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A More Objective Procedure for Determining Economic Subregions: Cluster Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

P. Thomas Cox ,
Bernard Siskin  and
Allan Miller
P. Thomas Cox
Affiliation:
Northeastern Resource Group, Natural Resource Economics Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
Bernard Siskin
Affiliation:
Statistics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Allan Miller
Affiliation:
Milprint, Incorporated, San Francisco, California
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In his 1967 presidential address to the AAEA, Charles E. Bishop raises the question: “Why have agricultural economists not devoted more resources to the study of structural changes in rural communities and to public policies relating to the location of economic activity and of population?”. Later in the address, he partially provides the answer through the comment that “We must reorient our thinking in terms of location and scale of organizations and interrelations among firms and among communities … it will be necessary for us to make basic changes in our philosophical approaches to problems, our analytical tools,…”.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , December 1969 , pp. 37 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1969

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