The Mirage Of Plenty: Facts But Fiction In Nigeria Agroeconomy And Smallholder Systems:- Professor Raphael Ndubuisi E
ABSTRACT
Like every other field of
science, economics as a social science, be it in the microeconomic and
macroeconomic sphere has developed two time-tested approaches to its
investigation namely; (i) deductive method and (ii) inductive method. These two
methods are applied broadly to studies in agricultural economics and adopt the
style of logical reasoning and logical proof (Eboh, 2009). Logic is that
reasoning style that allows an investigator or researcher to find the truth
through a series of steps that are devoid of emotional and hopeful thinking.
According to Singleton, Straits, Straits and McAllister (1988): When a person
uses deductive reasoning he or she is claiming that the conclusion absolutely
must be true if all the premises are true. When a person argues inductively, he
or she is claiming that the conclusion is probably true but not necessarily
true if all the premises are true. The deductive method of research in
economics was propagated by economists belonging to the classical school led by
John Stuart Mills (Okoye, Egwu and Agu, 2021). The method is interchangeably
referred to as analytical, or abstract, or a priori method
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