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Book reviewed in this article: Assessment of Agricultural Research Priorities: An International Perspective. By J. S. Davis, P. A. Oram and J. G. Ryan Subjective Equilibrium Theory of the Farm Household. By Chihiro Nakajim Agricultural Household Models — Extensions, Applications and Policy. By Inderjit Singh, Lyne Squire and John Strauss (eds). The Making of the AWU. By John Merritt. Introductory Statistics. By G. E. Battes Mallyon's Principles and Practices of Farm Management Accounting (3rd edition). By D. G. Neilso.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Decisions Under Uncertainty with Research Applications. By A. N. HALTER and G. W. DEA Cost-Benefit Analysis. By E. J. MISHAN Systems Analysis in Agricultural Management. Edited by J. B. DENT and J. R. ANDERSON Foundations of Farm Policy. By LUTHER TWEETEN Institutions in Agricultural Development. Edited by M. G. BLASE The Reluctant Farmer. The Rise of Agricultural Extension to 1914. By ROY V. SCOTT The Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Recomtruction. By T. H. SHEN Bank Credit to Farmers for Irrigation Development. By RESERVE BANK OF INDIA Conditions Necessary for Agricultural Growth. By A. N. RAJAMANI Agricultural Development and Population Growth. By R. N. TEWARI Agricultural Price Stabilization in India. By B. Y. JHA Economics of Land Consolidation in India. By S. K. AGARWAL     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Farm Business Management: The Decision-Making Process (Third Edition) Emery N. Castle, Manning H. Becker and A. Gene Nelson
Fixing Farm Trade: Policy Options for the United States Robert L. Paarlberg
Agricultural Finance (Eighth Edition) Warren F. Lee, Michael D. Boehlje, Aaron G. Nelson and William G. Murray Ames
Agricultural Stability and Farm Programs: Concepts, Evidence and Implications Edited by Daniel A. Summer
Agricultural and Rural Areas Approaching the Twenty-first Century: Challenges for Agricultural Economics Edited by R. J. Hildreth, Kathryn L. Lipton, Kenneth C. Clayton and Carl C. O'Connor
China's Grain Production and Trade: An Economic Analysis Colin A. Carter
Publications Received (to 17 April 1989)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Land Reform and Economic Development. By PETER DORNER. Penguin Books. Controlled Environment Agriculture: A Global Review of Greenhouse Food Production. By DANA G. DALRYMPLE. U.S.D.A. Agricultural Expansion in the United Kingdom with Declining Manual Labour Resources. By A. P. POWER and S. A. HARRIS. Government Economic Service Principles of Farm Business Analysis and Management. By ROBERT O'CONNOR. Irish University Press Linear Programming Applications to Agriculture. By R. R. BENEKE and R. WINTERBOER. Iowa State University Press Financial Management in Agriculture. By JOHN A. HOPKINS, PETER J. BARRY and C. B. BAKER. Interstate Printers and Publishers, Danville, Illinois. Cost Factors of Agriculture. By K. N. SINGH et al. National Institute of Bank Management (India), Bombay. Agricultural Product Prices. By W. G. TOMEK and K. L. ROBINSON. Cornell University Press. Agricultural Marketing and Prices. By KEITH O. CAMPBELL. Cheshire, Melbourne. Natural Rubber and the Synthetics. By P. W. ALLEN. Crosby Lockwood, London. Technical Assistance Administration in East Africa. Edited by YASHPAL TANDON. The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Stockholm. Joe Duncan - The Scottish Farm Servants and British Agriculture. By J. H. SMITH. Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh.     

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Book reviewed in this article: L'Economie Agricole. By Henri de Farcy. Éditions Sirey Farm management and Agricultural Economics. By J. B. Hardaker , J. N. Lewis and G. C. Mc Farlane. Les Relations entre Capital et Production dans l'Agriculture. By Pierre Rainelli. Dynamics of Commodity Production Cycles. By Dennis L. Meadows. Europe's Future Food and Agriculture. Edited by A. M. M. Mc Farquhar. Planning Development. By K. B. Griffin and J. L. Enos. Policies, Planning and Management for Agricultural Development. Agricultural Marketing and the E.E.C. By Michael Butterwick and Edmund Neville -Rolfe Capital and Finance in Agriculture. O.E.C.D. Horticulture in Britain. By P. G. Ellis et al. The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan. By Thomas C. Smith.     

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 reviewed in this article: Rural Resource Development. By M. C. WHITBY, D. L. J. ROBINS, A. W. TANSEY and K. G. WILLIS. Factors of Agricultural Growth in West Africa. Edited by I. M. OFORI. Mobility of Farm Workers. By Ruth Gasson.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Analysis of Future Agricultural Change: A Farm Economics Approach Applied to Dutch Arable Farming. By G. A. A. Wossink. The Farming Game Now. By J. P. Makeham and L. R. Malcolm Commodity Price Stabilisation. By C. O'Donnell Aid to African Agriculture. By Uma Lele     

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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 Political Economy of Agrarian Change. An Essay on the Green Rovolution. BY KEITH GRIFFIN. Macmillan Agricultural Policy Reports (new series). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Marketing Boards and Ministers. By P. J. GIDDINGS. Saxon House, D. C. Heath Models for Spatial Agricultural Development Planning. By F. K. BISHAY Rotterdam Mwea-an Irrigated Rice Settlement Scheme in Kenya. Edited by R. CHAMBERS and J. MORIS. Weltforum Verlag Economics and Management Planning of Range Ecosystems. By D. A. JAMESON, S. D'AQUINO and E. T. BARTLFTT. A. A. Balkema Mobility of Farm Workers. By RUTH GASSOND. Department of Land Economy The Advance of American Co-operarive Enterprise: 1992–1945. By JOSEPH G. KNAPP     

