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Book reviewed in this article: Struggle for the North. By J. H. Kelly. Probability and Profit: A Study of Economic Behaviour along Bayesian Lines. By W. Fellne New Guinea on the Threshold: Aspects of Social, Political and Economic Development. Edited by E. K. Fisk Accounting and Planning for Farm Management. Report of a Joint Committee on Standardization of Farm Accounting. Farm Accounting in New Zealand (with Supplement) Principles and Practice of Farm Management Accounting. By C. A. Mallyo Transforming Traditional Agriculture. By T. W. Schultz The Random Character of Stock Market Prices. Edited by P. H. Cootne Agricultural Education in Australia. By R. N. Farquhar     

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Book reviewed in this article: Farm Planning and Control. By C. S. Barnard and J. S. Nix. Cambridge University Press The United Kingdom Cereal Market— an econometric investigation into the effects of pricing policies. By David Colman International Trade in Temperate Zone Products. By F. O. Grogan. Oliver and Boyd (for the Agricultural Adjustment Unit, University of Newcastle upon Tyne) World Sugar Markets in a State of Flux. By Simon Harris and Ian Smith. Trade Policy Research Centre The World Tea Economy. By G. K. Sarkar. Oxford University Press Policy Integration in Canadian Agriculture. By R. W. Crown and E. O. Heady. Iowa State University Press Behavioral Change in Agriculture— Concepts and Strategies for Influencing Transition. Edited by J. P. Leagans and C. P. Loomis Inducing Technological Change for Economic Growth and Development. Edited by R. A. Solo and Everett M. Rogers. Michigan State University Press     

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Book reviewed in this article: Resource Structure of Agriculture: an economic analysis. By KEITH COWLING, DAVID METCALF and A. J. RAYNER. Pergamon Press, Oxford. Thc Economics of the Common Marker. By D. SWANN. Penguin Books. 1970. 200 pages. Farm Appraisal and Valuation. By WILLIAM G. MURRAY. Iowa State University Press. 5th Edition, 1969. viii+534 pages. Milk Producrion. By C. S. BARNARD, R. J. HALLEY and A. H. SCOIT. W e Books, london. Principles of Operations Research-with applications to managerial decisions. By HARVEY M. WAGNER. Prentice-Hall. 1969. xxii+937 pages. Vertical Integration in Agriculture and the Role of the Cooperutives. By M. W. Bvrrwwclc. Central Council for Agricultural and Horticultural Cooperation, London. 1969. iv+40 pages. Agricultural Problems of Developing African Countries. By S. M. MAKINGS. Oxford University Press. 1968. viii+ 184 pages. Australia Wet or Dry? The Physical and Economic Limits to the Expansion of Irrigation. By B. R. DAVIDSON. Melbourne University Press. 1970. xiv+264 pages. Economic Approaches to Japanese Agriculture. Edited by MASANOBU KUWAHARA. Fuji Publishing Company. Tokyo. The value of the Weurher. By W. J. MAUNDER. Methuen, London. 1970. xxiv+ 388 pages.     

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Fundamentals of Modern Agriculture. Edited by C. D. Blake. Distribution of Groceries. Economic Aspects of the Distribution of Groceries, with Special Reference to Western Australia. By D. H. Briggs and R. L. Smyth. Marketing and Economic Development. Edited by C. J. Miller. Agricultural Producers and Their Markets. Edited by T. K. Warley. Agricultural Development in Tropical Africa. By J. D. DE Wilde et. al. Wool? Modern Myths and New Horizons, By G. S. LE Couteur. Agricultural Economics in Tangunyiku. By H. Ruthenberg. Back of Bourke. By R. L. Heathcote. Shearing Shed Management. By H. S. Woodbridge. Tax Burden on Indian Agriculture. By V. P. Gandhi. A General Theory of Tax Structure Change During Economic Development. By H. H. Hinricks. The Economics of Agricultural Development. By J. W. Mellor.     

