The Political Economy of the Common Agricultural Policy

What is the balance of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy more than half a century after its birth? This book proposes that the issue with the CAP is not a generic problem of coordinating capitalism, but instead a more specific problem of low-quality coordination.

Autorentext

Fernando Collantes is an Associate Professor of Socioeconomic History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has published widely on rural development and food systems from a historical perspective. He currently serves as a trustee of the Spanish Economic History Association.

Inhalt

Introduction
Chapter 1: The "European model of agriculture" on trial
Chapter 2: What is the CAP about?
Chapter 3: The monster myth
Chapter 4: An even greater myth: coordinated agrarian capitalism
Chapter 5: The political back room
Epilogue: A story to be continued?