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Volume 74, issue 5, 1992

The Comparative Advantage of Agricultural Economists pp. 1059-1065

James P. Houck

How the Data We Make Can Unmake Us: Annals of Factology pp. 1066-1075

Bruce Gardner

Environmental Costing for Agriculture: Will It Be Standard Fare in the Farm Bill of 2000? pp. 1076-1088

V. Smith

Economic Issues in Agricultural Research Priority Setting pp. 1089-1094

George Norton, Philip Pardey and Julian Alston

Setting Agricultural Research Priorities: Lessons from the CGIAR Study pp. 1095-1100

Alex F. McCalla and James G. Ryan

Economic Principles and Incentives: Structure, Management, and Funding of Agricultural Research in the United States pp. 1101-1108

Richard Just and Wallace Huffman

Agricultural Research Institutions and Priorities in an Era of Resource Scarcity: Discussion pp. 1109-1110

W. Burt Sundquist

Agricultural Research Institutions and Priorities in an Era of Resource Scarcity: Discussion pp. 1111-1113

Jock Anderson

Can Nonuse Value Be Measured from Observable Behavior? pp. 1114-1120

Douglas M. Larson

Uniqueness, Irreversibility, and the Theory of Nonuse Values pp. 1121-1125

Charles J. Cicchetti and Louis L. Wilde

Can Contingent Valuation Measure Nonuse Values? pp. 1126-1132

Jeffrey K. Lazo, William D. Schulze, Gary H. McClelland and James K. Doyle

Nonuser Resource Values pp. 1133-1137

Trudy Cameron

Environmental Degradation and Economic Openness in LDCs: The Poverty Linkage pp. 1138-1143

Ramon Lopez

Environmental Aspects of Economic Relations between Nations pp. 1144-1149

David Zilberman

Trade, Institutions, and Preference for Living Marine Resources pp. 1150-1154

Ivar E. Strand, Nancy E. Bockstael and Robert A. Siegel

Trade and the Environment: Discussion pp. 1155-1156

Ernst Lutz

Agricultural Transition in Russia and the Other Former States of the USSR pp. 1157-1162

Alexander A. Nikonov

Stabilization, Sectoral Adjustment, and Enterprise Reform in the Agricultural Sector of Russia pp. 1163-1169

Karen M. Brooks

Capital Markets and Financial Issues in Economies in Transition pp. 1170-1173

Perry L. Patterson

Transition of Agriculture in the Baltics: Discussion pp. 1174-1175

Natalija Kazlauskiene

Capital Markets and Financial Issues of the Czechoslovak Economy: Discussion pp. 1176

Jiri Tvrdon

Progress in the Transition Toward Market Economies: Discussion pp. 1177-1178

Teresa Olko-Bagienska

A Food Processor's Perspective on Trade and Investment Opportunities in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union pp. 1179-1183

Richard L. Gady and Robert H. Peyton

An Operational Perspective on Investment Opportunities in the Former Soviet Union pp. 1184-1187

Judy T. Ohannesian

The Central European Economic Transformation: A Review and Outlook pp. 1188-1192

J. B. Penn

Agricultural Trade and Investment Opportunities in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Discussion pp. 1193-1195

Michael L. Cook

Current Information Levels on Food Labels pp. 1196-1201

Julie Caswell

Consumer and Producer Responses to Nutrition Label Changes pp. 1202-1207

Gary A. Zarkin and Donald W. Anderson

Nutritional Labeling as a Policy Instrument pp. 1208-1212

D. I. Padberg

Consumer Response to Changes in Food Labeling: Discussion pp. 1213-1214

Richard A. Williams

Consumer Response to Changes Food Labeling: Discussion pp. 1215-1216

Oral Capps

Management and Financing of Vertical Coordination in Agriculture: An Overview pp. 1217-1218

Robert King

Vertical Coordination, Financial Structure, and the Changing Theory of the Firm pp. 1219-1225

Peter J. Barry, Sonka Steven T. and Kaouthar Lajili

Managerial Economics of Vertically Coordinated Agricultural Firms pp. 1226-1231

Thomas Sporleder

Financing Vertically Coordinated Agricultural Firms pp. 1232-1237

Allen Featherstone and Bruce Sherrick

Management and Financing of Vertical Coordination in Agriculture: Discussion pp. 1238-1239

