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Some Thoughts on Climate Change as an Agricultural EconomicIssue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Bruce A. McCarl
Bruce A. McCarl*
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Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , August 2012 , pp. 299 - 305
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2012

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