Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture: Volume 1: Quantitative Investigations on Production Structure

by Y. Kuroda

Overview

Analyses quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of post-war Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the twentieth century, more specifically, 1957-97.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349449774
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	357
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Yoshimi Kuroda holds a PhD from Stanford University, USA, and is Emeritus Professor at University of Tsukuba, Japan, Professor at Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan and Visiting Research Fellow at The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, Kitakyushu, Japan.

Table of Contents

PART I: THE PRODUCTION STRUCTURE OF POSTWAR JAPANESE AGRICULTURE 1. An Empirical Investigation of the Production Structure of Postwar Japanese Agriculture: 1957-97 2. Estimating the Allen, Morishima, and McFadden Elasticities of Substitution 3. The Dual and Primal Rates of Technological Progress in Postwar Japanese Agriculture 4. The Factor Bias and the Hicks Induced Innovation Hypothesis 5. The Output Bias of Technological Change 6. The Impacts of Scale Economies and Technological Change on the Growth of Total Factor Productivity 7. A New Method for Decomposing the Rate of Growth of Labor Productivity PART II: THE PRODUCTION STRUCTURE OF POSTWAR JAPANESE AGRICULTURE 8. Total versus Variable Cost Function Approaches to Investigating the Agricultural Production Structure 9. Estimating The Shadow Value of Land and Possibilities of Land Transfers 10. Economies of Scale and Structural Change

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