Emerson M. Babb

Vertically Coordinated Agricultural Firms: Discussion pp. 1240

Sanford Belden

The New Political Economy of Agricultural and Rural Research: Implications for Institutional Change pp. 1241-1248

Jerry R. Skees

The New Political Economy of Extension Education for Agriculture and Rural America pp. 1249-1255

George R. McDowell

Implications for Land Grant Universities of the Changing Political Economy of Agricultural and Rural America: Discussion pp. 1256-1258

James Hite

Changing Roles of Agricultural Economists and their Institutions pp. 1259-1261

James T. Bonnen

The Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem pp. 1316-1323

Stephanie Jacques

Volume 74, issue 4, 1992

Risk Aversion and Price Risk in Duality Models of Production: A Linear Mean-Variance Approach pp. 849-859

Barry T. Coyle

Production Risk and Optimal Input Decisions pp. 860-869

Bharat Ramaswami

Incorporating Risk Aversion into Dynamic Programming Models pp. 870-878

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

Optimal Dynamic Hedging Decisions for Grain Producers pp. 879-888

Steve Martinez and Kelly Zering

Earnings and Mobility of Legal and Illegal Immigrant Workers in Agriculture pp. 889-896

J. Edward Taylor

Effect of U.S. Immigration Reform on Labor-Intensive Agricultural Commodities pp. 897-906

Lewell F. Gunter, Joseph C. Jarrett and James A. Duffield

Incentives for Protecting Farm Workers from Pesticides pp. 907-917

John U. Davis, Julie Caswell and Carolyn R. Harper

On-Site Time in the Demand for Recreation pp. 918-925

K. E. McConnell

Measuring Recreation Values with Multiple Destination Trips pp. 926-933

Robert Mendelsohn, John Hof, George Peterson and Reed Johnson

A Method for Calculating Profit-Neutral Land Set Asides pp. 934-940

Carlos Arnade

Transaction Costs as Determinants of Vertical Coordination in the U.S. Food Industries pp. 941-950

Stuart D. Frank and Dennis R. Henderson

Production Subsidy and Countervailing Duties in Vertically Related Markets: The Hog-Pork Case Between Canada and the United States pp. 951-961

GianCarlo Moschini and Karl Meilke

Oligopsony Potential in Agriculture: Residual Supply Estimation in California's Processing Tomato Market pp. 962-972

Catherine Durham and Richard J. Sexton

Supply Analysis in an Oligopsony Model pp. 973-979

Zhigang Chen and Rebecca Lent

Imperfect Competition in Multiproduct Food Industries with Application to Pear Processing pp. 980-990

Joyce J. Wann and Sexton Richard J.

Characteristic Supplies and Demands in a Hedonic Framework: U.S. Market for Cotton Fiber Attributes pp. 991-1002

Bowman Kenneth R. and Don E. Ethridge

Trading-Day Variation: Theory and Implications for Monthly Meat Demand pp. 1003-1009

Mark S. McNulty and Wallace Huffman

Incorporating Data and Theory in Roundwood Supply and Demand Estimation pp. 1010-1018

Lauri Hetemäki and Kuuluvainen Jari

The von Liebig Hypothesis pp. 1019-1028

Quirino Paris

Estimating the Technology Coefficients in Linear Programming Models pp. 1029-1039

Bruce L. Dixon and Robert H. Hornbaker

The Econometrics of Damage Control pp. 1040-1044

Melanie Blackwell and Pagoulatos Angelos

Alauddin, Mohammad, and Clement Tisdell. The ‘Green Revolution’ and Economic Development: The Process and its Impact in Bangladesh. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, xxiii + 322 pp., $69.95 pp. 1045-1046

Ian Coxhead

Avery, Dennis T. Global Food Progress. Indianapolis, in: Hudson Institute, 1991 x+ 268 pp., $19.95 pp. 1047-1048

Gerald A. Carlson

Bryant, W. Keith. The Economic Organization of the Household. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, xiv + 286 pp., $64.50 Cloth, $19.95 paper pp. 1048-1049

Richard Widdows

Evenson, R.E. and C.E. Pray, et al. Research and Productivity in Asian Agriculture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991, vi + 383 pp., $67.50 pp. 1049-1051

Greg Traxler

Hallberg, M. C., Jill L. Findeis, and Daniel L. Lass. Multiple Job-Holding Among Farm Families. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991, xii + 350 pp., $41.95 pp. 1051-1052

