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COMPARATIVE INVESTMENT BEHAVIOR OF UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN FARMERS
Author(s) -
MUMEY G. A.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
canadian journal of agricultural economics/revue canadienne d'agroeconomie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1744-7976
pISSN - 0008-3976
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7976.1967.tb02391.x
Subject(s) - conformity , investment (military) , business , agricultural economics , norm (philosophy) , demographic economics , economics , political science , law , politics
This study deals with investment decisions of representative Canadian and United States wheat farmers. The results suggest wide variation among farmers in investment behavior but generally larger farmers in both samples and particularly those in the United States, show n close conformity to a wealth maxizing norm.