Persistence Pays: U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Benefits from Public R&D Spending

by Julian M. Alston, Jennifer S. James, Matthew A. Andersen, et al.

Book Overview

gricultural science policy in the United States has profoundly affected the growth and development of agriculture worldwide, not just in the A United States. Over the past 150 years, and especially over the second th half of the 20 Century, public investments in agricultural R&D in the United States grew faster than the value of agricultural production. Public spending on agricultural science grew similarly in other more-developed countries, and c-...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441906576
• ISBN13: 9781441906571
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"