“In Agriculture and the State, Pasour has done a magnificent job of applying economic principles to current U.S. government activities in the farming sector. Its critical assessment of the cost and benefits of such government intervention should be of particular interest to serious students of economics and political science as well as journalists and others concerned with government policy. The book will make an excellent textbook for agricultural economics and should be required reading for all social science majors.”

– CLIFTON B. LUTTRELL, Editor Emeritus, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review

“Judgement is rare in economics and politics....In Agriculture and the State, the quality of the judgement is not impaired by conventional knowledge and information. The time has come for Pasour’s easy-to-read book on the economics and politics of agriculture.”

– THEODORE W. SCHULTZ, Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, University of Chicago

“Agriculture and the State is informative and provocative. Pasour cuts through the complexity of U.S. farm policy and tells us how such programs work and why they exist. Providing the reader with an understandable economic framework, the book points out the inefficiencies inherent in current policies as well as the winners and losers from agricultural programs.”

– LEE J. ALSTON, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois

“This skillful, readable and comprehensive book is an unapologetic, well-written argument to limit government in all aspects of agriculture.”

– AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS

“Comprehensive in its coverage and rich in descriptive detail. One can learn a great deal from Agriculture and the State, and I will often consult it.”

– B. DELWORTH GARDNER, Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University