Reflexions sur l'evolution de la pensee economique agricole en Italie

Italian agricultural economists (EAI) have utilized both the mainstream economic and structuralist methods. This apart from the single ideological or personal positions. This comes from the historical tradition and the methodological coexistence which separates the contents from the methods of the analyses. The EAI appear higly individualists, with little inclination to group research. Some limits can derive from a minor attention to the problems of economic methods in the empirical analyses, both for the structuralist and the orthodoxe and quantitative researches.