During the past decade, cotton prices remained considerably below other agricultural prices (although they recovered … toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper … keeping cotton prices low, aided these countries to capture market share from (and cause losses to) non-users of biotechnology …

nanoeconomic approach to examine knowledge-diffusion based growth in the Meiji-era Japanese cotton spinning industry, which enjoyed …