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Volume 70, issue 5, 1988

Undergraduate Educational Opportunities in the Face of Declining Enrollments pp. 985-993

Lester V. Manderscheid

Gatt and Agriculture: The Role of Special Interest Groups pp. 994-1005

Andrew Schmitz

Managing Macroeconomic Imbalances pp. 1006-1012

Barry Bosworth and Robert Lawrence

Implications of the Macroeconomic Outlook for Agriculture pp. 1013-1022

John B. Penson and Bruce Gardner

Agriculture in the Macroeconomy: Discussion pp. 1023-1024

Stanley R. Johnson

Agriculture in the Macroeconomy: Discussion pp. 1025-1026

Daniel Sumner

Agricultural Policy under a Democratic Administration pp. 1027-1030

J. B. Penn

Agricultural Policy under a Republican Administration pp. 1031-1035

Robert L. Thompson

The Effect of Policy Reforms on Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1036-1043

William Jaeger and Charles Humphreys

Informing Food Security Decisions in Africa: Empirical Analysis and Policy Dialogue pp. 1044-1052

Michael Weber, John Staatz, Eric W. Crawford, Richard H. Bernsten and John S. Holtzman

Economic Policy Adjustments in Developing Countries: Discussion pp. 1053-1054

Laurian Unnevehr

Economic Policy Adjustments in Developing Countries: Discussion pp. 1055-1056

David Seckler

The Volatility Debate pp. 1057-1063

Robert Shiller

Understanding Real Interest Rates pp. 1064-1072

Frederic Mishkin

The Volatility Debate: Discussion pp. 1073-1075

Richard Just

Understanding Real Interest Rates: Discussion pp. 1076-1077

Walter Thurman

Rural Concerns and the National Policy Environment pp. 1078-1084

Dale Jahr

New Federalism and Rural America: Implications for Local Public Economies pp. 1085-1090

David L. Chicoine

The Effects of Deregulation on Rural Communities pp. 1091-1096

Paul W. Barkley

Political Economy of Rural Devlopment: Discussion pp. 1097-1099

Sandra S. Batie

Hicksian Welfare Measures within a Regret Theory Framework pp. 1100-1106

James Opaluch and Kathleen Segerson

The Implications of Reliability Theory for Environmental Institutional Design and Decision Making pp. 1107-1112

J. Walter Milon and William G. Boggess

Risk Perception, Learning, and Individual Behavior pp. 1113-1117

V. Smith and William H. Desvousges

Risk, Utility Concepts, and Policy Choices: Discussion pp. 1118-1121

John Hoehn

ECOP's Futures Task Force Report: An Overview pp. 1123-1126

Mitchell R. Geasler

The Missing Blueprint for Progress, or What the Extension Futures Report Failed to Do pp. 1127-1132

Dennis R. Henderson

The Land Grant Concept and Extension Leadership pp. 1133-1136

L. Tim Wallace

Measuring Government Intervention in Agriculture for the GATT Negotiations pp. 1137-1145

Nancy E. Schwartz and Stephen Parker

The Political Economy of the Uruguay Round Negotiations: A View from Geneva pp. 1146-1152

Carlisle Runge and Heimpel Stanton

Trade Negotiation and Agriculture: New Approaches and Possible Consequences: Discussion pp. 1153-1155

Maury E. Bredahl

Trade Negotiation and Agriculture: New Approaches and Possible Consequences: Discussion pp. 1156-1158

L. P. Mahé

Low-Input Agriculture: Trends, Goals, and Prospects for Input Use pp. 1159-1166

Stan G. Daberkow and Katherine H. Reichelderfer

Low-Input/Sustainable Agricultural Research and Education—Challenges to the Agricultural Economics Profession pp. 1167-1172

Patrick Madden

Economic Adjustment to Sustainable Agriculture: Discussion pp. 1173-1174

Douglas L. Young

Economic Adjustment to Sustainable Agriculture: Discussion pp. 1175-1176

Gerald A. Carlson

Implications of Bovine Somatotropin on the Value of Fluid Milk Quota in Ontario pp. 1219-1224

James Brown

Volume 70, issue 4, 1988

The Grain Sector of the European Community: Policy Formation, Price Determination, and Implications for Trade pp. 767-778

Paul Gallagher

Rationing and Adjustment in the Market for Tenancies: The Behavior of Landowning Households in Thanjavur District pp. 779-789

