>In response to your sheesh, Brad. You are correct that the US would be
>expected to have low yield, high output per labor conditions. The not
>particularly productive would imply several aspects; You could just as
>easily say that traditional Asian -- high yield, low output per hour is
>productive. In addition, the externalities from US ag are horrendous. I
>wrote a book about this in 1977 and it pretty much holds true today.
I really don't get this. Why is a society where, say, half the labor force is directly engage in agriculture more productive than one where something like 1% of the labor force is? This doesn't comport with any definition of productivity I'm familiar with.
Doug