Thesis ID: CBB001561186

The Visible Land: Agricultural Economics, US Export Agriculture, and International Development, 1918--1965 (2008)

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Burnett, Paul (Author)


University of Pennsylvania
Lindee, M. Susan


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Advisor: Lindee, M. Susan
Physical Details: 282 pp.
Language: English

This dissertation is a study of agricultural economics from its inauguration as a discipline in the United States after World War I until the mid-1960s. Its central focus is the career of an influential agricultural economist from the University of Chicago, Theodore W. Schultz, and the migration of New Deal economists from advisory positions with the US government to international agencies, private foundations and associations after World War II. Their science was mired in political tensions between economic classes, cultures, and sections of the United States. Although most hoped to achieve intellectual freedom in order to perform their work, others recognized that their work was political by definition. What began as agricultural economists' efforts to bring American farm production into line with consumption evolved into the thorny management of international development efforts in the 1950s and 1960s. Their success in these endeavors primarily depended on the harmony of their advice as economists with the interests of powerful actors in organized agriculture, agribusiness, and Congress. Their resistance and accommodation to this role raise interesting questions for domestic farm policy, international development policy, and the politics of expert knowledge.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 70/02 (2009). Pub. no. AAT 3345912.


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Ann Folino White
Franco Sotte
Christensen, Johanna
Beilin, Ruth
Andrés, Benny J.
Gunn, Geoffrey C.
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Economics
Agriculture
Agricultural economics
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Labor and laborers
Food and foods
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20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
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Germany
Western states (U.S.)
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