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Agricultural Protection Growth in Europe, 1870–1969
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The Political Economy of Agricultural Price Distortions
Dramatic changes took place in agricultural policies in Europe in the 19 th and 20 th century. In the 1860s European nations agreed on a series of trade agreements which spread free trade across the continent. In the 1960s European nations concluded an international agreement which spread heavy government intervention and protection against imports across the continent. This paper offers hypotheses as to the causes of these dramatic changes in agricultural protection. Over the past decades,
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