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Environmental Hazards of Farming: Thinking About the Management Challenge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Leonard A. Shabman
Leonard A. Shabman*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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Abstract

What an economist argues about managing the hazards of new production technologies depends on that individual's beliefs about the scientific credibility of assessed risk of new technologies, about the meaning of voluntary risk and compensations, and about the meaning of “progress” and “nature.” None of these beliefs is derived from the core of the economics discipline. Indeed, the economist's arguments often rest not on economic considerations, but on these matters of belief that are established outside the discipline.

Keywords

agricultural productionenvironmentrisktechnological change
Type
Invited Papers and Discussions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , July 1990 , pp. 11 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1990

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