The current problems of rural people and communities expose the weakness of the social sciences in agriculture, both as to epistemological limitations and as to the environment in which they operate. That weakness involves not ony an inability to make reasonably accurate predictions, but also to...

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...