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Author:   Virgil Ball ,  George W. Norton ,  Dale W. Jorgenson
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2002 ed.
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.450kg
ISBN:  

9780792376224

ISBN 10:   0792376226
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   30 April 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Overview.- I. Production Accounts and Productivity of U.S. Agriculture.- 2. United States Agriculture, 1960-96: A Multilateral Comparison of Total Factor Productivity.- 3. A Disaggregated Perspective on Post-War Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture: Isn’t that Spatial?.- 4. Transitive Multilateral Comparisons of Agricultural Output, Input, and Productivity: A Nonparametric Approach.- 5. Productivity Versus Urban Sprawl: Spatial Variations in Land Values.- II. Productivity, Efficiency, and the Role of R&D and Infrastructure.- 6. Parametric Estimation of Technical and Allocative Efficiency in U.S. Agriculture.- 7. Public R&D and Infrastructure Policies: Effects on Cost of Midwestern Agriculture.- 8. Sources of Agricultural Productivity Growth at the State Level, 1960-1993.- III. Productivity Growth and the Environment.- 9. Environmental Indicators of Pesticide Leaching and Runoff from Farm Fields.- 10. The Environmental Performance of the U.S. Agricultural Sector.- 11. The Effect of Ground Water Regulation on Productivity Growth in the Farm Sector.- 12. Costs of Production and Environmental Risk: Resource-Factor Substitution in U.S. Agriculture.- Discussion.- 13. The Usefulness of Productivity Measurement.

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