Changing roles of agricultural economics

Not many years ago universities around the world were generally the most pampered institutions on earth. Governments showered them with money. They were seen by right wing governments as engines of economic growth, by left wing governments as engine of social equality, and by citizens in general as...

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Main Author: Hussein, Mohd. Ariff
Format: Inaugural Lecture
Language:English
Published: Universiti Pertanian Malaysia 1994
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1082/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1082/1/LG396P4S981_no_._5.pdf
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description Not many years ago universities around the world were generally the most pampered institutions on earth. Governments showered them with money. They were seen by right wing governments as engines of economic growth, by left wing governments as engine of social equality, and by citizens in general as avenues of social mobility. Economists such as Lionel Robbins had argued that universities have discovered the secret of growth; the more a society invested in higher education, the faster the economy grew, the faster its economy grew, the more it could invest in higher education.
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spelling upm-10822016-01-24T12:32:30Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1082/ Changing roles of agricultural economics Hussein, Mohd. Ariff Not many years ago universities around the world were generally the most pampered institutions on earth. Governments showered them with money. They were seen by right wing governments as engines of economic growth, by left wing governments as engine of social equality, and by citizens in general as avenues of social mobility. Economists such as Lionel Robbins had argued that universities have discovered the secret of growth; the more a society invested in higher education, the faster the economy grew, the faster its economy grew, the more it could invest in higher education. Universiti Pertanian Malaysia 1994-03-05 Inaugural Lecture NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1082/1/LG396P4S981_no_._5.pdf Hussein, Mohd. Ariff (1994) Changing roles of agricultural economics. [Inaugural Lecture]
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url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1082/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1082/1/LG396P4S981_no_._5.pdf