One's judgment of an official report such as the Report of the Wool Marketing Committee of Enquiry, is, I think, influenced by three main considerations: first by the nature of its recommendations - and whether or not one agrees with them; second, by the quality of the argument and reasoning...

In this paper I try to come to some conclusions concerning which farm products are likely to offer good promotional possibilities, and which types of promotion are likely to be effective.

A subsidy on a single input is compared with an output subsidy as a means of stimulating output, and the conditions under which the single input subsidy is (a) more treasury cost-effective and (b) overall the more socially efficient measure, are explored. Rationalisations for input subsidies,...

Does the seemingly disproportionate growth in Australia of agricultural economics, relative to other branches of applied economics, represent a misallocation of educational and research resources? Probably not, since (i) it may be better--because of the existence of increasing returns--to...