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Book reviews in this article: ALEXANDRATOS, N. (1990). European Agriculture: Policy Issues and Options to 2000. London BARDHAM, P. K. (ed.) (1989). The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions. Oxford: Clarendon Press BRENT, R. J. (1990). Project Appraisal for Developing Countries. New York: New York University Press GOLDIN, I. and KNUDSEN, O. (eds.) (1990). Agricultural Trade Liberalisation: Implications for Developing Countries. Washington GRENNES, T. (ed.) (1990). International Financial Markets and Agricultural Trade. Boulder HALLAM, D. (1990). Econometric Modelling of Agricultural Commodity Markets. London: Routledge LAMPKIN, N. (1990). Organic Farming. Ipswich: Farming Press MOYER, H. W. and JOSLING, T. E. (1990). Agricultural Policy Reform: Politics and Process in the EC and USA. PLUCKNETT, N., SMITH, J. H. and OZGEDIZ, S. (1990). Networking in International Agricultural Research. ROBINSON, G. M. (1990). Conflict and Change in the Countryside. STOECKEL, A. B., VINCENT, D. and CUTHBERTSON, S. (eds.) (1989). Macroeconomic Consequences of Farm Support Policies. TSAKOK, I. (1990). Agricultural Price Policy - A Practitioner's Guide to Partial-Equilibrium Analysis. ARNOLD, R. and VILLAIN, C. (1990). New Directions for European Agricultural Policy. KNUDSEN, O. and NASH, J. with contributions by BOVARD, J., GARDNER, B. and WINTERS, L. A. (1990). Redefining the Role of Government in Agriculture for the 1990s. OECD (1990). Modelling the Effects of Agricultural Policies. OECD Economic Studies No. 13, Winter 1989–1990. Paris OECD (1990). Reforming Agricultural Policies: Quantitative Restrictions on Production-Direct Income Support. Paris OECD (1990). Economic Accounts for Agriculture, 1974–1987. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development REES, J. (1990). Natural Resources: Allocation, Economics and Policy. Second Edition. Andover: Routledge, Chapman and Hall EICHER, C. K. and STAATZ, J. M. (eds.) (1990). Agricultural Development in the Third World. Second Edition. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press SAITO, K. A. and WEIDEMANN, C. J. (1990). Agricultural Extension for Women Farmers in Africa. PLUCKNETT, D. L., SMITH, N. J. H. and OZGEDIZ, S. (1990). International Agricultural Research: A Database of Networks.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Land for Agriculture. Centre for Agricultural Strategy, Report 1, Reading Crop Management Economics. By Allan N. Rae. Crosby Lockwood Staples, London An Agricultural Atlas of Scotland. By J. T. Coppock Agricultural Supply Response— A Survey of the Econometric Evidence. By H. Askari and J. T. Cummings Economic Models of World Agricultural Commodity Markets— Cocoa, Coffee, Tea, Wool, Cotton, Sugar, Wheat, Rice. By F. Gerhard Adams and Jere R. Behrman The Production of Fruits and Vegetables Meeting Taste-Quality Standards. By Jean Thiault The Farm Credit System: A History of Financial Self-Help. By W. G. Hoag Beyond the Furrow— Some Keys to Successful Farming in the Twentieth Century. By H. M. Drache African Agriculture: economic action and reaction in Sierra Leone. By John Levi, with contributions by Michael Havinden, Omotunde Johnson and Gerald Karr African Farmers: Labor Use in the Development of Smallholder Agriculture. By J. H. Cleave The Deferential Worker— A Study of Farm Workers in East Anglia. By H. Newby     

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Book reviewed in this article: Poverty and Progress: An Ecological Model of Economic Development. By R. G. WILKINSON Land Use and Water Resources. By H. C. PEREIRA Farm Management in Africa - the principles of production and planning. By MARTIN UPTON The Common Agricultural Policy and Britain. Edited by S. J. ROGERS and B. H. DAVEY. The Agricultural Adjustment Unit Agriculture and the Common Market. By STANLEY ANDREWS The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture. By KARL-EUGEN WÄDEKIN (edited by George Karcz. Enlarged and revised edition of Privatproduzenten in der sowjetischen Landwirtschaft translated by Keith Bush) Productivity Trends in a Sectoral Macro-Economic Model - a study of American agriculture and supporting industries, 1919–1964. By W. F. GOSSLING Operations Research Methods for Agricultural Decisions. By R. C. AGRAWAL and E. O. HEADY Agricultural Projection Techniques. O.E.C.D. Soybeans and Their Products - markets, models and policy. By J. P. HOUCK, M. E. RYAN and A. SUBOTNIK The Classical Tradition in West European Farming. By G. E. FUSSELL, David & Charles British Agriculture, 1875–1914. Edited by P. J. PERRY. Methuen     

