Rural communities within the European Community (EC) will be dramatically affected by the removal of most of the remaining economic barriers at the end of 1992. Of critical importance in understanding the nature and consequences of these changes is the identification of the ways in which local farmers' productive decisions are affected by different kinds of capital input. This work examines the changes in production strategy in an Irish farming community both before and after EC membership, and shows that the differences are attributable to different forms of capital input within the farming sector of that community.
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