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There is a growing popular and professional awareness of the incoherence of government policy. It has been argued in numerous forums that the Federal government’s contradictory policies hobble U.S. industry. In the popular media, many articles have described these incoherent policies (e.g., Business Week 1980). A frequently cited example is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) restricting the use of pesticides while the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USD A) promotes pesticides for agricultural and forestry uses.
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Rausser, G.C., Foster, W.E. (1991). The Evolution and Coordination of U.S. Commodity and Resource Policies. In: Just, R.E., Bockstael, N. (eds) Commodity and Resource Policies in Agricultural Systems. Agricultural Management and Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75499-9_2
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