Agricultural research has experienced increased industry spending and public-private collaborations. Private incentives for public goods research are limited. Public-private ventures can foster socially beneficial research. ...

We discuss an innovative scheme, the Cooperative Research Centers Program, established by the Australian government in 1991, which has a major objective of delivering research output of direct benefit to Australian industries. ...

Concentration in the agricultural biotechnology sector and general patterns of restructuring raise important policy questions regarding public investments in research and extension. We argue that the most valuable contributions ...

The potential for market failure resulting from under-investment in research is onejustification for public agricultural research. This justification seems less germane given recent developments regarding intellectual ...

The traditional research paradigm represents discoveries flowing linearly from basic science conducted in public institutions to applied research and commercialization undertaken largely by private industry. This ...

Increased collaboration between private firms and State Agricultural Experiment Stations (SAES) raises fears that the independence, objectivity, and credibility of SAES and their scientists may be compromised. Likewise, ...

The structure of the United States (U.S.) public-private plant genetic research system is being transformed by the emergence of practical biotechnology protocols for creating transgenic plants; and by strengthened intellectual ...

Frederich August von Hayek is undoubtedly the most eminent of the modern Austrian economists. Student of Friedrich von Wieser, protégé and colleague of Ludwig von Mises, and foremost representative of an outstanding ...

For over one hundred years, Land Grant Universities (LGUs) have pushed the frontiers of knowledge; have translated new knowledge into practice for the benefit of farmers, agribusiness and consumers; and have prepared the ...

Since the end of World War II an increasing number of social movements have claimed that they are practicing nonviolent civil disobedience tactics. Too often these claims are uncritically accepted even when proposed by ...

Goff, Shughart and Tollison [1997] attribute the American League's higher hit-batsman rate since 1973 to moral hazard: pitchers who no longer bat no longer face retaliation. We argue that retaliation is more efficiently ...

The earliest state cooperative laws in the United States were stock laws modeled upon the Rochdale experience and were adaptations of basic corporate laws of Incorporation to the cooperative form of organization. They ...

"A provocative new book by alumnus Paul Shepard examines our Stone Age past as a key to man's future survival."--Page 12

"The football season is upon us, and the feeling grows around the Big Eight that Missouri is back."--Table of contents for issue.

"The last session of the General Assembly gave public evidence that the lawmakers were unhappy with some aspects of the institution, particularly in the area of Extension."--Table of contents for issue.

"Clay Cooper projects the image of being unflappable. The Tiger's assistant head football coach is properly regarded as being pragmatic."--Page 5

"In preparing this year's edition of the 'M Book,' the Campus' student manual, Georgia Lakaytis included a special section on little known facts about the University. Here are some of them."--Page 10

Summary: Article shares information from a letter by Vernon G. Cox, about a University prank from 1916.

"Although Bengert is head of two companies, he is far from retired. Bengert runs both businesses by himself with limited financial resources. Yet, he's doing what he wants."--Page 9

"Tom McAfee's poem recalls 1946, his first year on the Columbia Campus."--Table of contents for issue.