Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2015
Adjustments in the distribution system, as rapidly and as consistently as they occur, seldom fail to elicit substantial emotional reaction. Linking the production system with the consumption system, the distribution system is extremely pervasive. Small changes have widespread effects. Thorough, objective analysis of these changes is difficult and vulnerable, especially when public hearing procedures provide little time for intensive study.
Paper presented at annual meeting of the Southern Agricultural Economics Association, Mobile, Alabama, February 2, 1976. Paper No. J-3123 of the Journal Series of the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station, Stillwater. The author acknowledges helpful suggestions of Professor Dean F. Schreiner, Professor Paul D. Hummer and three reviewers.