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The Ethical Challenges Farming: A Report on Conversations with Missouri Corn and Soybean Producers
(2004-09)
Interviews with Missouri corn and soybean farmers reveal what farmers consider are important ethical challenges in agriculture. In contrast to the literature, which characterizes ethical challenges in term of philosophical debates about soil...
The Ethics of Constrained Choice: How the Industrialization of Agriculture Impacts Farming and Farmer Behavior
(2004-06)
The industrialization of agriculture not only alters the ways in which agricultural production occurs, but also impacts the decisions farmers make in important ways. First, constraints created by the economic environment of farming limit what...
Trust in Scientists and Food Manufacturers, with Implications for the Public Support of Biotechnology
(2005-07)
The purpose of this paper is to determine what factor affect trust in scientists and food manufacturers, and to examine how trust in these institutions affects public support for biotechnology. Data from the U.S. Biotechnology Study reveal...
Are Happy People Ethical People? Evidence from North America and Europe
(2004-07)
We examine empirically the relationship between happiness and the ethical decisions of individuals. We use data from the 1995-97 wave of the World Values Survey (WVS) to test the hypothesis that the relationship between ...
Asymmetric Information in Cattle Auction: The Problem of Revaccinations
(2004-07)
The paper analyzes the problem of asymmetric information between buyers and sellers in cattle auctions. An illustration is made regarding the vaccinations that the animals receive. Buyers do not know and cannot verify if sellers have vaccinated...
Are Farmers of the Middle Distinctively “Good Stewards?” Evidence from the Missouri Farm Poll, 2006
(2010-11)
This paper considers the question of whether middle-scale farmers, which are defined as producers generating between $100,000 and $250,000 in sales annually, are better agricultural stewards than small and large-scale producers. The study...
Does the World Need U.S. Farmers Even if Americans Don't?
(2006-09)
that American consumers can import their food more cheaply from other countries than it can produce it. We consider the distinction between U.S. farmers and agriculture and the effect of the U.S. food footprint on developing nations to argue there might...
A New Institutional Economics Perspective on the Relationship Among Societal Values, Governance Structure and Access to Rural Health Care Services
(2007-08)
According to New Institutional Economics, transactional activities, governance structures, institutions and beliefs and values are related hierarchically. Williamson (2000) formalizes this framework to show that each governing level must be aligned...
Perceived Economic Pressures and Farmer Ethics
(2008)
not experiencing economic pressures. To test this hypothesis, we use data from a survey of 3,000 Missouri farmers with farm sales in excess of $10,000 in 2005 in which farmers were asked how acceptable they considered various unethical or questionable farming...
Is the Just Man a Happy Man? An Empirical Study of the Relationship Between Ethics and Subjective Well-being
(2010-11)
This paper considers the question of whether ethical decision-making affects a person's happiness. Using cross-country data from the World Values Survey, it is discovered that people who agree that it is never justifiable to engage in ethically...
Migration to rural communities in the Midwest : economic wellbeing and women at the household level
(Cambio Center, 2007)
adults working in the households and with limited English proficiency. This is consistent with the life stories of women in a small town near a meat processing plant in Missouri....
Lessons from Community Entrepreneurship: The Concept of Spawning
(2010-10)
Capital-constrained cooperatives are being challenged by producer-members to provide vertical integration opportunities. We find evidence producer groups are utilizing an investment strategy described as spawning. ...
Markets, Contracts, or Integration? The Adoption, Diffusion, and Evolution of Organizational Form
(2007-04)
forms. This paper lays out a more dynamic framework for understanding the evolution of organizational practices in U.S. agriculture, drawing on theories of the diffusion of technology and organizational complementarities. Using recent trends as stylized...
A Primer on Collective Entrepreneurship: A Preliminary Taxonomy
(2010-10)
entrepreneurship and the variety of entrepreneurial endeavors described as collective entrepreneurship. We identify five primary motivations for research: advancement of theory, intra-organizational efficiency, inter-organizational gains, economic growth...