This paper investigates a claim of Hicks that the area to the left of a market demand curve—calculated by assuming that other markets are in equilibrium—is equal to the aggregate overall Dupuit–Marshall consumers’ surplus together with producers’ surplus in other markets, and extends it to general equilibrium in an economy with a competitive private sector. The usefulness of the result is quest...

Livestock supply must challenge the growth of final demand in the developing countries. This challenge has to take into account its ecological effects since the dairy and livestock sectors are clearly pointed out as human activities which contribute significantly to environmental deterioration. Therefore, livestock activity models have to include desirable and undesirable outputs simultaneously...

As the 1990s begin, social security is once again at the center of public debate. Under current projections social security is expected to post substantial surpluses during the next two or three decades and a string of ever-increasing deficits thereafter. In the meantime the social se­ curity trust funds are projected to accumulate large reserves. At the heart of the current controversy is the ...

Citation for proceedings: Guldin, James M., comp. 2001. Proceedings of the symposium on Arkansas forests: a conference on the results of the recent forest survey of Arkansas; 1997 May 30–31; North Little Rock, AR. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–41. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 125 p. Abstract—Two new hardwood chip export mills (HCEM’s) recently ...

I t is a privilege to appear before the State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America in this historic city. It is also an unusual opportunity and a heavy responsibility—an opportunity to explore with you new vistas in the promotion of human health and welfare, and the responsibility of doing justice in a brief address to a most important and complex subject. Let me begin by trying t...

D U R I N G T H E 4 YEARS of its operation, the food stamp plan, administered by the Food Distribution Administration of the U . S. Department of Agriculture, enabled large numbers of families throughout the United States to improve their diets. Although the plan was established in May 1939, at a time of food surpluses, primarily to increase agricultural income by increasing the demand for surp...