IS THERE A FRENCH SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS?
探讨法国农业经济学的独特发展路径，分析其从‘乡村主义’到‘生产主义’的意识形态转变，以及马克思主义对主流范式的挑战，呼吁重新审视被忽视的理论假设。
The particular history of French agriculture and the general intellectual environment in France have given the agricultural economics profession in that country a specific character which, in spite of many internal controversies, is illustrated by common beliefs about agriculture and common attitudes regarding research approaches contrasting with that of the profession in many other countries, including Britain. After the second world war, the development of agricultural economics was marked by the demise of ‘ruralism’, an ideology of agrarian fundamentalism, and its replacement by ‘productivism’, an ideology emphasizing economic growth and based on a simplified neo‐classical paradigm. The surge of Marxism and dissatisfaction with the results of the policies advocated by the productivists led to a questioning of that paradigm. As a result, major hypotheses, theoretical issues, and concepts too often taken for granted in France and elsewhere should be re‐examined.