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Book reviewed in this article: Economic Development of Tropical Agriculture. Edited by W. W. McPherson. Agricultural Finance. By A. G. Nelson and W. G. Murray. Seminar on Problems of Small Farmers Best-Bet Farm Decisions. By J. P. Makeham, A. N. Halter, and J. L. Dillon.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Population and Food Supply: Essays on Human Needs and Agricultural Problems. Edited by Sir Joseph Hutchinson . Cambridge University Press. Farming in Britain Today. By J. G. S. and Frances Donaldson . Allen Lane, Penguin Press, Hardmondsworth, Middlesex. 1969. Environment and Land Use in Africa. Edited by M. F. Thomsas and G. W. Whittington . Methuen, London. 1969. Problems and Approaches in Planning Agricultural Development. Proceedings of the Joint German Foundation/E.C.A./F.A.O. Seminar, Addis Ababa. 1967. Cotton and the Egyptian Economy, 1820–1914. By E. R. J. Owen . Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1969. The Economy of the Private Woodland in Great Britain. By R. Llorrain -Smith . Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford. Institute Paper No. 40. 1969. Report on the Marketing of Scottish Seed Potatoes. By F. G. Hay . National Farmers' Union of Scotland. 1969. Agricultural and Food Statistics—A Guide to Official Sources. Studies in official statistics No. 14. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. H.M.S.O., London. 1969. Food Statistics. A Guide to the Major Official and Unofficial U.K. sources. (Compiled by A. W. Ashby ). National Economic Development Office. Die landwirtschaftlichen Betriebsgrössen in der Sowjetunion in Statistik und Theorie. (The size of agricultural undertakings in the Soviet Union in statistics and theory.) By Ivan Lon?arevi? . Otoo Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. (No. 45, Giessen Studies of E. European agricultural and economic research.) 1969. Wörterbuch der Landwirtschaft—Ergänzungsband Russisch. By Nikolai Pas'chin . BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich. 1969.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Marketing and Prices. By K. O. CAMPBEL Agricultural Product Prices. By W. G. TOMEK and K. L. ROBINSON. Agricultural Finance. By A. G. NELSON, W. F. LEE and W. G. MURRAY. Productivity Trends in a Sectoral Macro-Economic Model: A Study of American Agriculture and Supporting Industries 1919-1964. By W. F. GOSSLING. Problems of Farm Mechanization. RASAR: A Resource Allocation System for Agricultural Research. By D. G. RUSSEL.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Economics of Bushjres: the South Australian Experience. By DERETK. HEALEY, FRANK G. JARRETT, and JENNIFERM. MCKAY Agriculture, the Countryside and Land Use: An Economic Critique. By J. K. BOWERS and PAUL CHESHIRE Agriculture and Economic Development. By SUBRATA GHATAK and KEN INGERSENT Planning for Agricultural Development. By J. A. MOLLET Crisis in Soviet Agriculture. By STEFANH EDLUND Economic Intervention and Regulation in Canadian Agriculture. By J. D. FORBES, R. D. HUGHES and T. K. WARLE Fisheries Management - Theoretical Developments and Contemporary Applications. By GEOFFREY WAUGH     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Role 01 Agriculture in Economic Development. Edited by E. THORBECKE The Farm Business. By L. NORMAN and R. B. COOTE. Longman, London Crop Production: Cereals and Legumes. By B. F. BLAND. Academic Press, London Taxing Personal Wealth - an analysis of capital taxation in the United King-dom - history, present structure and future possibilities. By C. T. SANDFORD A Theoretical Approach to Rural Land-Use Patterns. By WILLIAM C. FOUND. Edward Arnold Agricultural Geography. By W. B. MORGAN and R. J. C. MUNTON. Methuen. London Man and Land - the fundamental issue in development. By E. H. JACOBY with CHARLOTTE F. JACOBY. A Century of Russian Agriculture - from Alexander I1 to Krushchev. By LAZAR VOLIN The Soviet Rural Community. Edited by J. R. MILLAR Men versus Systems - agriculture in the U.S.S.R. Poland and Czechoslovakia. By ARTHUR E. ADAMS and JAN S. ADAMS Socio-Economic Results of Land Reform in Taiwan. By M. M. C. YANG. East-West Center Press Farming Systems in the Tropics. By H. RUTHENBERG. Clarendon Press Agricultural Development in Indiaapos;s Districts. By DORRIS D. BROWN. Harvard University Press Reference Materials and Periodicals in Economics: Volume I: Agriculture. By E. L. FLTNDABURK     

