Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture

1. Front Matter

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

   1. Front Matter

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

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

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   4. The Dual and Primal Rates of Technological Progress

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   5. The Factor Bias and the Hicks Induced Innovation Hypothesis

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   6. The Output Bias of Technological Change

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

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

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

   1. Front Matter

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

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      Pages 189-226

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

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   4. Economies of Scale and Structural Change

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4. Back Matter

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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.

• agriculture
• growth
• production

• University of Tsukuba, Japan

  Yoshimi Kuroda

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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