Agricultural Productivity

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1. Introduction and Overview; Part 1: Background; 2. An Introduction to Recent Developments in Production Theory and Productivity Measurement 3. A Review of the Evidence on Agricultural Productivity and Aggregate Technology 4. The Statistical Base for Agricultural Productivity Research: A Review and Critique; Part 2: Measuring Agricultural Productivity and Technical Change; 5. A Comparison of Econometric Models of U.S. Agricultural Productivity and Aggregate Technology 6. Productivity Measurement and the Distribution of the Fruits of Technological Progress: A Market Equilibrium Approach 7. Intertemporal and Interspacial Estimates of Agricultural Productivity 8. An Econometric Methodology for Multiple-Output Agricultural Technology: An Application of Endogenous Switching Models; Part 3: Toward Explaining Agricultural Productivity; 9. Induced Technical Change in Agriculture 10. Research, Extension, and U.S. Agricultural Productivity: A Statistical Decomposition 11. Endogenous Technology and the Measurement of Productivity 12. Dynamics, Causality, and Agricultural Productivity 13. Incorporating Externalities into Agricultural Productivity Analysis; Index