Clive Bell and Chalongphob Sussangkarn

Computer Use in Agriculture: Evidence from Tulare County, California pp. 790-802

Daniel S. Putler and David Zilberman

Farmers' Choice of Fixed and Adjustable Interest Rate Loans pp. 803-812

David Leatham and Timothy Baker

Modeling Supply Response in a Multiproduct Framework pp. 813-825

V. Eldon Ball

Aggregation of Inputs Under Risk pp. 826-830

Rulon D. Pope and Arne Hallam

Systematic and Nonsystematic Risk in Farm Portfolio Selection pp. 831-836

Calum Turvey, H. C. Driver and Timothy Baker

Dynamic Adjustment in the U.S. Dairy Industry pp. 837-847

Wayne H. Howard and C. Shumway

Welfare Comparisons of U.S. Dairy Policies with and without Mandatory Supply Control pp. 848-858

Harry Kaiser, Deborah H. Streeter and Donald J. Liu

Applying Mixed Estimation in Econometric Research pp. 859-866

Ron Mittelhammer and Roger K. Conway

Marginal Analysis of Welfare Costs of Environmental Policies: The Case of Pesticide Regulation pp. 867-874

Erik Lichtenberg, Doug Parker and David Zilberman

The Effects of Job Site Sanitation and Living Conditions on the Health and Welfare of Agricultural Workers pp. 875-885

George Frisvold, Richard Mines and Jeffrey Perloff

The Effects of Supply Shifts on Producers' Surplus pp. 886-891

Gay Y. Miller, Joseph M. Rosenblatt and Leroy J. Hushak

The Reliability of Estimates of Environmental Benefits from Recreation Demand Models pp. 892-901

Catherine Kling

An Inverse Demand System for U.S. Composite Foods pp. 902-909

Kuo Huang

Producer Attitudes Toward Peanut Market Alternatives: An Application of Multivariate Probit Joint Estimation pp. 910-918

Tsu-tan Fu, James Epperson, Joseph Terza and Stanley M. Fletcher

The Effects of the Dairy Termination Program on Live Cattle and Wholesale Beef Prices pp. 919-928

John M. Marsh

Performance of the Weekly Gulf-Kansas City Hard-Red Winter Wheat Basis pp. 929-935

Daniel S. Tilley and Steven K. Campbell

Investment and Disinvestment Principles with Nonconstant Prices and Varying Firm Size Applied to Beef-Breeding Herds: Comment pp. 936-937

John W. McClelland and Michael E. Wetzstein

Investment and Disinvestment Principles with Nonconstant Prices and Varying Firm Size Applied to Beef-Breeding Herds: Reply pp. 938-940

James N. Trapp

The EEC's Wheat Trade Policies and International Trade in Differentiated Products: Comment pp. 941-943

Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel

Producer-Consumer Trade-Offs in Export Cartels: The Wheat Cartel Case: Comment pp. 944-945

K. Gary Grant

Producer-Consumer Trade-Offs in Export Cartels: The Wheat Cartel Case: Reply pp. 946

Colin Carter, Nancy Gallini and Andrew Schmitz

Allocatable Fixed Inputs and Jointness in Agricultural Production: Implications For Economic Modeling: Comment pp. 947-949

Gary D. Lynne

Allocatable Fixed Inputs and Jointness in Agricultural Production: Implications for Economic Modeling: Reply pp. 950-952

C. Shumway, Rulon D. Pope and Elizabeth K. Nash

Expenditure Constraints and Profit Maximization in U.S. Agriculture: Comment pp. 953-954

Rolf Färe and Carl Sawyer

Expenditure Constraints and Profit Maximization in U.S. Agriculture: Reply pp. 955-956

Hyunok Lee and Robert G. Chambers

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The New Industrial State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1967 pp. 957-959

James Duncan Shaffer

Nicholls, William H. Imperfect Competition within Agricultural Industries. Ames: Iowa State Press, 1941 pp. 959-961

Willard F. Mueller

Browne, William P. Private Interests, Public Policy, and American Agriculture. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988, xviii + 294 pp., $12.95 pp. 961-962

Larry Janssen

Conrad, Jon M., and Colin W. Clark. Natural Resources Economics—Notes and Problems. Campbridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987, x + 231 pp., $39.50 pp. 962-963

