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On Policy and Plans for Rural Economic Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Ernest J. Nesius*
Affiliation:
Division of Resource Management, West Virginia University
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“As a rule, people feel acute concern about the future, beyond the horizon of the present, only when times are out of joint and when the prospect looks menacing. In o our generation we are living in one of these times of unusually intense stress and anxiety” Arthur J. Toynbee, Change and Habit. Oxford University Press, 1966.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Ernest J. Nesius, Claude Worthington Benedum Professor of Agricultural Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506. Comments from my colleagues Dale K. Colyer, Anthony Ferrise, John P. Kuehn and Kenneth D. McIntosh helped to clarify various points and were appreciated. Approved by the Director of the West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station as Scientific Paper 1287.

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