1 Goals and Plans in Farmers ’ Crop - Growing Decision Making A paper in honor

نویسندگان

  • Gavin Wright
  • Howard Kunreuther
چکیده

My initial contact with Gavin Wright came when I arrived at Yale University from Pakistan in the early summer of 1971 due to the war between Pakistan and India. At the time, I had been a research fellow at the Institute for Development Economics in Karachi as part of a Yale-Ford Foundation project. Ford made a “safety-first” decision to have all Americans return to their country. Gavin was then an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Yale.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008