Harvard Business School

So to say which publications were the most critical to the concept of agribusiness, the agribusiness coordination study, I would say my work with John Dunlop on the lessons of wage and price controls—to show how the food system, and wage and price controls fitted with the rest of the economy—was quite critical.

It was important to show how it applied in the developing world, as well. So if you look at some of the publications, like The Southeast Asian Corn System, I worked with mostly developing countries, as well as developed countries. And if you look at The Fruits and Vegetable Commodity System of Latin America, again I worked with developing countries, and not just developed countries.

And people like the World Bank began to realize that if they were really going to reach the subsistence farmer, and provide an economic ladder, they had to have a ladder that reached the whole food system, on a global basis. And I think I've worked with every Secretary of Agriculture from Ezra Taft Benson to the current one.