This paper is a discussion of the critical components of a research system, its funding, its management, the setting of research priorities from both the national and the farmers' point of view, the development of human capital, and the role of donors

In this paper, I study technological change as a candidate for the observed increase in consumption inequality in the United States. I build an incomplete market model with educational choice combined with a task-based model on the production side. I consider two channels through which...