Price Fixing by Government in the United States, 1926-1939: A Selected List of References on Direct Price Fixing of Agricultural Products by the Federal and State Governments

Excerpts from the Foreword: This bibliography supplements the United States section of Agricultural Economics Bibliography No. 18, Price Fixing by Governments 424 B.C.-1926 A. D. It differs from the earlier bibliography in that it is limited to references on the subject of direct price fixing of agricultural products by the Federal and State governments and is not concerned, except incidentally, with the subjects of indirect price fixing and price stabilization and control. Although there were numerous proposals for price fixing during the period 1926 through the first part of 1939, practically the only direct price fixing of agricultural products by government, has been that carried out under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, the State milk control acts and the State agricultural adjustment acts. Milk is the outstanding commodity for which prices have been fixed under all of these acts. For this reason, a large part of the bibliography is devoted to references on price fixing of milk.