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Between Scylla and Charibdys: Agricultural Economists' Navigation around Protectionism and Free Trade

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  • De Benedictis, Michele
  • De Filippis, Fabrizio
  • Salvatici, Luca

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In connection with the tight interdependence between domestic agricultural policies and behavior of world market and the present round of GATT negotiations, agricultural economists are increasingly being asked to produce significant pieces of research. This paper analyzes the supply responses of our profession from three different angles. First, recent research efforts by agricultural economists are surveyed with regard to the following areas: (1) effects of liberalization; (2) analyzes of the roots and structure of agricultural protectionism; (3) the aggregate measure of support; (4) reinstrumentation. Second, starting from the analytical dichotomy between free-traders and pragmatists, recent developments in the international economics literature are surveyed, giving specific attention to the "new" international economics and to the domestic and systemic dimensions of the political economy approach. Finally, on the basis of these surveys, a triad of doctrinal positions--hard free-traders; soft pragmatists; committed pragmatists--are specified and research issues of high future priority identified. Copyright 1991 by Oxford University Press.

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  • De Benedictis, Michele & De Filippis, Fabrizio & Salvatici, Luca, 1991. "Between Scylla and Charibdys: Agricultural Economists' Navigation around Protectionism and Free Trade," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 18(3-4), pages 311-337.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:erevae:v:18:y:1991:i:3-4:p:311-37
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    1. Carl GAIGNÉ & Cathie LAROCHE DUPRAZ & Alan MATTHEWS, 2015. "Thirty years of European research on international trade in food and agricultural products," Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - Revue d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement, INRA Department of Economics, vol. 96(1), pages 91-130.
    2. Sini, Maria Paola, 2010. "The importance of obtaining a more balanced relationship between the long and short food chain in the worldwide market for farm and food produce. A contribution to the debate on the capabilities of th," 116th Seminar, October 27-30, 2010, Parma, Italy 95342, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Salvatici, Luca & Carter, Colin A. & Sumner, Daniel A., 1997. "The Trade Restrictiveness Index and its Potential Contribution to Agricultural Policy Analysis," 1997 Conference, August 10-16, 1997, Sacramento, California 197065, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    4. Luca Salvatici & Silvia Nenci, 2017. "New features, forgotten costs and counterfactual gains of the international trading system," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 44(4), pages 592-633.
    5. Salvatici, Luca & Carter, Colin A. & Sumner, Daniel A., 1997. "The Trade Restrictiveness Index: The Potential Contribution To Agricultural Policy Analysis," 1997 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Toronto, Canada 21028, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).

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