Critique de Supermarket USA par Josh

I think Fresno Bob’s review is basically right: the author seems to have come up with “farms race” as an analogue to “arms race” and been so struck by it that they took a notion to write a book. They use the phrase 76 times, by my count. It got a bit tiresome.

The book does have some interesting anecdotes but I didn’t feel like they cohered well enough to support any of the author’s original claims (some claims, like that U.S. agriculture productivity was not a product of unfettered free markets, are true enough, but not original). I would say that the case studies in the book were cherry picked to support the authors claims, but I’m not really sure how well they do that.