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Volume 76, issue 5, 1994

Conflict on the Commons: Natural Resource Entitlements, the Public Interest, and Agricultural Economics pp. 997-1009

Lawrence W. Libby

Transparency, Empowerment, and the Public Interest: A View on the Role of Publicly-Employed Agricultural Economists pp. 1010-1021

John E. Lee

Equity Considerations in Economic and Policy Analysis pp. 1022-1033

Jean-Paul Chavas

Economic Adjustments and Changes in Financial Viability of the Farming Sector: The New Zealand Experience pp. 1034-1040

Warren E. Johnston and Gerald A.G. Frengley

Changing International Competitiveness and Trade: Recent Experience in New Zealand Agriculture pp. 1041-1046

Ron A. Sandrey and Grant Scobie

Structural Adjustment and Learning to Live Without Subsidies in OECD Countries pp. 1047-1052

David Blandford and Joe Dewbre

Liberalization in New Zealand Agriculture: Discussion pp. 1053-1054

Bruce Gardner

What Do We Know About Groundwater Values? Preliminary Implications from a Meta Analysis of Contingent-Valuation Studies pp. 1055-1061

Kevin Boyle, Gregory Poe and John Bergstrom

Groundwater Values from Avoidance Cost Studies: Implications for Policy and Future Research pp. 1062-1067

Charles W. Abdalla

Groundwater Protection Benefits and Local Community Planning: Impact of Contingent Valuation Information pp. 1068-1075

John R. Powell, David J. Allee and Charles McClintock

The Benefits of Groundwater Protection: Discussion pp. 1076-1078

Kathleen Segerson

Individual Behavior and Market Performance pp. 1079-1083

David Grether

Statistical Bias Functions and Informative Hypothetical Surveys pp. 1084-1088

McKinley Blackburn, Glenn Harrison and E. Elisabet Rutström

Bid Sensitivity and the Structure of the Vickrey Auction pp. 1089-1095

Jason Shogren, Dermot Hayes, James B. Kliebenstein and John Fox

Value Elicitation in Laboratory Markets: Discussion and Applicability to Contingent Valuation pp. 1096-1100

Stephen Swallow

Economic Growth and the Changing Structure of Trade and Production in the Pacific Rim pp. 1101-1110

Mark J. Gehlhar, Thomas Hertel and Will Martin

Asian Expansion and Labor-Saving Technical Change: Factor Market Effects and Policy Reactions pp. 1111-1118

Robert McDougall and Rodney Tyers

Trade Patterns in the Pacific Rim: Outlook for the Next Decade: Discussion pp. 1119-1120

Bill Coyle

Trade Patterns in the Pacific Rim: Outlook for the Next Decade: Discussion pp. 1121-1122

Stephen Parker

Redefining Agriculture in Interindustry Analysis pp. 1123-1129

Julie Leones, Gerald Schluter and George Goldman

A General Equilibrium Perspective on Structural Change in the Rural Economy pp. 1130-1137

Maureen Kilkenny and Daniel Otto

Agriculture and Economic Interdependence: Discussion pp. 1138-1139

Stanley R. Johnson

Sectoral Interdependence: Current Measures and New Approaches: Discussion pp. 1140-1142

Glenn L. Nelson

Assessing the Importance of Oligopsony Power in Agricultural Markets pp. 1143-1150

Richard T. Rogers and Richard J. Sexton

Can Monopsony Power be Estimated? pp. 1151-1155

Charles E. Hyde and Jeffrey Perloff

Nonparametric Tests for Monopsonistic Market Power Exertion pp. 1156-1162

H. Love and C. Shumway

Oligopsony Power: A Forgotten Dimension of Food Marketing? Discussion pp. 1163-1165

Barry Goodwin

Promoting Intersectoral Growth Linkages in Rural Africa Through Agricultural Technology and Policy Reform pp. 1166-1171

Christopher Delgado, Peter Hazell, Jane Hopkins and Valerie Kelly

Links Between Nonfarm Income and Farm Investment in African Households: Adding the Capital Market Perspective pp. 1172-1176

Thomas Reardon, Eric Crawford and Valerie Kelly

Small Enterprise Employment Growth in Rural Africa pp. 1177-1182

Carl Liedholm, Michael McPherson and Enyinna Chuta

Farm-Nonfarm Synergies in Africa: Discussion pp. 1183-1185

Alain de Janvry

Developing Undergraduate Small Business Programs in Agricultural Economics Departments: Lessons from the Northeast Region pp. 1186-1192

Linda K. Lee

Positioning Agricultural Economics Departments to Serve Agribusiness Graduate and Professional Education Markets pp. 1193-1198

Jay Akridge, William D. Dobson and Marilyn Holschuh

Agribusiness Programs in Non-Land-Grant Schools of Agriculture: Requirements for Success pp. 1199-1204

Henry N. Wallace, David K. Smith and John W. Hagen

Agribusiness Management Education: Opportunities for the Future pp. 1205-1207

Peter K. Thor

Strengthening Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy Through Intrahousehold Analysis: An Introduction pp. 1208-1212

Harold Alderman, Lawrence Haddad, Stephen A. Vosti and John Hoddinott

Rural Labor-Intensive Public Works: Impacts of Participation on Preschooler Nutrition: Evidence from Niger pp. 1213-1218

Lynn R. Brown, Yisehac Yohannes and Patrick Webb

Women's Income and Household Expenditure Patterns: Gender or Flow? Evidence from Niger pp. 1219-1225

Jane Hopkins, Carol Levin and Lawrence Haddad

Strengthening Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy through Intrahousehold Analysis: Discussion pp. 1226-1228

Cheryl Doss and Benjamin Senauer

Impact of the U.S. Export Enhancement Program on Exports of Canadian Durum to the U.S pp. 1280-1287

Nathalie Lavoie

Volume 76, issue 4, 1994

Contingent Valuation and Social Choice pp. 689-708

Daniel McFadden

A Critical Assessment of Supply-Demand Models of Agricultural Trade pp. 709-721

Everett Peterson, Thomas Hertel and James V. Stout

Price Protection and Productivity Growth pp. 722-732

Nicholas G. Kalaitzandonakes

The Impact of Food Aid on Food Subsidies in Recipient Countries pp. 733-743

Wendy L. Hoffman, Bruce Gardner, Richard Just and Brent Hueth

Funding, Structure, and Management of Public Agricultural Research in the United States pp. 744-759

Wallace Huffman and Richard Just

Pesticide Residue Risk and Food Safety Valuation: A Random Utility Approach pp. 760-771

Young Sook Eom

Sampling and Aggregation Issues in Random Utility Model Estimation pp. 772-780

Peter M. Feather

Evaluating the Linearized Almost Ideal Demand System pp. 781-793

Adolf Buse

Rural Chinese Food Consumption: The Case of Guangdong pp. 794-799

Catherine Halbrendt, Conrado Gempesaw, Dimphna Dolk-Etz and Francis Tuan

Tests of Weak Separability in Disaggregated Meat Products pp. 800-808

Rodolfo Nayga and Oral Capps

Marketing Quotas and Random Yields: Marginal Effects of Inframarginal Subsidies on Peanut Supply pp. 809-817

Robert B. Borges and Walter Thurman

Selling Import Quota Licenses: The U.S. Cheese Case pp. 818-827

Steve McCorriston and Ian Sheldon

Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multivariate Probit Models: Farm Couples' Labor Participation pp. 828-835

Ayal Kimhi

Adoption of Emerging Technologies Under Output Uncertainty pp. 836-846

Saha Atanu, H. Love and Robert Schwart

Optimal Replacement and Management Policies for Beef Cows pp. 847-858

W. Marshall Frasier and George H. Pfeiffer

Multicrop Production Decisions in Western Irrigated Agriculture: The Role of Water Price pp. 859-874

Michael R. Moore, Noel R. Gollehon and Marc B. Carey

A Private Property Rights Regime for the Commons: The Case for Groundwater pp. 875-888

Bill Provencher and Oscar Burt

Economic and Environmental Impacts of Limiting Nitrogen Use to Protect Water Quality: A Stochastic Regional Analysis pp. 889-903

H.P. Mapp, D.J. Bernardo, G.J. Sabbagh, S. Geleta and K.B. Watkins

Measuring the Difference (X — Y) of Simulated Distributions: A Convolutions Approach pp. 904-915

Gregory Poe, Eric K. Severance-Lossin and Michael P. Welsh

Vessel Entry-Exit Behavior in the Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Fishery pp. 916-923

