Agriculture, Life Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine
Agricultural Adjustment Problems in a Growing Economy
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.
Publication Details
Published: January 1, 1958
Publisher: The Iowa State College Press
Location: Ames, IA
DOI: 10.31274/isudp.1958.32
Chapters
- None. 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
- None. Index
Citation
Earl O. Heady et al. 1958. Agricultural Adjustment Problems in a Growing Economy