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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 ...
Hiring and Managing Farm Labor
(University of Missouri Extension, 1999-10)
Farm labor management involves hiring and keeping quality farm labor. This means farmers must compete with nonfarm employers for skilled workers. This guide provides farm and agribusiness owners with an overview of the ...
Beginning to Inform the Theory of the Cooperative Firm: Emergence of the New Generation Cooperative
(Association for Business Administration Studies, 1999-04)
The objective of this paper is threefold: 1) to introduce the recent emergence of a nontraditional form of collective action in rural United States, 2) to explore the path-dependent institutional environment from which ...
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 ...
The Effect of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen: Pitcher's Moral Hazard or the Team's Cost-Benefit Calculation?: A Comment
(Oxford University Press, 1998-10)
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 ...
Origins of a Current Conflict? An Examination of Stock-Nonstock Cooperative Law
(American Institute of Cooperation, 1993)
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 ...
The Role of Management Behavior in Agricultural Cooperatives
(American Institute of Cooperation, 1994)
Mintzburg's managerial working role model is used to explore the ways roles and behavior of the general manager of a user-oriented firm differ from those of the manager of an investor-owned firm (lOF). It is argued that, ...
Missouri Crop-Share Leasing Patterns
(University Extension, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999-07)
This guide focuses on one specific rental agreement, the crop-share lease. This guide uses producer survey information to determine how tenants and landowners share the costs of production under 50-50 and 2/3-1/3 lease ...
Designing a Farm Résumé
(University Extension, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999-05)
A farm resume is much like a resume for employment in that it highlights your qualifications to do a job. A farm resume can help tenants to be creative in selling their services. Young farmers, in particular, can benefit ...
Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance
(Transaction Publishers, 1999)
In this article, I focus on the financial-market entrepreneur--what Rothbard (1962, 1985) calls the capitalist-entrepreneur-- to outline some features of an Austrian theory of corporate governance. I begin by reviewing the ...
Contracts and the Institutional Environment for Electricity Reform
(Elsevier, 1999-12)
Recent law and economics literature suggests that courts and administrative agencies should allow utilities to renegotiate supply contracts signed prior to restructuring, as an attractive alternative to continued regulatory ...
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 ...
Crop Marketing Plan
(University Extension, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999-10)
The marketing plan described here is intended, first, to cover as many of the costs of production as possible and, second, to maximize the price received for commodities produced. Many farmers try to maximize price before ...
Extension Education and Unbiased Research
(1994-10)
Discusses an Extension educator's role in the community, especially when faced with the situation that research conflicts with grassroots beliefs.
Cooperatives and Group Action
(Texas A&M University, 1993)
The primary objective of this paper is to synthesize and summarize organizational issues and challenges facing U.S. agricultural cooperatives as they analyze their strategic options in preparing to meet the needs of their ...
Agricultural Update
(University of Missouri-Columbia, Extension Division, 1999)
Ag Update is a weekly publication presenting information on current agricultural issues that are of interest to Extension personnel in keeping familiar with the current farm financial situation. Listed in the Ag Update ...
Missouri Grain Summary by County
(University of Missouri Office of Extension, 1999)
Information includes historical acres planted (1975-1999), harvested acres (1945-1999), yield (1945-1999), production (1945-1999), ratio of harvested to planted acres (1975-1999), and yield risk (1963-1999) for corn, ...