Market efficiency, agriculture and prosperity in rural Australia

Globalisation, Agriculture and Development: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 29-53

  Pritchard, Bill ^a   Tonts, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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