The National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) Beef '97 Study collected data on the marketing practices of 2,713 beef cow-calf producers representing 85.7% of all beef cows as of January 1, 1997, in 23 leading cow-calf states. Of the operations included in the study, 67.4% sold steer...

This paper examines the impact of changes in poliyical administration on the productivity and employment of the entire executive branch of the U.S. government using data compiled under the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Federal Productivity Maesurement Program.

Enterprises owned or run by workers are probably as old as capitalism itself, but they have never occfupied more than a small sector of any developed market economy. In this paper, we ask why this is so.