@article{Myers:123710,
      recid = {123710},
      author = {Myers, Laurel},
      title = {THE ROLE OF ECONOMISTS IN FORMULATING AUSTRALIAN  AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN THE 1950s},
      address = {2000-01},
      number = {411-2016-25708},
      pages = {21},
      year = {2000},
      abstract = {The paper forms part of a larger study into the  development of agricultural economics in Australia and the  influence of economists in agricultural policy formulation.  This particular paper focuses on the 1950s and 1960s, a  period of rapid growth in Australian agricultural  economics. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics was  building up an excellent reputation as an independent  research agency within government and, together with other  agricultural economic research organisations, significant  research projects were undertaken. The profession further  gained stature at this time, when it became  institutionalised within the universities, when the  professional society was formed and the first issue of the  Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics was  published.

Particular economists who were involved in the  formulation of Australian agricultural policy at this time,  are identified in this paper and their influence on policy  formulation assessed. Australian agricultural policy is put  into world context with some consideration being given to  agricultural policy in the United Kingdom and the United  States in the 1950s and 1960s.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/123710},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.123710},
}