Economics as applied social science: to inquire, to teach, and to serve.

摘要

As with most of the people who have been so honored by the Southern Agricultural Economics Association, I read several years' worth of papers presented by previous lifetime achievement award recipients. The papers fall into three general categories. First, there are those that examine the specific field that the honoree has worked in, from transportation to marketing to fisheries to macroeconomics and policy. These papers are interesting because they help to define not only the career of the presenter but also the leading path of the research in the profession.