You must not think that I have chosen to speak about the book jointly written by Professor Mahé (from the Ecole supérieure d'agronomie de Rennes) and Professor Ortalo-Magné (holder of the Jean Monnet chair at the London School of Economics) because it reflects a number of ideas on farming long defended in our editorials [Louis-Pascal Mahé and François Ortalo-Magné: "Politique agricole, un modèle European" - Presses de Science Po, Paris - January 2001]. The matter is too important to...