The U. S. Corn Farmers' Genetically Modified Technology Adoption with Neighborhood Effects [PDF]
Genetically Modified, Neighborhood Effects, Consumer/Household Economics, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
Yoo, Do-il
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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
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Is Effective Altruism Effective?
АнтиномииIn the early 21st century, effective altruism (EA), a philosophical and social movement developing ideas of classical utilitarianism, started to gain popularity in the USA and European countries.
Dmitry V. Balashov
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CRED: A New Model of Climate and Development [PDF]
This paper describes a new model, Climate and Regional Economics of Development (CRED), which is designed to analyze the economics of climate and development choices.
Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth A. Stanton, Ramón Bueno
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper employs the data envelope analysis (DEA) to assess technological progress and its impact on agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) across 18 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1973 to 2015.
Yu Sheng
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Developing Countries in the Turbulence of the World Economy
Czech Journal of International Relations, 2008 The essay deals with the development of theory in development economics as a subdiscipline of international economics, within the context of general economic theory.
Jaroslav Foltýn, Jiří Fárek
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Economic development: past and present, par RICHARD-T. GILL. Un vol., 6 po. x 9, broché, 120 pages. Dans la collection FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN ECONOMICS, dirigée par OTTO ECKSTEIN. — Prentice Hall, 1963 [PDF]
, 1963 François-Albert Angers
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Towards an observational economics of business behaviour: the horizontal supply curve, 'fuzzy' demand and other anomalies for conventional theory [PDF]
This paper proposes the development of an 'observational economics' whose domain would be restricted to what is observable in the real world. Observational economics should be regarded as a separate but complementary undertaking to mainstream economics ...
Ross, Bruce W.
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Transnational education: global location, local innovation: a report produced for UUKi [PDF]
, 2018 Transnational education (TNE) is the delivery of an educational award in a country other than that in which the awarding body is based. It can include, but is not limited to, branch campuses, distance learning, joint and dual degree programmes, fly-in ...
Hill, C +3 more
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Quantifying the land‐use change due to soybean‐based biodiesel in the United States
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract We quantify the impact of soybean oil‐based biodiesel production on US cropland, using a method that accounts for the intermediate effect of soybean crushing facilities. Based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data for biodiesel production and proprietary data for soybean crushing facilities over 2011–2020, we find that the elasticities ...
Ruiqing Miao +5 more
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