Scale Economies, Scale Externalities: Hog Farming and the Changing American Agricultural Industry
| dc.contributor.author | Hsu, Shi-Ling | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-27T19:41:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-01-27T19:41:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-01-27 | |
| dc.description | 44 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | American agriculture is inexorably concentrating into the hands of a small number of large conglomerates. Expanding farms pursuing scale economies would normally have to abide by a system of environmental and other laws that would, in theory, require farms to account for negative externalities. If those laws were observed and enforced, they would help strike a balance between the greater profitability and the larger externalities of scaling up. But these laws are not widely observed nor rigorously enforced, which upsets this balance and gives large-scale farms a cost advantage while insulating them from corresponding responsibilities. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | 94 OR. L. REV. 23 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0196-2043 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/19575 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon School of Law | en_US |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Environmental law | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pollution | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sustainability | en_US |
| dc.title | Scale Economies, Scale Externalities: Hog Farming and the Changing American Agricultural Industry | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |