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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*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

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Lifetime Achievement Awards
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2012

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