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Relevancy of the Social Sciences in the Policy Arena: Implications for Agricultural Economics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

James T. Bonnen
James T. Bonnen*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
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For decades this society has underinvested in the social sciences relative to the biological and physical sciences. In partial consequence, today the changing agenda of problems of the society falls increasingly into the domain of the social sciences. Ironically the cumulative effect of this underinvestment is now creating a unique window of opportunity for the social sciences.

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Invited Papers and Discussions
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , July 1989 , pp. 41 - 50
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1989

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