Alan Randall

Eatwell, John, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman, eds. The New Palgrave, A Dictionary of Economics. London: Macmillan Press, 1987, 4,103 pp. in four volumes, $650.00 pp. 963-964

Dennis R. Henderson

Fox, Karl A., and Don G. Miles, eds. Systems Economics: Concepts, Models, and Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987, xvii + 252 pp., $24.50 pp. 964-966

Michael H. Abkin

Gardner, Bruce L. The Economics of Agricultural Policies. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1982, 387 pp., $42.50 pp. 966-967

David Zilberman

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). International Trade 86–87. Geneva: GATT, 1987, 235 pp., price unknown pp. 967-968

Rekha Mehra

Hinderink, J., and J. J. Sterkenburg. Agricultural Commercialization and Government Policy in Africa. New York: Methuen, 1987, xii + 328 pp., $59.95 pp. 968-969

Malcolm Hall

Jennings, Bruce H. Foundations of International Agricultural Research: Science and Politics in Mexican Agriculture. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1988, xii + 196 pp., $29.00 pp. 969-970

Marshall A. Martin

Johansson, Per-Olov. The Economic Theory and Measurement of Environmental Benefits. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, x + 223 pp., $49.50 pp. 970-971

Mary Jo Kealy

Kilmer, Richard L., and Walter J. Armbruster, eds. Economic Efficiency in Agricultural and Food Marketing. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987, 315 pp., $24.95 pp. 971-972

Gordon L. Myer

Kramer, Mark. Three Farms: Making Milk, Meat and Money from the American Soil. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1987, 278 pp., $8.95 pp. 972-973

Ronald D. Knutson

Liedholm, Carl, and Donald Mead. Small-Scale Industries in Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications. East Lansing: Dep. Agr. Econ., Michigan State University, 1987, ix + 141 pp., $6.00 pp. 973-974

Glenn C. W. Ames

McKay, Bonnie M., and James M. Acheson, eds. The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987, xvi + 439 pp., $35.00 pp. 974-975

Allan Schmid

Paarlberg, Robert L. Fixing Farm Trade: Policy Options for the United States. Cambridge MA: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1987, xiv + 159 pp., $16.95 pp. 975-976

Jerry A. Sharples

Petit, Michel, Michele De Benedictus, Denis Britton, Martijn De Groot, Wilhelm Henrichsmyer, and Francesco Lechi. Agricultural Policy Formation in the European Community: The Birth of Milk Quotas and CAP Reform. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1987, ix + 165 pp., 120 Dutch guilders pp. 976

Edward V. Jesse

Rose, Adam, Brandt Stevens, and Gregg Davis. Natural Resource Policy and Income Distribution. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988, xvi + 139 pp., $29.50 pp. 976-977

F. Leistritz

Smith, Homer G. A Challenge to U.S. Agriculture: Building the Cooperative Production Credit System. Denver CO: Graphic Impressions, 1987, lxxiii + 314 pp., $23.95 pp. 977-978

William McD. Herr

Solberg, E. Carl. The Prairies and the Pampas. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1987, xiv + 297 pp., $39.50 pp. 978-979

Javier Caceres

Thorbecke, Eric, and Jan Svejnar. Economic Policies and Agricultural Performance in Sri Lanka 1960–1984. Paris: Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 1987, 120 pp., price unknown pp. 979-980

Nimal Sanderatne

Warnock, John W. The Politics of Hunger: The Global Food System. New York: Methuen & Co., 1987, xv + 334 pp., $13.95 paper pp. 980-981

John D. Hyslop

Volume 70, issue 3, 1988

Sales Loss Determination in Food Contamination Incidents: An Application to Milk Bans in Hawaii pp. 513-520

Mark E. Smith, Eileen O. van Ravenswaay and Stanley Thompson

Demand for Beef and Chicken Products: Separability and Structural Change pp. 521-532

James S. Eales and Laurian Unnevehr

Demand Analysis of Fresh and Frozen Finfish and Shellfish in the United States pp. 533-542

Hsiang-tai Cheng and Oral Capps

Modeling Food Consumption Decisions as a Two-Step Process pp. 543-552

Pamela S. Haines, Barry M. Popkin and David K. Guilkey

Rural Property Tax Delinquency and Recession in Agriculture pp. 553-559

James Conrad and Larry DeBoer

High-Technology Manufacturing in the Nonmetropolitan West: Gold or Just Glitter pp. 560-571

