Agricultural prices by Henry A. Wallace

"Agricultural Prices" by Henry A. Wallace is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The book focuses on the economic factors affecting the prices of agricultural products, targeting farmers, students, agricultural agents, and leaders of farm organizations. Its central topic is an exploration of the forces that determine farm prices—primarily cost of production, supply and demand, and strategic market considerations—with an aim to foster a better, more mathematically informed understanding of price trends and how to interpret or influence them. The opening of "Agricultural Prices" introduces Wallace’s purpose: to bridge the gap between theoretical economics and practical farm management regarding agricultural pricing. Wallace begins with a preface that lays out the book’s audience and intent, emphasizing the need for farmers and farm leaders to understand pricing mechanisms and statistical economics. He explains the intricacies of how prices are registered, particularly through the futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade, outlining both the perceived gambling nature of speculation and its actual role as risk insurance. The early chapters detail the interplay of cost of production, supply and demand, and strategy in agricultural price formation, and they introduce the "ratio method" as a way to determine fair prices for products like hogs based on historical data. This analytical approach, combined with historical examples, sets the stage for a detailed, mathematical study of agricultural price trends throughout the rest of the book. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965
LoC No. 20006762
Title Agricultural prices
Original Publication Des Moines, Ia.: Wallace Publishing Company, 1920.
Note Reading ease score: 78.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Credits Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language English
LoC Class HB: Social sciences: Economic theory, Demography
Subject Prices
Subject Farm produce
Subject Agriculture -- Statistics
Category Text
EBook-No. 76047
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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