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Applications of Decision Theory and the Measurement of Attitudes Towards Risk in Farm Management Research in Industrialized and Third World Settings

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Beverly Fleisher (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
Lindon J. Robison

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The purpose of this report is an attempt to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the state of the art in decision theory and the measurement of attitudes towards risk in order to understand the implications which can justifiably be drawn from the past twenty years' accumulation of empirical studies in this area.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Papers with number 6.

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Length: 106 pages
Date of creation: 1985
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Handle: RePEc:msu:idppap:006

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Keywords: food security; food policy; farm management research;

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Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy

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