapid growth of biofuels has elicited claims and predictions concerning the current and future role of these fuels in the U.S. vehicle-fuel portfolio. These assertions are at times based on a false set of assumptions concerning the biofuel's market related to the petroleum and agricultural...