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Is it possible to avoid “the agrarian myth” while recognizing the genuine value—which is not necessarily the economic or monetary value—of agrarian pursuits? My answer is that such a recognition of genuine agrarian values is possible, but only if we recapture a lost sense of the value of productive activities generally.An impediment to this recognition, I maintain, is modern economics—both socialist and free market; one important means to it, the natural law philosophy of the eighteenth century French Physiocrats.
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James Montmarquet is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tennessee State University in Nashville. His research interests include epistemology and the philosophy of mind, as well as matters concerned with agriculture and agrarianism. His book, TOWARDS THE DESERTED VILLAGE:Agriculture and Agrarianism in Western Thought, is to be published by Idaho University Press in 1989.
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Montmarquet, J.A. Agrarianism, wealth, and economics. Agric Hum Values 4, 47–52 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530641
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