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Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture

Volume 1: Quantitative Investigations on Production Structure

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Authors:
  1. Yoshimi Kuroda

    1. University of Tsukuba, Japan

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlvi
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  2. The Production Structure of Japanese Agriculture: (I) Total Cost Function Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. An Empirical Investigation into the Production Structure of Postwar Japanese Agriculture: 1957–97

      • Yoshimi Kuroda
      Pages 3-47

    3. Estimating the Allen, Morishima, and McFadden Elasticities of Substitution

      • Yoshimi Kuroda
      Pages 48-62

    4. The Dual and Primal Rates of Technological Progress

      • Yoshimi Kuroda
      Pages 63-85

    5. The Factor Bias and the Hicks Induced Innovation Hypothesis

      • Yoshimi Kuroda
      Pages 86-110

    6. The Output Bias of Technological Change

      • Yoshimi Kuroda
      Pages 111-123

    7. The Impacts of Scale Economies and Technological Change on the Growth of TFP

      • Yoshimi Kuroda
      Pages 124-155

    8. A New Method for Decomposing the Rate of Growth of Labor Productivity

      • Yoshimi Kuroda
      Pages 156-186

  3. The Production Structure of Postwar Japanese Agriculture: (II) Variable Cost Function Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Total versus Variable Cost Function Approaches to Investigating the Agricultural Production Structure

      • Yoshimi Kuroda
      Pages 189-226

    3. Estimating the Shadow Value of Land and Possibilities of Land Transfers

      • Yoshimi Kuroda
      Pages 227-259

    4. Economies of Scale and Structural Change

      • Yoshimi Kuroda
      Pages 260-278

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 279-311
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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.

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  • University of Tsukuba, Japan

    Yoshimi Kuroda

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.

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