"At the intersection of the growing national conversation about our food system and the long-running debate about our government's role in society is the complex farm bill. American farm policy, built on a political coalition of related interests with competing and conflicting demands,has proven...

""Report on the Agrarian Law" (1795) and Other Writings is the first modern English translation of perhaps the greatest work of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos's "Informe sobre la Ley Agraria" (1795). A major work of political economy and a beautifully crafted...

The new institutional economics and Roman legal policy -- The creation of rights in the countryside -- Roman legal policy and private farm Tenancy -- Legal order in the rural economy -- Late antique tax policy and incentives for investment