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John Lossing Buck (27 November 1890 – 27 September 1975, adopted the Chinese name 卜凱) was an American agricultural economist specializing in the rural economy of China. He first went to China in 1915 as an agricultural missionary for the American Presbyterian Mission and was based in China until 1944.
22 de may. de 2019 · The chapters in this book are based on John Lossing Buck’s household data, as reported in Land Utilization in China (1937), and the rediscovered household spreadsheet data that has now been digitized.
29 de sept. de 1975 · Dr. John Lossing Buck, an agricultural economist and authority on fanning in China, where he lived for 29 years, died Saturday night at the Eden Park Nursing Home in Poughkeepsie. N.Y. He was...
contained in Professor Buck's monumental work, the following critique is offered of 1 John Lossing Buck, Land Utilization in China: Vol. I. General Interpretation; Vol. II. Atlas; Vol. III. Statistics (Nanking: University of Nanking, I937). (University of Chicago Press, U. S. Agent.) methods of approach in land economics in
Presents the first modern analysis of John Lossing Buck’s original and newly digitzed farm survey data from the Republic of China, 1929-1933; Builds upon John Lossing Buck’s seminal work in Land Utilization in China; Reexamines key features of China’s agricultural economy in the Republican Era
John Lossing Buck was born on November 27, 1890, and grew up on a farm on Freedom Plains Road, outside of Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County, New York. His grandfather and namesake, John Lossing Buck, was one of the first settlers in the town of LaGrange, where he farmed until his death on January 2, 1918.
Land Utilization in China: A Study of 16,786 Farms in 168 Localities, and 38,256 Farm Families in Twenty-two Provinces in China, 1929-1933. John Lossing Buck. Council on Economic and Cultural...
