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Assessing Structural Change in the Demand for Food Commodities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Richard C. Haidacher*
Affiliation:
Food Economics Branch, National Economics Division, Economic Research Service of the USDA

Extract

Perhaps out of a concern for efficiency, or for other reasons, we develop or adopt rules—the simpler are called “rules of thumb”—to direct and govern much of our behavior. The bases for these rules are many and varied, assumption, conventional wisdom, experience, theory, to mention a few.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1983

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