Externalities from roaming livestock: Explaining the demise of the open range

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-84

  Centner, Terence J ^a   Griffin, Ronald C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Due process; Fence law; Open range; Potential Pareto criteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032384572     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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