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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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TENSIONS BETWEEN THEORY AND HISTORY IN VON MISES’S CRITIQUE OF SOCIALISM
Revista de Economia Contemporânea, 2018 The article investigates the relation between praxeology and history in the critique Mises directs at the possibility of the long-term existence of a socialist commonwealth. We argue that Mises makes no clear distinction between the praxeological concept
Emmanoel Boff
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Normative foundations of scarcity [PDF]
The elevation of scarcity to the fundamental economic problem rests on some unstated normative assumptions. These include a political commitment to private property, a methodological commitment to not inquire about taste formation, and the idea that ...
Zaman, Asad
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen +2 more
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Tax liability of corporate managers for Fraudulent Phoenix activity (Comparative Studying the Australian & Iranian Law) [PDF]
پژوهش های حقوق تطبیقیFraudulent phoenix occurs when the managers of a company, with the aim of avoiding some or all of its legal obligations, declare the company bankrupt and continue their business by creating a new company.
Mahsa Ghareh khani +2 more
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Collective private ownership of American housing:a social revolution in local governance. [PDF]
In 1970 only one percent of American housing units were located in a homeowner association, condominium or cooperative - the three main instruments of collective private ownership of housing. By 1998, this figure had risen to 15 percent.
Robert H. Nelson
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 had profound consequences for the global economy. As both countries are major commodity exporters, the food value chain was also affected. This study investigates the impact of the invasion on stock prices, profitability and sentiments of agribusinesses along the food supply chain by using an ...
Julia Höhler +2 more
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Property as a category of economic comparativistic
Вестник Российского экономического университета имени Г. В. Плеханова, 2019 The idea of the category ‘property’ is diverse and it is studied by economists, philosophers, lawyers, politologists and other experts. It is one of the basic categories in researching economic systems, especially economies being transformed as well as ...
M. I. Skripnikova +2 more
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Everyone Hates Privatization, but Why? Survey Evidence from 28 Post-Communist Countries [PDF]
A 2006 survey of 28,000 individuals in 28 post-communist countries reveals overwhelming support for revising privatization, but also that most respondents prefer to leave firms in private hands.
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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