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Earl O. Heady, Joseph Ackerman, Howard G. Diesslin, Harald R. Jensen, Glenn L. Johnson, Lynn S. Robertson, Sherman E. Johnson, Glen T. Barton, Norman R. Collins, George L. Mehren, Willard W. Cochrane, James T. Bonnen, William A. Cromarty, Cecil B. Haver, D. Gale Johnson, C. E. Bishop, Vernon W. Ruttan, Ernest J. Nesius, G. E. Brandow, C. B. Baker, W. Robert Parks, Kenneth H. Parsons & Harold G. Halcrow

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Agriculture, Life Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine
Description
This book includes the papers presented at a conference on"Adjusting Commercial Agriculture to Economic Growth," sponsored by the North Central Farm Management Research Committee in cooperation with the Farm Foundation. This conference, held March 18-19, 1957, was designed to cover the major aspects of the current farm problem, and to bring together outstanding agricultural economists in the various fields discussed.

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  Published	Published By	Pages	DOI	Chapters
  Jan. 1, 1958	The Iowa State College Press	327	10.31274/isudp.1958.32	21
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  Earl O. Heady et al. 1958. Agricultural Adjustment Problems in a Growing Economy

• Chapters

  Agricultural Adjustment Problems in a Growing Economy has the following chapters:

  • Introduction
  • 1 The Income and Resource Problem
  • 2 The Agricultural Production Plant
  • 3 Effects of Technological Research and Education
  • 4 Demand Functions and Prospects
  • 5 Supply Function-Some Facts and Notions
  • 6 Some Additional Views on Demand and Supply
  • 7 The Structure of Agriculture
  • 8 Institutional Rigidities and Other Imperfections in the Factor Markets
  • 9 Adjusting the Labor Force of Agriculture
  • 10 Labor Mobility and Agricultural Adjustment
  • 11 The Labor Market and the Employment Service
  • 12 The Potential in Rural Industrialization and local Economic Development
  • 13 Technological Research in Relation to Adjustments
  • 14 Extension Education for Guiding Adjustments
  • 15 Current Programs in Relation to Needed Adjustments
  • 16 Instrumental Goals and Economic Growth
  • 17 Historical Goals and Political Behavior in Agriculture
  • 18 The Value Problem in Agricultural Policy
  • 19 Summary-Prospects and Proposals for Adjustments in Agriculture
  • Index

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