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The Asset Devaluation Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Harold F. Breimyer
Harold F. Breimyer*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Virtually every economic situation in agriculture has an unmatched pair of implications that may be called the proximate and the ultimate. Devaluation of the fixed assets of agriculture has a meaning of enormous significance in the here-and-now — the proximate. It bears not so much on impersonal gross measures of productivity and output but on the human element. Loss of farm asset values is a major blow to the hopes and aspirations of hundreds of thousands of farmers, bringing intense emotional distress and even suicides.

Type
Invited Papers and Discussions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , July 1986 , pp. 79 - 82
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1986

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