Emergency considerations in Swedish agriculture: A retrospective look
通过从一战至今的历史梳理，揭示瑞典农业政策中应急目标如何演变，并指出该目标被不当用于支持过度扩张的农业部门，战后四大政策委员会几乎未质疑这一基本原则。
This paper focuses on one important objective of Swedish agricultural policy, that of emergency considerations. By making a broad historical sweep - from the outbreak of World War I to the present - it is shown how that policy objective has emerged and developed over time. The main contention of the paper is that the need to be prepared for disruptions in agricultural trade - due to war or other emergencies - has been improperly advanced as an argument in favour of an overdimensioned agricultural sector, to act as a buffer in an emergency. A review of the work performed by four major agricultural policy committees in the post-war period, indicates a near total absence of questioning of basic policy principles.