There Are Far More Consumers of Agricultural Commodities Than There

question 29

Essay

There are far more consumers of agricultural commodities than there are producers; but agricultural producers have consistently been able to get Congress to vote them subsidies at taxpayer expense and supply restrictions at the consumer's expense. How can the success of the agricultural lobby be explained by "the general rule of political economy"?

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Definitions:

Memory traces

Hypothetical constructs representing the physical imprint or trace that memories create in the brain.

Fluid intelligence

The ability to reason and solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge.

Retrospective memory

The process of recalling past events, information, or experiences from one's memory.

Working memories

The part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.