David L. Barkley, Roger A. Dahlgran and Stephen M. Smith

The Theoretical Effects of Farm Policies on Optimal Leverage and the Probability of Equity Losses pp. 572-579

Allen Featherstone, Charles Moss, Timothy Baker and Paul Preckel

Returns to Farm Real Estate Revisited pp. 580-587

Scott Irwin, D. Lynn Forster and Bruce Sherrick

Causality of U.S. Agricultural Prices and the Money Supply: Further Empirical Evidence pp. 588-596

Peter J. Saunders

Exact Welfare Measurement for Producers under Uncertainty pp. 597-603

Douglas M. Larson

Benefits from Price Stabilization to Producers and Processors: The Australian Buffer-Stock Scheme for Wool pp. 604-615

Mike Hinchy and Brian S. Fisher

Measurement of Consumer Gains from Market Stabilization pp. 616-627

Brian Wright and Jeffrey C. Williams

Incorporating Environmental Considerations in Pest Control Advice for Farmers pp. 628-634

L. Joe Moffitt

Murray River Salinity—An Illustrative Model pp. 635-645

John Quiggin

Does an Exhaustible Resource Usually Have Many Near-Optimal Depletion Paths? pp. 646-653

John Rowse

Valuing Environmental Quality: Weak Complementarity with Sets of Goods pp. 654-662

Nancy E. Bockstael and Catherine Kling

The Output Bias of Technological Change in Postwar Japanese Agriculture pp. 663-673

Yoshimi Kuroda

Valuing Forecast Characteristics in a Dynamic Agricultural Production System pp. 674-684

James W. Mjelde, Steven T. Sonka, Bruce L. Dixon and Peter J. Lamb

Bayesian Evaluation of a Specific Hypothesis pp. 685-692

Edward O. Fryar, J. T. Arnold and James E. Dunn

Testing for Stochastic Dominance pp. 693-700

H. Dennis Tolley and Rulon D. Pope

Vector Autoregression Forecasting Models: Recent Developments Applied to the U.S. Hog Market pp. 701-712

Michael S. Kaylen

Specification Tests for the Partial Adjustment and Adaptive Expectations Models pp. 713-723

Howard E. Doran

Offshore Commodity Hedging Under Floating Exchange Rates: Comment pp. 724-726

Gboroton F. Sarassoro and Raymond M. Leuthold

Offshore Commodity Hedging under Floating Exchange Rates: Reply pp. 727-728

Stanley Thompson and Gary E. Bond

Estimation of Multicrop Production Functions: Comment pp. 729-732

C. Shumway

Estimation of Multicrop Production Functions: Reply pp. 733-734

Richard Just, David Zilberman and Eithan Hochman

Domestic Farm Policy and the Gains from Trade: Comment pp. 735-739

Giovanni Anania and Mary Bohman

Domestic Farm Policy and the Gains from Trade: Reply pp. 740

Andrew Schmitz, Dale Sigurdson and Otto Doering

A Stochastic Dominance Comparison of Reduced Tillage Systems in Corn and Soybean Production under Risk: Comment pp. 741-742

Jeffery Williams

Endogenous Price Policies and International Wheat Prices: Comment pp. 743-746

David Vanzetti and John Kennedy

Endogenous Price Policies and International Wheat Prices: Reply pp. 747-749

Alexander H. Sarris and John Freebairn

Abbott, John C. Agricukual Marketing Enterprises for the Developing World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987, xl + 217 pages, $44.50 pp. 750

Eldon D. Smith

Clawson, Marion. From Sagebrush to Sage: The Making of a Resource Economist Washington DC: ANA Publications, 1987, xiv + 476 pp., $20.00 pp. 750-751

Philip R. Wanschneider

Grant, Wyn, ed. Business Interests, Organizational Development and Private Interest Government: An International Comparative Study of the Food Processing Industry. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1987, viii + 232 pp., DM 93 pp. 751-752

Julie Caswell

Griffin, Keith. World Hunger and the World Economy. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1987, xvi + 274 pp., $19.95 pp. 752-753

