[lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Aug 27 19:55:52 PDT 2005


Gar Lipow wrote:
>
> On 8/27/05, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
>
> Wheat | 29,065 | 29,029| 36,242 | 36,082
> | 58,537
> rice |40,038 |77,808 |64,150 |70,09
> | 67,485
> Corn |49,066 |100,650 |158,263 |93,112
> | 83,556

What do these numbers mean? The only yield numbers I (not an economist) have ever heard of ar so many units per acre, hectare. These numbers give no indication of anything. 29,065 of what per what?

Carrol



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