Chaos Theory and Leftist Economics

[Michael Perelman]

I have not done much later work.  I did a study -- in the early 80's I
believe, where I took the dollar output per monetary unit of purchased
non-labor inputs for quitiles of farms measured by dollars worth of sales.

The smaller farms did the best by far.  Incidentally, California ag. is
heavily dependent on highly subsidized water.  I cannot believe that a
"fair" WTO would let it stand.

On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:33:40PM -0500, Michael Pollak wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Juan Jose Barrios wrote:
> 
> > most agriculture in the US is less efficient than Latin American
> > agriculture...so it is the other way around...they would go under if
> > the didn't get subsidies (direct and indirect) from the U.S.
> > govt!!!!
> 
> Do you have any recent cites on that point?
> 
> BTW, Michael Perelman is much too modest -- his 1977 book on the subject
> is uniquely brilliant.  But it would be nice to have arguments
> incorporating some more recent data.
> 
> Michael
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

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