IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/grt/wpegrt/2016-09.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

A look back on a unique experiment in interventionism in market economies: the European Common Agricultural Policy (1955 – 2015)

Author

Listed:
  • Pierre DELFAUD

Abstract

Now that agricultural surpluses, after the removal of quantitative restrictions put into effect thirty years ago, are beginning to reappear, it is an opportune moment to revisit the history of the Common Agricultural Policy. This policy in effect constituted a unique experiment which can only be understood, as in any policy of intervention in market economies, through the combination of three concepts: economic rationality, social acceptability and institutional capability. This can be verified throughout the sixty years of the CAP’s existence, from its formulation (1955-1962) to its establishment with successive readjustments (1962-1992) through to the gradual dismantling (1992-2015). We are thus faced with two models: firstly the policy of price regulation, secondly competition policy compensation.

Suggested Citation

  • Pierre DELFAUD, 2016. "A look back on a unique experiment in interventionism in market economies: the European Common Agricultural Policy (1955 – 2015)," Cahiers du GREThA (2007-2019) 2016-09, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA).
    • Handle: RePEc:grt:wpegrt:2016-09
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://cahiersdugretha.u-bordeaux.fr/2016/2016-09.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jean-Charles Asselain & Bertrand Blancheton, 2000. "Les équilibres vitaux : la dépendance alimentaire de l'Europe," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 51(2), pages 195-212.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Stéphane BECUWE & Bertrand BLANCHETON & Karine ONFROY, 2015. "French International Trade, dataset 1836-1938 Montesquieu Database," Cahiers du GREThA (2007-2019) 2015-35, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    History of Europe; agricultural policy; interventionism; price regulation; competition policy;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • N54 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Europe: 1913-
    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:grt:wpegrt:2016-09. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Ernest Miguelez (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ifredfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.