Hill (policy analysis, U. of London) grapples with issues arising from the fact that farmers in Europe are on the whole not a low-income or poor sector of society, so that much of the present income support from the Common Agricultural Policy is going to people who are relatively well off. He looks at the scarce data on the income of farmers and the difficulties in gathering and analyzing it, examines the agricultural policies of Britain and the European Union, explores conceptual issues such as consumption and living standards, and reviews indicators of income from agricultural production. The third edition (first in 1989) is updated from the second in 1994 to incorporate new data and policies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR