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Extracting Valuable Data from Classroom Trading Pits [PDF]

open access: yes
Edward Chamberlin, who initiated classroom market experiments, used the results of these experiments to argue that competitive equilibrium performs poorly in explaining the outcomes of real markets.
Ted Bergstrom
core  

King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

open access: yesApplied 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
wiley   +1 more source

Pastoral Farmer Goals and Intensification Strategies [PDF]

open access: yes
Focus groups were held with four pastoral sectors (sheep, dairy, deer, and beef) to investigate intensification strategies available to each sector. Focus groups first identified drivers of intensification in their sector, then identified the strategies ...
Botha, Neels   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Technological change, capital deepening, and agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth: Cross‐country comparison of 18 OECD countries

open access: yesApplied 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
wiley   +1 more source

Pedagogical conditions for the effectiveness of practical training of students in tourism and hospitality industry

open access: yesRussian Journal of Education and Psychology
Background. The priority of practical training in the higher education system is determined by the need of the tourism and hospitality industry for qualified personnel who are able to keep up with the times and work in modern conditions.
Evgeniya G. Radygina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Profits and Principles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Keywords: profit; business ethics; business responsibility; D45; D59; D63; L21; M14; Z13;
openaire   +2 more sources

Quantifying the land‐use change due to soybean‐based biodiesel in the United States

open access: yesApplied 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
wiley   +1 more source

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