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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Production Accounts and Productivity of U.S. Agriculture
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Front Matter
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Productivity, Efficiency, and the Role of R&D and Infrastructure
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Productivity Growth and the Environment
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 and efficiency differences, and to test different approaches to productivity measurement. The rise in agricultural productivity is the single most important source of economic growth in the U.S. farm sector, and the rate of productivity growth is estimated to be higher in agriculture than in the non-farm sector. It is important to understand productivity sources and to measure its growth properly, including the effects of environmental externalities.
Both the methods and the data can be accessed by economists at the state level to conduct analyses for their own states. In a sense, although not explicitly, the book provides a guide to using the productivity data available on the website of the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Economic Research Service. It should be of interest to a broad spectrum of professionals in academia, the government, and the private sector.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agricultural Productivity
Book Subtitle: Measurement and Sources of Growth
Editors: V. Elton Ball, George W. Norton
Series Title: Studies in Productivity and Efficiency
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0851-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7622-4Published: 30 April 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5270-9Published: 28 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0851-9Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 324
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Operations Management, Environmental Economics, Economics, general, Environment, general