Persistence Pays U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Benefits from Public R&D Spending /
This book documents the evolving path of U.S. agriculture in the 20th Century and the role of public R&D in that evolution. The work begins with a detailed quantitative assessment of the shifting patterns of production among the states and over time and of the public institutions and investments...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
2010.
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| Series: | Natural Resource Management and Policy ;
34 |
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0658-8 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture
- Agricultural Inputs
- Agriculture Outputs
- Agricultural Productivity Patterns
- Agricultural R&D
- Agricultural R&D and Technology Spillovers
- Models of Research and Productivity
- Econometric Estimation and Results
- Past and Prospective Productivity Patterns and Research Benefits
- Interpretation and Assessment of Benefit-Cost Findings
- Synthesis.