Political calculations in subsidizing food

The role of the state in providing food subsidies to consumers has a long though sometimes ignoble history. In ancient Egypt, wheat prices were maintained by government storage schemes (chapter 13), and the value of cheap, ample food supplies for political stability was evidenced in the "bread and c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hopkins, Raymond F.
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 1988
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161096

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