作者：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
作者：University of Vermont
摘要：Why did state governments begin to regulate the food industry in the late nineteenth century? One possible explanation is that pure food regulation was the result of rent seeking on the part of traditional food producers who wanted to limit the availability of new substitutes. Another potential hypothesis is that regulation was desired because it helped solve an asymmetric information problem in the market for food products. I find the evidence to be more consistent with the latter hypothesis.
作者：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Between 1928 and 1960 U.S. cotton production experienced are revolution with average yields roughly tripling while the quality of the crop increased significantly. This article analyzes the key institutional and scientific developments that facilitated the revolution in biological technologies, pointing to the importance of two government programs-the one-variety community movement and the Smith-Doxey Act-as catalysts for change. The story displays two phenomena germane to the recent literatur...
作者：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
作者：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore County
