Robin Neill said:  
>Polly has drawn some very important, and generally not   
>cited passages from the WEALTH OF NATIONS.  The efficiency of   
>adapting organization to going technical capability is at the heart of   
>the institutionalist's proposition.  
  
  
I am sure Polly has, but let me observe that these "advances" in ag tech  
include many destructive, petroleum-intensive, toxic, air-polluting,  
soil-wasting techniques.  
  
Mason Gaffney