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Has the Time Come to Practice What We Teach?-The Teaching-Research Trade-Off-

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Daymon W. Thatch
Daymon W. Thatch*
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Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Abstract

University teaching at an undergraduate level has always involved opportunity costs, especially in the trade-off of the individual's time between teaching and research. However, recent external forces, as we move into the ‘80's could very well force major changes in the Agricultural Economic's teaching profession. This paper examines the conventional wisdom that teaching and research are mutually reinforcing. It further examines conflict of goals and several of the economic principles that we teach but seem to ignore in addressing our personal trade-off between teaching and research. A framework is presented for resolving this conflict.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , April 1981 , pp. 49 - 55
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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