---
entity_slug: agricultural_specialization
evaluator: null
evaluated_at: '2026-02-23T00:31:30.139088'
overall_score: 4.4
scores:
- name: definition_precision
  value: 4.0
  max_value: 5.0
  rationale: The definition clearly distinguishes agricultural specialization from
    general specialization by focusing on crop/livestock concentration based on local
    conditions and market integration. It avoids circularity and identifies specific
    enabling factors (market integration, transportation) and outcomes (productivity,
    efficiency).
- name: source_grounding
  value: 5.0
  max_value: 5.0
  rationale: This concept is well-grounded in Book I, Chapter 11, where Smith extensively
    discusses how improved transportation and market expansion enable agricultural
    regions to specialize in their most advantageous productions. Smith specifically
    analyzes how market integration transforms agricultural production patterns.
- name: domain_placement
  value: 5.0
  max_value: 5.0
  rationale: '"Production" is the correct domain placement as agricultural specialization
    fundamentally concerns how goods are produced and organized within the economic
    system. This is clearly a production-side phenomenon rather than exchange, distribution,
    or consumption.'
- name: vsm_relevance
  value: 4.0
  max_value: 5.0
  rationale: This entity maps well to S1 (primary operations) as it describes how
    basic productive activities are organized and specialized, and to S4 (intelligence/adaptation)
    as it involves responding to environmental conditions and market opportunities.
    The specialization process represents both operational execution and environmental
    adaptation.
- name: explanatory_value
  value: 4.0
  max_value: 5.0
  rationale: The entity illuminates an important mechanism by which division of labor
    operates in agriculture specifically, showing how market forces and transportation
    infrastructure enable productivity gains through geographic specialization. It
    explains a concrete process rather than merely labeling a phenomenon.
---

# Evaluation: Agricultural Specialization

## definition_precision — 4.0 / 5.0

The definition clearly distinguishes agricultural specialization from general specialization by focusing on crop/livestock concentration based on local conditions and market integration. It avoids circularity and identifies specific enabling factors (market integration, transportation) and outcomes (productivity, efficiency).

## source_grounding — 5.0 / 5.0

This concept is well-grounded in Book I, Chapter 11, where Smith extensively discusses how improved transportation and market expansion enable agricultural regions to specialize in their most advantageous productions. Smith specifically analyzes how market integration transforms agricultural production patterns.

## domain_placement — 5.0 / 5.0

"Production" is the correct domain placement as agricultural specialization fundamentally concerns how goods are produced and organized within the economic system. This is clearly a production-side phenomenon rather than exchange, distribution, or consumption.

## vsm_relevance — 4.0 / 5.0

This entity maps well to S1 (primary operations) as it describes how basic productive activities are organized and specialized, and to S4 (intelligence/adaptation) as it involves responding to environmental conditions and market opportunities. The specialization process represents both operational execution and environmental adaptation.

## explanatory_value — 4.0 / 5.0

The entity illuminates an important mechanism by which division of labor operates in agriculture specifically, showing how market forces and transportation infrastructure enable productivity gains through geographic specialization. It explains a concrete process rather than merely labeling a phenomenon.
