I am snowed under with work, so I will let my end of this thread drop.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 02:29:07PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >Most countries
> >do not have the land base to allow them to produce the way the US does.
> >Resource endowments are important.
>
> So you're arguing in favor of trade based on comparative advantage?
> Or should regions with the advantage choose to forego it out of
> solidarity with the less endowed?
>
> >Small island countries, Hong Kong and Singapore, can prosper with
> >virtually no ag., but the LDCs as a whole cannot.
> >
> >Also, when you talk about industrialized ag. you have to include the labor
> >involved in producing the inputs.
>
> All right. Combining the categories agricultural chemicals,
> agricultural services, farm machinery and equipment, farm
> products-raw materials, and farm supplies, you get 0.8% of total
> employment in the U.S. Add that to some 2% for farm employment, and
> you're around 3%. That's a long way from 40%. What else should be
> included?
>
> Doug
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