Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture

Volume 1: Quantitative Investigations on Production Structure
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-28760-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 357 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Analyses quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of post-war Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the twentieth century, more specifically, 1957-97.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuroda, Y.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: THE PRODUCTION STRUCTURE OF POSTWAR JAPANESE AGRICULTURE 1. An Empirical Investigation of the Production Structure of Postwar Japanese Agriculture: 1957-97 2. Estimating the Allen, Morishima, and McFadden Elasticities of Substitution 3. The Dual and Primal Rates of Technological Progress in Postwar Japanese Agriculture 4. The Factor Bias and the Hicks Induced Innovation Hypothesis 5. The Output Bias of Technological Change 6. The Impacts of Scale Economies and Technological Change on the Growth of Total Factor Productivity 7. A New Method for Decomposing the Rate of Growth of Labor Productivity PART II: THE PRODUCTION STRUCTURE OF POSTWAR JAPANESE AGRICULTURE 8. Total versus Variable Cost Function Approaches to Investigating the Agricultural Production Structure 9. Estimating The Shadow Value of Land and Possibilities of Land Transfers 10. Economies of Scale and Structural Change

Über Autor(innen)

Yoshimi Kuroda holds a PhD from Stanford University, USA, and is Emeritus Professor at  University of Tsukuba, Japan, Professor at Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan and Visiting Research Fellow at The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, Kitakyushu, Japan.