Institute for Research in Land Economics
Author: Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Institute for Economic Research
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 130
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Petra Moser
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-10-08
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 022677905X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of water and arable land, the gradual increase in severe weather presents new challenges and imperatives for producing new, more resilient crops to feed a more crowded planet in the twenty-first century. Innovation has historically helped agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and chemical innovations have more than doubled agricultural output while barely changing input quantities. The ample investment behind these innovations was available because of a high rate of return: a 2007 paper found that the median ROI in agriculture was 45 percent between 1965 and 2005. This landscape has changed. Today many of the world's wealthier countries have scaled back their share of GDP devoted to agricultural R&D amid evidence of diminishing returns. Universities, which have historically been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly depend on funding from industry rather than government to fund their research. As Upton Sinclair wrote of the effects industry influences, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." In this volume of the NBER Conference Report series, editor Petra Moser offers an empirical, applied-economic framework to the different elements of agricultural R&D, particularly as they relate to the shift from public to private funding. Individual chapters examine the sources of agricultural knowledge and investigate challenges for measuring the returns to the adoption of new agricultural technologies, examine knowledge spillovers from universities to agricultural innovation, and explore interactions between university engagement and scientific productivity. Additional analysis of agricultural venture capital point to it as an emerging and future source of resource in this essential domain"--
Author: Nicolas Belet
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781452936505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joseph Ackerman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-17
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1317340426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1962, Land Economics Research brings together papers presented at a symposium in Nebraska in 1961 which deal with ideas, theories and suggestions in land economics to encourage problem-solving in American land issues. This report draws on all types of land, all situations and all economics problems related to land issues. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and Economics as well as professionals.
Author: Josh Ryan-Collins
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1786991217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn’t land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land? In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, financial instability and growing inequalities - are intimately tied to the land economy. Looking at the ways in which discussions of land have been routinely excluded from both housing policy and economic theory, the authors show that in order to tackle these increasingly pressing issues a major rethink by both politicians and economists is required.