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Structure of Agriculture: The Policy Issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Harold F. Breimyer*
Affiliation:
University of Missouri

Extract

Each generation believes it has a monopoly on crises. Its spokesmen declare how exceptional are the perils of its day. Crossroads are invariably said to loom ahead.

It is, therefore, with diffidence that I declare my uneasy feeling that our nation is approaching a crisis decision as to the kind of economy and kind of government that are to prevail through ending years of our century. I am not timid to the point of silence because I have not customarily played a Cassandra role. My direst warnings have been of prospective demise of central markets for setting cattle prices.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1973

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