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Changes in United States agriculture during the past quarter of a century have been so thoroughly documented that at first glance it seems difficult to illuminate them further. However, I believe I have found a new way of looking at these changes which has far-reaching implications.
What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experi-ence has taught him to see.—Thomas S. Kuhn 1
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Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press, Chicago), 1962, p. 112.
Brian J. L. Berry, H. Gardiner Barnum, and Robert J. Tennant, ‘Retail Location and Consumer Behavior’, Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association, 9, 1962, pp. 65–106.
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Fox, K.A. (1969). The New Synthesis of Rural and Urban Society in the United States. In: Papi, U., Nunn, C. (eds) Economic Problems of Agriculture in Industrial Societies. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08476-0_28
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