@article{King:279015,
      recid = {279015},
      author = {King, Gordon A.},
      title = {Analytical Tools and the Development of Quantitative  Methods (1920-1984)},
      address = {1984-08},
      number = {2140-2018-7008},
      pages = {12},
      year = {1984},
      abstract = {This paper can only sketch some of the important research  challenges in Agricultural Economics and the development of  analytical approaches to the solution of these problems.  The four volume Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature  covers in detail the period from 1940 to 1980. The approach  here is to distill from the Journal some of the major  problems facing agriculture and rural America, and to  present illustrations of the research response that led to  the development of our present analytical and quantitative  methods. Historically, agricultural economists have been  problem—oriented. Contributions to theory and quantitative  methods have come through attempts to get analytical or  quantitative answers to important problems facing the  economy. I trust this emphasis will continue, although one  can sense the growing use of complicated theoretical  constructs that cannot as yet be quantified. One can see  the attraction of such efforts when faced with the grim  realities of modeling with poor data sets!},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/279015},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.279015},
}