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Agricultural Policy In The Years Ahead, Clayton K. Yeutter

Clayton K. Yeutter, United States Secretary of Agriculture: Papers

The whole basis for U.S. agricultural policy is changing.

Agricultural policy in the years just behind us has been dominated by the technological revolution in agriculture. Beginning with the late 1920's, new technology that had a tremendous impact on productivity and employment began to enter farming. The gasoline tractor and hybrid corn were just a couple of the new developments that helped move farming out of the horsepowered era and into the nuclear ago.

Facts And Figures_Jul-Dec 1973, Department Of Human Services

Historic Publications

A report provided by the Department of Human Services on number of establishments and workers per industry and size (by county in NM).

East Everglades Moratorium Area Planning Study, Metropolitan Dade County Planning Department

City and Regional Planning -- Florida

The East Everglades Moratorium Area is primarily a natural environmental study based on the Environmental Protection Guide. The present character and function of the area and man's impact on them have been inventoried and analyzed. Land use recommendations and implementation tools for environmental protection are suggested based on a series of Environmental Protection Zones. This study does not discuss in as great a detail such urban issues as density, transportation, and urban services which typify other area studies.

Community Planning Analysis: Summary Analysis For Tallahassee-Leon County, Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department

City and Regional Planning -- Florida

Community planning is one element of the comprehensive planning process in the Tallahassee-Leon County area. This publication is one of a series that presents information relative to selected physical, social, and economic factors which prevail in the area. It is intended to serve as a data base for public and private planning programs.

Employment Coding Comments 1974 Q2, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

Published by UNM Bureau of Business Research, is a list of comments and updates for each of the individual employment codes and agencies.

Bargaining Power, Robert J. Antonides

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

The Rate Of Return On The Investment In Registered Nurse Education As Related To The Supply Of Registered Nurses, Barbara Zuern

Dissertations and Theses

The focus of this research is the relationship between the supply of registered nurses and the rate of return on the educational investment to become a registered nurse. Is this rate of return a determining factor in the supply, past, present, and future? Since 98. 8 percent of all registered nurses are women, an integral part of this study is a survey of the data on women in the labor force.

The empirical data, statistical, was obtained from government sources and non-government associations, The American Nurses Association, The American Hospital Association, and the educational institutions. The data indicates the following: …

New Mexico Manpower Review, Employment Security Commission Of New Mexico

Historic Publications

The New Mexico Manpower Review was prepared by the Research and Statistics section for the Employment Security Commission of New Mexico for April of 1974. It is a report on the state's employment and economic activity; trade showed significant economic weakness despite other many other industries showing gains. Construction also saw losses due to a supplier strike that had been settled by the time of the report release.

Dairy Situation And Outlook, Leonard Benning

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

Environmental Problem: An Economic Viewpoint And Humanistic Solution, Michael Robert Currie

Senior Scholar Papers

Economics deals with wealth, which is essential in allowing people to maintain their activities. Wealth is produced by human effort, guided by science, mediated by technology, governed by the economic system, and exerted through the environment . That a problem exists in our environment is clear from the observable stress on our natural ecosystems. Our water has been fouled, Lake Erie is dead, our air has been sufficiently poisoned in many urban areas to be classified as dangerous to health, and in general there exists the threat that the natural systems which support our lives may collapse. Although certain statistics, …

The Effects Of Productivity On The American Economy, C. Lee Metzger Jr.

Business and Economics Honors Papers

This 27 page thesis examines the effect of productivity gains on the overall economy of the United States.

The Fresh-Water Mussel Industry Of The Lower Tennessee River: Ecology & Future, Randall Grace

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The fresh-water mussel industry of the Tennessee River is nearing an end. Overharvesting, habitat alterations, and pollution are the major contributors to the depletion of the mussel resource, upon which the shell industry is based. A history of unconcern by shell harvesters and weak conservation enforcement by governmental agencies, has left the major waterways of the United States nearly void of commercial clams. The lower Tennessee River presently supplies the mussel industry with nearly all the important species of mollusks. If this industry is to be maintained in the United States, ways to preserve and propagate the mussel population must …

Ua68/2 Intercambio Internacional, Vol. I, No. 2, Wku Latin American Studies

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by WKU Latin American Studies committee regarding science, politics and economic advances in Latin America as well as cooperative projects between WKU and universities across Latin America. The newsletter is written in both English and Spanish.

Determinants Of Population Migration For The State Of New Mexico., William H. Perry

Economics ETDs

A review of the professional literature on migration written in the past decade suggests that motivation for migration is a composite of interrelated economic, geographical, and social factors. Economic factors are generally believed to be of primary importance and of first consideration when an individual contemplates relocating. It is assumed that the migrant is maximizing his household desires and aquisitions while keeping within the parameters of the family income or budget. If he can improve or increase this income, then he can reach a new maximization level under the new constraints. Thus, to continue to maximize the environment desirability for …

The Economics Of Planned Cities, Barbara J. Orsburn

Business and Economics Honors Papers

This 63 page thesis examines the history of planned communities and focuses on two modern developments in Columbia, Maryland and Reston, Virginia.