John M. Ward and Jon G. Sutinen

Intraseason Harvest Regulation for Fish and Wildlife Recreation: An Application to Fishery Policy pp. 924-935

Stephen Swallow

Human Capital, Producer Education Programs, and the Adoption of Forward-Pricing Methods pp. 936-947

Barry Goodwin and Ted Schroeder

An Empirical Analysis of the Demand for Multiple Peril Crop Insurance: Comment pp. 948-951

Barry Barnett and Jerry Skees

Functional Form and the Statistical Properties of Welfare Measures: Comment pp. 954-957

Edward Morey and Donald Waldman

Functional Form and the Statistical Properties of Welfare Measures: Reply pp. 958-959

Wiktor Adamowicz, Jerald J. Fletcher and Theodore Tomasi

Incorporating Risk Aversion into Dynamic Programming Models: Comment pp. 960-964

John Kennedy, J. Brian Hardaker and John Quiggin

Incorporating Risk Aversion into Dynamic Programming Models: Reply pp. 965-967

Jeffrey A. Krautkraemer, Gerrit van Kooten and Douglas L. Young

Welfare Effects of the National Pseudorabies Eradication Program: Comment pp. 968-971

Kenneth W. Forsythe and Barbara Corso

Elasticities in AIDS Models: Comment pp. 972-977

William Hahn

Dasgupta, Partha. An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, 661 pp., price unknown pp. 978-979

David Freshwater

Goodwin, John W. Agricultural Price Analysis and Forecasting. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994, xii + 344 pp., cloth $52.95 pp. 979-981

Cameron S. Thraen

Hallam, Arne, ed. Size, Structure, and the Changing Face of American Agriculture. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1993, xi + 627 pp., paper $65.00 pp. 981-983

David H. Harrington

Marchant, Mary A., and Handy Williamson, Jr., eds. Achieving Diversity: The Status and Progress of Women and African Americans in the Agricultural Economics Profession. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1994, xxiv + 218 pp., cloth $40.00 pp. 983-986

Mary C. Ahearn

Martin, Philip L., and David A. Martin. The Endless Quest: Helping America's Farm Workers. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1994, 258 pp., softcover $45.00 pp. 986-988

Jill L. Findeis

National Research Council, Board on Agriculture, Committee on Long-Range Soil and Water Conservation. Soil and Water Quality: An Agenda for Agriculture. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1993, xx + 516 pp., $54.95 pp. 988-990

Betsey A. Kuhn

Ruttan, Vernon W., ed. Agriculture, Environment & Health: Sustainable Development in the 21st Century. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1994, viii + 401 pp., cloth $4.95; paper $19.95 pp. 990-991

Ian Parry

Seitz, Wesley D., Gerald C. Nelson, and Harold G. Halcrow. Economics of Resources, Agriculture, and Food. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994, xxiv + 477 pp., cloth $34.50, study guide $15.95, software $19.95 pp. 991-994

Judith I. Stallmann

Volume 76, issue 3, 1994

In Search of Rational Government: What Political Preference Function Studies Measure and Assume pp. 347-361

David S. Bullock

Efficiency of Decoupled Farm Programs Under Distortionary Taxation pp. 362-370

GianCarlo Moschini and Paolo Sckokai

Agricultural Insurance and Soil Depletion in a Simple Dynamic Model pp. 371-384

Robert Innes and Sergio Ardila

A Dynamic Model of Acreage Allocation with General and Crop-Specific Soil Capital pp. 385-395

Peter Orazem and John A. Miranowski

Preferences for Pesticide Regulation pp. 396-406

John Horowitz

Simple Econometrics of Pesticide Productivity pp. 407-417

Robert G. Chambers and Erik Lichtenberg

Pesticides, Productivity, and Farmer Health: A Philippine Case Study pp. 418-430

John Antle and Prabhu L. Pingali

Heterogeneous Preferences and Aggregation in Environmental Policy Analysis: A Landfill Siting Case pp. 431-443

Stephen Swallow, Thomas Weaver, James Opaluch and Thomas S. Michelman

Estimating Intertemporal Supply Response in the Fed Beef Market pp. 444-453

John M. Marsh

Asset Pricing Theory and the Predictable Variation in Agricultural Asset Returns pp. 454-464

