An analysis of the source and nature of technical change: The case of U.S. Agriculture

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 482-492

  Chavas, Jean Paul ^b   Aliber, Michael ^b   Cox, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

USA;

EID: 0031427998     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465300556896     Document Type: Article

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