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Current and Developing Issues in Interregional Competition and Agricultural Transportation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Marc A. Johnson
Marc A. Johnson*
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North Carolina State University
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This paper identifies current and developing issues in interregional competition and agricultural transportation. These topics are related to the extent that the cost and quality of transportation services is one major determinant of the economic distance between regions.

Interregional competition analysis was introduced to agricultural economics in the late 1930s, with the stimulus of agricultural research funds authorized by the Bankhead-Jones Act of 1935, under the leadership of Sherman E. Johnson and John D. Black. Interregional competition developed as a synonym for regional comparative advantage. Interregional competition analysis is a general set of tools designed to measure regional comparative advantage.

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Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , July 1981 , pp. 59 - 68
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1981

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