The Foundations of Agricultural Economics together with An Economic History of British Agriculture during and after the Great War

Abstract

AN old French proverb asserts that there are three ways in which a gentleman may lose his money without dishonour: on wine, on horses and on agriculture. The British farmer, whether gently born or not, has had much experience of the last of these methods, but he is perhaps inadequately consoled by the reflection that he has not lost honour. For some five or six years now, large classes of farmers have either failed to make a profit or else have actually lost money, and there are great sections of the country where fanners are heavily in debt to the banks or the merchants, and will have some difficulty in getting out. Happily the Government is fully alive to the situation, and the strenuous advocacy of the Minister of Agriculture has enabled schemes for the improvement of agriculture to be developed and pressed forward which ten years ago would have seemed quite impossible.

The Foundations of Agricultural Economics together with An Economic History of British Agriculture during and after the Great War.

By Dr. J. A. Venn. Second edition. Pp. xx + 600 + 20 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1933.) 25s. net.