Agriculture and the Free Market*

Dec 14th 2020, Prabhat Patnaik
The three Agricultural Bills of the Modi government, against which the current country-wide kisan movement is going on, expose agriculture to the free market. It is a sub-optimal solution since the prices as well as the quantities of production that would rule for agricultural goods in a free market are likely to be socially disastrous.
    
* This article was originally published in People's Democracy on December 13, 2020.


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