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Science 15 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5597, pp. 1339 - 1340
DOI: 10.1126/science.1076744
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ECONOMICS:
Unbalanced Bounty from America's Farms
A review by C. Peter Timmer
American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
How It Flourished and What It Cost
Bruce L. Gardner
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002. 400 pp. $49.95, £33.50, €49.95. ISBN 0-674-00748-4.
Gardner surveys the challenges faced by U.S. farmers and the technological and economic transformations they have experienced over the past century. He finds that government actions have played a particularly important role.
The author is at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0519, USA. E-mail: ptimmer{at}ucsd.edu
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