A Survey Of Agricultural Economics Literature Economics Of Welfare Rural Development And Natural Resources In Agriculture 1940s 1970s

This is the second volume in the comprehensive three-volume work A Survey ofAgricultural Economics Literature, published for the American AgriculturalEconomics Association. The general editor, Lee R. Martin, was a professor ofagricultural economics at the University of Minnesota. The work will have wide use for reference, review, or study by students, agricultural economists, general economists, and other social scientists.

This title was first published in 2000: The central aim of the Common Agricultural Policy is to support the incomes of farmers, yet reliable information on the overall incomes of farmers and their households is scarce. In general, farmers in the EU are not a low-income or poor sector of society and much of the present CAP income support goes to those that are relatively well-off. This book, the 3rd edition to address these issues, has been updated and expanded to include: updated coverage of statistics and references; the major changes in methodology of income measurement flowing from the 1995 revision of the European System of Accounts; a critical examination of wealth and balance sheets for the agricultural industry as currently calculated; incorporation of material from Japan and countries in Central and Eastern Europe that are candidates for EU membership.

The first of an eight-volume series, The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, this book analyzes the trends in the published literature of agricultural economics and rural sociology during the past fifty years. It uses citation analysis and other bibliometric techniques to identify the primary journals, report series, and monographs of current importance to the developed industrial countries as well as those in the Third World.