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Agriculture and the State

In: Family Farmers, Land Reforms and Political Action

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  • James Simpson

    (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

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This chapter shows changes in the thinking about the role of the state and market intervention in the interwar period. To intervene, governments had to allocate scarce resources to build state capacity, the outcome of political bargaining over how to raise the necessary resources, and establish spending priorities. This is followed by looking government intervention in farm markets, and the role of the landed elites lobby in Western Europe obtaining protection with higher tariffs, which benefited governments by providing revenue and easing the balance-of-payments constraints. The First World War resulted in a massive increase in state capacity in areas of economic planning and market intervention to increase domestic farm production. Finally, governments were generally reluctant to invest in agricultural research and extension services in the period because the political returns were too slow to appear. Only when either farmers themselves developed strong organizations to lobby, or domestic agriculture could reduce the country’s dependence on food imports would governments respond.

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  • James Simpson, 2024. "Agriculture and the State," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Family Farmers, Land Reforms and Political Action, chapter 0, pages 77-99, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-67281-1_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-67281-1_4
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