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 316-309 Agricultural Economics

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Associate Professor D MacLaren

Prerequisites

316-202 Intermediate Microeconomics.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week

Subject Description

Topics include the reasons for government intervention in the agricultural sector; the agricultural policy objectives and instruments of government intervention and regulation in Australia and in selected countries overseas; international trade, agricultural protectionism and the World Trade Organisation; and the world food problem.

Assessment

A 2-hour written examination at the end of the semester (80%) and an assignment of up to 2000 words (20%).

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