Bruce Bjornson

Futures Hedging Under Price, Basis, and Production Risk pp. 465-477

Harvey Lapan and GianCarlo Moschini

Imputing Input Characteristic Values from Optimal Commercial Breed or Variety Choice Decisions pp. 478-491

Bryan E. Melton, W. Arden Colette and Richard L. Willham

Retail-Level Hedonics and the Valuation of Milk Components pp. 492-503

John E. Lenz, Ron Mittelhammer and Hongqi Shi

Model Choice in Consumer Analysis: Taiwan, 1970–89 pp. 504-512

Jonq-Ying Lee, Mark G. Brown and James Seale

A Cross-Section Demand Analysis of Spanish Provincial Food Consumption pp. 513-521

Ching-Fan Chung

A Household Model of On-Farm Storage Under Price Risk pp. 522-534

Atanu Saha and Janice Stroud

Land Allocation in HYV Adoption Models: An Investigation of Alternative Explanations pp. 535-546

Melinda Smale, Richard Just and Howard Leathers

Technology Transfer, Licensing Contracts, and Incentives for Further Innovation pp. 547-556

Bruce A. Larson and Margot Anderson

Economic Factors that Influence Educational Performance in Rural Schools pp. 557-567

David E. Broomhall and Thomas G. Johnson

Managerial Inputs and the Growth of Rural Small Firms pp. 568-575

Jayachandran N. Variyam and David S. Kraybill

What Are the AAEA Meetings Worth? pp. 576-586

Josef M. Broder, John Bergstrom and Warren Kriesel

Pesticides and Philippine Rice Farmer Health: A Medical and Economic Analysis pp. 587-592

Prabhu L. Pingali, Cynthia B. Marquez and Florencia G. Palis

Pesticide Use and Farm Worker Health in Ecuadorian Potato Production pp. 593-597

Charles C. Crissman, Donald C. Cole and Fernando Carpio

Pesticides, Productivity, and Farmer Health: Implications for Regulatory Policy and Agricultural Research pp. 598-602

John Antle and Susan M. Capalbo

Economic and Health Consequences of Pesticide Use in Developing Country Agriculture: Discussion pp. 603-604

David Zilberman and Federico Castillo

Economic and Health Consequences of Pesticide Use in Developing Country Agriculture: Discussion pp. 605-607

Maureen Cropper

Farm Productivity in Burkina Faso: Effects of Animal Traction and Nonfarm Income pp. 608-612

Kimseyinga Savadogo, Thomas Reardon and Kyosti Pietola

Determinants of Productivity Change Using a Profit Function: Smallholder Agriculture in Zimbabwe pp. 613-618

Thomas Jayne, Thomas Reardon, Yougesh Khatri and Colin Thirtle

A New View of Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 619-624

Steven Block

Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Discussion pp. 625-626

Jock Anderson

Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Discussion pp. 627-628

Robert E. Evenson

Production Efficiency and Agricultural Reform in Ukraine pp. 629-635

S.R. Johnson, Aziz Bouzaher, Alicia Carriquiry, Helen Jensen and P.G. Lakshminarayan

Economic Reform and Comparative Advantage in Agriculture in the Newly Independent States pp. 636-640

William Liefert

Food Prices and Market Integration in Russia: 1992–93 pp. 641-646

Bruce Gardner and Karen M. Brooks

Comparative Advantage in Agriculture in the Newly Independent States: Discussion pp. 647-649

Rodney Tyers

Production Efficiency and Agricultural Reform in Ukraine: Comment pp. 650-651

Padma Desai

Potential Gains from Efficiency Analysis of Agricultural Banks pp. 652-654

Paul N. Ellinger

Measuring Economies of Scale and Scope in Agricultural Banking pp. 655-661

Allen Featherstone and Charles Moss

Measuring the Efficiency of Agricultural Banks pp. 662-668

David L. Neff, Bruce L. Dixon and Suzhen Zhu

Future Directions for Agricultural Banking Efficiency Research: Discussion pp. 669-671

Robert Collender

Issues in Measuring the Efficiencies of Agricultural Banks: Discussion pp. 672-674

Allen N. Berger

Anderson, Terry L., and Randy T. Simmons, editors. The Political Economy of Customs and Culture: Informal Solutions to the Commons Problem. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1993, viii + 189 pp., $45.00 pp. 675-677

