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Author Ruttan, Vernon W.

Title Can economic growth be sustained? : the collected papers of Vernon W. Ruttan and Yūjirō Hayami / edited by Keijiro Otsuka and C. Ford Runge
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 389 pages) : illustrations
Contents INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1: "The Contributions of Ruttan and Hayami" / Keijiro Otsuka -- Chapter 2: "Induced Innovation Theory and Agricultural Development: A Personal Account." / Vernon W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami, In Bruce M. Koppel (ed.), Induced Innovation Theory and International Agricultural Development: A Reassessment 22-36, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. -- PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN AGRICULTURE : Chapter 3: "The Contribution of Technical Progress to Farm Output, 1950-1975," / Vernon W. Ruttan, Review of Economics and Statistics 38 (February 1956): 61-69. -- Chapter 4: "Agricultural Productivity Differences Among Countries," / Yujiro Hayami and Vernon W. Ruttan, American Economic Review 60 (December 1970): 895-911. -- TECHNICAL CHANGE AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA Chapter 5: "Korean Rice, Taiwan Rice, and Japanese Agricultural Stagnation: An Economic Consequence of Colonization," / Yujiro Hayami and Vernon W. Ruttan, Quarterly Journal of Economics 84 (November 1970): 562-589. -- Chapter 6: "Environmental, Technological, and Institutional Factors in the Growth of Rice Production: Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan," / S.C. Hsieh and Vernon W. Ruttan, Food Research Institute Studies 7 (1967): 307-341. -- Chapter 7: "Controversy about Agricultural Technology: Lessons from the Green Revolution," / Vernon W. Ruttan, International Journal of Biotechnology 6 (2004): 43-54. -- Chapter 8: "The Peasant in Economic Modernization," / Yujiro Hayami, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78 (December 1996): 36-53. -- Chapter 9: "Ecology, History and Development: A Perspective from Rural Southeast Asia," / Yujiro Hayami, World Bank Research Observer 16 (Fall 2001): 169-198. -- INDUCED TECHNICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE : Chapter 10: "Factor Prices and Technical Change in Agricultural Development: The United States and Japan, 1880-1960" / Yujiro Hayami and Vernon W. Ruttan, Journal of Political Economy 78 (September/October 1970): 1115-141. -- Chapter 11: "Social Science Knowledge and Institutional Change," / Vernon W. Ruttan, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 66 (December 1984): 549-559. -- Chapter 12: "Toward a Theory of Induced Institutional innovation," / Vernon W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami, Journal of Development Studies 20 (July 1984): 203-223. -- V. PERSPECTIVES : Chapter 13: "The Transition to Agricultural Sustainability," / Vernon W. Ruttan, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (May 1999): 5960-5967. -- Chapter 14: "The New Growth Theory and Development Economics," / Vernon W. Ruttan, Journal of Development Studies 35 (December 1988): 1-26. -- Chapter 15: "An Emerging Agricultural Problem in High-Performing Asian Economies." / Yujiro Hayami, Presidential Address to the 5th Conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists, Zahedan, Iran, August 29-31, 2005. -- Chapter 16: "Induced Technical Change, Induced Institutional Change and Mechanism Design." / Vernon W. Ruttan, Paper prepared for presentation at the 10th International Workshop on Institutional Economics, Institutions, Technology and Their Roles in Economic Growth, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, June 17-18, 2008 (also published as Staff Paper Series, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota) -- POSTSCRIPT Chapter 17. Stream, River, Delta: Induced Innovation in Economic theory and Environmental Policy / C. Ford Runge -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index
Summary This collection of work by Ruttan and Hayami spans their long career in the economics of technical and institutional change. At both a theoretical and empirical level, their analysis of induced innovation provides a solid foundation for understanding how and why technologies and institutions evolve in response to factors that constrain them. This book provides a sweeping explanation of this process
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-378) and index
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Subject Economic development.
Sustainable development.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
economic development.
sustainable development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Economic development
Sustainable development
Form Electronic book
Author Hayami, Yūjirō, 1932-2012.
Otsuka, Keijiro.
Runge, C. Ford (Carlisle Ford)
ISBN 9780199877089
0199877084
9786613269744
6613269743
9780190261320
0190261323