Don Paarlberg is Professor Emeritus at Purdue University in Indiana where he taught for many years. His degrees in agricultural economics were received from Purdue and Cornell University, supplemented by his own active experience as a farmer for nearly a decade. He has held appointments from three Presidents: Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford, having been a Special Assistant to the President, Coordinator of the Food-for-Peace program, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Economics pro-gram respectively. He has also served as an economic advisor to four Secretaries of Agriculture: Benson, Hardin, Butz, and Knebel. He is the author of Farmers of Five Continents (1984), Farm and Food Policy: Issues of the 1980s (1980), Great Myths of Economics (1968), and American Farm Policy (1964).
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