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Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth
V. Eldon Ball and George W. Norton
Edited by V. Eldon Ball and George W. Norton
Kluwer Academic Publishers
2002
Hardbound 344pp ISBN 9780792376224
£73.00
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Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth addresses measurement
issues and techniques in agricultural productivity analysis, applying those techniques to recently
published data sets for American agriculture. The data sets are used to estimate and explain
state level productivity and efficiency differences, and to test different approaches to
productivity measurement. The rise in agricultural productivity is the single most important
source of economic growth in the U.S. farm sector, and the rate of productivity growth is
estimated to be higher in agriculture than in the non-farm sector. It is important to
understand productivity sources and to measure its growth properly, including the effects of
environmental externalities.
Both the methods and the data can be accessed by economists at the state level to
conduct analyses for their own states. In a sense, although not explicitly, the book provides
a guide to using the productivity data available on the website of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture/Economic Research Service. It should be of interest to a broad spectrum of
professionals in academia, the government, and the private sector.
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