Using the Green Revolution in Indian agriculture as an empirical example, the author shows the epistemic significance of technology as a form of human knowledge created for doing things and solving problems.
Dasgupta, S. (author), Knight, T.O. (author), Devadoss, S. (author), and Love, H.A. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1998-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 107 Document Number: C10134
Notes:
search from AgEcon., American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, August 2-5, 1998, Salt Lake City, Utah. 13 pages; Adobe Acrobat PDF 83K bytes., Share contracts under information asymmetry often involve input application and risk sharing inefficiency. These
difficulties are nullified under full information which can be approximated in repeated contracts. We give evidence of
cooperation in repeated contracts, indicating the existence of full information efficiency and efficient resource use, despite
underlying information asymmetry.
Kousha, Kayvan (author) and Abdoli, Mahshid (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2009-08-23
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35650
Notes:
Presented at the World Library and Information Congress, Milan, Italy, August 23-27, 2009. Via International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague, Netherlands. 12 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 107 Document Number: C10135
Notes:
search from AgEcon., ERI Study Paper 95-13. September 1995 10 pages; Adobe Acrobat PDF 57K bytes, In a two-period model, economists such as K.J. Arrow, A.C. Fisher, and C. Henry, have shown that when development is both indivisible and irreversible, a developer who ignores the possibility of obtaining new information about the outcome of such development will invariably underestimate the benefits of preservation and hence favor development. In this note, I extend the AFH analysis in two directions. I model the land development problem in a dynamic framework, explicitly specifying an information production function. In such a setting, I then ask and answer the question concerning when development should take place. JEL Classification: D82, Q20 Key words: development, dynamic, information, uncertainty
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