Lewell F. Gunter

Johnson, David B. Public Choice: An Introduction to the New Political Economy. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1991, xii + 372 pp., $27.95 pp. 1052-1053

Lois Schertz Willett

Nelson, Robert H. Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics, Savage, Rowman & Littlefield, 1991, xxvii + 378 pp., $24.95 pp. 1053-1054

Paul W. Barkley

Thore, Sten. Economic Logistics: The Optimization of Spatial and Sectoral Resource, Production, and Distribution Systems. New York: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1991, xi + 348 pp., $49.95 pp. 1054-1056

Michael S. Kaylen

Volume 74, issue 3, 1992

Nonparametric Test of the Expected Utility Hypothesis pp. 523-533

Ziv Bar-Shira

United States Export Subsidies in Wheat: Strategic Trade Policy or Expensive Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Tactic? pp. 534-545

Giovanni Anania, Mary Bohman and Colin Carter

Measuring the Degree of Market Power Exerted by Government Trade Agencies pp. 546-555

H. Love and Endah Murniningtyas

End-Use Performance Uncertainty and Competition in International Wheat Markets pp. 556-563

William Wilson and Todd Preszler

Research Payoff from Quality Improvement: The Case of Protein in Australian Wheat pp. 564-572

Thomas J. Voon and Geoff W. Edwards

Economic Returns to Crop Management Research in a Post-Green Revolution Setting pp. 573-582

Greg Traxler and Derek Byerlee

A Nonparametric Analysis of the Influence of Research on Agricultural Productivity pp. 583-591

Jean-Paul Chavas and Thomas L. Cox

Environment-Specific Rates and Biases of Technical Change in Agriculture pp. 592-604

Ian Coxhead

An Analysis of 1980s Dairy Programs and Some Policy Implications pp. 605-616

Charles W. Bausell, Scott L. Smith and David Belsley

Objectives and Constraints of Government Policy: The Countercyclicity of Transfers to Agriculture pp. 617-629

David S. Bullock

Economic Rents Under Supply Controls with Marketable Quota pp. 630-637

Bruce Babcock and William Foster

Welfare Effects of the National Pseudorabies Eradication Program pp. 638-645

Eric D. Ebel, Robert H. Hornbaker and Carl Nelson

On the Design of Agricultural Policy Mechanisms pp. 646-654

Robert G. Chambers

Efficient Handling of Probability Information for Decision Analysis under Risk pp. 655-662

Paul Preckel and Eric DeVuyst

Capital Gains and After-Tax Internal Rates of Return pp. 663-671

Lindon Robison and Steven D. Hanson

Agricultural Bank Portfolio Adjustments to Risk pp. 672-681

Glenn D. Pederson

Engel's Law and Linear-in-Moments Aggregation pp. 682-688

Robert G. Chambers and Rulon D. Pope

Flexible Demand Systems with Serially Correlated Errors: Fat and Oil Consumption in the United States pp. 689-697

Steven T. Yen and Wen S. Chern

U.S. Cigarette Consumption: The Case of Low-Income Women pp. 698-705

James R. Blaylock and W. Noel Blisard

Nonlinear Dynamics of Daily Cash Prices pp. 706-715

Seung-Ryong Yang and B Brorsen

Futures Markets and Marketing Firms: The U.S. Soybean-Processing Industry pp. 716-725

Sergio Lence, Dermot Hayes and William H. Meyers

Macroeconomic Imbalances: A Multiregional General Equilibrium Analysis pp. 726-736

David S. Kraybill, Thomas G. Johnson and David Orden

Computer Adoption and Use by New Mexico Nonfarm Agribusinesses pp. 737-744

Gregory A. Baker

Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture: A Postwar Perspective pp. 745-750

Dale Jorgenson and Frank M. Gollop

Contributions of Public and Private Science and Technology to U.S. Agricultural Productivity pp. 751-756

Wallace Huffman and Robert E. Evenson

Agricultural Productivity and Sources of Growth in South Asia pp. 757-761

Mark W. Rosegrant and Robert E. Evenson

Sources of Agricultural Economic Growth and Productivity: Discussion pp. 762-763

Zvi Griliches

Sources of Agricultural Economic Growth and Productivity: Discussion pp. 764-765

Eldon Ball

Environmental and Agricultural Policy Linkages and Reforms in the United States Under the GATT pp. 766-774

Richard Just and Gordon Rausser

Potential for Environmental and Agricultural Policy Linkages and Reforms in the European Community pp. 775-781

