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| Title: | Agricultural Economics: A Brief Intellectual History |
| Authors: | Runge, C. Ford |
| Authors (Email): | Runge, C. Ford (frunge@umn.edu) |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | Working Paper WP06-1 |
| Abstract: | Agricultural economics arose in the late 19th century, combined the theory of the firm with marketing and organization theory, and developed throughout the 20th century largely as an empirical branch of general economics. The discipline was closely linked to empirical applications of mathematical statistics and made early and significant contributions to econometric methods. In the 1960s and afterward, as agricultural sectors in the OECD countries contracted, agricultural economists were drawn to the development problems of poor countries, to the trade and macroeconomic policy implications of agriculture in richer countries, and to a variety of issues in production, consumption, environmental and resource economics. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/13649 |
| Institution/Association: | University of Minnesota>Department of Applied Economics>Staff Papers |
| Total Pages: | 36 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | Staff Papers
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