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Book reviewed in this article: Alexandra, N.(ed.) (1988). World Agriculture Towards 2000: An FAO Study Chambers, R. G. (1988). Applied Production Analysis: A Dual Approach Colman, D. and Young, T. (1989). Principles of Agricultural Economics: Markets and Prices in Less Developed Countries Common, M. (1988). Environmental and Resource Economics: An Introduction Haney, W. G. and Knowles, J. B. (eds.) (1988). Women and Farming: Changing Roles, Changing Structures Gasson, R. (1988). The Economics of Part-Time Farming Marks, H. F., edited by Britton, D. K. (1989). A Hundred Years of British Food and Farming: A Statistical Survey Pinstrup-Andersen, P. (ed.) (1988). Food Subsidies in Developing Countries: Costs, Benefits and Policy Options Raikes, P. (1988). Modernising Hunger: Famine, Food Surplus and Farm Policy in the EEC and Africa Spahni, P. (1988). The Common Wine Policy and Price Stabilization Stevens, R. D. and Jabara, C. L. (1988). Agricultural Development Principles: Economic Theory and Empirical Evidence Usher, J. A. (1988). Legal Aspects of Agriculture in the European Community Spedding, C. R. W. (1988). An Introduction to Agricultural Systems Tracy, M. (1989). Government and Agriculture in Western Europe 1880–1988 Harrison, A. with Tranter, R. B. (1989). The Changing Financial Structure of Farming Jones, D. (1989). Financial Vulnerability in Farming: A Study of North West Farms Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (1989). Agricultural and Environmental Policies — Opportunities for Integration Foreman, S. (1989). Loaves and Fishes: An Illustrated History of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1889–1989     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Economics and Rural Land-Use. By M. J. Stabler . Macmillan, London Agriculture in Development Theory. Edited by L. G. Reynolds Farming Finance. By Peter Clery . Farming Press, Ipswich The Man/Food Equation. Edited by F. Steele and A. Bourne . Academic Press, London Agricultural Research and Productivity. By Robert E. Evenson and Yoav Kislev . Yale University Press The Development of Tropical Lands: Policy Issues in Latin America. By Michael Nelson The Biology of Agricultural Systems. By C. R. W. Spedding . Academic Press, London Study of Agricultural Systems. Edited by G. E. Dalton . Applied Science Publishers     

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Book reviewed in this article: Food for the Future. By KEITH 0. CAMPBELL. University of Nebraska Press Co-operative and Commune. Group Farming in the Economic Development of Agriculture. Edited by PETER DORNER The Common Agricultural Poky of the European Community. By ROSEMARY FENNELL The Role of US Agriculture in Foreign Policy. By R. M. FRAENKEL, D. F. HADWICER AND W. P. BROWNE The Political Economy of Collectivised Agriculture. A Comparative Study of Communist and Non-communist Systems. Edited by R. A. FRANCISCO, B. A. LAIRD and R. D. LAIRD The Economics of World Grain Trade. By T. GRENNES, P. R. JOHNSON and M. C. THURSBY. The New Politics of Food. Edited by D. F. HADWIGER and W. P. BROWNE The Global Political Economy of Food. Edited by R. F. HOPKINS and D. J. PUCHALA. Natural Resource Economics. Isues, Analysis and Policy. By CHARLES W. HOW. John Wiley and Sons Agricultural Commodities Index. Edited by JANE BUZBY MCFALL. Green and Pleasant Land? Social Change in Rural England. By HOWARD NEWBY An Introduction to Agricultural System. By C. R. W. SPEDDING     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Marketing Enterprises for the Developing World. By J. C. Abbott . Farm Woodland Management. By J. Blyth , J. Evans , W. Mutch and C. Sidwell Who from their Labours Rest? Conflict and Practice in Rural Tourism. Edited by M. Bouquet and M. Winter . Agriculture in England: A Survey of Farming, 1870–1947. By J. Brown . Poverty, Development and Food: Essays in honour of H. W. Singer on his 75th Birthday. Edited by E. Clay and J. Shaw International Yearbook of Rural Planning: Volume 1, 1987. Edited by A. Gilg , O. Furuseth , R. Dilley and C. Potter . Diversifying the Farm Business: A Practical Guide to the Opportunities and Constraints. By M. Haines and R. Davies . Economics for Agriculture: Food, Farming and the Rural Economy. By B. Hill and D. Ray . Rural Development: A Geographical Perspective. By K. Hoggart and H. Buller . Rural Bangladesh: Competition for Scarce Resources. By E. G. Jansen . Smallholdings under Pressure: A Review of the Cambridgeshire County Farms Estate. By H. Laxton , I. Hodge and G. Davidson . Rural Housing in Scotland: Recent Research and Past Policy. Edited by B. D. Mac Gregor , D. Robertson and M. Shucksmith . Land Reform and Democratic Government. By R. L. Prosterman and J. M. Riedinger . African Farm Management. By M. Upton .     

