商品簡介
Specialists in economics and agriculture explain how recent theories and methods are being and can be used to measure agricultural productivity in the US, and describe and utilize new data sets recently made available at the Economic Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture. They look at multi-lateral comparisons of total factor productivity, applying parametric and non-parametric methods; use Service data to estimate differences in economic efficiency by state and the sources of agricultural productivity differences, especially the effects of infrastructure and research and extension; and explore the linkage between productivity growth and the environment, both in terms of the impact of the growth on environmental health, and the impact of environmental regulation on the growth. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
