Agricultural economics in Europe: A thriving science for a shrinking sector?
探讨欧洲农业部门萎缩与农业研究能力增长之间的矛盾，质疑维持农业经济学研究是否合理，并指出该领域需要更多创造性和开放性以重获领先地位。
Europe's agricultural sector is shrinking and will continue to shrink, whereas agricultural research capacities have increased in most European countries. This dichotomy begs the question of whether there is any justification for upholding agricultural economics research capacity. It is argued that the research domain has been considerably enlarged beyond traditional borders and that a strong public demand for research exists. The actual performance of European agricultural research, however, calls this justification into question. More creativity, originality and openness to new developments in general economic theory are urgently needed to regain a leading position in applied economics. Copyright 1997 by Oxford University Press.