PRINCIPLES OF RURAL 

 ECONOMICS 



By THOMAS NIXON CARVER 

 David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy in Harvard University 



8vo, cloth, 386 pages, $1.30 



RJRAL ECONOMICS is a new book on a phase of agri- 

 culture which has as yet been little exploited in textbook 

 literature. It differs from other books on agriculture mainly in 

 its discussion of every problem from the standpoint of national 

 economy rather than from the standpoint of the individual 

 farmer. Instead of explaining to the latter how to grow crops 

 and make his farm pay, the author takes up such questions as 

 the place of agriculture in national prosperity ; the characteris- 

 tics of rural life ; the significance of rural as distinguished from 

 urban civilization. 



What is good agriculture in its national significance ; why 

 rural migrations are from densely to sparsely populated areas, 

 while urban migrations are in the opposite direction ; why agri- 

 culture is necessarily an industry of small units ; why rural people 

 are more generally self-employed than urban people ; why they 

 are harder to organize and upon what principles rural organiza- 

 tion can succeed ; why, and under what conditions, agricultural 

 cooperation is desirable and possible, these and a number of 

 other questions of tremendous practical importance in rural life 

 are carefully worked out in the text, the emphasis being always 

 upon the social rather than upon the business phase. 



It is the purpose of the book to give to the rapidly increasing 

 number of agricultural students a more definite idea of their 

 place in the economy of modern civilization, and to others a 

 knowledge of the dignity and honor of the most ancient and 

 honorable of all occupations, that of the farmer. 



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