Det er alvorlige tider for verdens\u00f8konomien med en stor kreditkrise og voldsomt stigende f\u00f8devarepriser. Selv vores lille pizzaria p\u00e5 hj\u00f8rnet har m\u00e5tte s\u00e6tte priserne op p\u00e5 alt. Bacon var steget 50 % i det sidste halve \u00e5r, og for nogle varegrupper var stigningen endnu v\u00e6rre. Det er jo ikke s\u00e5 slemt for os, for vi kan sagtens betale, men for de fattige i lande med stor import af madvarer, som Bangladesh og Vestafrika, er stigningen intet mindre end katastrofal.<\/p>\n
Stigningen skyldes mange forskellige faktorer, bl.a. det store \u00f8konomiske opsving i Kina, der har drevet priserne p\u00e5 k\u00f8d op. Men en af grundene er sk\u00e6vvridningen af det internationale marked p\u00e5 grund af den voldsomme regulering af landbrug og f\u00f8devarer p\u00e5 nationalt plan. EUs landbrugsst\u00f8tte er blot \u00e9n af synderne i et langt register over kortsigtede l\u00f8sninger, protektionisme, fork\u00e6lelse af s\u00e6rgrupper og andre mere eller mindre vanvittige plan\u00f8konomiske tiltag. En af de vigtigste grunde til stigningen p\u00e5 korn har v\u00e6ret forskellige regeringers (f\u00f8rst og fremmest USAs) meget rundh\u00e5ndede st\u00f8tte til produktion af biobr\u00e6ndsel, der \u00f8ger eftersp\u00f8rgslen kraftigt. Ingen gode intentioner uden negative bivirkninger, kunne man sige – det er jo n\u00e6sten som en lektie fra de gamle gr\u00e6ske tragedier.<\/p>\n
The Economist rammer hovedet p\u00e5 s\u00f8mmet i denne uges vigtige leder<\/a>:<\/p>\n In general, governments ought to liberalise markets, not intervene in them further. Food is riddled with state intervention at every turn, from subsidies to millers for cheap bread to bribes for farmers to leave land fallow. The upshot of such quotas, subsidies and controls is to dump all the imbalances that in another business might be smoothed out through small adjustments onto the one unregulated part of the food chain: the international market.<\/p>\n For decades, this produced low world prices and disincentives to poor farmers. Now, the opposite is happening. As a result of yet another government distortion\u2014this time subsidies to biofuels in the rich world\u2014prices have gone through the roof. Governments have further exaggerated the problem by imposing export quotas and trade restrictions, raising prices again. In the past, the main argument for liberalising farming was that it would raise food prices and boost returns to farmers. Now that prices have massively overshot, the argument stands for the opposite reason: liberalisation would reduce prices, while leaving farmers with a decent living.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Det er alvorlige tider for verdens\u00f8konomien med en stor kreditkrise og voldsomt stigende f\u00f8devarepriser. Selv vores lille pizzaria p\u00e5 hj\u00f8rnet har m\u00e5tte s\u00e6tte priserne op p\u00e5 alt. Bacon var steget 50 % i det sidste halve \u00e5r, og for nogle varegrupper var stigningen endnu v\u00e6rre. Det er jo ikke s\u00e5 slemt for os, for vi … L\u00e6s mere Den stille tsunami<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}