In this paper, views of large scale farm organization are traced from the 19th century to date. Then, the structures of East and West German industry and agriculture are described. Next the productivity of East and West German agricultural land and labor are compared for the period 1958-1969....

Table of Contents: Herbert Giersch, Gottfried Haberler, Jan Tumlir, Juergen B. Donges, Bela Balassa, Europe's Role in the World Economy; Fritz Machlup, Johann Schollhorn, Norbert Walter Pascal Salin, Roland Vaubel, Roads to Monetary Union; Willi Albers, Fritz Neumark, Carl S. Shoup, Dieter...

[eng] The appearance and the role of multinational firms in the agribusiness sector need analyses using several approaches : International Statistics, national studies of concentration and competition, case studies of firms. . The author finds a statistical correlation between the size of the...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the long-term trends in German agricultural development for the period since 1850 and to test the "induced innovation" hypothesis against German experience.