Robert A McGuire

An Empirical Investigation of Farmers Behavior Under Uncertainty

Income, Price and Yield Variability for Late-Nineteenth Century American Agriculture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study, first published in 1985, aims to provide objective measures of the risks associated with various crops and livestock in the late nineteenth century and to examine two important issues in American economic history. This title will be of great interest to students of economics and agriculture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780367252069
• ISBN-10: 0367252066
• Artikelnr.: 60039668

Autorenporträt

Robert A. McGuire

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Review of the Literature 3. Price, Yield, and Income
Variability Measures 4. Crop Diversification and Risk in the Cotton South
5. Agrarian Discontent as a Response to Uncertainty 6. Summary and
Conclusions; Bibliography; Appendices