Changes in the distribution of an agricultural commodity among quality classes may affect the total revenue obtained from a given quantity of product. Growers and marketing firms need to consider the best mix of qualities as well as the best level of output. This paper describes an approach to...

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.