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Moral Responsibility in Agricultural Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Vernon W. Ruttan
Vernon W. Ruttan*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
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The productivity of modern agriculture is the result of a remarkable fusion of technology and science. In the West this fusion was built on ideological foundations that, from the early Middle Ages, have valued both the improvement of material well-being and the advancement of knowledge.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , July 1983 , pp. 73 - 80
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1983

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