"...a fine and provocative study. We can only hope that this book will generate many other works that also seek to challenge prevailing simplistic explanations of change and that build on Clarke's elegant assessment of the emerging issues." Technology and Culture

• Part I. Regulation and Productivity: 1. Introduction; 2. Agriculture and the organization of knowledge in the early twentieth century; 3. Accounting for the slow rate of productivity growth; Part II. 'Power Farming' in the Corn Belt, 1920–40: 4. The tractor factor; 5. Depressed markets and market regulation; 6. 'If you'll need a tractor in 1936 you ought to order it now'; Part III. A Legacy for New Deal Regulation: 7. Regulation, competition, and the revolution in farm productivity; 8. Conclusion; Epilogue: The credit crisis of the 1980s; Appendix A. The tractor's threshold, 1929; Appendix B. The tractor's threshold, 1939; Appendix C. Sources of preharvest and harvest labor productivity, 1929–39.

"...a fine and provocative study. We can only hope that this book will generate many other works that also seek to challenge prevailing simplistic explanations of change and that build on Clarke's elegant assessment of the emerging issues." Technology and Culture

• Part I. Regulation and Productivity: 1. Introduction; 2. Agriculture and the organization of knowledge in the early twentieth century; 3. Accounting for the slow rate of productivity growth; Part II. 'Power Farming' in the Corn Belt, 1920–40: 4. The tractor factor; 5. Depressed markets and market regulation; 6. 'If you'll need a tractor in 1936 you ought to order it now'; Part III. A Legacy for New Deal Regulation: 7. Regulation, competition, and the revolution in farm productivity; 8. Conclusion; Epilogue: The credit crisis of the 1980s; Appendix A. The tractor's threshold, 1929; Appendix B. The tractor's threshold, 1939; Appendix C. Sources of preharvest and harvest labor productivity, 1929–39.

"...a fine and provocative study. We can only hope that this book will generate many other works that also seek to challenge prevailing simplistic explanations of change and that build on Clarke's elegant assessment of the emerging issues." Technology and Culture

• Part I. Regulation and Productivity: 1. Introduction; 2. Agriculture and the organization of knowledge in the early twentieth century; 3. Accounting for the slow rate of productivity growth; Part II. 'Power Farming' in the Corn Belt, 1920–40: 4. The tractor factor; 5. Depressed markets and market regulation; 6. 'If you'll need a tractor in 1936 you ought to order it now'; Part III. A Legacy for New Deal Regulation: 7. Regulation, competition, and the revolution in farm productivity; 8. Conclusion; Epilogue: The credit crisis of the 1980s; Appendix A. The tractor's threshold, 1929; Appendix B. The tractor's threshold, 1939; Appendix C. Sources of preharvest and harvest labor productivity, 1929–39.