V dannoy monografii, rassmotreny osnovnye funktsii gosudarstvennogo regulirovaniya sel'skogo khozyaystva v rossiyskikh usloviyakh. Privedeny rezul'taty issledovaniya sistemy raspredeleniya subsidiy mezhdu sel'skokhozyaystvennymi organizatsiyami. Provoditsya analiz stepeni vliyaniya razmerov pryamoy gosudarstvennoy podderzhki na dinamiku finansovogo sostoyaniya poluchateley sredstv v Rossii i na stoimost' zemel'nykh ugodiy v SShA. S pozitsii teorii stimulov issleduetsya gipoteza o tom, chto v rossiyskikh usloviyakh mekhanizm raspredeleniya subsidiy obuslovlen ne ekonomicheskoy tselesoobraznost'yu, a vliyaniem politicheskogo urovnya prinyatiya gosudarstvennykh resheniy. Provoditsya analiz nablyudaemykh problem v agrarnom sektore Rossii cherez prizmu slozhivshikhsya otnosheniy mezhdu uchastnikami mekhanizma raspredeleniya, apriori isklyuchayushchikh vozmozhnost' ratsional'nogo raspredeleniya resursov.