Like regional science, agricultural economics is a hybrid field of scholarship- not so much a discipline as a multidisciplinary subject matter area. Like regional science, agricultural economics borrows heavily from economics and is always in danger of being pulled into the disciplinary orbit of...

The Commission on Rural America, established by President Bush, is charged with recommending a new rural development policy. In assessing the problems and needs of rural America, the Commission has talked with many people across the country including professionals working for local and state...

That asset specificity and asset fixity are impediments to economic adjustment is well understood in the literatures of industrial organization and agricultural economics. In this paper, we show that spatial factors can plausible be expected to be arguments in functions that define asset fixity...