T. James Goering

Hathaway, Dale E. Agriculture and the GATT: Rewriting the Rules. Washington DC: Institute for International Economics, Policy Analysis in International Economics No. 20, Sep. 1987, xii + 157 pp., $10.00 pp. 753-755

Timothy E. Josling

Hayami, Yujiro, MA. Agnes R. Quisumbing, and Lourdes S. Andriano. In Search of Land Reform Design for the Philippines, UPLB-APRP Monograph Series No. 1, UP at Los Baños Agricultural Policy Research Program, June 1987, 79 pp., no price pp. 755-756

William Thiesenhusen

Hopkins, Nicholas. Agrarian Transformation in Egypt, Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1987, xvi + 215 pp., $32.50 pp. 756-757

Jiryis S. Oweis

Malassis, Louis, and Martine Padilla. Economie agro-alimentaire, III: Ľéconomie mondiale, Paris: Cujas, 1986, 449 pp., price unknown pp. 757-758

Michel Petit

Purcell, Randall B., and Elizabeth Morrison, eds. U.S. Agriculture and Third World Development: The Critical Linkage. Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987, ix + 258 pp., $26.50 pp. 758-759

Margaret Andrews and Carl Pray

Raunikar, Robert, and Chung-Liang Huang, eds. Food Demand Analysis: Problems, Issues and Empirical Evidence, Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987, xvi + 285 pp., price unknown pp. 759-760

W. Keith Bryant

Ravallion, Martin. Markets and Famines. New York? Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. viii + 203, $43.00 pp. 760-762

Charles Timmer

Richards, Paul. Coping With Hunger: Hazard and Experiment in an African Rice Farming System. London: Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1986, viii + 176 pp., $24.95 pp. 762-763

Thomas Reardon

Saliba, Bonnie C., and David B. Bush. Water Markets in Theory and Practice: Market Transfers, Water Values, and Public Policy. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1987, x + 273 pp., $29.50 pp. 763-764

T. F. Glover

Weitz, Raanan, New Roads to Development. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986, 257 pp., price unknown pp. 764-765

Dan Yaron

Wittwer, Sylvan, Yu Youtai, Sun Han, and Wang Lianzheng. Feeding a Billion: Frontiers of Chinese Agriculture. East Lansing MI: Michigan State University Press, 1987, xii + 462 pp., $30.00 pp. 765-766

Peter H. Calkins

Volume 70, issue 2, 1988

The Demand for Dairy Products: Structure, Prediction, and Decomposition pp. 219-228

Dale M. Heien and Cathy Roheim

Generic Fluid Milk Advertising, Demand Expansion, and Supply Response: The Case of New York City pp. 229-236

Donald J. Liu and Olan D. Forker

Chickens, Eggs, and Causality, or Which Came First? pp. 237-238

Walter Thurman and Mark Fisher

Food Processor Price Behavior: Firm-Level Evidence of Sticky Prices pp. 239-244

J Shonkwiler and T. G. Taylor

Input Substitution and the Distribution of Surplus Gains from Lower U.S. Beef-Processing Costs pp. 245-254

John D. Mullen, Michael Wohlgenant and Donald E. Farris

The Value of Ideal Contingency Markets in Agriculture pp. 255-267

Robert J. Myers

Hedging Under Output Price Randomness pp. 268-272

Jack Meyer and Lindon Robison

Intermediation Costs in an Agricultural Development Bank: A Cost-Function Approach to Measuring Scale Economies pp. 273-280

Carlos E. Cuevas

Market Distortions and Benefits from Research pp. 281-288

Julian Alston, Geoff W. Edwards and John Freebairn

Tax Policy and U.S. Agriculture: A General Equilibrium Analysis pp. 289-302

Thomas Hertel and Marinos E. Tsigas

A Nonparametric Analysis of Agricultural Technology pp. 303-310

Jean-Paul Chavas and Thomas L. Cox

A Nonparametric Investigation of Agricultural Production Behavior for U.S. Subregions pp. 311-317

Chris Fawson and C. Shumway

A Model of Production with Supply Management for the Canadian Agricultural Sector pp. 318-329

