Archive Report
Archive Report
Intangibles and Economics
Like a two-man team in a tug of war with nature, the farmer and his friend strained at ropes knotted around the hooves of a calf reluctant to enter the world. The world into which it was being dragged from its mother's womb was not the same as the world in which farmers since the beginning of farming have been midwives to domestic animals. The dairy cattle in Sven age Nielsen's barn could not eat the green grass growing outdoors because an accident at a nuclear reactor 1,000 miles away had sprayed into the atmosphere radioactive particles that had come to earth in Denmark's fields.1
Thus modern technology in a distant superpower shaped the daily life of a family farmer in a small ...