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This programme is about the operation of the European Common Agricultural Policy. Neil Costello introduces the programme from the Grand Place, Brussels. The starting point is to question what can h...appen when institutional intervention in a market takes place. Specifically, the programme looks at the situation regarding butter mountains in Europe and follows the trail back to Germany where policies aimed at encouraging small farmers to remain on the land also have the effect of encouraging surplus butter production. Hence the programme indicates that the nature of the problem rests in a conflict between opposing social and economic policies.
This programme is about the operation of the European Common Agricultural Policy. Neil Costello introduces the programme from the Grand Place, Brussels. The starting point is to question what can h...appen when institutional intervention in a market takes place. Specifically, the programme looks at the situation regarding butter mountains in Europe and follows the trail back to Germany where policies aimed at encouraging small farmers to remain on the land also have the effect of encouraging surplus butter production. Hence the programme indicates that the nature of the problem rests in a conflict between opposing social and economic policies.
| Module code and title: | D222, Microeconomics |
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| Item code: | D222; 02; 1979 |
| First transmission date: | 15-03-1979 |
| Published: | 1979 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:15 |
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| Producer: | Roger Penfound |
| Contributors: | Neil Costello; John Silkin; Finn Gundelach; Thomas Schlier; Otto Bommert; Tony Venables; Josef Ertl; Michael Mellinger |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Economics; EEC; Farming |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73169 |
| Production number: | FOUD015W |
| Videofinder number: | 83 |
| Available to public: | no |
