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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
wiley   +1 more source

Estimation of Import Demand Functions of Two Key Food and Feed Commodities (Corn and Soybean) for India

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The derived demand for the increased demand for meat and dairy products is clearly observed in the fast‐paced growth of the Indian feed industry and its increased demand for agricultural commodities (e.g., corn, soybean, rice, wheat, broken rice, millet, etc.) as feed ingredients.
Dwiti Baruah Thapa   +2 more
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Theoretical aspects of economic power

open access: yesМеждународный журнал экспериментального образования, 2014
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A game theoretic model of economic crises [PDF]

open access: possibleApplied Mathematics and Computation, 2015
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Jonathan W. Welburn, Kjell Hausken
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Economics of the firm and economic growth: a hybrid theoretical framework of analysis [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, 2005
AbstractThe main goal of this study is to achieve a critical discussion around the conceptualization of the firm and its role in the dynamic process of economic growth. By reviewing the theoretical matrix of the economics of the firm we go beyond the mainstream economics of the firm proposing a hybrid approach combining evolutionary and population ...
Sandra Tavares Silva   +2 more
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Some Theoretical Results on the Economics of Forestry

The Review of Economic Studies, 1985
The general question of forest management can be stated as follows. Suppose the planner of a piece of forest land obtains utility in any time period from the timber content of trees harvested in that period. If the planner wishes to maximize the discounted sum of such utilities starting from any initial forest, what pattern of planting and harvesting ...
Mitra, Tapan, Wan, Henry Y. jun.
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Theoretical economics of Richard Cantillon

Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2023
In his “History of economic analysis” Joseph A. Schumpeter emphasized the role of the sequence “Petty—Cantillon—Quesnay”. Recent research has showed that it was Cantillon, whose contribution within this sequence was crucial. The article is devoted to the scientific legacy of the author of the “Essay on the nature of trade in general” — the first ...
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Economic Geography: A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature [PDF]

open access: possible, 2013
The uneven distribution of economic activity across space is one of the most striking features of economic life. Perhaps the clearest visual manifestation of this is the emergence and growth of cities. The share of the world’s population living in cities grew from less than one tenth in 1300, to around one sixth in 1900, and to around one half today ...
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Economics and Theoretical Physics [PDF]

open access: possible, 2011
The recent earthquake in Japan and its impact on the Fukushima nuclear power plant is a tragic reminder of humanity’s ever growing dependence on energy for its socioeconomic development. Energy plays a central role in determining the effectiveness of economics.
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