Assessment Of Economic And Social Benefits Of Day Care And A Budget Proposal For A Hypothetical Day Care Center, Nancy K. Lecrone

Business and Economics Honors Papers

This 31 page thesis examines the history of child care, women in the workforce, and a proposal for a day care center.

An Economic Analysis Of Demand And Supply For Irrigation Water In Utah: A Linear Programming Approach, Mark Holland Anderson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Water provides the lifeblood of Utah's agricultural economy. It Is the subject of much controversy and litigation and yet most opinions on the subject are based on opinions and prejudice rather than upon the basis of sound scientific examination. This paper attempts to provide some of the economic information necessary for sound decisions in the development and use of Utah's water resources with respect to agriculture.

Utah has been divided into ten drainage regions (hydrologic subregions) and the presently irrigated and potentially irrigable land according to land class was estimated for each county or portion of a county within each …

Consumer Surplus And Economic Rent Estimates Of Recreation Value: An Empirical And Theoretical Comparison, Eric R. Meale

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The consumer surplus and economic rent methods of resource valuation were applied to boating recreation in Utah. Total consumer surplus and economic rent values were estimated for twenty-four boating sites. These values incorporate the relationship existing between the variable use cost and the units of activity associated with the site.

Data were collected by a mail survey directed to boaters during the 1973 boating season. Approximately 1,408 questionnaires were analyzed. Additional data were collected from the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation.

Economic rent and consumer surplus were compared by using a common mathematical model and empirical observation. The concepts …

Resource Allocation And Factor Substitution In Guayas Basin Rice Production, Gary Scott Glen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The primary objective of this study was to examine changes in resource productivity and factor shares as irrigation was introduced on small rice farms using traditional management techniques.

Average output on irrigated farms was double that of dry farms. This was because irrigated farms produced two crops as opposed to one crop on farms without irrigation. Examination of marginal products showed that farmers with irrigation could profitably use more land. Dry farmers could profitably use more labor. The low labor input and high MP of labor on dry farms occurs because these farmers are undercapitalized and are obliged to accept …

Analytical Techniques Of Planning In Egypt, Salwa Farid Abou-Hadid

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Economic Analysis Of The Agricultural Sector In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Enrique Gómez

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A linear programming technique is used to calculate the land allocation that maximizes the returns to the agricultural producers in the provinces Santisteban, Sara, Warnes, Ibanez, and Ichilo, in the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, under different sets of prices.

All the input requirements per unit of land and average expected yields are estimated from survey data collected from farmers in Bolivia. Constraints on availability of land and labor are also estimated.

Seven crops are included in the model: soybeans, wheat, cotton, yuca, sugar cane, rice, and corn.

The model is first examined under the set of prices that existed …

Some Feasible Long-Run Policy Alternatives For The Agricultural Sector In Bolivia, Franklin Bruce Brown

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this paper is to construct a model that will aid in analyzing present agricultural policies along with feasible alternatives. Recently completed studies of production costs, crop prices and yields, and experimental technologies were used as sources of data. A linear programming model was used to project suggested investment for agriculture in land, labor, and capital inputs in order to achieve specific crop production targets. The paper is divided into four major parts: the theory of policy-making, the model description, the application of the model to Boliva, and the results and conclusions, in that order.

New Mexico Manpower Review, Employment Security Commission Of New Mexico

Historic Publications

The New Mexico Manpower Review was prepared by the Research and Statistics section for the Employment Security Commission of New Mexico for March of 1974. It is a report on the state's employment and economic activity; employment growth slowed and the unemployment rate showed little change. Increases in employment that took place in March were lower than expected (mostly from trade and service sectors).

Standard Forecast Questioned, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

"An Economic Appraisal," New York Journal of Commerce, Fri. April 26, 1974.

Inadequate Grain Market News Information System For Producers, Arthur B. Sogn

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

The Modeling Of Financial Instability: An Introduction, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

Pages 267-272 of Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 5, Part 1: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Pittsburgh Conference. Pittsburgh, Pa: Instrument Society of America, 1974. Paper prepared for the Fifth Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation. University of Pittsburgh, April 24-26, 1974.

Included as supplemental material,

-Correspondence between Hyman P. Minsky and Prof. Jacob Cohen, Dept of Economics, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Oct. 24, 1973-Feb. 4, 1974;

- Hyman P. Minsky. The Modeling of Financial Instability. Handwritten notes.

“Can And Should Fed ‘Go It Alone’?”, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

New York Journal of Commerce, Tues. April 16, 1974.

Land Use Planning And Zoning Legislation - What Happened?, Galen Kelsey

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

The Short-Run Economic Impact Of Iranian Land Reform (1962-1972), Nasser Sherafat

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Under the traditional land system in Iran there was little possibility for an increase in the agricultural output or a raise in the standard of living for the rural population; the land reform of 1962 brought change in the land ownership and in water rights. A ten-year period of the land reform may be divided into two separate phases: the first, the land reform of 1962-68 and the second, land reform corelated with agrarian reform 1968-72. Phase one established some social and economic independency for Iranian farmers, but since the technology applied by farmers did not change, the agricultural output …

Fiscal Capacity, Equalization And Public Expenditure For Education, Susan J. Lepper

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.