Beyond the Black Box: Towards a Systems Theory of Farming Family and Family Farm

IF 0.9 Q4 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY
M. Pietrzak, W. Ziętara
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Abstract The aim of this article is to present the need for a view of a family farm that is complementary to neoclassical economics and outline the framework concepts on which the future systems theory of family farms could be based. The article is a conceptual overview. The paper presents the development of economics and organization of farms. It was emphasized that in addition to the analytical approach, which today fits into the neoclassical mainstream of economic thought, the organic approach, which is related to the contemporary systems approach, was also important in the discipline. The authors presented two trends considered to be the foundation of the target theory of family farms: systems thinking and new institutional economics. An outline of the concept of a new approach to family farms is presented as a systemic whole connecting the family and its household involved in agricultural production, with the possibility of reducing internal transaction costs (agency costs) being an important attribute of this whole. Family farms still remain the predominant form of agricultural activity in Poland, Europe, and other continents. The family nature of the entities creates their specificity both in terms of goals and behaviors, which is difficult to reduce to the neoclassical model of firm, which seeks to maximize profits. What is needed is a holistic, systems approach complementary to the predominant neoclassical approach, considering close relations between the family and the agricultural production unit.
黑箱之外:迈向农业家庭与家庭农场的系统理论
摘要本文的目的是提出一种补充新古典经济学的家庭农场观点的必要性,并概述了未来家庭农场系统理论可能基于的框架概念。这篇文章是一个概念性的概述。本文介绍了经济的发展和农场的组织。有人强调,除了今天符合新古典主义主流经济思想的分析方法之外,与当代系统方法相关的有机方法在该学科中也很重要。作者提出了两种被认为是家庭农场目标理论基础的思潮:系统思维和新制度经济学。将家庭农场的新方法概念概述为一个系统整体,将参与农业生产的家庭及其家庭联系起来,降低内部交易成本(代理成本)的可能性是这个整体的一个重要属性。家庭农场仍然是波兰、欧洲和其他大陆农业活动的主要形式。这些实体的家族性质决定了它们在目标和行为方面的特殊性,这很难简化为追求利润最大化的新古典企业模型。我们需要的是一种整体的、系统的方法,以补充占主导地位的新古典主义方法,考虑到家庭与农业生产单位之间的密切关系。
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