GianCarlo Moschini

Multiproduct Supply and Input Demand in U.S. Agriculture pp. 330-337

C. Shumway, Roberto R. Saez and Pablo E. Gottret

Education, Experience, and Allocative Efficiency: A Dual Approach pp. 338-345

Spiro Stefanou and Swati Saxena

The Effects of Suburbanization on Agriculture pp. 346-358

Rigoberto Lopez, Adesoji Adelaja and Margaret Andrews

Arbitrage Pricing, Capital Asset Pricing, and Agricultural Assets pp. 359-365

Louise M. Arthur, Colin Carter and Fay Abizadeh

The Biological Control of Cassava Mealybug in Africa pp. 366-371

Richard B. Norgaard

Use of Dichotomous Choice Nonmarket Methods to Value the Whooping Crane Resource pp. 372-381

J. M. Bowker and John R. Stoll

Economic Optimization of a Growth Trajectory for Broilers pp. 382-390

Hovav Talpaz, Shmuel Hurwitz, Jose R. de la Torre and Peter J. H. Sharpe

Objective Function Approximation: An Application to Spatial Price Equilibrium Models pp. 391-396

Faruk Güder and James G. Morris

Approximating Linear Programs with Summary Functions: Pseudodata with an Infinite Sample pp. 397-402

Paul Preckel and Thomas Hertel

Ranking of Agricultural Economics Departments: Influence of Regional Journals, Joint Authorship, and Self-Citations pp. 403-409

Richard Beilock and Leo Polopolus

Reducing Moral Hazard Associated with Implied Warranties of Animal Health: Comment pp. 410-412

Jason Shogren

Reducing Moral Hazard Associated with Implied Warranties of Animal Health: Reply pp. 413-414

Terence Centner and Michael E. Wetzstein

A Note on Qualitative Forecast Evaluation: Comment pp. 415-416

Michael S. Kaylen and Jon A. Brandt

Soviet Union: The Anomaly of Private-cum-Socialist Agriculture pp. 417-422

Stefan Hedlund

People's Republic of China: Systemic and Structural Change in a North China Township pp. 423-430

Louis Putterman

Indirect and Direct Taxation of Agriculture in Sudan: The Role of the Government in Agriculture Surplus Extraction pp. 431-436

Brian C. D'Silva and Ibrahim El Badawi

Soviet Union: The Anomaly of Private-cum-Socialist Agriculture: Discussion pp. 437-438

Karen Brooks

People's Republic of China: Systematic and Structural Change in a North China Township pp. 439

Nicholas R. Lardy

Indirect and Direct Taxation of Agriculture in Sudan: The Role of Government in Agriculture Surplus Extraction: Discussion pp. 440-441

John Strauss

Measuring Economic Welfare: Is Theory a Cookbook for Empirical Analysis? pp. 442-447

Arne Hallam

Making Economic Welfare Analysis Useful in the Policy Process: Implications of the Public Choice Literature pp. 448-453

Richard Just

Social Welfare and Interpersonal Utility Comparisons in Applied Policy Research pp. 454-458

Steven T. Buccola

New Approaches in Agricultural Policy Research: Discussion pp. 459

John R. Stoll

New Approaches in Agricultural Policy Research: Discussion pp. 460-461

David Bigman, David M Newbery and David Zilberman

Assessing Opportunities in Food and Fiber Processing and Distribution pp. 462-468

Oral Capps, Stephen W. Fuller and John P. Nichols

Industrial Organization: Some Applications for Managerial Decisions pp. 469-474

James A. Zellner

The Design and Impact of Strategic Management Information Systems pp. 475-479

Ronald Cotterill

Assessing Opportunities in Food and Fiber Processing and Distribution: Discussion pp. 480-481

Emerson M. Babb

Industrial Organization: Some Applications for Managerial Decisions: Discussion pp. 482-483

John Connor

The Design and Impact of Strategic Management Information Systems: Discussion pp. 484-485

Joseph D. Coffey

Schultz, Theodore W. Agriculture in an Unstable Economy. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1945, xix + 299 pp pp. 486-488

B. F. Stanton

Boussard, Jean-Marc. Economie de l'agriculture. Paris: Economica, 1987, viii + 310 pp., 175 francs pp. 488-489

Yves Arsenault

Dejene, Alemneh. Peasants, Agrarian Socialism, and Rural Development in Ethiopia. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1987, xiii + 162 pp., $18.50 pp. 489

Girma Begashaw

de Soto, Hernando. El Otro Sendero; La Revolutión Informal, 6th ed. Bogotá, Colombia: Editorial La Oveja Negra, 1987, xxxvi + 317 pp., $15.95 pp. 489-490

Simon Rottenberg

Dovring, Folke. Land Economics. Boston: Breton, 1987, xi + 532 pp., $40.50 pp. 490-491

Gene Wunderlich

Hawes, Gary. The Philippines State and the Marcos Regime: The Politics of Export. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1987, 196 pp., $25.00 pp. 491-492

Max R. Langham

Kenney, Martin. Biotechnology: The University-Industrial Complex. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1986, xvi + 306 pp., $23.95 pp. 492-494

Michael P. Welsh

Marshall, Michael. Long Waves of Regional Development. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987, xv + 280 pp., $32.50 pp. 494-495

Glenn Fox

Mueller, Willard F., Peter G. Helmberger, and Thomas W. Paterson. The Sunkist Case: A Study in Legal-Economic Analysis. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987, 271 pp., price unknown pp. 495-496

Harold M. Harris

Pearson, Scott R., et al. Portuguese Agriculture in Transition. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1987, 283 pp., $27.50 pp. 496-497

Norman Rask and Jose Correia Guedes

Phipps, Tim T., Pierre R. Crosson, and Kent A. Price, eds. Agriculture and the Environment. Washington DC: Resources for the Future, 1986, xvii + 298 pages, price unknown pp. 497-498

Jay C. Anderson

Pingali, Prabhu, Yves Bigot, and Hans P. Binswanger. Agricultural Mechanization and the Evolution of Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, viii + 216 pp., $22.50 pp. 498-499

David Norman

Prosterman, Roy L., and Jeffrey M. Riedinger. Land Reform and Democratic Development. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, xii + 313 pp., $29.50 pp. 499-500

Keijiro Otsuka

Randall, Alan. Resource Economics. New York: John Wiley & Son, 1987, 434 pp., $44.80 pp. 500-501

B. Delworth Gardner

Skogstad, Grace. The Politics of Agricultural Policy-Making in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987, ix + 229 pp., $30.00 pp. 501-502

Gary G. Storey

Steidlmeier, Paul. The Paradox of Poverty: A Reappraisal of Economic Development Policy. Cambridge MA: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1987, xx + 318 pp., $29.95 pp. 502-503

Phillip E. Church

Timmer, C. Peter, ed. The Corn Economy of Indonesia. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1987, 302 pp., $29.95 pp. 503-504

Dana G. Dalrymple

Wang, Guichen and Qiren Zhou. Smashing the Communal Pot—Formulation and Development of China's Rural Responsibility System. Beijing: New World Press, 1985, 200 pp., price unknown pp. 504-505

Bruce Stone

Volume 70, issue 1, 1988

Government Decision Making and Program Performance: The Case of the Conservation Reserve Program pp. 1-11

Katherine Reichelderfer and William G. Boggess

Attitudes and Farmer Conservation Behavior pp. 12-19

Gary D. Lynne, J Shonkwiler and Leandro R. Rola

Welfare Measurements Using Contingent Valuation: A Comparison of Techniques pp. 20-28

Kevin Boyle and Richard C. Bishop

Selection and Recreation Demand pp. 29-36

V. Smith

Assessing Strategies for Control of Irrigation-Induced Salinity in the Upper Colorado River Basin pp. 37-49

Richard L. Gardner and Robert A. Young

Optimal Timing of Harvest for the North Carolina Bay Scallop Fishery pp. 50-62

Robert L. Kellogg, J. E. Easley and Thomas Johnson

An Organonic and Modern Problems Approach for Teaching Agricultural Economics Principles pp. 63-68

Michael E. Wetzstein

The Effects of Affiliation with Large Bank Holding Companies on Commercial Bank Lending to Agriculture pp. 69-78

R. Alton Gilbert and Michael Belongia

Chance-Constrained Financing as a Response to Financial Risk pp. 79-89

Joseph A. Atwood, Myles J. Watts and Glenn A. Helmers

Labor Market Dynamics in the U.S. Food Sector pp. 90-102

David R. Lee

Dynamic Corn Supply Functions: A Model with Explicit Optimization pp. 103-111

Abebayehu Tegene, Wallace Huffman and John A. Miranowski

A Stochastic Dominance Analysis of Tillage and Crop Insurance Practices in a Semiarid Region pp. 112-120

Jeffery Williams

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