This symposium has touched on rural capital in all its varieties and on the usefulness of understanding land allocation. Castle and Oakerson pointed out that rural capital has "important time and space specificities," i.e., it varies widely. A point made by Jim Hite is that Von Thunen's nineteenth century model...
This paper is a follow-up to one published in a recent issue of the Review of Agricultural Economics [Hite, 1997] in which the Thunen model is suggested as a basic conceptual paradigm for rural development analysis. It is assumed that readers of this paper have either read the earlier one...
The papers in this collection grew out of an organized symposium at the 1998 meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association: "Conceptual Foundations of Economic Research in Rural Studies." The symposium was organized to provide a forum for discussion of the new frameworks of rural capital and economic geography, to...
The papers in this collection grew out of an organized symposium at the 1998 meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association: "Conceptual Foundations of Economic Research in Rural Studies." The symposium was organized to provide a forum for discussion of the new frameworks of rural capital and economic geography, to...