TY - CPAPER AB - In these notes, I first discuss some recent perspectives on the relationship between technical change and economies of scale. I then discuss the issues of scale economies from the perspective of the Hayami-Ruttan work on induced innovation. In the third section, I raise the question of why farms are so small. I then tum to the issue of potential technological constraints on labor and land productivity. In a final section, I raise several questions about research on farm structure. AU - Ruttan, Vernon W. DA - 1988-12-01 DA - 1988 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.260097 DO - doi ID - 260097 KW - Farm Management KW - Industrial Organization KW - Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/260097/files/Article03.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/260097/files/Article03.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/260097/files/Article03.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/260097/files/Article03.pdf N2 - In these notes, I first discuss some recent perspectives on the relationship between technical change and economies of scale. I then discuss the issues of scale economies from the perspective of the Hayami-Ruttan work on induced innovation. In the third section, I raise the question of why farms are so small. I then tum to the issue of potential technological constraints on labor and land productivity. In a final section, I raise several questions about research on farm structure. PY - 1988-12-01 PY - 1988 T1 - SCALE, SIZE, TECHNOLOGY AND STRUCTURE: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE TI - SCALE, SIZE, TECHNOLOGY AND STRUCTURE: A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/260097/files/Article03.pdf Y1 - 1988-12-01 ER -