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Book reviewed in this article: ORANI A Multisectoral Model of the Australian Economy. By PETER B. DIXON, B. R. PARMENTER JOHN SUTTON and D. P. VINCENT. Imperfect Markets in Agricultural Trade. By ALEX F. MCCALLA and TIMOTHY E. JOSLING Grain Export Cartels. By A. SCHMITZ, A. F. MCCALLA, D. O. MITCHELL and C. CARTER. Stabilisation of the International Grain Market. By J. C. BLOM. Agricultural Marketing and Prices. By K. O. CAMPBELL and B. S. FISHER The Agricultural Marketing System. By V. JAMES RHODES. Agricultural Marketing. By BY J. W. BARKER. The Australian Financial System After the Campbell Report. By J. O. N. PERKINS. Agricultural Research and Technology in Economic Development. By PER PINSTRUP-ANDERSEN. Wild Pigs: Environmental Pest or Economic Resource? By BY C. A. TISDELL     

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Book reviewed in this article: Farm Planning with Linear Programming: Concept and Practice. By J. B. Dent , S. R. Harrison and K. B. Woodford . Food Policy: Integrating Supply, Distribution and Consumption. Edited by J. Price Gittinger , Joanne Leslie and Caroline Hoisington . Hired Labour and Rural Labour Markets in Asia. Edited by S. Hirashima and M. Muqtada . Research Methodology for Economists: Philosophy and Practice. By Glenn L. Johnson . Investing in Rural Extension: Strategies and Goals. Edited by Gwyn E. Jones . Land and Estate Management. By John Nix , Paul Hill and Nigel Williams . National Policies and Agricultural Trade. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 1987.333 pages. Agricultural Mechanization and the Evolution of Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. By Prabhu Pingali , Yves Bigot and Hans P. Binswanger . Alternative Uses for Agricultural Surpluses. Edited by W. F. Raymond and P. Larvor . The Competitive Firm's Response to Risk. By Lindon J. Robison and Peter J. Barry . Alternative Farm Enterprises: A Guide to Alternative Sources of Income for the Farmer. By Bill Slee . From Farming to Biotechnology. By David Goodman , Bernardo Sorj and John Wilkinson . Rural New Zealand — What Next? Edited by L. Tim Wallace and Ralph Lattimore . Recreation Economic Decisions: Comparing Benefits and Costs. By Richard G. Walsh . Adaptive Management of Renewable Resources. By Carl Walters .     

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Book reviews in this article: Modelling Farm Decisions for Policy Analysis. Edited by KENNETH H. BAUM and LYLE P. SCHERTZ Farm Management. By MICHAEL BOEHWE and Vernon R. EIDMAN Agriculture under the Common Agriculture Policy: A Geography. By IAN R. BOWLER Agricultural Development in the Third World. Edited by CARL K. EICHER and JOHN M. STAATZ British Agriculture since 1945. By B. A. HOLDERNESS Farming for Farmers? A Critique of Agricultural Support Policy. By RICHARD W. HOWARTH The Making of the Shetland Landscape. By SUSAN A. KNOX. John Donald Economics of Agricultural Development in Tropical Africa. By S. LA-ANYANE. John Wiley & Sons Agricultural Development and Nutrition. Edited by ARNOLD PACEY and PHILIP PAYNE The Energy Trap: Work, Nutrition and Child Malnutrition in Northern Nigeria. BY RICHARD LONGHURST The World Food Problem 1950–1980. By DAVID GRIGG Citizenship, Gender, and Work: Social Organisation of Industrial Agriculture. By ROBERT J. THOMAS     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Welsh Cattle Drovers. By J. Colyer. University of Wales Press, Cardiff Agricultural Production Economics and Resource-Use. By Martin Upton. Oxford University Press Agricultural Policy and Economic Growth in Nigeria, 1962–1968. By J. C. Wells. Oxford University Press Agriculture and the State. Edited by Brian Davey, T. E. Josling and A. MacFarquhar Food and Poverty. By Radha Sinha. Croom Helm, London. 1976. 196 pages Rice and Risk— Decision Making among Low Income Farmers. By J. A. Bournassett