A Different Path for Rural America

Bibliographic Data

ID2820271
AuthorsJohn Crabtree (0009-0002-4105-8674, For farmers (United Kingdom), corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume75
Issue3
Pages605-622
Publication date2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ajes.12150
OpenAlexW2376742744
LanguageEN
Citations received7

A dominant narrative in the United States posits that rural out-migration and social decline of rural areas and small towns is inevitable. Although there is evidence of that view, there are also positive signs that point to the vitality of rural America. Although rural areas are losing population, that is partly a statistical artifact, since any rural area that succeeds in growing may be reclassified as an urban area, thus incorrectly seeming to indicate rural decline. This article explores three policy changes that could help to restore the vibrancy of rural and small-town America: increased support for programs targeted toward rural economic development, setting limits on the ability of large farms to accrue a large share of the insurance subsidies available to farmers, and limiting the ability of vertically integrated hog farms to dissuade new farmers from investing in this traditional method of becoming a farmer

Agriculture · Business · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Limiting · Market economy · Point (geometry) · Political science · Population · Rural area · Rural development · Rural settlement · Rural sociology · Sociology · Subsidy · Vitality · Agricultural Economics and Policy · Rural development and sustainability

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