The US livestock industry benefits from direct and indirect subsidies at the expense of the environment, public health, and animal welfare. These subsidies result in artificially low meat prices and increased consumption, and create hurdles to fair competition between large and small livestock...

his textbook teaches some of the basic econometric methods and the underlying assumptions behind them. It also includes a simple and concise treatment of moreadvanced topics in time-series, limited dependent variables and panel d¤ata models, as well as specification testing, Gauss-Newton...