David Abler and James Shortle

Environmental Policy and GATT Negotiations: Discussion pp. 782-784

Jeffrey LaFrance

GATT and Environmental Policy Reform: Discussion pp. 785-786

Jason Shogren

Political Criterion Functions and the Analysis of Wealth Transfers pp. 787-794

John Beghin and William Foster

Agricultural Protection in Developing Countries pp. 795-801

Lilyan Fulginiti and Jason Shogren

Not Out of the Woods Yet: Challenges for Economics Research on Agroforestry pp. 802-808

Sara J. Scherr

Resource Management by West African Farmers and the Economics of Shifting Cultivation pp. 809-815

Karen Ann Dvořàk

On Laboring and Lobbying for Lignomics: Discussion pp. 816-817

Jock Anderson

Challenges from Agroforestry: Discussion pp. 818-819

Thomas Reardon

The African American Farmer: Meeting The Production, Marketing, and Policy Challenges pp. 820-825

Adell Brown, Magid Dagher and Donald McDowell

African Americans in Rural Society: Needed Directions in Public Policy pp. 826-833

Joyce E. Allen and Ralph D. Christy

African Americans in Rural Society: Discussion pp. 834-835

Handy Williamson

Bromley, Daniel W. Environment and Economy: Property Rights and Public Policy. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1991, xi + 247 pp., $47.95 pp. 836-837

Leonard Shabman

Christy, Ralph D., and Lionel Williamson, editors, A Century of Service: Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, 1890–1990. Transactions Publishers, 1992, XXV + 166 pp., $27.95 pp. 837-838

Emery N. Castle

Grant, Wyn. The Dairy Industry—an International Comparison. Aldershot, England: Dartmouth Publishing Company Ltd., 1991, vii + 128 pp., $52.95 pp. 838-841

Andrew M. Novakovic

Hansen, John Mark. Gaining Access: Congress and the Farm Lobby, 1919–1981. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991, xiv + 265 pp., cloth $38.00; paper $15.95 pp. 841

Lynn M. Daft

Paris, Quirino. An Economic Interpretation of Linear Programming. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991, xiv + 337 pp., $39.95 pp. 842-843

Lydia Zepeda

Hillman, Jimmye S. Technical Barriers to Agricultural Trade. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1991, xvii + 199 pp., $28.50 pp. 842

Dermot Hayes

Rasmussen, Wayne D. Farmers, Cooperatives, and USDA: A History of Agricultural Cooperative Service. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Information Bulletin 621, July 1991 pp. 843-845

Harold F. Breimyer

Ritson, C., and D. Harvey, eds. The Common Agricultural Policy and the World Economy: Essays in Honour of John Ashton. Wallingford, UK: C A B International, 1991, vi + 344pp., $57.00 pp. 845-846

Alan J. Webb

Senauer, Ben, Elaine Asp, and Jean Kinsey. Food Trends and the Changing Consumer. St. Paul: Eagan Press, 1991. × + 385 pp., $39.95 pp. 846-847

David J. Schaffner

Volume 74, issue 2, 1992

Public Policy and Constitutional Prescription pp. 247-257

Gordon Rausser and Pinhas Zusman

The International Effects of U.S. Farm Subsidies pp. 258-267

Eric Fisher and Harry de Gorter

Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Low Income Countries: A General Equilibrium-Multimarket Approach pp. 268-280

Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry

Market Interventions, International Price Stabilization, and Welfare Implications pp. 281-290

S. Devadoss

The Market for Land and the Impact of Farm Programs on Farm Numbers pp. 291-298

Howard Leathers

Taxes, Farm Programs, and Competitive Advantage for U.S. and Canadian Farmers: A Case Study pp. 299-309

Gregory Perry, Clair J. Nixon and Kenneth J. Bunnage

Effects of Government Programs on Rice Acreage Decisions under Rational Expectations: The Case of Taiwan pp. 310-317

Huang C-H

Supply, Demand, and Effects of Alternative Policies on the U.S. Oats Industry pp. 318-328

Jon A. Brandt, John R. Kruse and Jackie Todd

Dynamic Measures of Scope and Scale Economies: An Application to German Agriculture pp. 329-342

J. Fernandez-Cornejo, C. M. Gempesaw, J. G. Elterich and Spiro Stefanou

A State-Space Approach to Perennial Crop Supply Analysis pp. 343-352

Nicholas G. Kalaitzandonakes and J Shonkwiler

Estimating Duality Models with Biased Technical Change: A Time Series Approach pp. 353-360

