In regional economic development planning, achieving one objective often results In achieving less of another, tradeoffs exist among alternatives Two parts of area economic objectives are examined-gross regional product versus local employment and local wage bill versus local employment-and...

Structural differentiation, a concept used here to measure differences between rural U.S. counties, can assist policymakers in determining degrees of rural development. The Guttman scale of structural differentiation, derived from Dun and Bradstreet retail establishment data, is examined for its...

Variations in individual fann characteristics and behavior of farm operators are taken into account in a procedure for estimating production potentials of agricultural areas. The procedure combines sampling and programming techniques. It differs from the purely synthetic approach, or the...

A multiregional econometric model evaluates the impacts of changes in monetary policy on economic development in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan parts of each of the four principal U S Census regions Regional variations in the adaptation to a change in national monetary policy depend on a...

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...

Comparisons of successive frequency distributions may be made in two distinct ways that are frequently confused. One way is to make comparison against a given set of class intervals covering the relevant range of the data. The result is a fixed frame of reference, a single classification grid....

The feasibility of quadratic programming as a means of integrating agricultural pricequantity relationships and regional resource availability is demonstrated for a California test case. Estimates are developed for producer's and consumer's surplus, values of vegetables and field crop...

This study applies the logic of queuing thcory to the availability of hospital services in a ruraloriented. multicounty planning district in northwestern lower Michigan. The seven hospitals in the area had 611 beds and provided services for 489 patient-days in 1 year. The study found that the...

Four strategies for farm growth are analyzed and compared on the basis of ownership, equity, and productive capacity achieved, and on the basis of resistance to adversity. The primary tool of analysis was a model utilizing a stochastic simulator interfaced with both ex ante and ex post linear...