Public vs. private good research at land-grant universities

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Rausser, Gordon ^a   Simon, Leo ^a   Stevens, Reid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Land grant; Public goods; Research; University

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149391792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1236     Document Type: Article

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