Abstract
The recent publication of a «Handbook of Agricultural Economies» is a good new for the agricultural economic profession. It stands as both a useful tool and a token of recognition for the contribution to knowledge. Yet, as a general picture of our colleagues' activities, it raises the question of the permanent validity of the forty-year- old Leontief s flattering appraisal regarding agricultural economics : did they not give allegiance to general economists to the point of taking back all their worse habits, while leaving out their own field, and forgetting the true specificity of agriculture, as well as the very nature of economic phenomenon present in this field ?
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