A FRENCH PERSPECTIVE ON SUPPLY CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
从法国视角分析农业生产的特殊性导致的市场失灵，指出政府干预未能解决规模经济缺失和不确定性对生产者决策的影响，导致生产过剩或短缺，并探讨了配额制度的可能性。
The special nature of agricultural production implies many possibilities of market failure in equating supply and demand. Government interventions have aimed at correcting their most obvious effects, but do not take into account the absence of economies of scale, nor the major role of uncertainty in driving producer decisions in this sector. Over‐production, as well as shortages (of staple foods in many developing countries), have followed. So‐called ‘structural’ policies are not much help, because their cost is too high, being of the same order of magnitude as the value of the commodities they are supposed to regulate. A generalized system of quotas could possibly be considered, although there exist few grounds to fix the target quantity at national level.