Agricultural Productivity Measurement and Sources of Growth

Agricultural Productivity Measurement and Sources of Growth / edited by Virgil Ball.

Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth addresses measurement issues and techniques in agricultural productivity analysis, applying those techniques to recently published data sets for American agriculture. The data sets are used to estimate and explain state level productivity...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ball, Virgil (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
Edition:1st ed. 2002.
Series:Studies in Productivity and Efficiency ; 2
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Agricultural economics.
Production management.
Environmental economics.
Economics.
Management science.
Environment.
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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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