The slides that follow provide an introduction to rural economic development and public policy. I have scanned the original slides and inserted them into modern PDF and PowerPoint presentations. Some of the hand-made charts have older data, but could be easily updated. These color slides were...

This paper outlines a program for the development of a computerized information network at the University of Kentucky. The Agricultural Network System for Education and Research is an information system to be used both for the delivery of computerized decision aids and for data retrieval systems.

Remarks dealing with the role of information in dealing with risk and uncertainty in agricultur

The effective delivery of computerized decision aids for policymakers who must deal with problems of economic development has been of increasing interest to both extension and research workers in rural development. This paper describes efforts recently completed at the University of Kentucky...

In this article we illustrate the application of a new method, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), to a problem in farmer decision making. Unlike traditional decision tools, AHP is based on the principle that decision maker knowledge and experience are as valuable to the decision making...

The incidence of diseases and accidents that lead to death is not uniform throughout the U.S. but rather varies widely among different regions. This study uses county-level data on numbers and causes of death for the entire U.S. in an effort to link these causes of death to various county-level...

This study examines the impacts of socioeconomic characteristics of a region on the availability of resources for public elementary and secondary education. A public school administrator is assumed to be confronted with a problem analogous to that confronted by any other firm manager. An...

In this paper, we define social capital from different perspectives and show how it is linked to the concept of a community. Based on these definitions, a conceptual framework for analyzing and measuring social capital and its indicators is developed. A typology for analyzing social capital is...