Development is traced of the concepts of consumer's and producer's surplus, and the uses and limitations of these concepts for public policy analysis are examined. The applications to price stabilization and policy programs are surveyed. The use of decision theory as an alternative to...

In this discussion the author deals with the most frequent questions that come to him, as statistical consultant at BAE, relative to designing samples for social science surveys. Although he draws heavily on the recent developments in sampling theory, he presents this material in a...

Books reviewed: "Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West"; "Midwestern Progressive Politics"; "Four Thousand Million Mouths"; "The Geography of Hunger"; "The Policy Sciences; Recent Developments in Scope and Method"; "Econometrics"; "The Design and Analysis of Experiments"; "Food; Volume I,...

As an aid to the development of techniques for determining how much farmers can afford to pay for the prevention of soil erosion, the author analyzes available data on the effect of soil erosion on the yield of several crops.

A model is developed to forecast the food price component of the consumer price index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The'model relates retail food prices to prices received by farmers and to wage rates in food marketing industries. The farm value and farm-retail spread of the...

A simple model of physician migration predicts a positive relationship between physician fees and the number of physicians in an area and a negative relationship between physician fees and area population-physician ratios. The strong empirical support for this model suggests that Government...