J. Stephen Clark and Curtis E. Youngblood

Innovations on Family Farms: The Nazareth Region in Israel pp. 361-370

Dan Yaron, Hillary Voet and Ariel Dinar

Relationships among Labor, Bullock, and Tractor Inputs in Pakistan Agriculture pp. 371-377

Farman Ali and Ashok Parikh

A Stochastic Asset Replacement Model for Rejuvenated Assets pp. 378-387

G. Scott Smith and Michael E. Wetzstein

Computerized Analysis of Individual Sow-Herd Performance pp. 388-399

Ruud B. M. Huirne, Aalt A. Dijkhuizen, Jan A. Renkema and Paul van Beek

The Supply of Off-Farm Labor: A Random Coefficients Approach pp. 400-411

Daniel A. Lass and Conrado M. Gempesaw

Testing for Disequilibrium in the Hired Farm Labor Market pp. 412-420

James A. Duffield and Robert Coltrane

Solving Empirical Bioeconomic Models: A Rangeland Management Application pp. 421-433

Richard B. Standiford and Richard E. Howitt

Landowner Incorporation of Onsite Soil Erosion Costs: An Application to the Conservation Reserve Program pp. 434-443

Marie Lynn Miranda

A Selectivity Model of Household Food Marketing Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 444-452

Stephan Goetz

At-Home Consumption of Cheese: A Purchase-Infrequency Model pp. 453-459

Brian W. Gould

Toward a More Comprehensive Theory of Food Labels pp. 460-468

Julie Caswell and Daniel I. Padberg

Evaluating the Integration of Contiguous Discontinuous Markets pp. 469-479

Roger A. Dahlgran and Steven Blank

Inter-Firm Differences in Fed Cattle Prices in the Southern Plains pp. 480-485

Clement E. Ward

Information Preferences of Ohio Commercial Farmers: Implications for Extension pp. 486-496

Gary Schnitkey, Marvin Batte, Eugene Jones and Jean Botomogno

The Application and Economic Interpretation of Selectivity Models: Comment pp. 498-499

Ayal Kimhi

Anderson, Terry L., and Donald R. Leal. Free Market Environmentalism. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy and Westview Press, 1991, xii + 192 pp., $28.95 pp. 500-501

Glenn Fox

Caswell, Julie A., ed. Economics of Food Safety. New York: Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc., 1991, ix + 356 pp., $115 pp. 501-502

Ann Fisher

Daly, Herman E. Steady State Economics (2nd ed.). Cavelo CA: Island Press, 1991, xvi + 302 pp., $19.95 pp. 503-504

Tony Prato

Hamilton, David E. From New Day to New Deal: American Farm Policy From Hoover to Roosevelt, 1928–1933. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991, xi + 333 pp., $39.95 pp. 504-506

Anicca C. Jansen

Hayami, Yujiro, and Saburo Yamada. The Agricultural Development of Japan: A Century's Perspective, New York: Columbia University Press, 1991, xvii + 276 pp., $54.50 pp. 506-508

K. K. Klein

Helmberger, Peter G. Economic Analysis of Farm Programs. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1991, xvi + 300 pp., $31.96 pp. 508-510

Andrew Barkley

How, R. Brian. Marketing Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991, xiv + 357 pp., $44.95 pp. 510-511

John J. VanSickle

Purcell, Wayne D. Agricultural Futures and Options, Principles and Strategies. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991, xii + 363 pp., $51 pp. 511-513

Deborah H. Streeter

John Sutton. Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990, xiv + 577 pp., $39.95 pp. 513-515

John Connor

Volume 74, issue 1, 1992

Aggregate Sources of Relative Price Variability Among Agricultural Commodities pp. 1-9

John S. Lapp and Vincent H. Smith

A Multimarket Bounded Price Variation Model under Rational Expectations: Corn and Soybeans in the United States pp. 10-20

Matthew Holt

The Welfare Effects of Deregulatin Producer Prices pp. 21-26

Robert Fraser

Productive and Predatory Public Policies: Research Expenditures and Producer Subsidies in Agriculture pp. 27-37

