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Book reviewed in this article: Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty. Edited by Robert Chambers , Richard Longhurst and Arnold Pacey . The Effects of Tax Policy on American Agriculture. By Charles Dport , Michael Boehlje and David Martin . European Farming in Australia: An Economic History of Australian Farming. By Bruce R. Davidson . Australian Agriculture: Reconciling Change and Tradition. By Keith O. Campbell . India's Export Performance. By K. S. Dhindsa . Marxism and the Agrarian Question: volume 1, German Social Democracy and the Peasantry 1890–1907; volume 2, Russian Marxism and the Peasantry 1861–1930. By Athar Hussain and Keith Tribe From Peasant to Proletarian: Capitalist Development and Agrarian Transitions. By David Goodman and Michael Redclift . National Parks. Conservation or Cosmetics? By Ann and Malcolm Mac Ewen . The Economy of Rural Communities in the National Parks of England and Wales. By Tourism and Recreation Research Unit . Agriculture and the European Community. By John S. Marsh and Pamela J. Swanney . The Common Agricultural Policy: Prospects for Change. By Joan Pearce . Options for Farm Policy in the European Community. By T. E. Josling , Mark Langworthy and Scott Pearson . The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilisation: A Study in the Economics of Risk. By David Newbery and Joseph Stiglitz Food Policy. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Food and Agricultural Policy for the 1980s. Edited by D. Gale Johnson . Small Farmers' Development Programme. By S. M. Pandey and J. S. Sodhi . Rice in West Africa: Policy and Economics. By S. R. Pearson , J. D. Stryker and C. P. Humphreys . Grain Export Cartels. By Andrew Schmitz , Alex F. McCalla , Donald O. Mitchell and Colin A. Carter . Science and Technology Policy: Priorities of Governments. By C. A. Tisdell . Co-operatives and Development. Agricultural Politics in Ghana and Uganda. By Crawford Young , Neal Sherman and Tim Rose .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Surveys of Australian Economics. Edited by F. H. Gruen Australia at the Crossroads: Our Choices to the Year 2000. By Wolfgang Kasper, Richard Blandy, John Freebairn, Douglas Hocking and Robert O'Neill. Coping with Change: Australian Farming since 1970. By J. P. Makeham, T. J. Christiansen and L. R. Malcolm. The Farmer as Manager. By Tony Giles and Malcolm Stans-field. Returns on Australian Agricultural Research. By J. S. Marsden, G. E. Martin, D. J. Parham, T. J. Ridsdill Smith and B. G. Johnston. Dynamic Agricultural Systems: Economic Prediction and Control. By Gordon C. Rausser and Eithan Hochman. Regional Economic Planning. By R. C. Jensen, T. D. Mandeville, and N. D. Karunaratne. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics. Edited by W. A. Geering, R. T. Roe and L. A. Chapman.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agriculture in the Australian Economy. Edited by D. B. Williams. Why Growth Rates Differ: Post-War Experience in Nine Western Countries. By E. F. Denison and J. R. Poullier. Agribusiness Co-ordination. A System Approach to the Wheat, Soybean and Florida Orange Economies. By R. A. Goldberg. Australian Federalism in the Courts. By G. Sawer. An Interindustry Study of the Western Australian Economy. By M. L. Parker. Agricultural Development of African Nations. By S. C. Jain. Economic Historicism. The Historical School in Economics. By Ghalib Mohammed Ali Baqir. An Australian Bibliography of Agricultural Economics 1788-1960. Compiled by J. L. Dillon and G. C. MCfarlane. Drought: Causes, Eflects, Solutions. By D. Campbell. The Analysis of Response in Crop and Livestock Production. By J. L. Dillon     

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Book reviewed in this article: Individual Freedom and the Economic Organisation of Agriculture. By Harold F. Breimyer The City Man's Guide to the Farm Problem. By Willard W. Cochrane Scarcity and Growth. By H. J. Barnett and Chandler Morse Soil Conservation in Perspective. By R. B. Held and M. Clawson The Earth Can Feed Us. By Hugo Osvald Land and Labor in Europe in the Twentieth Century. By Folke Dovring British Agricultural Marketing: a study in government policy. By V. S. Patvardhan The Agricultural Revolution 1750–1880. By J. D. Chambers and G. E. Mingay People in the Countryside: Studies in rural social development. Edited by John Higgs Agrarkrisen und Agrarkonjunktur. By Wilhelm Abel Agricultural Production Functions, Cost and Returns in India. By C. H. Hanumantha Rao Der Funktionelle Ablauf im Landwirtschaftlichen Betrieb. By Horst Seuster Foreign Agricultural Trade: Selected Readings. Edited by Robert L. Tontz Capital Formation in Indian Agriculture. By Tara Shukla Analysis and Assessment of the Economic Effects of the U.S. PL 480 Program in Greece. By G. Contsoumaris (Project Director) et al. A Hundred Years of Pastoral Banking: a history of the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company. By J. D. Bailey     