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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: The Changin Countryside. Edited by JOHN BLUNDEN and NIGEL CURRY. The Countryside Handbook, Edited by ALAN ROGERS, JOHN BLUNDEN and NIGEL CURRY Agriculture and Environment: The Physical Geography of Temperate Agricultural System. By DAVID BRIGGS and FRANK CURTUNY Rural Resource Management. BY PAUL J. CLOKE and CHRIS C. PARK The Food Manufacturing Industries: Structure, Strategies, Performance and Policies. By JOHN M. CONNORR Simulation and Systems Analysis in A riculture. By CSABAC SAKIE Agricultural Credit: A Global. Enima. By JACK D. HARTMAN Undermining Rural Development with Cheap Credit. Edited by DALE W. ADAMS, DOUGLAS H. GRAHAM AND J. D. VON PISCHKEB Fertiliscrs in LIK Forming. By J. L. JOLLANS. Centre for Agricultural Strategy Agricultural Policies and World Markets. By ALEX F. MCCALLA and TIMOTHY E. JOSLINC The Common Agricultural Policy and the Less Developed Countries. By ALAN MATTHEWSG New Directions in Econometric Modelling and Forecastin in US Agriculture. Edited by GORDON C. RAUSSERN Indigenous Agricultural Revolution: Ecology and Food Production in West Africa. By PAUL RICHARDS Research in Rural Sociology and Development. Volume I: Focus on Agriculrure. Edited by HARRY K. SCHWARZWELLER Law of the Common Agricultural Policy. By FRANCIS G. SNYDER.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Co-operation in World Agriculture: Experiences, Problems and Perspectives. Edited by Theodor Bergmann and Takekazu B. Ogura Alternative Enterprises for Agriculture in the UK. Edited by S. P. Carruthers Confrontation or Negotiation: United States Policy and European Agriculture. By Agricultural Policy and Trade: Adjusting Domestic Programs in an International Framework. By D. Gale Johnson, Kenzo Hemmi and Pierre Lardinois Rural Development, Employment and Incomes in Kenya. By Ian Livingstone Agricultural Development in Southern Africa: Farm Household Economics and the Food Crisis. By Allan Low The Economics of Tropical Farm Management. By J. P. Makeham and L. R. Malcolm Subjective Equilibrium Theory of the Farm Household. By C. Nakajima Agricultural Household Models: Extensions, Applications, and Policy. Edited by Inderjit Singh, Lyn Squire and John Strauss The Farm Business. By Leonard Norman, Richard Turner and Kenneth Wilson World Trade in Forest Products 2. Edited by Gerard F. Schreuder Economics of Irish Agriculture. By Seamus J. Sheehy and Robert O'Connor Collective Farms which Work? By Nigel Swain Historical Farm Buildings of Wales. By Eurwen Wiliam. John Donald Range Economics. By John P. Workman     

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Book reviewed in this article: Selected Writings on Agricultural Policy and Economic Analysis. By FREDERICK V. WAUGH, JAMES P. HOUCK and MARTIN E. ABEL The Pastoral Industries in Australia: Practice and Technology of Sheep, Cattle, Goat and Deer Production. By G. ALEXANDER and 0. B. WILLIAMS Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution. By POLLY HILL The Economics of Tropical Farm Management. By J. P. MAKEHAM and L. R. MALCOL Farm Planning with Linear Programming: Concept and Practice. By J. B. DENT, S. R. HARRISON and K. B. WOODFORD.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Development Plan for the Pilot Region: Lower St. Lawrence, Gaspé and Îles-de-la-Madeleine
A Summary, by Bureau d'Aménagement de 1'Est du Québec, and Rural Development Branch.
Report of the Royal Commission on Taxation, 1966
by Kenneth LeM. Carter, et al . Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1966, Six Volumes.
Food Marketing
L. B. Darrah, New York: The Ronald Press Company.
Marketing of Agricultural Products.
R. L. Kohls, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1967.
Market Structure of the Agricultural Industries
edited by J. R. Moore and R. G. Walsh, Iowa State University Press.
Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth of Canadian Farm Operators 1935–64.
by M. L. Lerohl, Agricultural Economics Research Council of Canada.
Agricultural Finance (Fifth Edition)
Aaron G. Nelson and William G. Murray.
The Role of Planning and Management on Family Farms.
N. Westermarck, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Ecology of Agricultural Systems. By T. P. Bayliss-Smith. Of Time and the Enterprise: North American Family Farm Management in a Context of Resource Marginality. By John W. Bennett. Agriculture: The Triumph and the Shame. By Richard Body. Rural Policy Problems: Changing Dimensions. Edited by W. P. Browne and D. F. Hadwiger. Managing Agricultural Systems. By G. E. Dalton. Ireland: Land, Politics and People. Edited by P. J. Drudy. Growth and Equality in Rural China. By Keith Griffin and Ashwani Saith. An Introduction to Farming Systems. By Michael Haines. Rural Development: Theories of Peasant Economy and Agrarian Change. Edited by John Harriss. Irrigation Economics in Poor Countries. By Arthur Hazlewood and Ian Livingston. Workshop on Forecasting Milk Supplies. Applied Welfare Economics and Public Policy. By Richard Just, Darrell Hueth and Andrew Schmitz. Agricultural Research Policy. By Vernon W. Ruttan.