Harry de Gorter, David J. Nielson and Gordon Rausser

Sectoral Implications of Farm Program Modifications pp. 38-49

Ching-Cheng Chang, Bruce McCarl, James W. Mjelde and James Richardson

The Implicit Value of Corn Base Acreage pp. 50-58

Joseph Herriges, Jason Shogren and Nancy E. Barickman

Redistributing Income Back to European Community Consumers and Taxpayers through the Common Agricultural Policy pp. 59-67

David S. Bullock

Pesticides and Worker Safety pp. 68-78

Carolyn R. Harper and David Zilberman

Preserving Waterfowl Habitat on the Canadian Prairies: Economic Incentives versus Moral Suasion pp. 79-89

Gerrit van Kooten and Andrew Schmitz

Cash Crop Production, Food Price Volatility, and Rural Market Integration in the Third World pp. 90-99

Marcel Fafchamps

Testing Hypotheses of Functional Structure: Some Rules for Determining Flexibility of Restricted Production Models pp. 100-108

Paul Driscoll, Jeffrey Alwang and Anya McGuirk

Another Look at Returns to Agricultural and Nonagricultural Assets pp. 109-119

Bruce Bjornson and Robert Innes

Separability in State-Level Agricultural Technology pp. 120-131

Hongil Lim and C. Shumway

The Transition of Punjab Agriculture: A Choice of Technique Approach pp. 132-143

Anya M. McGuirk and Yair Mundlak

Effects of Irrigation-Induced Technological Change in Bangladesh Rice Production pp. 144-157

Akhter Ahmed and Rajan K. Sampath

Damage Control Econometrics: Functional Specification and Pesticide Productivity pp. 158-162

Catalina Carrasco-Tauber and L. Joe Moffitt

Impact of Damage Control and Quality of Output: Estimating Pest Control Effectiveness pp. 163-172

Bruce Babcock, Erik Lichtenberg and David Zilberman

Nonparametric Measures of Scale and Technical Change for Competitive Firms under Uncertainty pp. 173-176

Paul R. Flacco and Douglas M. Larson

Material Productivity in Food Manufacturing pp. 177-185

Adesoji Adelaja

Modeling Supply Response with Implicit Revenue Functions: A Policy-Switching Procedure for Rice pp. 186-196

Dean T. Chen and Shoichi Ito

Effect of Stock Size and Regulations on Fishing Industry Cost and Structure: The Surf Clam Industry pp. 197-208

Douglas Lipton and Ivar E. Strand

Qualitative Forecast Evaluation: A Comparison of Two Performance Measures pp. 209-214

Christopher McIntosh and Jeffrey Dorfman

Earnings of Kansas State University Agriculture Graduates: 1978–88 pp. 215-222

Andrew Barkley

Political Preference Functions and Public Policy Reforms: Comment pp. 223-226

Luther Tweeten and Jay Coggins

Political Preference Functions and Public Policy Reforms: Reply pp. 227-230

Gordon Rausser and William Foster

Warren, G. F., and F. A. Pearson. Gold and Prices. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1935, 475 pp., $5.00 pp. 231-232

Don Paarlberg

Bardhan, Pranab, ed. The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, 408 pp., $69.00 pp. 232-234

Lovell S. Jarvis

Breimyer, Harold F. Overfulfilled Expectations: A Life and an Era in Rural America. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991, xvi + 300 pp., $36.95 pp. 234-236

Gerald F. Vaughn

Committee on Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems; Water Science and Technology Board; Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources. National Research Council. Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems: What Can Be Learned from the San Joaquin Valley Experience? Washington DC pp. 236-238

David Zilberman

Hallam, David. Econometric Modelling of Agricultural Commodity Markets. London and New York: Routledge, 1990, 191 pp., $67.50 pp. 238-239

Joseph W. Glauber

Just, R. E., and N. Bockstael. eds. Commodity and Resource Policies in Agricultural Systems. New York, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1991, xvii + 387 pp., $98.00 pp. 239-240

Sandra S. Batie

Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, xvii + 280 pp., $44.50, $14.95 paper pp. 240-242

Gene Wunderlich

Sedjo, R. A., and K. S. Lyon. The Long-Term Adequacy of World Timber Supply. Washington DC: Resources for the Future, 1990, xv + 230 pp., $30.00 pp. 242-243

William F. Hyde

Stoeckel, Andrew B., David Vincent, and Sandy Cuthbertson, eds. MacroEconomic Consequences of Farm Support Policies. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1989, xiii + 381 pp., $57.50, $19.95 paper pp. 243-245

Tim Josling