The Failure of National Rural Policy: Institutions and Interests

by William P. Browne

Modern farm policy emerged in the United States in 1862, leading to an industrialized agriculture that made the farm sector collectively more successful even as many individual farmers failed. Ever since, a healthy farm economy has been seen as the key to flourishing rural communities, and the problems of rural nonfarmers, former farmers, nonfarm residents, and unfarmed regions were ignored by policymakers. In The Failure of National Rural Policy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878408584
• ISBN13: 9780878408580
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher