Links to Readings


Gardner, Bruce L.  "Changing Economic Perspectives on the Farm Problem."  Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXX (March, 1992), pp. 62-101.

Lancaster, Kelvin  J.  "A New  Approach  to Consumer Theory."   Journal  of  Political Economy, Vol. 74, No. 2 (April, 1966), pp. 132-157.

Rosen, Sherwin.  "Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets:  Product Differentiation in Pure Competition."  Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 82, No. 1 (January, 1974), pp. 34-55.

Sandmo, Angmar.  "On the Theory of the Competitive Firm Under Price Uncertainty." American Economic Review, Vol. 61, No. 2 (March, 1971), pp. 65-73.

Binswanger, H. P.  "A Microeconomic  Approach  to Induced Innovation."   Economic Journal, Vol. 84, No. 336 (December, 1974), pp. 940-958.

Feder,  Gershon, Richard E.  Just,  and  David  Zilberman.    "Adoption  of  Agricultural Innovations in Developing Countries:  A Survey."  Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 32, No. 2 (January, 1985), pp. 225-298.

Griliches,  Z.    "Research  Costs  and  Social  Returns:    Hybrid  Corn  and  Related Innovations."  Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 66, No. 4 (October, 1958), pp. 419-431.

Mansfield, E.  "Technical Change and the Rate of Imitation."  Econometrica,  Vol. 29, No. 4 (October, 1961), pp. 741-766.

Cropper, Maureen.  "The Determinants of Pesticide Regulation:  A Statistical Analysis of EPA  Decision  Making."    Journal  of  Political  Economy,  Vol.  100,  No.  1, (February, 1992), pp. 175-197.

Zilberman, David, Andrew Schmitz, Gary Casterline, Erik Lichtenberg, and Jerome B. Siebert.  "The Economics of Pesticide Use and Regulation," Science,  Vol. 253 (August 2, 1991), pp. 518-522.

Burness, H. S., and J. P. Quirk.  "Appropriative Water Rights and the Efficient Allocation of Resources."  American Economic Review, Vol. 69 (1979), pp. 25-37.

Gisser, M.  "Groundwater:  Focusing on the Real Issue."  Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 91, No. 6 (1983), pp. 1001-1027.

Howarth, Richard B., and Richard B.  Norgaard.   "Intergenerational  Resource Rights, Efficiency and Social Optimality."  Land Economics, Vol. 66, No. 1 (1990).