An overview of the intended and unintended effects of U.S. agricultural and biotechnology policies / Joshua S. Graff Zivin and Jeffrey M. Perloff -- Agricultural policy -- The buck stops where? The distribution of agricultural subsidies / Barry K. Goodwin, Ashok K. Mishra, and François...

Using economic models and empirical analysis, this volume examines a wide range of agricultural and biofuel policy issues and their effects on American agricultural and related agrarian insurance markets. Beginning with a look at the distribution of funds by insurance programs—created to...

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world's population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of-or in spite of-globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on...