The trouble with you economists! Part 2
Channel: International Rice Research Institute
Date: 08/01/2010

Read "Trouble with you economists" in Rice Today: http://fr.scribd.com/doc/94511216/RT-Vol-9-No-1-Pioneer-interviews

Retired economists Randy Barker and Robert Herdt reminisce about their days at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org) and reflect on the evolution of research in the social sciences at the Institute.

Dr. Barker was an IRRI agricultural economist and head, Economics Department, 1966-78; acting head, IRRI Social Sciences Division, 2007-08, and Dr. Herdt was IRRI economist, 1973-83, head of Economics Department, 1978-83; later director, agricultural sciences, and vice president, The Rockefeller Foundation.

In this clip, they discuss trying to convince IRRI's first director general, Robert Chandler, that economists should have some research plots to run experiments too, especially zero-input ones.