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Economic Base Multipliers and Community Growth (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
An economic base study gives detailed information about how a community earns its living. The study attempts to answer the following questions: What are the current sources of employment and income? Which of these sources depend on markets outside...
College of Agriculture : Department of Home Economics
(University of Missouri, 1948)
Home Economics is the application of arts, sciences, psychology, economics, and sociology to home problems. With knowledge of these subjects as a background the study of home economics provides a broad cultured education for young women, which...
Capital Market Values of Agricultural Biotechnology Firms: How High and Why?
(AgBioForum, 1998)
Market values of agricultural seed and biotechnology firms have increased in recent years due to expected future growth increases from a proliferation of new genetic technologies. In this paper, a market valuation index ...
Empirical Research in Transaction Cost Economics: A Review and Assessment
(Yale University Press, 1995-09)
This Article summarizes and assesses the growing body of empirical research in transaction cost economics (TCE). Originally an explanation for the scale and scope of the firm, TCE is used to study a variety of economic relationships, ranging from...
Economic aspects of recreation in the Lake of Ozark Area
(University of Missouri, 1941)
of the natural environment as to its suitability for recreational utilization. Important recreational areas are dependent upon a suitable natural environment for their acceptance by the public."--Text taken from page 1....
Agricultural Biotechnology and Public Perceptions
(AgBioForum, 1998)
, two hundred years of oil supplies are viewed as a "strategic reserve". All of us involved in agriculture must assume some responsibility for allowing such attitudes to persist. We have failed to raise public awareness about the economic significance...
Understanding Your Community's Economic Base (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Community leaders continually make important decisions that affect their community's economic growth and development. To make informed decisions, leaders need a thorough understanding of the community's economic base. This guide explains a method...
The elements of economic development (1992)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1992)
More communities have come to realize that change is inevitable and they are establishing economic development programs to help them manage that change. At a time when the industrial revolution has given way to the information age, a good economic...
Announcement of the School of Business and Public Administration
(University of Missouri, 1945)
Economic Calculation and the Limits of Organization
(Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 1996)
This paper highlights some distinctive Austrian contributions to the theory of the firm, contributions that have been largely neglected, both inside and outside the Austrian literature. In particular, Mises's concept of economic calculation...
Who gains from genetic improvements in U.S. crops?
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Diversity. We report results of a study using a world agricultural trade model to estimate the sizeand distribution of economic gains from yield increases in major United States (U.S.)
crops attributable to genetic improvements. The net global economic...
Downtown revitalization (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Even before the present economic crisis, suburbanization, shopping malls and easy transportation steered business traffic to the outskirts of many communities. Consequently, many downtowns are faced with declining sales, competition from shopping...
Data Source Evaluation
(Missouri Spatial Data Information Service, 1999)
This presentation looks at different types of socio-economic data, including disaggregated Data (data about individuals or single entities) and aggregated data (data consisting of a group of observations with the grouping made on a defined criterion...
Structural overview of the Missouri economy in 1990
(Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station, 1994)
Announcement of the College of Agriculture of the University of Missouri, 1949-50
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, 1949)
The University of Missouri College of Agriculture offers courses of study in all phases of agriculture, home economics, forestry, and veterinary science usually practiced in this area. The degrees Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Bachelor...
Economics of recombinant bovine somatrotropin on U.S. dairy farms
(AgBioForum, 1999)
and profitable if used in adequately managed dairies. It has been widely affirmed as safe for consumers of dairy products. The economic value of rBST is exerted by increasing the production of existing cows. The prinicpal cash costs for using this technology...
F.A. Hayek: Austrian Economist and Social Theorist
(Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999)
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 ...
Announcement of the School of Business and Public Administration
(University of Missouri, 1949)
The School offers fundamental training in the principles of business and public administration. The student has a wide choice of curricula for preparation for various occupations in industry, government service, private business, public affairs...