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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 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: Tarifl Politics- Australian Policy-making 1960-1980. By LEON GLEZER. Agriculture in the Australian Economy (Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged). By D. B. WILLIAMS Food and Agricultural Policy for the 1980s. By D. GALE JOHNSON Investing In People. The Economics of Population Quality. (The 1980 Royer Lectures). By THEODORE W. SCHULTZ. The Ultimate Resource. By JULIAN L. SIMON. Future Dimensions of World Food and Population. By RICHARD G. WOOD Resource Economics: An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy. By ALANR ANDALL. Consideration and Modelling of Risk in the Agribusiness Sector. By C. HENNIG HANF and G. SCHIEFER On Rational Grounds: Systems Analysis in Catchment Land Use Planning. By DAVID BENNETT and JOHN F. THOMAS     

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Book reviewed in this article: Preventing Famine: Policies and Prospects for Africa. By D. Curtis, M. Hubbard and A. Shepherd Articulated Agricultural Development: Traditional and Capitalist Agricultures in Papua New Guinea. By M. Donaldson and K. Good. Aldershot The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community: Its Institutional and Administrative Organisation. (2nd edition). By R. Fennell Disease in Farm Livestock: Economics and Policy. Edited by K. S. Howe and J. P. McInerney Agricultural Price Policy for Developing Countries. Edited by J. Mellor and R. Ahmed Appraisal of Projects in Developing Countries: A Guide for Economists. (3rd edition). Overseas Development Administration Europe's Domestic Market. By J. Pelkmans and A. Winters Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources, Volume XXIII: Agriculture. By G. H. Peters Agricultural Policy Formation in the European Community: The Birth of Milk Quotas and CAP Reform. By M. Petit, M. de Benedictis, D. Britton, M. de Groot, W. Henrichsmeyer and F. Lechi Culture and Context in Sudan: The Process of Market Incorporation in Dar Masalit. By D. Tully. Modelling a Multiple Output Production System: Supply Response in the Australian Sheep Industry. By C. Wall and B. Fisher     

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Book reviewed in this article: Food Goals, Future Structural Changes and Agricultural Policy: A National Basebook. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Problems of Change in Australian Agriculture. Edited by J. P. MAKEHAM and J. G. BIRD Management Science in Marketing. By D. B. MONTGOMERY and G. L. URBAN A Managerial Zntroduction to Marketinp. Bv T. A. STAUDT and D. A. TAYLOR Economic Activity. By G. C. HARCOURT, P. H. KARMEL and R. H. WALLACE Australia from the Air. Edited by M. WILLIAMS Development of Co-operative Marketing: A Survey Report. RESERVE BANK OF INDIA     

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Book reviewed in this article: Aggregate Supply Response of Crops in a Developing Region. By S. L. Bapna. Sultan Chand & Sons, Land Use and Living Space. By Robin H. Best. Methuen, Population and Technology. By ESTER Boserup. Innovation Diffusion: A New Perspective. By Lawrence A. Brown. Methuen, Science and Agricultural Development. Edited by Lawrence Busch . Data Collection in Developing Countries. By D. J. Casley and D. A. Lury . The Economic Theory of Agricultural Land Tenure. By J. M. Currie . Marketing Behaviour: Issues in Managerial and Buyer Decision-Making. By Gordon Foxall . Manufacturing Green Gold: Capital, Labor and Technology in the Lettuce Industry. By W. H. Friedland , A. E. Barton and R. J. Thomas . Rural Employment: Trends, Options, Choices. By Ian Hodge and Martin Whitby . Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Economy. By Claude Meillassoux . Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Economy. By Claude Meillassoux . Implications of Tractorisation for Farm Employment, Productivity and Income (volumes I and II). Performance of Futures Markets: The Case of Potatoes. By A. B. Paul , K. H. Kahl and W. G. Tomek . Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. By Amartya Sen . Biological Efficiency in Agriculture. By C. R. W. Spedding , J. M. Walsingham and A. M. Hoxey .     