Bonnie Colby

El-Ghonemy, M. Riad. Land, Food and Rural Development in North Africa. Boulder & San Francisco: Westview Press, 1993, xiv & 192 pp., paper $38.50 pp. 677-678

William L. Miller

Geissler, Catherine, and Derek J. Oddy, editors. Food, Diet, and Economic Change Past and Present. London: Leicester University Press (New York: St. Martin's Press), 1993, 225 pp., cloth, $65.00 pp. 678-680

Jean Kinsey

Lockeretz, William, and Molly D. Anderson. Agricultural Research Alternatives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993, x + 239 pp., cloth $30.00 pp. 680-682

Donald C. Taylor

Otto, Daniel M., and Thomas G. Johnson. Microcomputer-Based Input-Output Modeling: Applications to Economic Development. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, x + 228 pp., paper $36.00 pp. 682-683

David Broomhall

Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, editor. The Political Economy of Food and Nutrition Policies. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, xx + 278 pp., $42.50 pp. 683-685

Philip L. Paarlberg

Sharma, Rita, and Thomas T. Poleman. The New Economics of India's Green Revolution. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993, xix + 272 pp., $49.95 pp. 685-686

Maurice Landes and Carol E. Levin

Stevens, Joe B. The Economics of Collective Choice. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, xv + 389 pp., cloth $55, paper $21.95 pp. 686-688

Philip Wandschneider

Volume 76, issue 2, 1994

Joint Estimation of Risk Preference Structure and Technology Using Expo-Power Utility pp. 173-184

Atanu Saha, C. Shumway and Hovav Talpaz

Land Price Volatility in a Geographically Dispersed Market pp. 185-195

Martin Benirschka and James K. Binkley

Cost Functions Under Production Uncertainty pp. 196-204

Rulon D. Pope and Jean-Paul Chavas

Substitution Effects in CVM Values pp. 205-214

Ronald G. Cummings, Philip Ganderton and Thomas McGuckin

Using Shadow Wages to Estimate Labor Supply of Agricultural Households pp. 215-227

Emmanuel Skoufias

Optimal Timing of Farm Transferal From Parent to Child pp. 228-236

Ayal Kimhi

Cow Culling Decisions Adapted for Management with CART pp. 237-249

Russell Tronstad and Russell Gum

Moral Hazard Cycles in Individual-Coverage Crop Insurance pp. 250-261

James Vercammen and Gerrit van Kooten

Cost Pooling in Australian Grain Handling: A Common Property Analysis pp. 262-269

John Quiggin, Brian S. Fisher and Deborah C. Peterson

Acreage Response Under Canada's Western Grains Stabilization Program pp. 270-276

Mario Miranda, Frank Novak and Mel Lerohl

The Lease-Purchase Decision for Agricultural Assets pp. 277-285

Stephen A. Ford and Wesley Musser

Multiperiod Production with Forward and Option Markets pp. 286-295

Sergio Lence, Dermot Hayes and Yong Sakong

Evaluating Generic Milk Promotion Effectiveness with an Imperfect Competition Model pp. 296-302

Nobuhiro Suzuki, Harry Kaiser, John E. Lenz, Olan D. Forker and Kohei Kobayashi

Demand for an Undergraduate Education in the Agricultural Sciences pp. 303-312

Richard P. Thompson, Oral Capps and Joseph G. Massey

A Further Look at Flexibilities and Elasticities pp. 313-317

Kuo Huang

Risk Aversion and Price Risk in Duality Models of Production: Comment pp. 318-319

Paul Driscoll

Risk Aversion and Price Risk in Duality Models of Production: Reply pp. 320-323

Barry T. Coyle

Adams, Dale W. and Delbert A. Fitchett, eds. Informal Finance in Low-Income Countries. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992, xii + 393 pp., cloth $42.50 pp. 324-325

Lindon J. Robinson

Adams, Jonathan S., and Thomas O. McShane. The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion. 1992, xix + 266 pp., $21.95. and Bonner, Raymond. At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife. 1993, 322 pp., $24.00 pp. 325-327

Duane Chapman

Cochrane, Willard W. The Development of American Agriculture: A Historical Analysis, Second Edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993, xiii + 501 pp., paper $19.95 pp. 327-329

