The American Farm Economic Association as Viewed by a Sample of Its Members

Rossmiller, George E.

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“…The less enlightened users, however-and there have been many-refer quite erroneously to «parity of income," the concept to which "cost of production" was originally opposedI The prime example of this latter type of confusion appears in "Income Parity Standards for Agriculture" by the late Robert H. Masucci [2]. The more enlightened users of this notion refer to "comparability of returns," although they might just as well have used the original "cost-of-production" terminology.…”

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Widening Horizons for Agricultural Economics

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Journal of Farm Economics

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“…Rossmiller's research [2] on the wishes of Journal readers indicated that 70 percent want more articles "which discuss issues and proposals for action." I should like, therefore, to make some tentative proposals for action:…”

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Widening Horizons for Agricultural Economics

Milk¹

1966

Journal of Farm Economics

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Truly Handmaidens to Policy? Evaluating Agricultural Economists’ Claim to a Distinct Tradition of Applied Economics

Franklin¹

2014

History of Political Economy

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By no means exclusive, the tendency of agricultural economists to emphasize the field’s historic commitment to applied economics is nonetheless intriguing and worthy of further exploration. If agricultural economists have demonstrated the ability to translate “practical” research into policy, then it should be evidenced in policy histories that can then serve as a model for influencing reform. The agricultural crisis that followed the First World War serves as an excellent case study through which I explore the role of agricultural economists in the policymaking process. Rather than demonstrating a penchant for applying research, I conclude that agricultural economists were frustrated by the same forces that have limited the influence of economists in general. More specifically, the field’s passive approach to reform and the tendency of interest groups to accept advice on a piecemeal basis minimized agricultural economists’ influence. Agricultural economists’ role in shaping interwar farm policy was deceptively small, the implications of which should merit a reconsideration of the field’s claims of enhanced utility, as well as the connection between agricultural economists and federal farm policy in the early twentieth century.

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The American Farm Economic Association as Viewed by a Sample of Its Members

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Widening Horizons for Agricultural Economics

Widening Horizons for Agricultural Economics

Truly Handmaidens to Policy? Evaluating Agricultural Economists’ Claim to a Distinct Tradition of Applied Economics

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