Pardey, Philip; Chan-Kang, Connie; Beddow, Jason M.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
Domestically funded (and performed) research and development (R&D) has historically been a major source of productivity gains in U.S. agriculture, and a principal source of R&D spillovers to the rest of the world. In the waning decades of the 20th century, U.S. policymakers opted to ratchet down...