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Production Economics, Farm Management, and Extension
Author(s) -
Williams Donald B.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1238306
Subject(s) - extension (predicate logic) , scope (computer science) , perspective (graphical) , production (economics) , economics , agricultural extension , agricultural productivity , orthodoxy , work (physics) , agriculture , managerial economics , agricultural economics , applied economics , public economics , positive economics , microeconomics , computer science , engineering , geography , mechanical engineering , archaeology , artificial intelligence , programming language
Perusal of the literature of agricultural economics and some exposure to the work of personnel engaged in agricultural extension suggest the need to review relationships between the disciplines of production economics, farm management, and extension. This need arises because each of the disciplines might be expected to have significant effects on the scope, methodology, and usefulness of the others. My purpose is to try to set in perspective some of the differences in viewpoint that have emerged between different participants in agricultural economics and agricultural extension. This perspective may help to point the way to release from some aspects of the new orthodoxy within agricultural economics, whic is discussed in the paper.