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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: 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: Rural Development in China. By DWIGHPTE RKINaSn d SHAHID YUSUF. Agriculture in China's Modern Economic Development. By NICHOLAS R. LARD Food Grain Procurement and Consuinption in China. By KENNETRH. WALKER The Cornmon Agricultural Policy and the Less Developed Countries. By ALANM ATTHEWS New Directions in Econometric Modelling and Forecasting in U.S. Agriculture. By GORDOCN. RAUSSE Economics and Agricultural Management: An Introdiiction. By K. L. CASAVANanTd C. L. INFANGER Management of Water Projects: Decision Making and Investment Appraisal. Resource Development and the Future of Australian Society. By STUART HARRIS and GEOFF TAYLOr.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Weed Control Economics. By B. A. Auld , K. M. Menz and C. A. Tisdell . Rural Russia under the New Regime. By V. P. Danilov , The Economics of Agricultural Policies. By B. L. Gardner . The Global Forest Sector: An Analytical Perspective. Edited by M. Kallio , D. Dykstra and C. Binkley . The Economics of Afforestation: A Case Study in Africa. By D. Anderson . Economic Efficiency in Agricultural and Food Marketing. Edited by R. L. Kilmer and W. J. Armbruster . The Law of the Land: Two Hundred Years of American Farmland Policy. By J. Opie . Peasants and Classes: A Study in Differentiation in Bangladesh. By A. Rahman . Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Agricultural Growth in Bangladesh and West Bengal. By J. K. Boyce . Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions. By M. Redclift . The Food Consumer. Edited by C. Ritson , L. Gofton and J. Mc Kenzie . This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for Britain's Countryside. By M. Shoard . Software Review: RMTCM: Rocky Mountain Station Travel Cost Model: Available from Dennis M. Donnelly,     

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Book reviewed in this article: Farm Life in Northeast Scotland, 1840–1914: The Poor Man's Country. By Ian Carter The Development of Agriculture in Germany and the UK: Part I. Germany Agriculture 1870–1970. By Robert Cecil . vii+69 pages. Part II. UK Agricultureal Policy 1870–1970. By John H. Kirk . vii+110 pages. Part III. Comparative Times Series 1870–1975. By David Andrews , Mark Mitchell and Adolf Weber Agricultural Policy. Formative Influences in Britain. By T. W. Gardner World Food Prospects and Agricultural Potential. By Marylin Chou , David P. Harmon JR., Herman Kahn and Sylvan H. Wittwer Food and Population: Priorities in Decision Making. Edited by T. Dams , K. E. Hunt and G. J. Tyler Beyond the Age of Waste: a report to the Club of Rome. By D. Gabor and U. Colombo with A. King and R. Galli Drought and Irrigation in North-east Brazil. By Anthony L. Hall Agricultural Marketing for Developing Countries. Edited by Dov Izraeli , Dafna N. Izraeli and Frank Meissner Capital and Land. Landownership by Capital in Great Britain. By Doreen Massey and Aluandrina Catalano Landscape Economics. By Colinp Price The Future of Upland Britain. Edited by R. D. B. TRANTER Rural Resource Development: An Economic Approach. By M. C. WHITBY and K. G. WILLIS     

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Book reviewed in this article: Man's Proper Study: A History of Agricultural Science Education in Aberystwyth 1878–1978. By Richard Colyer. The Business of Farming. By David Johnson. Wages and Employment in Agriculture: England and Wales, 1960–80. By P. J. Lund, T. G. Morris, J. D. Temple and J. M. Watson. Selfishness, Altruism and Rationality. By Howard Margolis. Agricultural Research and Technology in Economic Development. By Per Pinstrup-Andersen. Measurement of Agricultural Protection. By John Strak. Agriculture in Western Europe: Challenge and Response 1880–1980 (2nd edition). By Michael Tracy. Agrarian Policies in Communist Europe: Volume 1—A Critical Introduction. By Karl-Eugen Wadekin. Financial Management for Farmers. By Martyn F. Warren.     

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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 reviewed in this article: Taxation and the Rural Economy. Conference Papers prepared for the Australian Tax Research Foundation (Melbourne) Disease in Farm Livestock: Economics and Policy. By K. S. Howe and J. P. Mcinerney (eds.) Agricultural Price Policies for Developing Countries. By John W. Mellor and Raisuddin Ahmed (eds.) Economic Liberalisation in New Zealand. By Alan Bollard and Robert Buckle (eds.) Japanese Agricultural Policies: A Time of Change. By Australian Burea     

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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: Economic Analysis of Projects. By Lyn Squire and H. G. van der Tak We Plough the Fields: Agriculture in Britain Today. By Tristram Beresford Review of Agricultural Policies— General Survey. Agricultural Policy Reports, O.E.C.D., Paris Land Concentration and Rural Poverty. By Keith Griffin . Macmillan, London Coke of Norfolk: A Financial and Agricultural Study, 1707–1842. By R. A. C. Parker