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In Australia and New Zealand, agricultural and food statutory marketing organizations (SMOs) have a long history which has become progressively less fashionable. By modem standards of public policy, their objectives seem anachronistic and their methods clumsy, hence, as instruments for pursuing legitimate social ends in a democratic nation, they are now widely regarded as inferior. The present author shares this view which might color the following commentary.
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Cutbush, G. (1997). Statutory Marketing Organizations: The Elasticities Trap. In: Wallace, L.T., Schroder, W.R. (eds) Government and the Food Industry: Economic and Political Effects of Conflict and Co-Operation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6221-4_5
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