The government intervenes in the wheat market in Pakistan to ensure food security for consumers and to provide adequate and stable incomes for producers. The cost of this intervention is high, and its impact on the performance of agriculture has been significantly negative. The World Bank is...

"This article is concerned with the economics of excessively large and socially costly suburban expansion and attempts to summarize and organize the main economic arguments associated with sprawl due to single-family residential home construction. We also apply standard welfare economics and...

Cash prices for wheat in Poland are not closely related to futures prices in Chicago and London, for several reasons: differences in seasonality, fluctuations in exchange rate, poor dissemination of information in Poland, and most important the Polish government's intervention in wheat markets....