Can Economic Growth Be Sustained? : The Collected Papers of Vernon W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami
ISBN: 9780199754359 | 0199754357
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 10/18/2011
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Nothing could be more valuable than creating a new paradigm in economics, particularly in the field of agricultural development. A notable example is T. W. Schultz's (1964) thesis regarding "efficient but poor" small-scale farmers in low-income or developing countries. No less influential is Vernon Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami's thesis concerning the role of induced technical and institutional innovation; arguing that as the scarcity of a factor of production (e.g. labor) increases,technology that saves on the use of the factor is induced to develo... MORE
Keijiro Otsuka is currently President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists. His work covers the diverse fields of development economics, including land tenancy, land rights and natural resource management, green revolution and poverty reduction, and cluster-based industrial development in both Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
C. Ford Runge is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law at the University of Minnesota, where he also holds appointments in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Department of Forest Resources. He is a member of the faculty in Conservation Biology and a Fellow of the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment.
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