In this article I present a static economic analysis of the operation of milk marketing schemes (such as that administered by the New South Wales Milk Board) which employ marketing quotas for individual producers. This is a subject which has already received some attention in this Journal: I...

Australia's balance of payments problems have, understandably enough, received a good deal of attention in the pages of the Economic Record in recent years. Some articles have proposed diagnoses of, and/or remedies for our "shortage" of foreign exchange. (1) Numerous references to the problem...

One's judgment of an official report such as the Report of the Wool Marketing Committee of Enquiry, is, I think, influenced by three main considerations: first by the nature of its recommendations - and whether or not one agrees with them; second, by the quality of the argument and reasoning...

In this paper I try to come to some conclusions concerning which farm products are likely to offer good promotional possibilities, and which types of promotion are likely to be effective.

Does the seemingly disproportionate growth in Australia of agricultural economics, relative to other branches of applied economics, represent a misallocation of educational and research resources? Probably not, since (i) it may be better--because of the existence of increasing returns--to...