Awards

• Nominated for Alice Hanson Jones Prize 2016
• Nominated for Henry Adams Prize 2016
• Nominated for Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award 2015
• Winner of Allan Sharlin Memorial Award 2016

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A remarkable book on a subject underpinning all aspects of contemporary livestock agricultural sciences and livestock veterinary medicine in the United States. It covers the history of the impact of the animal and zoonotic diseases that have had great economic and public health significance in the era of the rise of commercial agricultural industries and the rise of our food safety infrastructure. It poses a critical question: What about the future? How shall we deal with emerging problems that seem so much more complex than those of the past?--Frederick A. Murphy, University of Texas Medical Branch

Anyone who believes that privatization and markets are the solution to all problems should read this book. <b>Olmstead</b> and <b>Rhode</b> make a brilliant case that federal government regulation was necessary to curb devastating animal diseases, that the benefits of regulation for the livestock industry in the U.S. many times outweighed the costs, and that these efforts had substantial health benefits for humans as well.--Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University

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Alan L. Olmstead is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis. Paul W. Rhode is Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.

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