A World Without Agriculture: The Structural Transformation in Historical Perspective

by C. Peter Timmer and Peter C. Timmer

The steadily diminishing role of agriculture in the world economy--a largely unperceived, poorly understood, but profound change--is as transformational for developmental economic thought as gravity has been for physics. C. Peter Timmer argues that policymakers who ignore this fundamental shift risk mismanaging their economic development policies, with severe consequences. The "structural transformation" of developing economies has four main features:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844742791
• ISBN13: 9780844742793
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 83 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"