Agricultural Productivity
Subtitle: Measurement and Sources of Growth (Studies in Productivity and Efficiency)
Contributors: V. Eldon Ball (Editor); George W. Norton (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780792376224
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Agriculture & related industries; Economics; Statistics; Economic aspects; United States; Agricultural Economics; Technology; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Economics - General; Agriculture - General; General; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Agricultural prices; Agricultural productivity; Agriculture
First sentence: The rise in agricultural productivity has long been chronicled as the single most important source of economic growth in the U.S. farm sector (Kendrick and Grossman, 1980; Ball, 1985; Jorgenson, Gollop, and Fraumeni, 1987; Ball et al., 1997).