James A. Roumasset
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 286
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Decision theory and appropriate models of choice under uncertainty for peasant farmers; Choice of technique by lexicographic safety first and reswitching of risky techniques; Optimal contractual choice, sharecropping under heterogeneous land, and the inverse relationship; Measuring the risk of investing in nitrogen fertilizer; Optimum fertilizer rates under uncertainty and the role of risk in the demand for fertilizer.