ABSTRACT
This book, first published in 1988, provides a comprehensive, integrated body of knowledge concerning agricultural productivity research, highlighting both its strengths and limitations. This book will be of value to scholars and research leaders for the knowledge it conveys of future productivity research, and will also be of interest to students of environmental studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|142 pages
Background
chapter 4|19 pages
The Statistical Base for Agricultural Productivity Research
A Review and Critique
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part II|88 pages
Measuring Agricultural Productivity and Technical Change
chapter 6|19 pages
Productivity Measurement and the Distribution of the Fruits of Technological Progress
A Market Equilibrium Approach
chapter 8|16 pages
An Econometric Methodology for Multiple-Output Agricultural Technology
An Application of Endogenous Switching Models
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part III|150 pages
Toward Explaining Agricultural Productivity
chapter 10|27 pages
Research, Extension, and U.S. Agricultural Productivity
A Statistical Decomposition Analysis