Harold F. Breimyer

Hayami, Yujiro, and Keijiro Otsuka. The Economics of Contract Choice: An Agrarian Perspective. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, xi + 209 pp., $45 pp. 329-330

Allan Schmid

Huffman, Wallace and Robert E. Evenson, Science for Agriculture: A Long-Term Perspective, Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993, xv + 268 pp., $44.95 pp. 330-332

Carl E. Pray

Kueh, Y.Y., and Robert F. Ash, editors. Economic Trends in Chinese Agriculture: The Impact of Post-Mao Reforms. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993, xii + 405 pp., $69 pp. 332-334

Peter Calkins

Lesser, W., Marketing Livestock and Meat. Binghamton, NY: Food Products Press, 1993, xxvi + 471 pp., library binding $69.95; paper $55.95 ($29.95 for 5+ copies) pp. 334-335

Lee Meyer

Opie, John. Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1993, 400 pp., $35.00 pp. 335-336

Orlan Buller

van Kooten, G. Cornelis. Land Resource Economics and Sustainable Development: Economic Policies and the Common Good. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 1993, x + 450 pp., cloth $45.95 pp. 337

Fred Hitzhusen

Volume 76, issue 1, 1994

A Positive Theory of Agricultural Protection pp. 1-14

Johan Swinnen

Germany and the CAP: A Bargaining Model of EC Agricultural Policy Formation pp. 15-25

Heather Field and Murray Fulton

A Dual Approach to Evaluating Research Benefits in the Presence of Trade Distortions pp. 26-35

Will Martin and Julian Alston

The Value of Pest Information in a Dynamic Setting: The Case of Weed Control pp. 36-46

Scott Swinton and Robert King

Marketing Orders as Nontariff Trade Barriers pp. 47-54

Robert G. Chambers and Daniel Pick

Pricing to Market with Transactions Denominated in a Common Currency pp. 55-60

Daniel Pick and Colin Carter

Maintaining and Testing Separability in Demand Systems pp. 61-73

GianCarlo Moschini, Daniele Moro and Richard D. Green

Fluid Milk Purchases: A Multivariate Tobit Analysis pp. 74-82

Jorge Cornick, Thomas L. Cox and Brian W. Gould

Finished Product Inventories and Price Expectations in the Softwood Lumber Industry pp. 83-93

Jan K. Lewandrowski, Michael Wohlgenant and Thomas Grennes

The Empirical Minimum-Variance Hedge pp. 94-104

Sergio Lence and Dermot Hayes

A Virtually Ideal Production System: Specifying and Estimating the VIPS Model pp. 105-113

Robert G. Chambers and Rulon D. Pope

Production and Investment Decisions Under Sunk Cost and Temporal Uncertainty pp. 114-127

Jean-Paul Chavas

Farmer Response to Modified Crop Insurance: A Case Study of Corn in Indiana pp. 128-140

Monte L. Vandeveer and Edna T. Loehman

Effects on a Corn-Soybean Farm of Uncertainty about the Future of Farm Programs pp. 141-152

Patricia A. Duffy and C. Robert Taylor

Teaching Evaluation in Agricultural Economics and Related Departments pp. 153-162

Josef M. Broder and William J. Taylor

Forker, Olan D., and Ronald W. Ward. Commodity Advertising: The Economics and Measurement of Generic Programs. New York: Lexington Books, 1993, x + 294 pp., $39.95 pp. 163-164

William A. Schiek

Ian Goldin and L. Alan Winters (eds). Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1992, xxi + 320 pp., $59.95 pp. 164-166

Terry Roe

Munasinghe, Mohan. Water Supply and Environmental Management: Developing World Applications. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1992, xxi + 447 pp pp. 166-167

Leslie E. Small

Ogura, B. Takekazu (ed). Japanese Agricultural Policy Reconsidered. Tokyo: Food and Agriculture Policy Research Center, 1993, x + 322 pp., paper 8,200 yen pp. 167-168

Larry Deaton

Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty, Rural Sociological Society. Persistent Poverty in Rural America. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, xiv + 379 pp., paper $44.00 pp. 169-170

Linda L. Swanson

Young, Mike D. Sustainable Investment and Resource Use: Equity, Environmental Integrity and Economic Efficiency. Paris: UNESCO, 1992, xvi + 176 pp., $65.00 pp. 170-171

Michael Ellerbrock