Institutional Choice and the Development of U.S. Agricultural Policies in the 1920s
研究了20世纪20年代美国农业政策作为制度选择的过程，分析了政府干预方式（如反垄断豁免、市场信息提供、强制减产等）如何受作物特性和市场条件影响。
We examine U.S. agricultural policy as an institutional choice. Price controls in World War I had demonstrated the government's influence in markets, and with falling crop prices in the 1920s, farmers appealed to the federal government. The federal government was large enough by then to intervene in variou ways. It could have assisted private cooperatives by providing antitrust exemptions, market information, and enforcement of cooperative rules or intervened directly with mandatory output reductions and targeted prices. The policies adopted were influenced by crop-specific characteristics and broader market conditions affecting the success of private cooperatives.