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Instability and Risk as Rationales for Government Intervention in Agriculture

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  • Myers, Robert J.
  • Oehmke, James F.

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  • Myers, Robert J. & Oehmke, James F., 1987. "Instability and Risk as Rationales for Government Intervention in Agriculture," Staff Paper Series 200938, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.
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    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.200938
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